Kim Chiu 2006-2008: Career beginnings How did her career begin? Chiu gained prominence by winning the reality series Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. What did she do after Big Brother? After winning, Chiu became part of Star Magic. what is Star Magic? I don't know.
what was her next big break?
After Star Magic, what was Kim Chiu's next big break?
Chiu gained prominence by winning the reality series Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. For the show, Chiu left her hometown of Cebu City and moved to Manila. She, along with the rest of the housemates entered the Big Brother house on April 23, 2006. After 42 days in the Big Brother house, she was named the Teen Big Winner with 626,562 votes (41.4% of the total votes) at the Aliw Theatre inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay City. She was the only housemate who was never nominated for eviction.  After winning, Chiu became part of Star Magic. She and her on-screen partner Gerald Anderson became regulars in ASAP XV and appeared together in several ABS-CBN shows Love Spell, comedy sitcom Aalog-Alog and in the film First Day High.  In 2007, Chiu starred in the primetime TV series entitled Sana Maulit Muli alongside Anderson which was released to significant acclaim. That year, she was nominated and eventually won the 38th Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Awards as Most Promising Female Star and Best New Female TV Personality (for Sana Maulit Muli) at the 21st PMPC Star Awards. Sana Maulit Muli was later released in Taiwan under the PTS network, under the title Chances.  Chiu then launched her debut album Gwa Ai Di (Wo Ai Ni ; Minnan, "I Love You") under Star Records, which included the single Crazy Love. It reached a Gold Record status.  Gaining much recognition for her acting roles, she then starred in the movie I've Fallen For You under Star Cinema and continually appeared in numerous advertisements. In 2008, Chiu was cast in the Philippine adaptation of the South Korean TV series My Girl. CANNOTANSWER
She and her on-screen partner Gerald Anderson became regulars in ASAP XV
Kimberly Sue Yap Chiu (; born 19 April 1990) is a Filipina actress, model, host, singer, dancer, and vlogger. Kim garnered acclaim at a young age for her acting performances on television and film. She is known as Philippine showbiz's "Chinita Princess" and once hailed "Princess of Philippine Movies and TV" for three consecutive years in the Philippines. She is currently managed and under contract to Star Magic, ABS-CBN's homebased talent agency and is referred to as the "Queen of the Dance Floor".

Kim Chiu started her showbiz career at the age of 16 after winning the first teen edition of the reality show Pinoy Big Brother. She then, starred in the television series, Sana Maulit Muli (2007) which won her the year's Most Promising Female Star and Most Popular loveteam with Gerald Anderson at GMMSF. This was followed by a string of successful projects and leading roles in dramas such as My Girl (2008), Tayong Dalawa (2009), Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo (2010), My Binondo Girl (2011–2012), Ina, Kapatid, Anak (2012–2013), Ikaw Lamang (2014), The Story of Us (2016), Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin (2017–2018), Love Thy Woman (2020) and Bawal Lumabas: The Series (2020).

She also starred in multiple commercially successful films including Bride for Rent (2014), I Love You, Goodbye (2009),  Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? (2013), Etiquette for Mistresses (2015) and The Ghost Bride (2017).

She has also received a PMPC Award for Best Drama Actress on her performance in Ikaw Lamang, four FAMAS Award nominations (winning one) and was hailed Princess of Philippine Movies and TV for three times at the GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards for her accomplishments in the film and television industry. She has a very wide fanbase which is rapidly growing because of her chemistry, strong acting on-screen and her dedication to the entertainment industry. She is one of the few Philippine actresses with a high number of best actress accolades under her name. To top it all apart from acting she is also the endorsed by various companies in the Philippines including the international brand H&M and she's a fan of sports and exercises.

Career

2006–2008: Career beginnings
Chiu gained prominence by winning the reality series Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition. For the show, Chiu left her hometown of Cebu City and moved to Manila. She, along with the rest of the housemates entered the Big Brother house on April 23, 2006. After 42 days in the Big Brother house, she was named the Teen Big Winner with 626,562 votes (41.4% of the total votes) at the Aliw Theatre inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay. She was the only housemate who was never nominated for eviction.

