Shalani Soledad thankful for Yahoo! OMG! award

Shalani Soledad emerged as the top winner in the Yahoo! OMG! Philippines Awards 2011 which was held Tuesday night at the Republiq.

The beautiful Shalani Soledad won the award Yahoo! OMG! Celebrity of the Year for 2011 and according to the award description, it's given to most-searched celebrity on Yahoo! Philippines from January to May 2011.

Shalani, who's currently Willie Revillame's co-host on "Wil Time Bigtime", deserves the award as I've seen her many times as one of the Top Celebrity Searches on Yahoo! Philippines (ph.yahoo.com) this year.

On Twitter, Shalani is so much thankful for the award she received from Yahoo! Philippines.

You can check her Twitter profile now and you can see there that Shalani is flooding it with tweets of thanks to everyone who congratulated her for the award.

She was inactive on Twitter for 2 weeks, and it's only yesterday that she logged in there again just to say thanks for the award.

Shalani was also nominated in Yahoo! OMG! Awards 2011 Favorite Female TV Host alongside Toni Gonzaga, Alodia Gosiengfiao and Pia Guanio. Winner in the said category was selected based on popular votes and unfortunately, Shalani got the least number of votes. Toni won the award.

Favorite Female TV Host Poll Results:
1. Toni Gonzaga (21,528) 56%
2. Alodia Gosiengfiao (12,398) 32%
3. Pia Guanio (3,298) 9%
4. Shalani Soledad (1,152) 3%

Even Willie Revillame also lost in the Favorite Male TV Host category and also got the lowest votes:
1. Luis Manzano (35,074) 47%
2. Mo Twister (33,930) 45%
3. Vice Ganda (2,631) 4%
4. Vic Sotto (2,150) 3%
5. Willie Revillame (382) 1%

Just last March 2011, Shalani was also recognized by another search engine, Google Philippines, when she ranked #1 on its list of 20 Most Influential Women of 2010 (also based on search queries) placing higher than Kris Aquino who ranked 2nd.

Yahoo! OMG! Awards 2011 winners: Shalani Soledad, Shamcey Supsup, Jennylyn Mercado, KathBie and more

The winners for the 1st Yahoo! OMG! Awards were announced Tuesday night, June 21, 2011, at the Republiq Bar in Resorts World Manila, Pasay City.

The event was supposed to start 7PM, but it started 2 hours later with opening performance from BBS and Kean Cipriano, singing the song "Wala Na Tayo".

Hosts of the evening were JM Rodriguez and Andi Manzano while presenters included Dra. Vicki Belo, Lauren Young, IC Mendoza, Angelu De Leon, Carmi Martin, Gaby dela Merced, Marc Nelson, Rovilson Fernandez, Fabio Ide, Jojo Alejar, Divine Lee, Raymond Gutierrez and Rico Blanco.

Winners in 16 categories were actually those who got the highest number of votes in the online poll conducted at Yahoo! OMG! Philippines site from June 14 to 18 while winners in 2 categories (OMG! Celebrity of the Year won by TV host Shalani Soledad and OMG! Major Impact award given to Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2011 Shalani Soledad) were chosen based on Yahoo! Philippines! Search trends.

Here's the complete list of winners in the 1st Yahoo! OMG! Awards (2011):

Hottest Actor - Piolo Pascual
Hottest Actress - Jennylyn Mercado
Breakthrough Male Artist - Coco Martin
Breakthrough Female Artist - Cristine Reyes
Funniest Comedian - Vice Ganda
Funniest Comedienne - Eugene Domingo
Awesome Young Actor - Albie Casiño
Awesome Young Actress - Kathryn Bernardo
Amazing Male Newcomer - Alden Richards
Amazing Female Newcomer - Ritz Azul
Favorite Male TV Host - Luis Manzano
Favorite Female TV Host - Toni Gonzaga
Coolest Male Singer - Christian Bautista
Coolest Female Singer - Charice
Coolest Band - Parokya Ni Edgar
Fashion Designer of the Year - Joey Samson
OMG! Celebrity of the Year - Shalani Soledad
OMG! Major Impact - Shamcey Supsup

Special Awards:
CLEAR Man Award - Piolo Pascual
CLEAR Woman Award - Sam Pinto
Pond's Natural Beauty - Shamcey Supsup
Sunsilk Award - Alodia Gosiengfiao
Wi-Tribe Award - Somedaydream
Most Animated Celebrity of the Night - Barbie Forteza
Most Watched Celebrity of the Night - Marc Nelson
Sweetest Couple of the Night - Victor Basa and Divine Lee

Anne Curtis hits 1 million Twitter followers!

Anne Curtis' followers on Twitter has now reached 1 million, becoming the first from the Philippines to reach the million mark.

Anne Curtis, who is an active Twitter user since March 2009, now has 1,003,302 followers on Twitter as of 2PM today, April 29, and Anne Curtis is ranked 388th worldwide, according to Twittercounter.com.

She is even ranked higher than Victoria Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Anne is also the only one from the Philippines to enter the Top 500 list of Twitter users with the most followers.

Here's how some of our local celebs rank worldwide:

Anne Curtis 338th
Angel Locsin 628th
Kris Aquino 633th
Bianca Gonzalez 803rd
Sam Milby 804th
KC Concepcion 826th
Angelica Panganiban 827th
Cristine Reyes 894th
Iya Villania 923rd
Pres. Noynoy Aquino 952nd
Luis Manzano 984th

Charice who's considered an international celebrity ranks 932nd.

Tom Rodriguez, Hottest Hunk for March 2011

Tom Rodriguez got the highest number of votes in Mykiru's Hottest Hunks Poll for March 2011.

The former PBB housemate and Marian Rivera's leading man in the upcoming film "Temptation Island" had a wide lead over the 2nd hottest, Zanjoe Marudo.

Tom had 11.49% of the total votes while Zanjoe had exactly 9%.

There were 20 hunks in our March 2011 poll, but only 10 of them have qualified for our annual poll.

Here they are...

1. Tom Rodriguez 11.49%
2. Zanjoe Marudo 9%
3. Dingdong Dantes 8.43%
4. Diego Loyzaga 8.24%
5. Luis Manzano 6.7%
6. Markki Stroem 6.51%
7. AJ Dee 6.13%
8. Jaco Benin 5.36%
9. Marlon Stockinger 5.36%
10. Hideo Muraoka 4.98%

Thanks to those who voted in the poll. I love your choices!

Go HERE to see the list of those who already qualified for our annual poll of the Philippines' Hottest Hunks for 2011.

Photo courtesy of Regal Films and Tom Rodriguez on Twitter

Who's That Girl? Box-Office Gross: P54.28 million in 3 weeks

Box Office Mojo finally released the box-office figure for Viva Films' "Who's That Girl?" which starred Anne Curtis and Luis Manzano.

The said Wenn Deramas film which opened in theaters last March 2 has earned P54.28 million after 3 weeks or for the period Mar. 2 to 19.

The figure is lower than the P64.28M 3-week gross receipts of Star Cinema's 'Bulong' but it's higher than the P44.26M 3rd week earnings of GMA-Regal co-production 'My Valentine Girls', which were both shown in February.

Last March 23, another Pinoy film ('Catch Me I'm Fallin') has opened in theaters, but no figure yet has been released for its opening week.