The Maris Racal issue with Anthony Jennings received this comment from a columnist
The crisis management of ABS-CBN is lauded by an entertainment columnist in handling the Maris Racal issue with Anthony Jennings.
After Jam Villanueva, Anthony’s ex-girlfriend revealed the intimate conversations between the Kapamilya loveteam partners, silence was received from the other side.
Maris and Anthony did not speak or post anything about the issue for several days until they broke their silence. The actress, in her breaking the silence video, stressed that she did not know that Anthony was still with Jam.
In Anthony’s video, released on the same day December 6, he focused on saying sorry to Maris and Jam. This was three days after the controversial revelation about their “affair.”
In a recent PEP Troika article, entertainment writer Jerry Olea talked about the ABS-CBN crisis management that worked for the Maris Racal issue with Anthony Jennings.
Olea mentioned that amid this issue different memes surfaced featuring what Maris and Anthony said in their private conversations and the social media posts about Jam’s supposed violation of the Data Privacy Act. For some netizens, it is just right that MaThon should file a case against Jam but this did not happen.
“Ano ang dapat gawin ng Kapamilya management upang maapula ang “sunog”? At KAILAN dapat iyon isakatuparan?” the entertainment writer posed these questions.
Olea also mentioned that some netizens were pushing for Maris and Anthony’s removal in the Vice Ganda MMFF entry And The Breadwinner Is. During the grand media conference for the movie, Maris and Anthony were not included and Olea said that this is no no-brainer.
Then, the writer mentioned that the management allowed the press to ask Vice Ganda about MaThon’s participation in the movie. He had nothing but positive words for the loveteam. The following day, Maris and Anthony spoke about the issue.
“Pareho silang nag-sorry. Kapwa umamin na nagkamali. Pero mas ginawang kontrabida ang lalaki kesa sa babae siguro dahil mas patatawarin ng publiko ang lalaking nagtwo-timing kesa sa babaeng nang-agaw,” the PEP writer said, adding that after they spoke, their management is expecting that the issue will die down.