A day after Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby filed a libel case against Lolit Solis, the talent manager-TV host went on the offensive, claiming she has in her possession a video of Piolo at the Pasay hotel where she had claimed in her tabloid column seeing them sharing an intimate moment at a coffee shop.

This article became subject of the 12-million-peso libel case, in which Lolit claimed to have caught Piolo and Sam sharing a “sweet” moment at the Hotel Sofitel poolside café.

Lolit emphasized in an interview Saturday with the GMA-7 talk show she co-hosts, “Startalk”, that Piolo was a liar for claiming he was not at Sofitel in the afternoon of Oct. 12. The video in her possession, she said, would prove it.

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Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby were true to their word in their vow to sue Lolit Solis if the talent manager-TV host did not retract her report in her tabloid column last month that she saw the two actors in a Pasay hotel coffee shop in an intimate chat. The Inquirer and Inquirer.net report by Allison Lopez published on Nov. 17 said:

“Movie actors Piolo Jose Pascual and Samuel Lloyd “Sam” Milby yesterday (November 16) filed a P12-million libel suit against show biz columnist Lolita “Lolit” Solis at the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office, for portraying them as “gay men” in an Oct. 15 newspaper column.

In their joint complaint, Pascual and Milby named Solis and Pilipino Star Ngayon’s entertainment editor Veronica Samio as respondents in the case that stemmed from an item in Solis’ ‘Take It, Take It’ column, where she claimed to have seen the male singers being ’sweet’ in the poolside coffeeshop of the Sofitel Hotel around 4 p.m. of Oct. 12.

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