JUANCHO TRIVINO’s leading lady in “Magkaibang Mundo”, admitted to us that he has a non-showbiz girlfriend. But when we asked him directly about this at the special presscon held by GMA-7 for him and Louise, he says that they’re not yet officially on. “We’re just dating,” he says.
But it seems there’s really something special going between them because the other weekend, the girl even brought him with her to visit his uncle, Sen. Bong Revilla. The girl is Cheska Bautista Mendiola, the daughter of Sen. Bong elder sister, Rowena Bautista Mendiola. How did they get to know each other?
“Yung cousin niya, si Gianna Revilla, anak ni Sen. Bong and Cong. Lani Mercado, nakasama ko sa ‘Teen Gen’ before,” says Juancho. “Sabay kaming na-introduce doon. Kahit tumigil siya sa showbiz, may communication pa rin kami and she introduced me to Cheska just in February of this year.”
Cheska is pretty enough to be an ‘artista’ herself, but at 20, she prefers to focus on her management economics studies at the Ateneo. She was linked before to Enzo Manzano, younger half brother of Luis. Her mom Rowena is a councilor in Bacoor City while her dad, Boyet Mendiola, is a director of the National Tobacco Administration.
