8. Richard Gomez & Lucy Torres : (married for 17 years)
“April 28, Richard and I marked our 17th year together. Seventeen years later, I still remember the first time I laid eyes on him, this tall, lanky man, in the movie “Inday Bote” and the, “Blusang Itim”, and all others after that. I was smitten. I was twelve years old and in sixth grade… Oh, but I will see him, I will find him…” seems like it came from a romance novel right? But no, Lucy wrote this article in her Love Lucy column for the PhilStar Global last May 17, 2015.
Reading through it is like reading your favorite Mills and Boon pocket book.
Many years later, they met in the set of a TV commercial for Lux Shampoo. At first Lucy did not have any idea who her leading man would be in the commercial. All she knew was that he was a movie star with a code name “Boyet.” She almost fainted when she learned it was Richard. man.
Her story goes on, “Time found us doing a series of shampoo ads, a total of eight from 1993-1997, and many phone calls, letters and some poems later, on my birthday in December of 1997, he came to Ormoc and proposed. It wasn’t the kind of proposal I had envisioned as a girl dreaming of her own Prince Charming, but in hindsight I would not have had it any other way.”
We were in the balcony of our house in Carlota Hills and when the clock struck 12 he fished a ring from his shorts pocket and asked for my hand in marriage. I, too, was in a T-shirt and shorts, with a few other friends, all of us in house clothes. And so that was that. Four months later, wearing my engagement ring and the matching earrings he gave me, I walked down the aisle of Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Ormoc City into his arms, and into my forever, that was April 28, 1998.
Theirs is a love story you’ll never get tired of reading and though they are very successful in their own fields, they have maintained a blissful marriage through the years.
