The Never Ending Saga of the Tulfo vs Raymart, Claudine Brawl at NAIA 3

Aksyon on TV 5 showed the most recent video from the Thrilla in NAIA featuring celebrity couple Raymart  Santiago and Claudine Barretto vs broadcast journalist Mon Tulfo.

While not exactly the first part of the brawl that the celebrity couple is asking people from the crime scene to produce, it's not exactly showing the celebrity couple and their group in a good light either.




According to Mon Tulfo on The Buzz, the scene was immediately after the main event of the brawl, so to speak.

I thought that if you've just come out of vacation, you'd be chill. Claudine's group just came from Boracay, but the man in the pink shirt is all over Mon Tulfo like Jason Ivler in a road rage. This man needs anger management or a stint in jail where he is very likely to think twice before getting mad at someone looked at him wrong.

I think it was not Claudine's kids' medicines, but Claudine's medicines that were inside the checked in luggage left behind. I get that it's normal to get angry when the airline messes with your pleasure time and to bitch at the unfortunate person on the customer service desk. But I don't get continuing to act like an asshole after you've said your piece to the desk person. Just think about it like this: the desk person will not suddenly  grow wings and fly back to Kalibo to fetch your luggage. The desk person wishes she can magically make your luggage appear just to shut you up.

I don't  know how Claudine makes her living acting in show business when she can't even fake-smile like a normal fucked up person in trying situations. Claudine is obviously off her rocker and should not be out of the house without her minders and her meds.

Raymart and Claudine have been into all sorts of scandals since they wed. Bank trouble, marital cheating, brawls, etc. You think the ghost of Rico Yan (RIP) is still haunting them? Just me?Okay.

Claudine Barretto: Devout Born Again Christian and Earth Mother

The end in the Claudine Barretto vs Angelica Panganiban saga is still out of sight, Face to Face with Amy Perez should really think about doing a segment about it. What a historic, not to mention ratings-topping collaborative effort among GMA 7, ABS-CBN and TV5 that would be.

If not for a series of tweets from Claudine Barretto, we wouldn't have known that a fight a-brewing between herself and Angelica. It is also in her tweets that I discovered Claudine got good marks in Christian Living and Right Conduct in school.

Angelica has been called "traydor na kaibigan," "isang daga na tago ng tago," and somebody "[na] baka masunog pag pinag pray over."

Claudine was fuming mad that she fired off 21 tweets within a period of more than 17 hours. That's how mad she was. If tweets were bullets, imagine where Angelica is now.

One of the more nasty twits concerned Aneglica's relationship with Derek. In a nutshell, the twit was something to the effect of "nilalaspag lang si Angelica" and "kung pakakasalan ni Derek si Angelica."

So now the latest is that Angelica's home studio ABS-CBN has assigned two people to guard her body because of threats to her life made by Claudine.

If you're still not convinced that Claudine is such a devout Christian, here's Claudine's honeyed words for Angelica in their phone conversation: "Papatayin kita. Wawasakin ko mukha mo. You don't deserve to live. Suntukan tayo ngayon na."

In the words of Oda Mae Brown (the psychic from Ghost), "Angelica, you in danger, gurl."

Claudine was threatening to sue Angelica but it was Angelica, or Angelica's lawyers, who sent a demand letter to Claudine asking her to desist from speaking untruths about their client and to issue an apology for the libelous and slanderous remarks she made against their client.

Claudine is insane! She has made her Twitter account private. This is after she outdid even Clara making Mara's life miserable. Ye, the horse has left the barn. Insanity!

The Bida In the Claudine vs Angelica War Has Spoken

Cris Castro, the wife of the man who is allegedly Claudine Barretto's partner in acts of homewreckery has spoken and her statement in just a few words is: lie teller is Claudine.

Lie telling #1: Raymart and Claudine on being the special guests in the dinner hosted by the Castro family to celebrate the completion of their renovated garden (a new garden with a birthday celebration, take that!). Wrong. The Santiagos are one of several guests that also included Derek Ramsay and Angelica Panganiban.