After winning, Chiu became part of Star Magic.
She and her on-screen partner Gerald Anderson became regulars in ASAP XV and appeared together in several ABS-CBN shows Love Spell, comedy sitcom Aalog-Alog and in the film First Day High.

In 2007, Chiu starred in the primetime TV series entitled Sana Maulit Muli alongside Anderson which was released to significant acclaim. That year, she was nominated and eventually won the 38th Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Awards as Most Promising Female Star and Best New Female TV Personality (for Sana Maulit Muli) at the 21st PMPC Star Awards. Sana Maulit Muli was later released in Taiwan under the PTS network, under the title Chances.

Chiu then launched her debut album "Gwa Ai Di" (Hokkien ) under Star Records, which included the single Crazy Love. It reached a Gold Record status.

Gaining much recognition for her acting roles, she then starred in the movie I've Fallen For You under Star Cinema and continually appeared in numerous advertisements. In 2008, Chiu was cast in the Philippine adaptation of the South Korean TV series My Girl.

2009–2011: Breakthrough
In 2009, Chiu secured her name as a top actress in the highly acclaimed TV series entitled Tayong Dalawa. She garnered several acting awards for her portrayal of Audrey, a woman who is loved by two military men.

Her movie I Love You, Goodbye became part of Star Cinema's official entry to the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first role as a villain and her first film to hit P100 million mark, with her receiving several nominations under different award-giving bodies including PMPC, 12th Gawad PASADO Awards and the 34th MMFF for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2010, she then starred in the romance film Paano Na Kaya, released nationally and internationally. She also starred in the well-received primetime drama, Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo, the highest rating teleserye of 2010 in the Philippines. In October 2010, Chiu and Anderson teamed up for the last consecutive time in the film Till My Heartaches End. In the midst of movie promotions, it was reported that the long-time couple (known as Kimerald) had split, yet the reason for the breakup was not discussed.

She top-billed in a weekly musical anthology series Your Song, as a sub-series for the 12th season called Your Song Presents: Kim. It ran for four months and led her to pair up with Sam Milby, Jake Cuenca, Pokwang, Derek Ramsay, Enrique Gil and Vice Ganda. In 2011, Chiu starred in romantic-comedy television series titled My Binondo Girl alongside Xian Lim, Matteo Guidicelli, and Jolo Revilla.

2012–present: Movies and critical success
In 2012, Chiu starred in a horror film with Vilma Santos entitled The Healing. She played a woman who is cured of glomerulonephritis through a healer but must suffer a curse. From this film, she received a number of Best Supporting Actress nominations from almost all of the film award-giving bodies, missing only the Gawad Urian and The Young Critics' Circle.

Chiu also returned to melodrama acting via Ina, Kapatid, Anak, alongside Xian Lim, Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee. After the teleserye ended with an average TV rating of 30.3% via Kantar Media/TNS, it was awarded Best Teleserye of the Year at Philippine's 2013 Yahoo Awards and was aired internationally as Her Mother's Daughter, released in foreign territories including MIPTV in France and at DISCOP West Asia in Turkey. Her portrayal also earned her an award for Best TV Drama Actress. She reunited in a movie with Anderson titled 24/7 in Love, Star Magic's ensemble film in view of the agency's 20th anniversary.

She starred in a film adaption of Ramon Bautista's novel co-starring Xian Lim, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo?, released on July 17, 2013. Her performance received positive feedback and critics praise in view of her first comedic role on the big screen.

In January 2014, Chiu cemented her commercial draw with the romantic-comedy movie entitled Bride for Rent. Chiu plays Rocky, a poor woman who agrees to marry for money. As Star Cinema's first movie offering of 2014, the film met both critical and commercial success, earning more than P21.2 million pesos in its opening day and broke the P200 million pesos mark on its 8th day. The film established Chiu as one of the country's biggest stars having both a successful film and television career. Having grossed P325 million, it is the sixth highest grossing Filipino film of all time, the second highest grossing Filipino romantic comedy movie of all-time, third highest grossing non-MMFF film of all-time and also the highest-grossing January-released film of all-time in the country.

