The Beaver Lopez & Jackie Ejercito Love Story in MMK for John Lloyd Cruz & Bea Alonzo

[yurikatrina13]

A Petition to Feature the Love Story of Beaver Lopez & Jackie Ejercito in Maalaala Mo Kaya; and to be portrayed by John Lloyd Cruz & Bea Alonzo


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[CuTiEbUnSoYcRuZ]

Uy may thread na ganito? Maganda ito para sa loveteam anniv nila! Lahat na, MMK, Wansapanatym, teleserye at movie! hehehehe

[popoy's~angel]

To the person who started this thread:

Please attach a narrative of the Beaver-Jackie love story in this thread. I have no idea how special their story is and if it will suit JLC and Bea. Honestly, all I have heard about the wedding is that it was politically motivated. I hope the narrative would convince me otherwise. Thanks.

[yurikatrina13]

To the person who started this thread:

Please attach a narrative of the Beaver-Jackie love story in this thread. I have no idea how special their story is and if it will suit JLC and Bea. Honestly, all I have heard about the wedding is that it was politically motivated. I hope the narrative would convince me otherwise. Thanks.

Hi! I will try to gather some, but what remained in my memory about their love story was how the nasty speculations about politically motivated etc stopped when the public was able to witness the authentic look of love from the groom during the wedding ceremony. And it was followed by a feature on TV narrating about their many years of friendship prior to that unusual way of courtship, thus this beautiful story of love & marriage is only fitted to be portrayed by no less than JLC & Bea.

[yurikatrina13]

http://premium.asia.cnn.com/ASIANOW/...7/wedding.html



Sa lahat ng dadaan dito, ito yung isa sa mga links ng Beaver-Jackie love story na sa palagay ko bagay na bagay para kay JLC at Bea.

[yurikatrina13]

http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-15/w...?_s=PM:ASIANOW



Ito pa ang isang link.

[georgina_cruz]

Uy may thread na ganito? Maganda ito para sa loveteam anniv nila! Lahat na, MMK, Wansapanatym, teleserye at movie! hehehehe

http://premium.asia.cnn.com/ASIANOW/...7/wedding.html



Sa lahat ng dadaan dito, ito yung isa sa mga links ng Beaver-Jackie love story na sa palagay ko bagay na bagay para kay JLC at Bea.

I will go for it...

[lotzkie]

Oi Ito Pala

Ok Gowwwwwww Ako Dito

Yes Na Yes Maganda Ang Story

[cara_y_cruz]

Kalerky, naintriga ako!!! I didn't even know who these people were. Pero parang exciting if ever magawan ng MMK! Whaaaaaaaaaaa! Anything to see John LLoyd and Bea on TV again!!

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaw...0423/biz5.html

I found this...

[cara_y_cruz]

Here's another one!

http://www.newsflash.org/1999/09/sb/sb000942.htm

[caaraa]

Please attach a narrative of the Beaver-Jackie love story in this thread.

[yurikatrina13]

http://premium.asia.cnn.com/ASIANOW/...7/wedding.html



Sa lahat ng dadaan dito, ito yung isa sa mga links ng Beaver-Jackie love story na sa palagay ko bagay na bagay para kay JLC at Bea.

Please attach a narrative of the Beaver-Jackie love story in this thread.

Hi Caaraa ! Ito yung link ng Beaver-Jackie love story, nandoon sa previous post ko.

[bealloydie]

I'll definitely go for this!! missing John lloyd and Bea like crazy!

[zana]

hello!

thanks sa mga guwama.........avid fan po ako nina Loydie & Bea.............& yeah, I surely go for this project........they deserve a MMK together since matagal na di sila magkasama sa TV.......kaya GO GO GO TEAM!!!!!

[bosscasabella]

Hello all ...

To whom it may concern, please grand our wish.

We from all over the world would very much love to watch them work together again in a movie, MMK, teleserye, tvc, ASAP, etc.
YOU OWE US ONE, THEY ARE THE BEST LOVE TEAM!!!

BECAUSE...

