Is Charlene Gonzales hosting a new ABS-CBN daily morning talk show?

After word got out that Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino of Boy & Kris would be moving to primetime, speculations began floating around that another daily morning talk show would take over the show’s slot. So when Charlene Gonzales appeared at the presscon for Pond’s Age Miracle last January 27, the local media asked her if she was one of the three female hosts being eyed to take the reins from Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino. “I have no idea. Buti ka pa mas maraming alam sa akin. This is the first time I’ve heard about it,” said the former beauty queen who was clearly surprised with this piece of news.

But given a chance, Charlene seems willing to make a comeback since hosting is something really close to her heart. “I think by now everyone knows na malaki din ang utang na loob ko sa industriya. I’ve been in the industry for the past 16 years already, believe it or not, ang bilis talaga ng panahon. And mahal ko talaga yung industriya and it’s an industry that I will never leave. At the moment, I am not closing my doors to anything. I am just taking one step at a time. But I will always be forever grateful to our industry and love it forever,” she said.

Nevertheless, she refused to speak further about wanting to be a host again or the fact that she would have to compromise her time for her kids if she would be doing a daily talk show. “It really depends kung ano’ng magiging usapan [with ABS-CBN]. But at the moment nothing can be disclosed,” she reiterated. Charlene also didn’t comment when asked if there would be an issue if she took over the time slot formerly occupied by Kris. “It’s hard to be able to predict the future. Wala pa naman eh. So we’ll just leave it like that.”

The two were involved in a controversy last September 2008 when Kris made a joke about Charlene’s dress during the MetroWear Gala Presents Randy Ortiz fashion show Randy’s four muses—Kris, Charlene, Lucy Torres-Gomez, and Claudine Barretto-Santiago—were all supposed to wear black but Charlene had come in a turquoise Randy creation (with the designer’s blessings as it was revealed later on). Charlene said that things are now okay between her and the Queen of Talk. “Ever since the beginning, I’ve always had good relationships with everyone not just zeroing on one particular person, hindi ganon,” Charlene said. But she was also quick to add that she hasn’t really seen Kris nor talked to her since then.

As it was, she was very careful not to mention Kris’s name or their previous issue. “You know, life is not perfect. But those are the hurdles that you go through in life. But the most important thing is that you have a good conscience at maganda rin ang intensyon mo sa lahat ng tao. And you know, the industry is small. You have no bridges to burn. You will always bump into somebody again and again and again. So mas masarap din to live life na you have a good relationship with everyone,” she stressed.

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