Pinay celebrity meet-ups are everyday realities in the Philippines.
Just ask the ordinary folks who hawk newspapers and snacks on the streets.
They meet celebrities left and write.
They are the ones who approach the people because the election is coming soon.
The celebrities in the Philippines are those who are in the government.
Politics and celebrity status go hand in hand.
If you go to the bay area of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, you'll find a number of celebrities there attending opera shows and stage plays in the evening and jogging in the morning.
One of them is this Pinay celebrity who is also a Philippine woman senator.
She greets everyone on the street because she is actually running again in the Senate come election time.
If you go to the public market, or the palengke, you'll see lots of them there.
They bring with them cameramen and they shake hands with the sellers and shoppers in the public market in front of the camera.
After that, they smile on the camera and they say things that Filipinos need to do to have better lives.
After a few months, you'll meet them again and they will be asking you for your vote.
You can also see them doing commercials and guesting in televisions.
They market detergent soaps and skin whitening products and other infomercials that only say one thing -- - vote for me in the coming elections.
So, it is not very hard to meet a Pinay celebrity.
They are more than willing to shake hands with you and have a picture taken with you especially if there are cameras flashing around you and them.
In the Philippine election, celebrities are voted and not the reformers.
If you want to meet a Pinay celebrity, go to the Senate or the Congress and you will find plenty of them there.