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Hello, Candy Girls!

We are delighted to tell you that thanks to your love and support, our May issue has been flying off the shelves! Your Team worked super hard on this issue, and we’re glad you seem to be enjoying it. If you don’t have your own copy yet, go grab one while you still can. Our four Guest Editors—Sam Concepcion, AJ Perez, Eri Neeman, and Jonathan Rice—cooked up lots of cool stuff especially for you, and I must say they did a fantastic job. Congratulations, guys!

For this entry, let me tell you why we here at the Candy HQ love this year’s Boy Panelists/ Guest Editors (all photos taken by Roch):

I was never really aware of how popular Sam was until Macy and I were invited to his induction as the DepEd’s new youth spokesperson sometime last year. It was craaazy—there must have been more than a hundred girls and guys screaming his name, taking his picture with their cameras and mobile phones, and crowding around the van he was in! And although I’m a bit worried about the overwhelming amount of attention he’s getting, Sam seems to be taking it all in stride. In fact, he lets none of the adoration from his fans go to his head, and I think this—more than his talent and good looks and natural charm—is what makes him such a huge star. We’ve seen him grow up (figuratively AND literally) over the past couple of years, and we’re pretty certain he’s headed towards even bigger and better things.


AJ, like his friend and co-star Dino, is makulit in a totally cute and non-annoying way (which you can obviously see in the photo above). This boy’s heartthrob material—no wonder you girls can’t get enough of him! He gives great advice to all your love problems too (you can e-mail him at askajATcandymagDOTcom), proving that makulit guys can be quite mature as well. Plus, he made the funniest captions for the gift guide he styled!

I love this photo of Eri because he looks so happy here. Eri is actually one of the most pleasant, most good-natured people I’ve ever worked with—which makes working with him so much easier, of course. I like how he really poured his heart into the feature article we asked him to write, and it’s refreshing how, despite his celeb status, something as simple as receiving positive feedback for his work always seems to put him in such a good mood. (We asked him to write something else for a future issue, by the way. Make sure you get to read it!)

Rice, with his boy-next-door charm and cheerful smile, won us over with the fact that he’s game for anything and never complains—even when we make him wait for hours and overfeed him! Haha. He made all of us kilig when he modeled for the Jan-Feb issue’s Love Firsts special, and wrote awesome reviews for his page—we are officially impressed.

So there you have it: more reasons to love this year’s Boy Panel, and therefore grab a copy of the May issue! And when you’re done reading, don’t forget to e-mail us—we’d love to hear from you. Enjoy the last stretch of the summer!

Big hugs,
Marla