📷 Nikko Natividad | IMDb
Nikko Natividad expressed his sympathy to controversial searchee Axel Cruz and searcher Christine whom he felt were embarrassed on national television.
This stems from one recent episode of the EXpecially For You segment on It’s Showtime where Axel was about to kiss Christine on the cheeks.
Vice Ganda reprimanded Axel and told him he should get permission from the girl to be able to kiss her.
Then, Vice Ganda expressed her intention to make an apology to Axel after watching a short video of Christine who said she wasn’t offended at all by Axel’s gesture. She felt Axel didn’t have any intention to kiss her.
The next day, Vice Ganda addressed the issue and retracted her earlier statement because she did nothing wrong. She revealed that Christine felt off after Axel tried to kiss her.
In a now deleted post on his social media accounts, Nikko said he experienced how it was to be embarrassed, too, on national television.
“Alam ko kasi pakiramdam ng pinapahiya sa tv at napopowertrip base sa experience ko,” he wrote on his post.
“Naawa ako sa dalawang contestant. Ipagpalagay na natin na bebeso talaga yung lalaki. Hindi naman nya intensyon manyakin sa live yung babae. Ang mali lang nya ay hindi nya alam na need pala muna magpaalam bago bumeso (kunwari lang na bebeso talaga sya ha). Naaawa lang ako sa lalaki na may nagawang mali pero hindi nya talaga intensyon. At syempre dun sa babae. Na offend man sya o hindi sya lang ang makakapagsabi nyan. Kung na offend man sya alam ko na mapapatawad nya yung lalaki,” he added.
Nikko defended Axel as “Sobra lang kasi napahiya yung lalaki na sasabihan pa na tatadyakan at pwede kasuhan. (Again sakin lang po ito ha) ALAM KO KASI PAKIRAMDAM NG PINAPAHIYA SA TV AT NAPOPOWERTRIP BASE SA EXPERIENCE KO.”
Nikko is a member of an all-male group Hashtags who regularly performed on It’s Showtime before. (NIGEL CHAVEZ DE ESTRADA)
