{"id":21558,"date":"2014-08-12T06:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2014-08-12T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:49:05","slug":"dingdong-dantes-express-overwhelming-gratitude-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/12\/dingdong-dantes-express-overwhelming-gratitude-to-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingdong Dantes expresses overwhelming gratitude to fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21566\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dingdong.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21566\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dingdong-300x300.png\" alt=\"Photo: Dingdong Dantes' official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dingdong-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dingdong-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dingdong.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dingdong Dantes&#8217; official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Following his marriage proposal to longtime girlfriend Marian Rivera, Dingdong Dantes recently thanked his fans for their overwhelming support through social media.<\/p>\n<p>Using his Twitter account, Dantes posted this message on August 9 \u2013 \u201cThank you to all the well-wishers\u2026 you are all part of our love story. This is certainly one for the books. Life changing! Cheers!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dantes and Rivera met in 2007 for a remake of hit Mexican TV series \u201cMarimar.\u201d Since then, they have been an inseparable love team with countless <em>teleseryes <\/em>under their belts.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of their impending nuptials have been circulating in the showbiz industry for the longest time. Last August 8, Dantes finally surprised Rivera during a live night show when he popped the question. What was supposed to be a joined birthday celebration for the couple turned out to be a pre-wedding party. Dantes turned 34 on August 2, while Marian will turn 30 on August 12.<\/p>\n<p>After the proposal that was witnessed by no less than the million viewers of GMA, both Dantes and Rivera celebrated with their respective families. According to GMA Corporate Communications Head Angel Javier, \u201cthey [Dantes and Rivera] didn\u2019t have time to talk to anyone,\u201d as they were in a hurry to be with their loved ones to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal came at a time when there are talks about Dantes running for public office in the next national elections. Rivera showed her support to her fianc\u00e9 by saying, \u201cwhenever I am asked to run in my home province of Cavite, I say no. But I\u2019ve told Dong that whatever he decides in life, I would support him for as long as it would be good for him and other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David also shared to The Inquirer that Dantes and Rivera will soon schedule a press conference to disclose their plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212;\u00a0Following his marriage proposal to longtime girlfriend Marian Rivera, Dingdong Dantes recently thanked his fans for their overwhelming support &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,95],"tags":[2890,7307,7306],"class_list":["post-21558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","category-news-ph","tag-dingdong-dantes","tag-fans","tag-gratitude","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}