Actress Bea Alonzo has heard the whispers that she’s secretly engaged to businessman Vincent Co, but she’s not giving anyone the satisfaction of a reveal.
“You know, people are always ahead on what’s happening in my life,” she said in a recent TV interview. “I have nothing to clarify, and I want to keep things private. Actually, there’s nothing to say!”
The Kapuso star, who went public with Vincent at the GMA Gala in August, said fans waiting for a “grand reveal” were setting themselves up. “There would never be a grand reveal,” she stressed. “I really want to focus on my personal life being private right now.”
If that sounds like a career slowdown, it’s not. Bea admitted she isn’t taping for a soap at the moment, choosing instead to throw herself into business ventures and family time she missed in her two decades in showbiz. “I’ve been in the entertainment field for almost 25 years now. Imagine that? I guess now is the time to tap on the things I haven’t done before,” she said. Her love life, meanwhile, is “very happy.”
And then there’s John Lloyd Cruz. Her perennial screen partner raised eyebrows recently when he invited Bea and Vincent over on Instagram, promising that his girlfriend Isabel Santos would cook for them.
“Actually, it’s just funny for Idan to invite me that way!” Bea laughed, pointing out that they’re already in touch on WhatsApp and Viber. “I just don’t know why he dropped his message on Instagram. Maybe he forgot there are lots of people there.”
As for a reunion on screen? “So far, there’s none yet. But there would always be offers for the two of us to collaborate. We’re just looking for the right project that would represent us right now, where we are in our lives,” she said.
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Elsewhere in the industry, Joyce Ching is looking back at her own love life — specifically, her brief romance with fellow Tween Hearts star Kristoffer Martin.
The actress didn’t sugarcoat it. “It was because of immaturity,” she said of their breakup. “We were so young then to be in a relationship. We couldn’t understand what it meant to be in a relationship and where it would go.”
As castmates in a teen drama, she said, the pressure to pair up was intense. “Everyone around us was really pushing for us to be together,” she admitted. “We were always together, then our scenes called for us to be very sweet. So eventually, we fell for each other.”
Did it end in fireworks? Not quite. “Actually, we didn’t have fights during those times,” Joyce said. “It’s just that we were very immature.”
