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John Lapus

7th July 1973 Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Acting

Jonathan Anthony Solis Lapus (or known as John Lapus or simply Sweet, born July 7, 1973 in Manila) is a Filipino actor, host and comedian. John Lapus is son of showbiz columnist, the late Jojo Lapus (1943–2007). Lapus started his career in 1993 and worked as a researcher of ABS-CBN's Showbiz Lingo. He is also an alumnus of University of Santo Tomas, where he was an active member of Teatro Tomasino. He appeared in numerous ABS-CBN shows and often moonlighted as Creative Consultant for the network's film arm, Star Cinema. His nickname "Sweet" was named after his character in a sitcom Arriba, Arriba!. In 2006, he transferred to GMA Network, joining S-Files after his assignments at ABS-CBN dwindled. When S-Files was cancelled by the network he was named main host of Showbiz Central together with Pia Guanio and Raymond Gutierrez. Since then, his career has experienced resurgence. He has planned to portray the villain character Ida in Zaido but Paolo Ballesteros was chosen for this character. Lapus won two awards namely, Best Male Stand-Up Comic in Aliw Awards 2006 and Best Game Show Host (along with Ai-Ai de las Alas) for ABC-5's (now TV5's) Sing Galing in PMPC Star Awards 2004. Lapus is openly gay. He returned to his originally home network ABS-CBN. He had been casted first at Ikaw Ay Pag-ibig, Kahit Konting Pagtingin and now at Mirabella which he was known as Paeng Robles, foster father of Mirabella.

85 Movies 11 TV Shows 96 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Echorsis poster
Echorsis 13th April 2016 as Kristoff De Villa
Dish poster
Dish 25th December 2014 as Iggy Moda
Snake poster
Snake 25th December 2014 as Iggy Moda
Posas poster
Posas 21st July 2012 as complainant
Island poster
Island 25th December 2010 as Malay
100 poster
100 3rd December 2008 as Host
The Child poster
The Child 10th May 2000 as Sing-Along Bar Host 1
Mirabella poster
Mirabella 24th March 2014 as Rafael "Paeng" Amarillo