After the success of her two films, Chiu returned to television in the 2014 period drama, Ikaw Lamang. The series co-stars Coco Martin, Julia Montes, Jake Cuenca and KC Concepcion and dealt with social class, politics, and forbidden love. It held the first and second place viewer rating in its time slot and was awarded Best Primetime Drama Series at the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Television. This followed with the romantic comedy film, Past Tense and a portrayal as Mulan for Walt Disney Asia's 12 Days of Princess campaign.

In 2015, she appeared as one of five mistresses (alongside veterans Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza Calzado) in the high-profile film, Etiquette for Mistresses. She recorded the Cebuano songs "Duyog" and "Labyu Langga" for the film's soundtrack. She also top-billed in the rom-com, All You Need Is Pag-Ibig, which is Star Cinema's official entry to the 2015 MMFF.

In 2016, she starred on the hit Philippine romantic drama, The Story of Us. Her performance as Tin Manalo gave her another Best Actress Awards from 6th EdukCircle Awards, 6th OFW Parangal Awards and Guillermo Mendoza. Also, on the last quarter of 2016, Kimerald loveteam was announced to set back on television via a triathlon soap opera television series Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin for the celebration of their 10th anniversary in show business.

In May 2017, Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin premiered on ABS-CBN's PrimeTanghali noontime block replacing Langit Lupa. The show debuted at Number 1 in its time slot, and consistently ranked ahead of its competition during its nine-month run.

In November 2017, she appears in the horror movie, The Ghost Bride where she plays the role as Mayen Lim who is the main protagonist of this film that she will be torn between living a normal though difficult life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a comfortable life for her loved ones. She is also accompanied by Matteo Guidicelli, Alice Dixson, Christian Bables and Cacai Bautista in this said movie project which was set to show on theatres on All Saints' Day. In April 2018, she appears in the Filipino horror-comedy film Da One That Ghost Away directed by Tony Y. Reyes together with Ryan Bang, Enzo Pineda and the duo of Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber.

In December 2018, her movie One Great Love became part of Regal Film's official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival. It was Chiu's first time working with Dennis Trillo and JC de Vera with her receiving nomination on the 44th annual MMFF Awards for Best Actress. She also won the Film Actress of the Year in the 50th GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards for her performance in the film One Great Love.

In 2020, her song "Bawal Lumabas (The Classroom Song)" became the most disliked song in WISH 107.5's YouTube Channel having reportedly received 404k dislikes and 78k likes within 14 hours. The song was based from a viral edit made by DJ Squammy from her statement about the ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy.

Personal life
Kim Chiu is the fourth of five children to William Chiu, a Chinese businessman from Mindoro and Louella (née Yap; 1963–2013), a Philippine Sangley native who migrated from Dinagat Islands to Surigao del Sur, Philippines. She is fluent in Cebuano, Tagalog, English, with Waray, Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese beginner level only.

Since her parent's separation in 1998, Kim had a dysfunctional relationship with both of her parents. She and her siblings were raised by their paternal grandmother and, as children, frequently moved residencies in the Philippine Visayas; locating in Tacloban, Leyte, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos City, Mindoro and back to Cebu City until 2006. In 2013, she reconciled with her father "after five years of estrangement" while visiting his second partner and half-siblings in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. A month later in June,  her biological mother, Louella, fell into a coma. Following a week of hospitalization, Louella died on June 23, 2013, due to brain aneurysm. In a eulogy dedicated to her mother, she debunked rumors of animosity over her mother's child abandonment and expressed: "An angel guides me in my decisions in life. For me, that is finally my mom."

Chiu dated co-star Gerald Anderson from 2006 to 2010.

Kim Chiu began dating fellow Star Magic artist and leading man, Xian Lim in 2012, which was confirmed in a 2013 episode of Kris TV. They acknowledged they were "exclusively dating". On November 15, 2018, Kim Chiu confirmed she was still in a relationship with Lim during her interview on Tonight with Boy Abunda.

On March 4, 2020, Chiu was traveling along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City on her way to a taping of her series Love Thy Woman when two unidentified gunmen, riding-in-tandem on a motorcycle, fired six gunshots at her van. Chiu and her companions were unharmed. Investigators examine the shooting as a possible case of mistaken identity. Chiu later revealed on social media that, a day after the incident, a person claiming to have been the actual target called one of her bosses to apologize.

