"Mataba Na Kung Mataba!"

She’s big.

She’s a big star and must lose weight big time.

Yes, Sharon is one hippopotamic land mass. 

And that spells trouble to any serious actor. Well, based on the rating of her cancelled show (the one before the reality show of horizontally-challenged contestants) in the other network and dismal box office returns of her last movies, it would be moot and academic to say, that, well… her star has long dimmed. Sayang. 

It’s a good thing that she's allowing TV5 drumbeaters to come up with billboards, posters and television title cards to capitalize on her planetary size to promote Sharon, Kasama Mo, Kapatid  her new talk show. Well, the marketing experts are just stating the obvious, right? 

 

The set.

Sharon has an inspired staff. The show’s set has this refreshing, airy feel that doesn’t make viewer feel boxed in (like most talk shows). Having worked as a Creative Writer for two talk shows many moons back, I know for a fact the almost impossible challenge a Production Designer faces when he’s ordered to dress up a studio with zero budget.  

Well, with a billion-peso host, an ex-deal set just won’t do.

The host and the show.

In spite of dimming star power, Sharon is still the Megastar. She still has legions of supporters (most of which are already old and widowed) who follow her career or whatever is left of it. She has an okay body of work (“Madrasta” & “Crying Ladies,” the better ones) and she has been in the business for oh so long that she still deserves our respect. 

To be fair, Sharon can speak. Not well but passable. She’s not as widely-read as the lady from the other network who is also an actress who, in her films, gives out a spectacularly wide range of emotions from A to B. Yes... her.

Kris may have an extremely limited acting prowess (but we watch her films, right?) but the girl can host. Her style of tactless and sensible questioning is something you look for with every interview.

Not in Sharon’s case.  She begins and ends her interviews with her laughing (60 percent of the time), crying (30 percent), talking and listening (10 percent) to her guests with her face plastered with a look that’s a cross between a pretending-to-be-solemn-smile and I-don’t-care-about-your-problem-I-just-want-my-cheesecake-right-now-smile.  

Am I saying that Ms. Sharon is a fraud?  Hindi. Not all the time naman. It’s just that I can’t read the real Sharon. Parang everything she shows is a put-on, a performance (pa-cute giggles).  Ugh.  Maybe it worked for her during her Mr. DJ days but even now that she weighs as much as a Baby Butanding? Please lang.

Look, I don’t hate Ms. Sharon. Not at all. I just wish that she exerts effort on losing weight and that she tries to be more sincere with her actions.  Is she doing an Oprah?

Girl, Oprah is a world away.  Ms. Winfrey may have a weight problem but we know AND feel the honesty in everything she does. Can I say the same thing with you?

What I can say about you is that… at least naaliw ako sa billboard mo along Quezon Avenue with this…