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28 March 2024

Philippines beauty queen’s personal life on the rocks

Venus Raj and Andrei Felix (Angela Galia/NPPA Images)

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Manila: Venus Raj, formerly Miss Philippines-Universe and a fourth runner-up at the 2010 Miss Universe beauty pageant, has ended her one-year relationship with boyfriend Andrei Felix.

“Yes, it’s true,” she tweeted ABS-CBN reporter Dominic Alemelor last Friday, May 9, as quoted by Yahoo! OMG!

A day before that she posted some tweets giving hints of the breakup: “My chains are gone I’ve been set free…”

Last March, the management of ABS-CBN network removed Raj and Felix, formerly hosts of ‘Umagang Kay Ganda’ (A Beautiful Morning), from the show for too much PDA, or public display of affection.

The show includes news on the traffic situation around Metro Manila and what’s happing in the regions all over the Philippines.

A number of complaints had been filed by their cohosts, costars and other staff members in some shows aired at the same network who had alleged that the lovers’ behaviour on the set was every distracting.

The ex-lovers had announced earlier that they were going to tie the knot.

People who had worked with Raj and Felix had told entertainment writers that the couple seemed like playing the game of ‘Trip to Jerusalem’ all the time, as they kept on sitting at each other’s lap and were caught locking lips in a number of times.

A radio jock at Max FM 103.5, Felix is formerly a Star Circle Quest (SCQ) member before he joined the entertainment industry where he met Raj.

A reality-based talent competition that premiered on ABS-CBN on March 1, 2004, SCQ features 10 contestants per season who are called ‘questors’. These contestants will then undergo talent training, physical makeover and different challenges to test their entertainment skills.