Lending a helping hand is a great way of expressing humility, kindness and gratitude for everything you have been blessed with in this life. It is, indeed, admirable for celebrities doing acts of kindness no matter how dizzying their schedules are. Their utmost desire to help makes them shine all the more. It is certain that anyone can name celebrities who have the heart of gold and dedicate time and money into great causes.
Just a few days ago, viewers of Tonight With Boy Abunda had the pleasure of knowing the details of Gerald Anderson’s visit to Marawi City in Lanao del Sur last year. It was, so to speak, completely destroyed after the five-month-long armed conflict between the government security forces and the ISIS-inspired Maute terrorist group. Together with his friends and members of the Philippine Coast Guard Squadron, Gerald flew to Mindanao to check on the present condition of Marawi wherein full-blown rehabilitation and rebuilding of the war-torn city by the government, I believe, have already started.
“My PA’s from Marawi,” Gerald revealed. “Dumalaw po kami doon kasi ito yung napapanood ko sa CNN, yung nangyayari sa Syria, yung nangyayari sa Afghanistan tapos parang nandito lang, two-hour flight away from where we all live, where we enjoy life here in Manila and there were people who experienced that kind of situation yet they can still afford to smile.
“When we went there, they were so happy. We had a boodle fight with the locals and the soldiers.”
After the Marawi trip, Gerald went home with a realization that no matter how difficult your situation in life is at the moment, everything will get better one day.
It seems that love makes Gerald feeling better every day with the buzz that he often visits his girlfriend Bea Alonzo on the set of Kasal. According to some, he visited six times. Obviously amused, Gerald denied and said, “Isang beses lang yun, I was about to go home and since it was just near ABS…”
He admitted that he is not the possessive type of boyfriend. “What kind of boyfriend am I? Chill lang ako (laughs), hindi nagbabantay. Of course, it’s work. For me, when you are at work, it’s your time when you can do your best and after that, we have our own time.”
Gerald knows that being in a relationship with someone doesn’t change each other’s set of priorities. “At the end of the day, of course, we have our own life and priorities and as someone special, I don’t want to be a hinder to her work or anything that she needs to do.”
Are wedding bells soon be ringing for him and Bea?
“May nanghula daw na this year (laughs). When I guested on Magandang Buhay, I said that the time will come…surely, mas malapit ako dun sa marrying age and, I think, once you feel it, you can never stop it. At my age, I’m already 28, there are still many things that I want to do — with my work — and I need to save up (for the future).”
Gerald gamely told some little-known facts about him in “5 on 45.” Find out.
“The first is when I travel, I often do the itinerary because I love springing surprises like when I went to the States with my friend, he didn’t know that we would be joining a marathon.”
“This is a bad habit. Whenever there is someone seated beside me who is busy texting, babasahin ko ‘yung tine-text (n’ya).”
“Whenever I get nervous, I have this habit of biting the lid of a softdrink bottle hanggang sa masisira na s’ya.”
