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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Is Echo slowly winning over Heart's parents?


abs-cbnNEWS.com

Is it really wealth--or the lack of it--that keeps actor Jericho Rosales an outsider when it comes to the family of his longtime girlfriend, actress Heart Evangelista?

We can be naughty and read into the Echo's quip to Heart, "Ang yaman-yaman niyo kasi, eh! (Your family is so, so rich)" the kind of financial gulf separating Rosales from the good graces of his lady love's parents.

Echo made that comment during an interview with ABS-CBN's Entertainment Live! aired on Saturday.

But no, we won't focus on that. Instead we'll take note that whatever gap there still is between the actor and his girlfriend's parents, such a gap is closing, albeit ever so slightly and slowly.

Heart was happy to report to Entertainment Live! that her father's heart seems to be softening towards Echo.

"Yung daddy ko naman hindi siya galit eh. Hindi na siya galit... Isang beses biniro niya ako. Yung sapatos kasi niya Marc Ecko [Editor: a highly successful shoe brand]. Sabi niya si Echo daw may-ari," she said.

(My daddy isn't angry anymore. One time he even made a joke about Echo. My dad was wearing Marck Ecko and he told me that Echo owned the shoe company.)

Heart also revealed that Echo remains persistent in his efforts to prove himself worthy of her to her parents.

"Nag-Christmas card siya sa daddy ko. Binasa naman ng daddy ko (He sent my daddy a Christmas card. My daddy read it.)," the actress revealed.

Echo said that he asked for divine intervention so he could muster the nerve to actually write on and send the card to Heart's father.

"You know I prayed hard na maisulat ko ng maganda. And it was well accepted so thank you, po!" said Echo.

Your future father-in-law wears a shoe brand that sounds like your name? He read your Christmas card? Those are certainly positive signs.

Heart Evangelista, whose real name is Love Marie Ongpauco, is a scion of the Ongpaucos, successful restaurateurs who are also one the richest families in the Philippines.