Have you ever made a new friend or mentioned someone new to your parents for the first time, and one of their first few follow up questions was something along the lines of “what’s their last name?”
One can tell quite a bit based off of someone’s last name, albeit not all the Cruz’s and Reyes’ of the world are related to one another — though in the Filipino showbiz world… it seems like most of them do have some type of connection to one another.
Twitter user gabey (@gabeyboomer) posted a thread compiling all the family trees released by ABS-CBN entertainment. If a picture can speak a thousand words, maybe these ones might have something to say about nepotism in the entertainment industry…
Currently getting into some seminal readings on Philippine history and culture pic.twitter.com/Mo0KJK0hVE
— gabey 😸 (@gabeyboomer) November 8, 2021
The thread contains multiple family tree photos, also including sources other than ABS-CBN, from the gut-needing Gutierrez’s to “The many loves of Dolphy”.
Dolphy’s family. See how Alma and Zsa Zsa are both here? They’re also in the Padilla family tree. Zsa Zsa married the ex (Dolphy) of her uncle’s (Rudy Fernandez) ex (Alma) pic.twitter.com/sA9el6GEXd
— gabey 😸 (@gabeyboomer) November 9, 2021
The thread maps out quite clearly how many Filipino celebrities are somehow interconnected with one another, either by blood or by marriage.
Ate Shawie the Margaery Tyrell of the Sottos and Pangilinans i fear pic.twitter.com/Nz13Nb5ohw
— gabey 😸 (@gabeyboomer) November 8, 2021
The thread may also present some surprise attacks of people you may not have known that are actually related to one another.
Twitter user gabey playfully alludes to families from Game of Thrones, and the comparison seems quite appropriate.
And finally the minor houses of westeros chareng pic.twitter.com/KBmuvN2uvH
— gabey 😸 (@gabeyboomer) November 8, 2021
Included in the thread as well, gabey brought back a genealogy of the Philippine presidents, which serves as a “perfect manifestation of decades of intermarriage between the rich, elite and powerful”.
Also bringing this back because the Philippine presidents being actually related to each other is the perfect manifestation of decades of intermarriage between the rich, elite, and powerful https://t.co/bFqScUE5JN
— gabey 😸 (@gabeyboomer) November 8, 2021
Not to undermine any trials and tribulations that the offspring of these family trees may have gone through (or discredit the hard work of their forefathers), but it is giving very much–
@emilyuuribe nepotism #fyp #foryou #pov they be exposing their connections 😭 if your parents have connections, that is a WHOLE connection
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