Lie telling #2: Angelica's foul mood even before the party started. Wrong. Angelica was quiet, no dabog moments like what Claudine claimed.

Lie telling #3: Angelica badmouthing Claudine and sister Gretchen Barretto at the party - that's when Claudine lost her cool. Wrong. Angelica was quiet and with Derek the whole time, making it impossible for her to say to anyone in the party how Gretchen gifted Derek with expensive things. It was Claudine who was hogging center stage that night.

Mrs Castro's other revelations are basically summed up with: "she's not impressed with Claudine - at all."

Claudine's stalkerish tendency:

Mrs Castro claims Claudine sometimes calls her house 30 days a day.

Now I know Claudine has not career to speak these days, but calling someone's house 30 times a day is too much! Shouldn't Claudine be calling people who can help resurrect her dying career?

Who is spreading the rumor that Claudine is fuck buddies with Mrs Castro's husband, Martin Castro?

According to Mrs Castro, she heard the rumor from Claudine herself. So, Claudine is spreading lies about herself?

Does Mrs Castro believe the rumor?
She doesn't. It's Claudine who can't let go, can't move on.

Mrs Castro reproached Claudine for mentioning her and her husband's names to the press. They treasure their privacy but she did mention in the interview she is not just a plain housewife. She is also a businesswoman with a new business that will soon open - The LifeScience Center for Wellness - at the Fort. Yeah, free publicity.

Is Claudine a very disturbed person? This negative publicity cannot be very good for the "earth mother" image she is trying to cultivate. If she is so desperate to return to her old glory days, she should at least hire a team of publicists to drum up publicities for her. Or is she is so hard up, she can borrow a PR person from Kris Aquino's battery of spin doctors. Kris has managed to get herself included in this mess by throwing her 10 cents in it, courtesy of her advice to Claudine. As if Kris needs another issue to keep herself in the press.

Claudine Barretto vs Angelica Panganiban Is Heating Up

Ready your popcorn, sit back and relax because the catfight between Claudine Barretto and Angelica Panganiban that started on Twitter has all indications of going all the way to court.

Angelica allegedly made in known to anyone who wants to listen that Claudine committed an act of homewreakery is with Martin Castro, the best friend of Derek Ramsay and a new friend of Claudine's husband Raymart Santiago.

Angelica is also on Claudine's hit list because Angelica apparently has many things so say about Gretchen Barretto, not all of them flattering - well before they became besties.

Claudine's proof of Angelica's backstabbing ways:

"Kinonfirm na ng apat na tao ito sa akin," [tungkol sa pagkakalat diumano ni Angelica ng kuwentong ang nakatatandang aktres ay may affair sa kaibigan ni Derek]

Angelica on what she really thinks of Claudine and Gretchen:

Ikinagalit din daw ni Claudine ang maanghang na pasaring ni Angelica laban sa kanyang kapatid na si Gretchen sa Twitter. Nakarating din daw kay Claudine na sinabi ni Angelica sa ilang mutual friends na, "Pareho lang daw kaming magkapatid. Kulang na lang sabihin niyang "kabit."

Kabit is Gretchen Barretto, so is Claudine, if she is indeed fuck buddies with Derek Ramsay's married besties.

Angelica was cold on Claudine's attempts to talk it out with her. I really think Claudine should have suggested that she and Angelica have it out via Twitter since Angelica seemed to have a strong affinity to this form of communication.

The cast of characters in this drama is growing - there's Angelica's boyfriend Derek Ramsay, Claudine's husband Raymart Santiago, the center of it all, a certain Martin Castro, Johnny Manahan of Star Magic, and Gretchen Barretto.

Johnny Manahan on the former ward's plan to sue his current ward:

"Go Ahead! Sue, Claudine. Make our Day! Para bellum."

Johnny Manahan on Angelica's silence on his catfight with Claudine:

"The only reason Angelica has not come out to defend herself against Claudine's accusations is because what she has to say would be so compelling and devastating to Claudine's career. That is why she has chosen the path of silence. Angelica still has compassion for Claudine and rejects all the falsehoods attributed to her."

