Kris Aquino

Kris Aquino is a popular Filipino movie and television personality with Chinese ancestry. She has successful commercial endorsements, game shows, and talk shows that gain popularity among Filipino viewers. She is regarded as one of the top earners in the Philippine showbiz industry, the reason why she was cited by the Yes! Magazine in April 2009 as the 2nd most powerful celebrity in the Philippines (2nd to Willie Revillame)

Kris Aquino has been crowned the Box Office Queen many times because of the success of her movies which include Pido Dida, Sabay Tayo, Feng Shui, Sukob(considered the highest-grossing Filipino movie of all time), and Happy Together.

Kris Aquino is under contract with ABS-CBN.

Pido Dida (1990) -In this movie, she was paired with Rene Requiestas and received her 1st box-office queen award.

Massacre Films -Vizconde Massacre; -Elsa-Castillo: Ang Katotohanan; -Myrna Diones Story; -Humanda Ka Mayor;

Mano Po (2002) -Won a best supporting actress award in this movie

The Fatima Buen Story -She received a nomination from the Gawad Urian award-giving body

Feng Shui (2004) -She starred in this ‘Asian-style horror” movie which became the highest grossing Filipino movie of 2004, earning P180, 218, 395.00

You and Me Against The World (2003) -This movie of Kris Aquino with Robin Padilla has failed to attract audiences because the producer lost an estimated P23,000,000, even if revenue from home videos are added.

• In the middle of the 1990s, Kris Aquino was engaged in a troubled relationship with Purefood’s basketball player, Alvin Patrimonio.

• Kris was involved in a relationship with the married ex-Paranaque mayor and ex-PBA basket ball player Joey Marquez. Their relationship had a tumultuous ending. In an interview with her co-host and ABS-CBN broadcaster Korina Sanchez, she admitted that a sexually transmitted diseases called Chlamydia was transmitted to her by Marquez. The interview in the ABS-CBN news program, TV Patrol, became the highest-rating news segment in Philippine newscast history.

• She is currently married to PBA professional player James Yap under the team of Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants. Yap is 10 years younger than Kris when they had their civil marriage on the 10th of July, 2005. She announced her pregnancy to Yap’s baby in her ABS-CBN show: The Buzz. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/?StoryId=50434 Their marriage was in controversy when a clinic receptionist of the Belo Medical Clinic revealed that she has an affair with the basketball star.http://www.gmanews.tv/story/31960/Hope-speaks-out-says-James-Yap-courted-her Yap vehemently denied the accusation. As a result of the controversy, Kris Aquino decided not to renew her contract as a product endorser of the said medical clinic.

•After her mother (Pres. Aquino) just announced her disease (colon cancer), Kris Aquino sufferred a miscarriage with a blighted ovum and collapsed gestational sac.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/?StoryId=113021