John Lapus Biography
John Lapus born Jonathan Anthony Solis Lapus is a Filipino actor, host & comedian. He is best known for various roles such as Shake, Rattle & Roll. he began his career back in 1993 where his first job was being a researcher at ABS-CBN studios. He finished college at the University of Santo Tomas where he was an active member of Teatro Tomasino.
He has appeared in Numerous ABS-CBN shows where he was moonlighted as Creative Consultant for the network’s film arm Star Cinema where his nickname was Sweet. From there he decided to transfer to GMA Network in 2006 after his major assignments in ABS-CBN dwindled. He planned to portray the villain character Ida in Zaido but was not given the role. In 2012, he returned to his original home network ABS-CBN where he joined the cast of many series on screen.
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John was born on July 7, 1973, in Manila, Philippines. As of 2018, he is 45 years old.
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Lapus is openly gay and there is no information about his gay relationships.
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John Lapus tense but excited to be ‘devirginized’ as playwright
MANILA — John “Sweet” Lapus is frank enough to admit he lost his virginity a long time ago. But now at 44, he is giddy and tense because he is about to be “devirginized” again.
This year, he made the cut in the annual Virgin Labfest (VLF), a theater festival of untried, untested, unstaged and unpublished plays, not as an actor, but as a playwright.
Lapus is currently part of ABS-CBN’s top-rating primetime romantic comedy, “Since I Found You,” where he plays the uncle of Arci Muñoz’s character.
Yet despite his busy schedule, he’s managed to write one-act-plays, like “Bagyolanda,” which will be part of the Staged Reading set on July 13 at 6 p.m. at the Tanghalang Amado V. Hernandez in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
“I wrote ‘Bagyolanda’ after seeing the report of Atom Araullo in ABS-CBN when Super Typhoon Yolanda struck Tacloban. Sa report niya nakita ko may beauty parlor na nasa second floor ng isang building pero inabot pa din ng baha. So naiisip ko, ano kaya ginawa ng mga bakla habang trapped sila sa parlor? Ayun na. ‘Bagyolanda’ is about Filipino resiliency, lalo na ng mga baklang Pinoy,” he told ABS-CBN News.
This is his second attempt to join the VLF. He first submitted the manuscript for “Bagyolanda” in 2016 and he took the non-acceptance as a challenge to do better.
In last year’s VLF, he was cast in “Hindi Ako Si Darna,” a comedy written by U.Z. Eliserio and Maynard Manansala. “It was my first time to be cast in VLF,” he said.
He played the villain, Valentina, in the play that imagined Darna (played by Tetchie Agbayani) as a weight-challenged, high cholesterol-struck aging superheroine.
“Nag-enjoy ako (as Valentina). It was during that time my friends suggested na isali ko ulit ang ‘Bagyolanda’ with some revisions. So ayun, sinali ko ulit, pumasok na! Totoo nga ang (kasabihang) ‘try and try until you succeed’.”
He added he was so excited that he submitted two one-act-plays. Besides “Bagyolanda,” the other one is titled “True to Life,“ which is about “magkaibigan na babae at bakla. Usapan tungkol sa love life, sex life at life.”
“Ang point ko ‘pag di pa naman ako pumasok sa dalawa eh ewan ko na lang,” Lapus said, laughing. “At least pumasok ang ‘Bagyolanda.’ Kahit one night lang ang staged reading pumasok! At ang maganda, pwede ko siya ulit isali next year.
He finds more encouragement from other playwrights whose works were initially tested in the Staged Reading set but were staged in future VLFs or revised and expanded into screenplays.
‘Yung ‘Mula sa Kulimliman’ ni Carlo Vergara, staged reading lang din. Tapos sinali nya ulit, pumasok na sa final 12 at naging revisited pa. ‘Yung ‘Changing Partners’ staged reading lang din pero naging full-length musical and award-winning film. So hindi mo talaga masasabi ang fate ng isang material. Update ko ang ‘Bagyolanda’ at ‘True to Life’ sali ko ulit next year! Laban lang!”
Theater person at heart
Lapus considers himself a theater person at heart. Only a few may know it but he started in theater way back in college. His course was very far from what he’s doing now because he took up Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Santo Tomas (UST).
“First year college pa lang ako, member na ako ng Teatro Tomasino,” he said, referring to the university-wide theater guild of UST. “On my last year in UST, I was elected secretary of our guild and eventually assigned as professional adviser. I just resigned this year after 23 years as professional adviser.”
It was his friends in Teatro Tomasino who helped him enter the world of show business.
“It was in Teatro Tomasino where I met my ‘Ates’ (senior gay friends) who were that time working in ABS-CBN already. (Actor) Eagle Riggs, Direk Wenn Deramas, Direk Don Cuaresma, Roxy Liquigan, Lui Andrada, Erick John Salud. Si Roxy at Lui, backed up by the rest ang nagpasok sa ‘kin sa ‘Showbiz Lingo’ as a researcher after graduating college. That was 25 years ago,” he said.
“Showbiz Lingo” is a showbiz-oriented talk show that aired every Sunday afternoon.
Casting Piolo Pascual in a play
Like Lapus, heartthrob Piolo Pascual also started in theater at UST. Pascual joined Teatro Tomasino in 1994 and it was Lapus who gave him an acting part in one of Chris Martinez’s earliest plays, “Sabado sa Sams.”
“Hindi na kami nag-abot sa UST kasi I graduated in 1993 but Piolo is our little bro. Full force kaming mga Ate niya na sumuporta sa pagpasok nya sa ABS-CBN. ‘At iba pa’ ang title ng first show niya. Tapos umalis sya at nag-US for his citizenship. Pagbalik niya, wala siya work. So, sabi ko mag-play ka muna sa ‘kin. Comeback niya sa theater ang ‘Sa Sabado Sa Sams’ ni Chris Martinez na dinirek ko for Teatro Tomasino,” Lapus recalled.
“Grabe ‘pag lumalabas si Piolo sa Act 5. Tiliaan ang mga tao. So sabi ko maglagay siya ng bigote at wig para pumangit naman siya tutal adik ang role. Napaka-husay na theater actor ni PJ (Pascual’s nickname). Sana bumalik sya ulit,” he added.
It was while doing “Sabado Sa Sams” when Pascual got another offer from ABS-CBN and since then, he never left.
Adopted from ABS-CBN News