Jake Ejercito was exploring legal options against Mindanao-based vlogger Crist Briand after the latter featured Ellie Eigenmann in his vlog without her consent.

On his Facebook post, the actor appealed to his followers to report Briand’s page for invading the privacy of his daughter with Andi Eigenmann.

To prove that Ellie was not comfortable with Briand’s action, Jake showed a part of the video where his daughter could be seen covering her face.

“Please continue reporting the page of this irresponsible clout chaser who ambushed a 13-year-old girl for views. I’m now in the process of exploring legal options,” he said.

“Using minors for your content is disrespectful and exploitative. My daughter made it clear that we will not be okay with you doing this. And she is clearly uncomfortable. Build your platform on integrity! Don’t use our daughter for clout,” he added.

According to the Data Privacy Act of 2012, minors like Ellie must be protected from sharing their data, including their faces, without consent.

Briand has yet to respond to Jake.

Internet celebrity Christian Albert Gaza had gone missing on social media several hours after he released documents and photos related to the issue of Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez.

It can be recalled that Mayor Benitez was facing charges from his wife, Nikki Benitez, after his alleged relationship with several women, including actress Ivana Alawi.

Following the leak of the documents, Gaza then published several photos of the Mayor together with other women.

He also published several documents and claimed that the Benitez couple had separated many years ago.

However, Gaza’s account mysteriously disappeared on Facebook, which Victorias City Mayor Javi Benitez, the son of the Benitez couple, confirmed.

Several netizens speculated that the internet celebrity received a warning from Benitez’s camp.

Some of them even believed that the Benitez family could find internet celebrities due to their influence in the Philippines and other countries.

Gaza never came back to the Philippines after he fled the country in 2018, after being convicted of being involved in an investment scam.

Bacolod City First Lady Nikki Benitez named two additional personalities in her complaint against her husband, Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez.

Aside from actress Ivana Alawi, Mrs. Benitez also narrated how her husband admitted her relationship with Binibining Pilipinas World 1996 Daisy Reyes and former Viva Hot Babes member Andrea del Rosario.

According to Mrs. Benitez, her husband had children with Rosario and Reyes.

In her complaint, Mrs. Benitez narrated that she had already heard rumors about her husband and Reyes’s relationship, which intensified when the beauty queen was reported to be pregnant.

However, the respondent, Mayor Benitez, denied his affair with the beauty queen.

In 2009, Mrs. Benitez was again disrupted by another rumor between her husband and Del Rosario.

She only discovered that her husband had children with both personalities when the latter submitted his psychiatric evaluation related to the petition to nullify their marriage.

“The psychological evaluation revealed that the Respondent admitted to having two daughters outside of his marriage with me,” said Mrs. Benitez.

As of writing, Del Rosario and Reyes have yet to give their reaction to the accusations made by Mrs. Benitez.

Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez’s camp ended their silence after the public official’s wife, Nikki Benitez, filed charges against him.

According to the statement published by Benitez’s legal counsel, Peter Sanchez, the timing of the case filing was questionable since some of the incidents mentioned in the complaint filed by Mrs. Benitez happened as far back as two decades ago.

They also claimed that the mayor didn’t fail to support his partner despite being separated a long time ago.

“Every property acquired during the marriage—including the multi-million peso residences in Forbes Park and Dasmariñas Village—was fully paid for by Mayor Benitez using his own resources, but titled in the name of the complainant, Dominique Lopez-Benitez. This also includes high-value assets such as condominium units, luxury vehicles, and a substantial amount of publicly listed shares, all of which were funded by Mayor Benitez but registered under her,” the lawyer said.

There was also a court order that the mayor was only obligated to support his wife and his family, but he was generous enough to give more.

“Mayor Benitez continued to provide not just ordinary support but a high standard of living, shouldering personal, household, and even extended family expenses for more than two decades. This included the complainant’s travel business ventures, staff, and credit card charges-even long after their separation,” the report read.

Benitez’s camp also urged the complainant to stop dragging actress Ivana Alawi on the issue, saying that naming individuals would be against the process of VAWC.

Residents of Iloilo City discussed the possibility of declaring influencer Euleen Castro, a.k.a. ‘Pambansang Yobab’, persona non grata after she posted a negative review against a local coffee shop.

It can be recalled that Castro received negative comments online and even captured the attention of the City Mayor Jerry Treñas after she declared that all the food she ordered in the said coffee shop was not delicious.

She even raised the eyebrows of the netizens because of her explicit-laden criticism against the coffee shop.

“Nag-try kami dito sa Coffeebreak. Andami. Out of all of you, all of you [mga inorder na food] walang masarap. Even the drinks. Even the lasagna. Lahat tab-ang… Ang dami n’yo diyan, walang masarap sa inyo? Ni isa? P*ta,” said Castro.

The comments made by Castro sparked an appeal to ban her from visiting Iloilo again.

However, a lawyer reminded the court that persona non grata was purely symbolic and that there was no legal basis for someone to be barred from entering a city despite the declaration.

“Declaring someone persona non grata through a local government resolution is purely symbolic—it merely expresses disapproval and has no legal weight. It cannot bar a person from entering or remaining in a city,” said Atty. Race del Rosario.

Atty. Del Rosario also argued that Castro didn’t directly criticize Iloilo, and the coffee shop had all the chance to defend itself from the negative review.

Actress Ivana Alawi was facing criticism on social media after she was named in a complaint filed by Bacolod City First Lady Nikki Benitez against her husband, Mayor Albee Benitez.

It can be recalled that the relationship between Mayor Benitez and Alawi has been circulating since last year after they were spotted at an airport.

In the complaint, Mrs. Benitez claimed that her husband admitted to having a relationship with Alawi when he pushed for the annulment of their marriage.

“While I heard rumors of Responde’s infidelity early on, I had no proof of such facts. It was only when I received the Petition for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage filed by Respondent and after reading the admission of Respondent of having fathered two (2) illegitimate children, and his implied admission of his current illicit relationship with Ivana Alawi, that I was able to confirm his marital infidelity,” she said.

“I felt utterly betrayed by the Respondent and was devastated beyond compare after finally discovering and confirming the truth in the Respondent’s lies,” she added.

However, several months ago, Alawi already released a statement denying her connection to Benitez.

She even insisted that she was dating someone, but not Benitez.

“HINDI PO AKO ANG NASASABING girlfriend ni Mayor Albee Benitez. I met him when I had work in Bacolod. He was very accommodating and friendly. At hindi lang siya ang politikong nakilala ko at naging kaibigan,” Alawi said in a statement.

“I am currently seeing someone who makes me happy. All I can say is that he is a respectable businessman and not a Politician,” she added.