| Ricky Lo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ricardo F. Lo |
| Occupation | Entertainment Writer and TV host |
| Website | |
| Philstar.com | |
Ricardo F. Lo, more popularly known as Ricky Lo, is an entertainment writer, showbiz commentator from the Philippines. He is of Chinese descent.[1]
He was born on April 17. He is a native of Las Navas, Northern Samar, where he finished grade school. He finished high school at the bilingual Tabaco Pei Ching School in Tabaco, Albay, and took up AB English at the University of the East.
From 1969 to 1972, Ricky worked as editorial assistant of Variety magazine, the Sunday supplement of the old Manila Times where he started his Funfare column. After this, he joined the Daily Express first as staff writer of its Express Week magazine and then as deskman of The Evening Express and eventually its main broadsheet. He later went on to work as editorial assistant for its Sunday magazine, Weekend, until 1986.
Lo did stint as entertainment editor- first at The Manila Times and then at The Manila Chronicle and currently at The Philippine Star where he also writes his revived FunFare column and his regular Sunday feature, Conversations with Ricky Lo.
Ricky is the author of Star-Studded, the first compilation of his articles on movie stars, which he released in 1995. Another book, Conversations with Ricky Lo was released in 2001. The book bear Lo’s trademark sensitive, intelligent and penetrating style of handling interviews. Lo is the first to explode the Martin Nievera and Pops Fernandez break up. Then, in 2008, the Karylle and Dingdong Dantes break up.
In an interview with GMA 7 Network, he was asked who among the articles that you have written which one is the most memorable? He said, “Ah marami through the years, but isa na dun ‘yung Martin and Pops (split up). Ako ang unang nag break ng story. Nag-deny si Pops, nag-deny din si Martin. Nilagay ko ‘yung side nila pati ‘yung denials nila, kumpleto. Pero sa ending nilagay ko lang ‘I stand by my story, it’s up to you to make conclusions.’ Di ko naman sinabi na nagsinungaling sila; Hindi ko rin sinabi na totoo ‘yung sinulat ko.”