MTRCB chair Lala Sotto and “It’s Showtime” hosts. Picture: screengrab from YouTube/Cristy Ferminute, Instagram/@praybeytbenjamin
Film and Tv Evaluation and Classification Board (MTRCB) chairman Lala Sotto stated that “It’s Showtime” didn’t violate any rule of their assailed “EXpecially for You” phase incident, noting she personally believes the hosts “acted appropriately” given the circumstances.
The incident occurred final Might 31, when one of many phase’s searchee’s supposedly tried to kiss the searcher on the cheek with out asking for the latter’s consent.
The searcher moved from her seat, seemingly in an effort to dodge the gesture, which prompted the present hosts together with Vice Ganda to name out the searchee. The comic additional informed the searchee that he could possibly be sued for what he did.
Per week after the incident, Sotto gave her two cents on the matter by way of an announcement despatched to showbiz reporter Ogie Diaz. Diaz then disclosed this by way of a vlog on his YouTube channel on Friday, June 7.
“I don’t have an official assertion. However, for my part, the hosts acted appropriately on the given scenario,” Sotto’s message reads, with the chairperson additionally clarifying to Diaz that the present and the hosts dedicated no violation below MTRCB.
Diaz, for his half, added that the incident has drawn polarized reactions from netizens and celebrities, together with Nikko Natividad and former “EXpecially for You” participant Nico Locco.
Diaz’s vlog co-host Loi Villarama additionally stated that the administration of the noontime present would possibly must set guidelines on the contributors’ bodily interactions to stop such incidents sooner or later.
Previous to this, Vice Ganda and his fellow hosts addressed the matter, saying they’d not apologize for calling out the searchee concerned.
The hosts added that they reached out to the searcher—who initially stated by way of a TikTok video that she didn’t really feel violated by the searchee’s gesture—and had been informed that she certainly felt “off” over the kiss try.
Nevertheless, after the hosts’ public assertion, a video of the searcher crying and lamenting how the present and the hosts “made her seem a liar” surfaced on social media.
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