Philanthropy and education
Chiu uses her media influence to promote various causes. She began partnership with GSK for yearly asthma awareness campaigns, Win Against Asthma, after battling asthma as a child. Chiu has since participated in disaster relief organizations such as Philippine National Red Cross and Sagip Kapamilya.  She joined the PETA campaign Free Mali along with Xian Lim. Chiu made a video plea for Mali, asking that she be moved to a sanctuary for the sake of her well-being. In August 2012, she and Lim spearheaded a relief operation in Marikina. Chiu was heavily involved with relief efforts for Typhoon Yolanda via Red Cross, which had affected parts of her hometown. Aside from giving food and water, she also held week-long clothes auctions to raise money for Typhoon victims.

By 2013, it was also revealed that the actress was involved with regularly funding Isla Pulo, an impoverished community of 1,000 inhabitants in Manila Bay, Philippines.

As one of Philippines highest paid endorsers, Chiu addressed the ongoing Pork Barrel tax scandal and the government's alleged misuse of the PDAF in a press conference on August 28, 2013, noting the amount of tax celebrities like herself pay to the government: "The money isn't a joke [...] we pay so much tax and we don't know where it's going." The Bureau of Internal Revenue confirmed Chiu as 131st top taxpayer in the country with ₱9.3M in income taxes in 2013.

In 2015, Chiu passed the UPCAT and enrolled in University of the Philippines's UPOU program for business courses.

Filmography

Television

Films

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Singles from OST Albums 

 Mine "(Sana Maulit Muli)"
 Pusong Lito "(My Girl)"
 Sabihin Mo Na w/ "Gerald Anderson"" (My Girl)"
 Crazy Love ""Chinese Version"" "(My Girl)"
 My Only Hope  "(My Only Hope)"

Others 

 Kering Keri "(Rejoice TV Commercial)"
 Whisper, I Love You "(Close Up MV)"
 Softly "(Kim Chiu, Youtube)"
 Bawal Lumabas "(Kim Chiu, Youtube)" - An allusion to 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic and ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy

Music videos

Accolades

References

External links
 
 

1990 births
Living people
Actresses from Cebu
Actresses from Leyte (province)
Big Brother (franchise) winners
Filipino actors of Chinese descent
Filipino child actresses
Filipino child singers
Filipino female models
Filipino film actresses
Filipino people of Chinese descent
Filipino television actresses
Filipino Roman Catholics
People from Cebu City
Pinoy Big Brother contestants
Star Magic
Star Magic Batch 14
ABS-CBN personalities
Star Music artists
Visayan people
21st-century Filipino women singers
Cebuano people
The Big Break VII: Reunion at Reunion featured sixteen competitors from previous seasons of The Big Break returning to compete for PGA, Champions and LPGA Tour exemptions at the Reunion Resort & Club in Orlando, Florida.  The series premiered on The Golf Channel on February 25, 2007 and was won by Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey, who originally competed on The Big Break IV: USA vs. Europe.

Competitors included:
 Mark "Moose" Farnham, The Big Break I
 Don Donatello, The Big Break II
 Mike Foster, Jr., The Big Break II
 David Gunas, Jr., The Big Break II
 Pamela (Crikelair) Garrity, The Big Break III: Ladies Only
 Cindy Miller, The Big Break III
 Valeria Ochoa, The Big Break III
 Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey, The Big Break IV: USA vs. Europe
 Edoardo Gardino, The Big Break IV
 Nikki DiSanto, The Big Break V: Hawaii
 Kim Lewellen, The Big Break V
 Ashley Gomes, The Big Break VI: Trump National
 Laura London, The Big Break VI
 Kelly Murray, The Big Break VI
 Gary Ostrega, The Big Break VI
 Briana Vega, The Big Break VI women's champion

Laura London indicated in her interview that The Big Break VII was actually cast well before the completion of filming of The Big Break VI and before London herself had been eliminated.

Show format
Each show will feature two to three challenges, the outcome of each influencing who stays and who goes home. Each challenge will demand precision shot-making designed to simulate conditions that players face every week on tour.