We believe in them. Because of their positive attitude and strong mind.Talented, hard working and persistence when critical.

They hone their craft with passion, real and true and do their best in what kind of roles they are strong suits them.

It is really entertaining, fun and enjoying watching their seriousness in this business. They study their work and make their character alive.

They are strong and they never give up even though they were harshly , brutally being attack with negative insult.

I admire them for that.

When they talk we listen, we think, we learn and we do analyze.

Very natural actor and actress, beautiful and handsome, Movement
and Gesture are fantastic, very professional, very discipline, expressing their feelings genuinely.

So please again, let them have this MMk.

For sure all BEA & JOHN LLOYD FANS will be waiting and stick glued to the media medium.

Thank you.
Bea & John Lloyd are the best, they do their best and we all love them very much.

We miss them a lot.

[cara_y_cruz]

Please attach a narrative of the Beaver-Jackie love story in this thread.

This is a fairly extensive narrative of the Beaver-Jackie Story....


For Better Or For Worse

As Jacqueline Ejercito weds Manuel Lopez Jr. in Manila, allegations swirl that this is a marriage of business and politics. It's more than that.


By RAISSA ESPINOSA-ROBLES

All You Need Is Love
Faith, Hope and Charity


For months Manila high society had breathlessly followed every twist and turn of their courtship. At a time already overflowing with millennial superlatives, their nuptials were dubbed Manila's Wedding of the Year. Even the cynics were hard-pressed to disagree. After all, it isn't every day that the sole legitimate daughter of the nation's president ties the knot with the scion of a leading business family. And so, by the time Jacqueline "Jackie" Ejercito, 33, and Manuel "Beaver" Lopez Jr., 32, walked down the aisle at the imposing Manila Cathedral on Sept. 8, the capital was drowning under gossip - much of it toxic. The high-profile union attracted no small amount of controversy, and it was easy to forget that this was the marriage of two private people who, despite rumors to the contrary, are clearly in love and had hoped to keep the wedding intimate.

"Good Luck!" First Lady Luisa "Loi" Ejercito told her daughter when Jackie suggested an affair with 200 guests. Loi knew everyone would want a piece of the wedding - from the Manila media to social climbers to businessmen seeking presidential access. Two hundred people, indeed! In the end, the guest list swelled to nearly 2,000, although only half that number jammed the church ceremony. According to an insider, the whole thing cost the Lopezes up to 10 million pesos ($250,000). Needless to say, competition was fierce for one of the invitations (printed by Crane & Co., stationer to the White House).

The event was orchestrated like a state visit. "Bus commanders" from the Presidential Security Group drove guests from the palace parking lot to the Manila Cathedral and back again for the reception. There were color-coded badges; white, yellow and green for VVIPs (Very Very Important Persons); red and orange for mere mortals. There were six gift collection points. Sometimes attempts to maintain control were over-zealous; two days before the wedding, a crew from Lopez TV station ABS-CBN tried to stop rival GMA from filming the Cathedral exterior.

The ceremony got under way at 6:35 p.m. amid thunder and rain, despite dozens of eggs offered to Saint Claire to ensure fine weather. But Jackie, who dispensed with the usual wedding coordinator and organized the nuptials herself, was prepared. More than a dozen blue umbrellas, labeled "Beaver and Jackie," popped open and presidential guards escorted the gowned and bejeweled guests across a red carpet and into the church, for once brightly lit by generators from Lopez-owned Manila Electric Co.

The diet-slim bride wore a simple, off-white dress with periwinkle blue accents designed by Joe Salazar, couturier to former first lady Imelda Marcos. It was a departure from the sumptuous gowns Salazar has made for Marcos, but the silk train was fully eight meters long and embroidered with the national flower. The groom wore a traditional barong, sewn by Paul Cabral, clothier to the president. After the wedding, the VVIPs joined the VIPs for the reception at Malacañang. Not since Fidel Ramos gave away his daughter, Josephine, in 1993 had the presidential palace resounded to such matrimonial merrymaking. To the strains of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the senior crowd dined on prime rib of beef with gooseliver and truffle sauce, fresh smoked salmon tartare and steamed lobster with herbed dressing; the younger folk ate buffet while listening to a live band.

