By Lisa Bacani
As you know Willie Revillame has been absent from his hosting duties on the popular ABS-CBN variety show “Wowowee”, and a line-up of celebrities were alternating as host for Wowowee during Willie’s absence such as; Robin Padilla, Billy Joe Crawford, John Lloyd Cruz, Luis Manzano and recently Gabby Concepcion and his daughter KC Concepcion.
Currently, Luis Manzano, an award winning host and actor is doing a good job as host for Wowowee. He is polite, honest, respectful, decent and no controversy so far. At this present time, it seems that no negative criticism is coming out about Luis Manzano.
The show is still going on successfully without Willie Revillame, in fact the ratings and praise of Wowowee has gone up since his absence. The show now is going on in accordance with what many TFC subscribers want it to be. It seems it’s within the bounds of the rules of the board of censors and the DSWD (The Department of Social Welfare and Development). So far there are no negative criticisms showing or appearing on the internet about Luis Manzano and Wowowee, you can see peace and calmness among everybody on the show from the audience, co-hosts, staff and contestants, since nobody is dictating or manipulating them.
You can see from Luis Manzano that he is a reflection of good upbringing. His mother as you know is Vilma Santos, who again won the gubernatorial race in Batangas, this is a sign that she is a good leader and a good mother to Luis Manzano as it shows in his manners, character and attitude before the public eye as an actor and host. The same as with his father Edu Manzano a very successful talk show host and actor who will always like his son to be a nice kid, you can see how happy and proud he is when he talks and jokes with his son Luis.
Combining all of these factors the result is a good man – Luis Manzano, a polite, courteous and decent host, devoid of hypocrisy and feelings of grandeur as reflected by the absent host Willie Revillame. Unlike Willie Revillame, Luis Manzano doesn’t give people money to call him “Guapo”, Luis doesn’t say if a woman will marry him she will be secured for life implying he is wealthy with two yachts, vacation homes, fancy sports cars, condominium complex with his name and products for sale carrying his signature like watches and cologne – feeling that he is so popular that these products will have good sales but it seems to be the opposite.
Luis doesn’t use sweet talking to the audience like Willie does to cover his manipulation techniques when he hosted Wowowee to gain whatever he wants from the audience. An example of this is when Willie said in Tagalog “Kayo ang bida rito; sa inyo ito; mahal ko kayo.”, After Willie says these words he will start to sway the audience into believing what he wants them to believe, like Wowowee is better than Eat Bulaga, and that he is so lonely wrapping himself in his bedroom at night, hoping for the sympathy of beautiful women.
Willie uses the shows air time to shamelessly promote his songs by singing them on a regular basis, despite the audiences tired reactions, Willie continues to sing his songs daily. He makes use of his position as a production manager and not only a host of the show as such he can dictate what he wants disregarding the authority of his director. Usually, both in the United States and the Philippines the host must always follow the instructions of his directors that is why they are called directors because they direct the talent. In the case of Willie Revillame, even in front of the camera he commands his co-hosts and his staff telling them what to do and what he wants done, giving the audience a false impression that he owns Wowowee.
As you can see, the host can make the difference in the quality of the show, when you have a respectable gentleman like Luis Manzano then you have a respectable show but when you have a controversial guy like Willie Revillame the show becomes filled with negative controversy and causes unnecessary problems to the management making their job harder than it should be.
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