Regine receives a half a million bag

SAMPAGUITA, the very ugly character played by Regine Velasquez in "Diva", will finally transform into a beautiful swan. Assigned to give her a new face is real life cosmetic surgeon Dra. Victoria Belo who plays herself in the series. Sam will be adopted by Dra. Belo who'll fix her looks through a series of procedures done in one year until she becomes the ravishing new singer, Melody. This is her first acting job and, although she's just being herself, Dra. Belo realized it's no joke to be an actor. She taped all her scenes for two days.

"Inaabot pala ng magdamagan ang taping," she sighs. "Imagine, 5 AM na, kinukunan pa ako. Kundi lang sinabi ni Regine na ako ang personal choice niya, I'll back out na sana. Pero siempre, this will also help the Belo Medical Group to show we can do wonders to beautify someone."

About her lovelife, Dra. Belo swear that even if she attends the court hearings of Hayden Kho, they've really not reconciled. "He's just a friend na lang talaga," she says. Katrina Halili says she attends the hearings just to distract her, but she can attend all she wants and Katrina's reaction will just be "deadma". "I'm there to support a friend lang."

As for Regine, she came from her one-week vacation in Bohol with Ogie Alcasid fully refreshed. "Kaya ayan, ready na ako uli for all day, all night taping," she says. We heard that aside from the Bohol trip that included her family, Ogie's other gift to her is an expensive Hermes bag worth P500,000.