Gretchen Barretto on Claudine's claims: "ako ang laging naglilinis ng kalat ng kapatid mo."

"No, no, no...that's not true! Walang ganyang kuwento na ipinagtatanggol ako... Yung away ni Angelica Panganiban and Claudine, wala akong kinalaman sa away na yon at all - walang kinalaman."

Gretchen on the war between her sister and her new besties:

"Claudine is obviously going through a tough time - in all aspects of her life. I pray that I have more patience and a little more love for her. Pilitin na lang nating intindihin. Although, it's hurtful. I cannot deny that her words are very hurtful, but as a sister I still choose to understand and I still choose to bear the hurt."

What Gretchen is really saying is aburido si Claudine these days because from one of the country's leading ladies to a teleserye queen with a flop teleserye. Bitter Ocampo si Claudine because her ate Gretchen's teleserye is a top-rater while she is mother role material.

Well, this catfight is far from over. Let's let them fight it out in court para magkaalamanan na kung kabit si Claudine o hinde. Yun lang naman ang dapat abangan dun.

At The End of the Day Watch

This is the 4,718, 683th and 4,718,684th mention of the annoying phrase "at the end of the day" from a celebrity when pressed for a comment about something that you think is so "life-or-death important" but it's not.

It comes across like the person is put upon about something going on in their personal or public lives but they're so noble for putting up with it. Yeah, get off that cross already!


Chesca Litton

"In a way, I guess," sagot ng TV host. "Because hindi maiiwasan ang mga speculations. Hindi maiiwasan na mag-a-assume ang mga tao, siyempre. Posibleng gagawa ng mga theories, yung mga gano'n. Pero at the end of the day whatever goes on, once again, I've said it once, I'll say it again, as long as I'm living a life that's pleasing to God, nothing else should matter. Because I know that, once you put God first, everything else will follow."

Claudine Barretto

"Kung naging stiff man kami ni Heart, siguro mas kailangang mas prim and proper lang kami. Dito [GMA-7], iba, you cannot compare talaga. Mas open na ako ngayon kumpara sa dati. Because nagagawa ko yung gusto ko and at the same time, yung itinuro nilang [ABS-CBN] professionalism, nagagamit ko dito. And I can be myself. At the end of the day, I can be myself."

Claudine Barreto Is No Longer A Fatty

Claudine Baretto, mother earth arrived at a press conference for a movie she's doing with Richard Gutierrez and Anne Curtis looking slimmer.

I'm not one who usually rags on "overweightedness" but Claudine was on TV promoting a brand of children's milk with Carmina Villaroel and Jody Sta Maria and I was like "WTF!"

Claudine was top heavy (as in very) and appearing with Carmina and Jody didn't help any. I know she was trying to project an earth mother image but she appeared like the mother who ate the earth.

At the press con, Claudine reveals that she's back to being pesco vegetarian, which means she cannot eat meat and she can do fish as well as dairy products.

Claudine also tells why she gained weight during her pregnancy: doctors told her to start eating meat. I guess the doctor failed to clarify that she not eat the whole pig or the whole cow, thus the weight gain.

So now I get why Claudine's been fighting with her gold-digging sister Gretchen Barreto and why she walked out on an interview with media. Protein deprivation, anyone?

Now that Claudine is back to size 0 or 2 (or so she says), I hope she's not thinking that her weight is inversely proportional to the ratings of her Saturday drama show on GMA 7.

The show's been a flop, ratings-wise, another reason to hate her Gretchen.

Claudine Barreto: Earth Mother

I can't watch an entire show on local channels without seeing commercials starring Claudine Barretto. These commercials, I think, are trying to capitalize on Claudine Barretto's new role in life, that of an earth mother. I'm not looking down my nose at Claudine for doing these commercials. I mean it's one way to keep the cashing flowing in and to keep her mug in the public's eye.

I just can't get fully down on Claudine Barretto's earth mother persona. It's because I can never forget that Claudine Barretto once had a potty mouth. Click, click on the YouTube clip below.