The conflict between celebrity friends John Estrada, Randy Santiago and Willie Revillame is far from over.In fact, the tension escalated to new heights after John, who is part of the regular cast of "Everybody Hapi" on TV5, has been removed from the program.
"Ang masakit lang po, e, noong ipinaglaban ko, bigla pong sinabi sa akin na aalisin na ako sa programang 'yon," John lamented during the press conference of "Happy Yipee Yehey" on Tuesday at the Dolphy Theater in ABS-CBN.
He added that because of what happened, he decided to resign from his other show, the Sunday noontime variety program "PO5."
"Sa PO5 po, I had to resign. 'Yung sitcom ko po sa TV5, nalaman ko lang that management decided na aalisin na po ako. Hindi naman po siguro tayo... Kung alam naman po natin kung paano mag-isip, we can read between the lines."
Before he accepted the offer to host the noontime show "Happy Yipee Yehey!" on ABS-CBN, John made it clear to ABS-CBN Channel 2 chief Cory Vidanes and Entertainment TV head Linggit Tan that he has no intentions of leaving his regular stints in TV5.
"At sinabi ko roon sa lamesang 'yon, (during a lunch to discuss details of the noon time show) 'Pasensiya na po, hindi ko puwedeng iwanan [ang TV5] dahil sila ang nagbigay sa akin ng sitcom na matagal ko nang hinihingi dito [ABS-CBN]," said John. "Hindi namin iiwanan ang Channel 5. We're doing this one, ‘Happy, Yipee, Yehey!,' pero ibalato n'yo na po sa amin 'yon," added John, recalling what happened during the meeting with the ABS-CBN executives.
However due to the sudden turn of events, John decided to end ties with TV5.
Source: Glenda Villena, Yahoo! Southeast Asia
