Cosmopolitan Bachelor Bash 2007

The annual beefcake fest dubbed as “Cosmopilitan Bachelor Bash” was again, a success. Cosmopolitan Philippines, who recently celebrated its 10th year anniversary in the country, and Saga Productions, pulled all the stop to mount 2007 Cosmopolitan 69 at NBC Tent in The Fort. This year’s theme is a ripped off from “Lost” and “Survivor”, wherein an airplane full of hunks crashed and the survivors got stranded in the island, with the audience, of course! A pleasant flight attendant voice continuously spoke on the start of the show mentioning the sponsors over and over again, and let me do that for you, “Air Cosmopolitan 69 Flight is brought to you by Premiere Condoms, Guess, Moschino Funny, Artic Vodka, Samsung and Caronia”. The stage was designed as a jungle, and all hell break loose when the boys started parading onstage, girls and gays alike screamed on top of their voice, they cajoled the boys to show more skin, and boy! These boys were pros, they titillated the crowd as if they were just wearing their Moschino scent, nothing else.

Previous awardees such as Richard Gutierriez, Jericho Rosales, Dennis Trillo, Marco Alcaraz, Zanjoe Marudo, and host of others became bigger star afterwards. This year’s awardees, as voted thru texting, were Dingdong Dantes, Jake Cuenca, Alfred Vargas, Derek Ramsey, Paolo Paraiso, Joem Bascon, Jon Avila (formerly Mullaly), Marvin Raymundo (formerly Wijangco) and Luke Jickain. Fortunately, the girlfriends of the awardees such as Karylle and Angelika Panganiban were not around, or they will go home with bragging rights that they got the best specimen of Pinoy manhood, as proven by the endless shrieks of girls and fags that night. Only Mylene Dizon was around to lend support to the father of her son Tomas, Paolo Paraiso. Tickets were so hard to procur as if it’s a holy grail, again, thanks to Nelson Canlas of GMA 7 for getting me in to the VIP area. I bumped into former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief who’s now at the helm of Marie Claire Philippines, Myrza Sison, who started this search in the country. Her successor, Ianne Evangelista, resigned already to raise a family of her own, and the acting Editor-In-Chief, Zo Aguila, was my Boracay buddy when we took the ro-ro going to the island in June 2002 and stayed for 4 days with a storm raging, and how I wish the fabulous 69 bachelor hunks were with us that time. Well, too late for wishes, they still come true, at least for this year’s Cosmo Bash, heavy rains poured outside NBC Tent after the show, so we got stranded with the boys.