Competitions in The Big Break VII are coed team events with the losing duos going to an Elimination Challenge. The coed teams were formed by pairing the top female & top male, 2nd best female & 2nd best male, etc. The teams were then seeded by their performance in the next challenge. Each week, only half of the duos played. Duos alternated from being exempt for the episode, to playing for survival the next episode. Competitions in The Big Break VII are coed team events with the losing duos going to an Elimination Challenge. Once there, teams are split and males compete against males and female take on other females.

The original duos were:
 Ashley & Don (#1 seed)
 Kim & Mike (#2 seed)
 Bri & Tommy
 Nikki & Kelly
 Laura & Mark
 Cindy & Gary
 Pamela & Dave
 Valerie & Edoardo

Once down to eight players, the competition became every man and woman for themselves. This change of format mocked the original format seen in the earlier seasons. Unlike the previous season, only one person would win, rather than the top person from each gender.

Elimination Chart

1 In episode 1, nobody was eliminated. However, teams competed for the top seed and a $5,000 bonus. The team of Don Donatello (Big Break II) /Ashley Gomes (Big Break VI) edged out the Mike Foster (Big Break II) / Kim Lewellen (Big Break V) duo by one point to win the top seed.
2 In episode 6, it was announced that the current duos were disbanded and the remaining contestants would compete as individuals for the rest of the series. 
3 In episode 6, Don won the ultimate immunity competition. The victory was worth either $5,000 or a one-time immunity that can be used at any point until the competition is whittled down to four players. Nobody was eliminated in this episode
4 Due to conflict with other players, Pamela withdrew from the competition. 
5 Donatello decided to play the Elimination Challenge rather than turn in the Ultimate Immunity he won in episode 6. Despite having immunity in his back pocket, Don was eliminated.
6 For the first time in Big Break history, the finals began at the final 3, rather than the final 2. Mike was eliminated in the first half of the stroke play match after he failed to win a sudden death match over Ashley.
7 Tommy won "The Big Break VII: Reunion at Reunion" after defeating Ashley in the 2nd half of the match play final. The final was nine holes and Tommy won 3 & 1.

 Pink indicates the contestant is a female.
 Blue indicates the contestant is a male.
 Green background and WIN means the contestant won matchplay final and The Big Break.
 Blue background and WIN means the contestant won immunity from the elimination challenge.
 Light blue background and HIGH means the contestant had a higher score in the elimination challenge.
 White background and IN means the contestant had a good enough score in the elimination challenge to move onto the next episode.
 Orange background and LOW means the contestant had one of the lower scores for the elimination challenge.
 Gray background and IN means the contestant had the episode off and was therefore safe.
 Hot pink background and QUIT means the contestant withdrew from the competition.

 Red background and OUT means the contestant was eliminated from the competition

Notes

Big Break VII: Reunion at Reunion, The
Reunion, Florida
Television shows filmed in Florida Johanna Edwards (born February 27, 1978) is a bestselling American novelist and award-winning entertainment journalist.  Her books have been translated into various languages, and are sold all over the world.

Biography 
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Edwards graduated magna cum laude from the University of Memphis with a degree in journalism in 2001.

Edwards is best known for her chick-lit novel, The Next Big Thing, which was published in 2005 and remained on the national bestseller list for nearly three months.  Her follow-up novel, Your Big Break, was also a bestseller.  Her third novel, How to Be Cool, was published by Penguin in June 2008.  Edwards has also written two teen-lit novels, the first of which, Love Undercover, was published by Simon & Schuster in late 2006, and her second young adult novel, Go Figure, was released October 2007.

Johanna has been featured in a variety of publications, including USA Today, Us Weekly, The Boston Globe, and Writer’s Digest.  She currently resides in Memphis.

Awards and honors 
In 2001, she received a Hearst Award for her work in journalism. In 2008, she was given the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the University of Memphis; and in 2012, the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis honored her as one of 100 Women who have made a difference in the past 100 years.

Bibliography
 How to Be Cool (2007)
 Your Big Break (2006)
 The Next Big Thing (2005)

Young adult books written under the pen name Jo Edwards:
 Go Figure (2007)
 Love Undercover  (2006)

External links
 http://www.johannaedwards.com/

1978 births
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American young adult novelists
University of Memphis alumni
American chick lit writers
American women novelists
21st-century American women writers
Women writers of young adult literature