KOKOY DE SANTOS is now on TV5 to be paired with Maris Racal.
Earlier, they want to get Inigo Pascual as Maris’ leading man, but ABS-CBN reportedly didn’t allow him to do a show with TV5, so they got Kokoy instead.
Well, we honestly think it’s good for Maris. We all know her launching movie with Inigo, “I’m Ellenia L”, laid a big fat egg at the box office when it was shown as part of last year’s Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino.
In other words, her much touted love team with Inigo didn’t have a big fan base at all. It'll be recalled that even their first movie, "Relax, It's Just Pag-ibig", was also a flop. They may have fans but not enough to support their film to be a box office hit.
In contrast, Kokoy de Santos comes from a successful BL series, “Gameboys”, which is a hit not only locally but even with global audiences.
Between him and his partner, Elijah Canlas, it’s Kokoy’s star who really shone brighter. Proof of this is he now has so many fans club active in social media. There’s KokoyNation, Kolokoys, Kokoy Global, Kokoyds, Kokoy Circle of Friends and many more.
It cannot be denied that it’s really Kokoy who carried the EliKoy love team because he’s such a live wire on screen. His performance is brimming with such natural spontaneous energy there’s no way you won’t notice his incandescent screen presence.
And we’re glad that he’s now paired with a female star in a more conventional romance and not in another Boys Love material. This means he won’t be stereotyped in doing gay roles.
Good for him. But we just don’t know if Maris Racal is the right girl partner for him. We pray that they’ll have good chemistry so their new love team would click with audiences.
