The reason why Johnny Manahan aka Mr. M left ABS-CBN
addressed" by ABSCBN management.
It appears that the reason behind Mr. M's transfer to TV5 has nothing to do with the
Juancho Trivino is finally a college graduate. He holds a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship.
The GMA-7 actor-host wrote in his recent Instagram post: "Finally! I graduated!!"
It took him 12 years to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship from De La Salle University.
The Kapuso star looked back on his college journey in the same Instagram post.
His college journey started in 2009 when he enrolled at the Laguna campus of De La Salle University.
But midway through his journey, Juancho tried his luck in showbiz and his studies were put on hold.
A couple of years later, Juancho decided to give college another try. He wrote in his post, "I wanted to finish what my parents worked so hard for me to go through, to put me in a good school."
With this in mind, the actor cross-enrolled from the Laguna campus to the Manila campus of De La Salle University. franchise problem of ABS-CBN.
Mr. M stressed that the main reason is that...
"There's a shadow talent center in ABSCBN, and they have their own managers and they manage their own stars.
"The people from the Pinoy Big Brother, we expected to manage these people after they come out of the house.
"No, they set up their own organization. It was like a counter organization
After the PBB (Pinoy Big Brother) housemates stint on this reality show, all of them goes straight and managed by Star magic.
Eventually, right after the season ends, most of the pbb housemates goes directly to the ones managing PBB
"Dati kasi yung PBB, pumupunta sa Star Magic.
"After a while, ever since they got the idea na maybe they should put up their own, they started picking
It was during these years when Juancho realized that "life is not one dimensional."
He became a working student, operating "with no sleep and drinking vendo coffee to keep me awake and Balance my sheets (accounting reference)."
There were moments when he would come from Pangasinan and go straight to the set of Unang Hirit. If he was running late for school after his hosting duties on the morning show, he would backride on a motorcycle just to make it to class.
Even though Juancho did his victory lap people who wanted to pick.
"In other words, yung latak papunta sa ami n."
Also, PBB committee has organized a Star Hunt, an audition caravan of ABS-CBN a one-stop-shop for audionees who wishes to join other reality shows of the said network.
"That didn't sit too well with my people,"
"It's not like I was whining and complaining. My people were complaining to me, 'Mr. M, papaano ba iyan? They have their own talent center and their own talents.'
"I said, 'Yeah, that's not too nice. That makes us irrelevant.' Maybe they're trying to make us irrelevan t ."
According to Mr. M, he talked to the ABSCBN management regarding the set up which he called as
they
"shadow talent center"
"I took this up with higher management. Nothing happened for two years. Nothing happened for three year s."
"We brought it up to highest management and nothing happened. I miss the days when FMG and Charo were around. Because of their high ethical standards, they would have done something about it.
"As FMG used to say 'kanya-kanyang raket yan!' Raket namin yan, the discovery and training of artists, not anyone el se's! "
during a pandemic, the GMA-7 talent was still proud of his achievement.
He wrote (published as is), "After 12 years, natapos din, kahit via zoom lang ang graduation ko after all those years of waiting - Gusto kong i-alay to sa Diyos at sa magulang ko.
"@pattytrivino and @acaciadad and I also want to encourage others, there's always rainbow after the rain. It might not be the ideal time for me but God has his perfect time for us. On to the next challenge!"
Juancho posted his graduation photo on January 16, 2021.