Ricky Lo Reacts To Kris Aquino's Claim Over "Unverified" Write-Up About Bimby

Here is the reaction of journalist Ricky Lo over Kris Aquino’s claim over his article about Bimby.

RICKY LO – PhilStar journalist Ricky Lo reacts to the claims of Kris Aquino on social media over “unverified” write-up about Bimby’s absence to half-brother’s birthday on August 8.

On the Instagram account of Kris Aquino is where her rage took her about Ricky Lo’s write-up about Bimby’s absence on the birthday party of half-brother MJ with father James Yap.

Here is the content of the post:

Here is the reaction of Ricky on the issue:

I didn’t know that yesterday’s story about Bimby Aquino-Yap’s “no-show” at the first birthday party of his half-brother Michael “MJ” Yap last Saturday (Aug. 12; actual birthday was Aug. 8) at the Blue Leaf Filipinas would stir the proverbial hornet’s nest.

First text message Funfare got yesterday morning was from MJ’s mom Michela “Mic” Cazzola who, after a perfunctory “thank you,” proceeded to deliver quite a mouthful that I refused to swallow with my first morning cup of green tea. Mic described the story as “not nice,” but I do hope she didn’t, as she threatened, burn her copy of The STAR even if I told her that it was her prerogative to do whatever she wanted to as long as she paid for her copy.

Very calmly, I recalled to her that on that Saturday afternoon, I was seated at the same table with Dr. Welson Yap (father of Jeffrey Yap who is, more than just a close friend of and like a brother to MJ’s dad James). From 3 p.m. when Doc Welson (with granddaughter Blake) and I arrived separately until around 6 p.m. when the party was about to wind up, we kept on wondering what time Bimby was arriving. It would be nice to photograph the cute kids together, wouldn’t it be?

The other guests (many of them James’ friends from the Chinese community) were asking the same thing, but Doc Welson and I said we didn’t know, that we didn’t have any idea, and neither did James who assured that Bimby (and presumably other half-brother Joshua) was invited. Before we left (Doc Welson bound for home and I for the STAR office where a blank page was waiting to be filled up), we asked an events coordinator if Bimby was coming. Answer was yes.

And that was the story (nothing subtracted, nothing added) that came out in Funfare yesterday. (Aside: It was one of the rare, rare times that Funfare honored an invitation from James and Mic who didn’t just text-message me but also e-mailed a reminder and had the invitation delivered to our home.)

Here’s what Doc Welson and I didn’t know, in one of the series of text messages sent by Mic in rapid succession yesterday morning:

“I told the (coordinator) to cross out Bimby’s name from the list because Kris and I have already agreed beforehand that the kids would be meeting in private…” adding, “I don’t want to create issues where everybody is OK already.”

Had Mic informed Doc Welson and me about her and Kris’ “secret agreement,” yesterday’s story would have been different and, I suppose, Mic would have the full-page spread framed for posterity.

There. That should clear the non-issue and bring Mic’s Italian temper down.

Henceforth, I reminded Mic to refrain from sending me any invitation to any of her and James’ affairs, thank you.

A word for Kris and other showbiz denizens who can’t help decorating the social media with posts of their children. Before Kris and other soc-med savvy moms scold people and remind them to please spare the innocents, they should be the first to spare their children by keeping them away from the social media. Otherwise, they themselves are (maybe unwittingly) putting their children in, well, “harm’s way.”

(P.S. Why isn’t this story accompanied by one or more pictures from that Blue Leaf Filipinas affair? What were published yesterday were more than enough.)