Senators and tycoons mingled with cabinet ministers and movie people. One conspicuously absent leading family was the Marcoses. Although the clan has made something of a comeback under Estrada, there is no love lost between them and the Lopezes. "They know what they did to my family," Beaver told Asiaweek, referring to Marcos's takeover of Lopez media and the jailing of his late uncle Eugenio. But most feuds were buried for the occasion. Former president Corazon Aquino was on hand, in her trademark protest yellow, having put aside for the moment her opposition to Estrada's campaign to amend the Constitution.

Finally it was all over. As the newlyweds prepared to honeymoon, likely in Paris and the U.S., they would have been forgiven for heaving sighs of relief that the whole thing was behind them. It had been a very long and public path to the cathedral.

All You Need Is Love
The moment the couple announced their intentions at a press conference in April, reporters pounced on the political and business implications of a marriage that would unite the daughter of the president with a member of the business elite. Just two days before the wedding, Beaver felt obliged to go on Lopez-owned radio station DZMM and appeal to the public not to write off the nuptials as a marriage of convenience. Yet the advantages of Beaver becoming Estrada's son-in-law are hard to ignore.

For starters, the Lopezes openly supported former Manila mayor Alfredo Lim during the 1998 presidential election and, after Estrada won, apparently feared he would wreak revenge. One worry: that the government would wrest control of the Manila Electric Company, or Meralco, from the Lopezes. As it is, Meralco, headed by Beaver's father, Manolo, must renew various franchises with the Estrada-controlled Congress during his presidency. Moreover, the Lopezes' other power companies are competing for government contracts and assets soon to be put on the block by the National Power Corp. Forging family ties with the president, say Manila cynics, also could help the Lopezes stave off the taxmen. To many, the wedding seems to have reversed the Lopezes' fortunes; the Philippine Daily Inquirer bluntly called it a "marriage of business and politics."

Not so, protests Beaver. "In the early stages of our relationship, I made it clear that my intentions are just for Jackie," he told reporters. "I have no ulterior motives, no hidden agenda." But talking to Asiaweek, he acknowledges that much of the cynicism is understandable given the dynamics. "I guess in a way you can't escape that thinking," he says. "I'm putting my family in a spot in a way because we're into a lot of bidding processes with the government." He adds: "It's disadvantageous now because if ever we win any public biddings, automatically they'll say it's because I'm the son-in-law." It could also turn out to be a marriage of great inconvenience for Lopez-owned media whenever they have to cover anti-Estrada protests. Still, not since the Lopezes fell out with Ferdinand Marcos 27 years ago has the clan had a direct link to Malacañang. Now it does.

At the moment, Beaver, a business-administration graduate of Manila's De La Salle University, commands a mere sliver of the Lopez empire, serving as a regional director at family-owned SkyCable. Nonetheless, he clearly hopes to become a real player in the family business. "He will move on to bigger areas," says his boss, Carlos Tria. "At some point he will serve as director in one of the Lopez companies." Beaver's marriage to Jackie Ejercito certainly won't hurt his career.

According to the couple, the relationship began innocently enough. Last year, both were dating other people. Beaver was seeing Pinky Webb, a senator's daughter, and Jackie was going with the scion of another elite family. Around May, at the height of the presidential election campaign, Beaver began calling Jackie for relationship advice. "It was so pleasant to have a female friend to swap stories with and share problems," he recalls. Previous relationships with women had been different, he says. "You take them out because you have a crush on them. Date and date, over and over."

By August, after three months of phone calls and group dates, Jackie finally agreed to go out with Beaver solo. Seven months later, in March, Beaver, Jackie and a group of friends were on a weekend trip to the Tagaytay Highlands, an exclusive resort south of Manila and close to a Lopez vacation home. They had been watching a movie and drinking wine, when Beaver popped the question. Jackie didn't say yes right away. "I think you're not sober," she told him. "Can you ask me the same question tomorrow morning?" The next day, Beaver proposed again. But Jackie still wasn't ready to make a decision. Instead she prayed to Saint Joseph and only then decided: "It's him." Two weeks later, Jackie said yes. "And we both cried." The couple seems to be very much in love.


