KIM CHIU: February 2007

KIM CHIU

Chinese Cutie from Cebu Kim Chiu is declared the PBB Teen Edition's Teen Big Winner at the Aliw Theater, after besting 13 other housemates within a month long stay inside the Big Brother House. Showing exceptional talents, strength of character and child-like innocence, the 16-year-old proved to be this edition's runaway bet.

BIRTH NAME: Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu
NICKNAME: Kim
BIRTHDATE: April 19, 1990
BIRTH PLACE: Amoy, China
HOMETOWN: Cebu
HEIGHT: 5'4"

Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu (born April 19, 1990) was born in Xiamen, China and immigrated to Cebu City at the age of 3. An actress of Chinese descent, she is the first Teen Big Winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition, besting 43 other teen housemates in June 2006.

Her popularity with viewers and an interest in show business led to acting assignments with fellow Pinoy Big Brother Teen housemate Gerald Anderson, who became her acting love team partner after Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. She sang a Chinese song called Peng Yu in Big Brother's house which means friend.

In the six months since the end of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition, Kim and Gerald have appeared together in several shows on the ABS-CBN network, bagged several commercial endorsements, and appeared in their first movie, First Day High. They also appear in Love Spell at Aalog-Alog.

Kim is currently working on a primetime TV series entitled Sana Maulit Muli, where she is once again partnered with Gerald. She is a member of ABS CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents properly named Star Magic.

AWARDS
ASAP Pop Viewer's Choice Awards 2006: Pop Loveteam of the Year (with Gerald Anderson) & No. 12 Most Beautiful Filipina

CRITICISM
Kim Chiu as Jasmine Sta. Maria, in the TV series, "Sana Maulit Muli". While she is popular as a teenage fashion model, Chiu has received harsh criticism as an actress and as an artist. Many express that her cute appeal fails to shield her otherwise poor and wooden acting performance, especially in her debut movie First Day High, a film panned by critics and moviegoers. In an article published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Nestor Torre criticized Chiu's performance in First Day High, saying "She has a hard time enunciating her lines. She’s too raw and untrained a performer to realize that acting is communication, so clarity of diction and utterance is of prime importance. In a number of scenes, we wince as we listen to Kim struggling to make herself understood, and failing much of the time."

ENDORSEMENTS
Bench
Skechers
Sheene Cosmetics
Bantex Slippers
Jollibee
Whisper
pH Care

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Kim Chiu in Sana Maulit Muli

Kim as JASMINE

ABS-CBN’s newest teleserye, Sana Maulit Muli, starring Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson, is a dramatic love story, set to tear hearts apart as it emulates the mechanics used by movies like If Only (starring Jennifer Love Hewitt) .

HEARTBREAK SONG by Kim Chiu

Bakit kaya
ganito aking nadarama
nasasaktan,
nang hindi naman nalalaman
Kung meron man akong hiling
sa puso kong ito
hindi sana'y hindi sa tulad mo

chorus:
gulong gulo ang isip ko
sa puso kong ito
hindi alam kung bakit ba
ikaw ang minahal
kung kaya ko
lang sanang pigilan
ang aking pusong,
piliin ka
para ibigin ko

Pag ibig ba
ay sadyang di maintindihan
puso't isipan
ay hindi rin magkasunduan
kung kaya kong ,limutin ka
ay ginawa ko na
ano bang meron ka't
mahal kita
repeat chorus 2x

BENCH UNDERWEAR FASHION SHOW

The audience’s deafening response when he and partner Kim Chiu came out on the Araneta Coliseum stage during the Bench undies show surprised Gerald Anderson.

“We really didn’t expect it, kasi we’re just new and there were many other stars who’re much bigger than us,” he says. “And yet, grabe talaga ang screaming and applause.”

Gerald was seated with Kim as we interview him and they keep on teasing and tickling each other. Has something romantic developed between them?

“No, not yet. We’re just closer now as friends and we’re having fun being paired together. Sa taping, kulitan kami lagi, kaya masaya sa set. She’s only 16 and I’m 18, so we don’t have to rush things.”