Willie Revillame - Part 2

Willie Revillame is in the news again, this time it is about a 6-year-old boy contestant who mimicked a striptease in his show.

I had watched that segment of the show in its entirety, and

I can attest to the fact that he did not coerce the boy  to perform that way.

I understand that there are TV shows that  “dumb down audiences and disempower them by creating a mendicant society with game shows that promise quick money” as what theater actress Monique Wilson said in a widely circulated email.  But Willing Willie is just one of several shows of this kind, so why is it that he is the only one who always gets the flak?   Why pick on his show?

I admit I found Willie Revillame uncouth when I saw him co-hosting with John Estrada and Randy Santiago about a decade ago, but slowly when he hosted Wowowee  and later Willing Willie, as he showed that he had a soft heart for the poor, the elderlies and the disabled, that perception slowly was relegated  to the back, as I watched him interact with the contestants and the audience.

It is the parents of the child who should be reprimanded for teaching the child that macho dance.  The television industry should lay down the rules on what are to be allowed in the shows.

I will not condemn Willie for allowing Jan-Jan to dance, the child had fully practiced and prepared for that and it would disappoint the child if Willie would stop him.   Those who attack Willie are those people who are turned off by his being mayabang, by his sobrang lakas ng dating.  I don't consider myself as part of the masa, although I also enjoy watching teleseryes, and I am aware that by writing this, I am exposing myself to further criticisms  from the so-called intellectuals, but my heart is for those who have a soft heart for the poor, for the underprivileged, for the elderlies and for the disabled, maybe that is why I watch Willie Revillame's shows.

Willie is helping the poor in the way he knows how,  let's leave him alone!  Don’t pull him down.  Instead, let the Christians show him the right way to God.