The newlyweds snatch a kiss after the Sept. 8 ceremony
Edwin Tuyay for Asiaweek
Presidential and family politics played an outsize role in the affair - buffeting Jackie and Beaver all the way to the altar. Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Sin would have been the logical choice to officiate at the wedding, but Estrada rejected him for Cebu-based Cardinal Ricardo Vidal instead. The president had not forgotten that, during last year's election campaign, Cardinal Sin urged Filipinos not to vote for immoral drunkards. Not that Vidal was trouble-free; a fortnight before the ceremony, he led a 10,000-strong rally in Cebu against Estrada's plans to change the Constitution.

Not surprisingly, the marriage sponsors were no less problematic. In the Catholic context, they are supposed to guide the newlyweds through rough patches. In Filipino culture, sponsors are often used to extend influence and patronage. President Estrada, for instance, has sponsored thousands of couples. Sponsors often are a painful subject; more than one wedding has foundered because one family doesn't appreciate the other family's choice. This being an Estrada wedding, the sponsorship issue was bound to be controversial, and, some speculate, may explain why a formal list of sponsors was never released to the media. For on it would have appeared the name Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco, chairman of beverage giant San Miguel, former Marcos associate and Estrada political patron.

Last year, sources close to the Lopezes revealed to Asiaweek that Cojuangco was interested in acquiring a part of Meralco, if invited. Beaver insists there is "no bad blood" between the Lopezes and Cojuangcos. "Before this Marcos thing, we were family friends," he says. "My grandmother [Nita Lopez] is a friend of Danding's mother [Lola Nene]." In fact, Cojuangco's sister is married to Beaver's uncle.

Another well-connected sponsor was Chang Yung-fa, chairman of Taiwan's Evergreen Group that includes EVA Airways Corp. EVA has been fighting the government since it canceled an agreement allowing the carrier to fly routes between Taipei and Manila. But Chang put his friendship with Jackie ahead of business.

Getting wed is stressful for most couples, but especially for those in the public eye. The relentless attention clearly caught both Beaver and Jackie off-guard, especially Jackie who is a very private person dedicated to the Church - she attends mass daily - and her Youth for Education foundation, or KAME. The media frenzy forced them to publicly justify their love like it was a burning national issue. In front of the world, Jackie was demure and Beaver reserved. But off-camera, Jackie acted like any modern woman in love, playfully pinching Beaver at the slightest provocation; he called her "Babes" and squeezed her hand; they gazed stickily into each other's eyes.

Of course, they are much like any young couple, and all the pressure and wedding preparations led to more than one tiff. "We never fought this much," Beaver told Asiaweek. "So I just tell her: 'Before this wedding thing, did we ever fight?' Just tampuhan [lover's quarrels], which is normal. When we started planning, woooo." As the big date drew near, friends say, Jackie had trouble sleeping, afraid the ceremony would turn into a carnival and lose its solemnity and dignity. By Jackie's own account, she has long harbored other fears about getting married, as well.

Faith, Hope and Charity
Her qualms explain in part why Jackie waited so long to wed. In fact, part of the public fascination over the marriage of the First Daughter has to do with ugly talk that Beaver is a playboy, like her dad. Speculation is rife over whether history will repeat itself; both Jackie and Beaver are strongly resolved it won't.

In an apparent attempt to put Beaver at ease and make light of such gossip, Estrada jestingly told reporters: "You know, it's playboys who make sweet lovers to their wives." But during the pamanhikan, when the groom's family formally requests the bride's hand in marriage, Estrada exhorted Beaver to honor his vows. He returned to the subject four days before the wedding, at the Despedida de Asalto, or farewell to maidenhood. Raising his glass, the president said: "Beaver, welcome to the family. I hope you'll be faithful, just as I have been faithful." The quip prompted one observer to say: "Beaver must have said: 'Yessssss!'"

Jackie has plunged into wedlock only after asking God's guidance. In her teens, when the average Filipino girl has crushes, Jackie wanted to be a nun. "I thought that was my calling," she told Asiaweek. "And my dad was like, so worried, because he thought I would enter the convent. And then, when I had my first boyfriend, I realized maybe it's not for me. But it would still enter my mind to become a nun."

Jackie also was struggling with her weight, at one point hitting 64 kg on a 157-cm frame. "I was really dieting," she recalls. "Everything I tried. Exercise three hours a day. Aerobics and all. I was like drinking all the diet pills. I tried everything." It was for this reason, she says, that Beaver failed to notice her a decade ago when they were first introduced.

At the time, Jackie was running JPE Garments, a clothing firm named after her initials. A friend brought Beaver along to have barongs made. "When I met him, he was parang mayabang [arrogant]," she recalls. "His approach was a little strong." Beaver says he didn't ask her out because she had a boyfriend. Jackie denies it, saying Beaver didn't notice her "because I was fat." Even after slimming down in her mid-20s, Jackie did not automatically answer the next man who came along, preferring to look long and hard for a lifetime partner. "I believe it's really hard to find a faithful man," says Estrada's daughter.

When Jackie was three, her mother angrily separated from her actor-husband over his affair with an actress and bundled off her two sons and daughter to Philadelphia where her mother and sister lived. The couple only resumed living under the same roof in suburban Manila when Jackie turned 21 and Estrada ran for the Senate. During the 18-year separation, Jackie and her two brothers shuttled from one parent to the other. They learned to accept the successive births of their father's other sons and daughters by different women, thanks to her mother, a psychiatrist by training, who had set aside her own hurt.

"She made us understand and told us to just love him," Jackie says. She will say nothing bad about her father because she loves him and is cautious about hurting him. But one insider confided that whenever her mother felt hurt over something her husband did, Jackie felt it too. In recent years, though, both mother and daughter have learned to laughed off revelations of Estrada's indiscretions.

In Manila's gossipy media, Beaver's reputation as a playboy endures. He says the image is totally undeserved and that he has had only "around seven" girlfriends - one at a time. It has been said that the chase comes naturally to Lopez males. "We just know how to appreciate beauty," Beaver says. "Maybe sometimes [our] looking [at women] becomes excessive." His family, of course, does not see him as a playboy. To his mother, Maritess, he is a good son whose youthful rebellion consisted of wearing an earring - for a month.

Jackie is all too aware of Beaver's reputation. "People would like to tell me he's a playboy,"she says. "But I know he's not . . . because he has great faith also in God." Later she disclosed: "But I told him: 'If ever I catch you once, I'm going to leave right away.'" Insiders say Beaver made a verbal, pre-nuptial vow never to give Jackie any cause to doubt or fear. Prayer was what pulled her mother through the trying years with her father, and Jackie believes the same will sustain her if she is ever in any kind of need. In the meantime, she will have to ignore the cruel chatter about her family and the man she loves. If anyone has learned to do that, it is Jacqueline Ejercito-Lopez.

[zana]

Please ABS!....grant our request....may karapatan din kami magrequest dahil ORIGINAL LOVETEAM sina JLC & BEA.....they should have a project every year we really miss them na eh!

[bealloydie]

abs, please consider this great appeal granted for us bea and john lloyd fans! we miss bea and john lloyd loveteam/tandem on tv! Also, hoping and looking forward for their upcoming serye! hope it will be very very soon!

[georgina_cruz]

abs, please consider this great appeal granted for us bea and john lloyd fans! we miss bea and john lloyd loveteam/tandem on tv! Also, hoping and looking forward for their upcoming serye! hope it will be very very soon!

Sana marami pang mag sign-up dito...miss them together on tv..

Sana i grant 'to for MMK...

[cara_y_cruz]

Bea and Lloydie supporters!!!

Please send your requests for a Bea-John Lloyd MMK episode to maalaalamokaya@abs-cbn.com.

Thanks for your support!