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Total Dreamer actress Marina Ruy Barbosa has received praise after praise for how emotional portrayal of Luz during last night's episode of O Sétimo Guardião on Rede Globo. She plays the main character, Luz.

Last night's episode had one of the mysteries behind Luz's past revealed. She is the daughter of Ondina, a character played by actress Ana Beatriz Nogueira (Brave Woman/The Life we Lead/Irrational Heart) and caused tears among many viewers of the novela.

On social networks, the redhead actress thanked her fans, who in equal measure kept posting pictures of the great moment between Luz and Ondina from the telenovela.
Among several touching messages, Marina revealed a message she received on WhatsApp from a great friend and great actress as well, without showing the sender of the message:

Less than a week after the premiere of the musical stage show Meu Destino é ser star in Rio, Diego Montez, actor of Friends to the Rescue, received word of the death of his father, the presenter Wagner Montes. The actor has plunged himself heavily into work since then, most notably with his coming up debut at Globo in the upcoming telenovela Bom Sucesso.

Diego Montez (Photo by Gabriel Henrique)

Diego said of this trying time:

Work certainly helped me. It was always a great desire of my father that I had my professional autonomy. I've been looking for this a lot. The musical appeared at an important time, at a very complicated stage. The cast is small, filled with friends who help me well. I was very well protected, "he says, adding that his mother, Sonia Lima, is proud of his achievements. - She's overjoyed. and happy, cheering for me a lot.

Diego and his mother, Sonia Lima (Photo: Reproduction)

Diego and his later father, Wagner Montes (Photo: Reproduction)

Diego who will be acting for Globo for the first time ever is known for being in SBT and Record TV's dramaturgy having played in Friends to the Rescue and Rebel Rio respectively. His character in Bom Sucesso will be a marketing director of a company and his character forms part of the comic end of the telenovela which will star Grazi Massafera (Caribbean Flower, Hidden Truths) and Romulo Estrela.

The 26-year-old actor also has a YouTube channel and has worked with marketing at Aventura Entertainment, responsible for Meu Destino é ser star. He said:

The company's marketing manager saw my channel, liked it and called me to work there. I took care of social media. It has already served as an eye opener for the novela.

He will continue to be on stage this month, during the season in São Paulo. Then the piece will go on tour, but he still does not know if he can coincide with the shooting of the novela. For the musical, the actor went through an intense preparation:

I say you have to be an athlete to make music. The body has to be clinking and it is necessary to take care of one's mental health as well. The trials run for nine hours and happen six times a week. In this piece, specifically, there are many dance numbers.

Montez reveals that he was not always in good shape. Back in his teens, he weighed 112kg.

I've never been thin. Then, from 13 to 15, I started to lose weight. I did an orthomolecular treatment that led me to eliminate 26kg in six months. We only change when something happens internally. When I wanted to, I ran back.

The actor says that he is very attentive to any changes in his body now.

I have not had problems like that since. I keep my weight flexible for my acting career. I had to do a musical where I played a drag queen and I was 72kg but was able to lose the required 8kg to 64 kg for the role. I am careful not to get out of control these days with any latent preoccupation with my metabolism.

Today, Anitta has decided to bombard YouTube with her album, KISSES, and get this...she has launched videos for all 10 songs in her album! I have to admit that I have never ever seen an artist do that (If there are, I do not know who he/she/they are)...also, did I mention that this whole album is trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) ?



                                         

Anyway, I have just finished watching all 10 videos and I have to tell you guys, I am yet to encounter an album with so much diversity, it is even creepy than impressive. Just to give you a rundown of the tracklist:

Anitta decides to infuse her vivacious character and a whole enchilada of sexual innuendos into Banana, featuring  Becky G. And that is just about as good as it gets...Thank you, next!

On the other hand, Poquito, featuring Swae Lee, touches one with Swae Lee's mellifluous auto-tuned vocals as described by The Guardian.


                       



                       

The album bursts with more life in songs like Atención and watching the video, one cannot help but admit that she was thoroughly enjoying the entire process and the vocals infuse seamlessly with the awesome beats!


                       

She brings on board Ludmilla and Snoop Dogg featuring Papatinho for the banger, Onda Differente, and Snoop's rap is just the right amount of disturbing and has the right pinch of perverseness.


                      
I was thoroughly impressed by how laid back and Caribbean her Tu Y Yo, featuring Chris Marshall was as it turned the entire jam into the perfect love song and the Caribbean vibe brought on by Marshall only aimed to ace the game.

                     

Sin Miedo was more of a daring escape into an unknown side of Anitta and she clearly had no fear as the song suggests as she went kissing and caressing everyone, showing nothing but love for the night and the music. Not to mention the wonderful work that was done by DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz on the track.

                      
Get to Know Me featuring Alesso was a much-needed blend of some Anitta and Alesso..also Anitta and the mannequin? - Priceless! I actually found it boring when the man of blood and flesh came into the picture...

                      
So, Rosa featuring Prince Royce is a very elusive and mysterious track (well the video makes it seem so)...and that cute Prince Royce made sure that his vocals made the song ever more elusive and dreamy. I melted at this one - in any case, the excessive kissing in the video wasn't helping...


                      
Latin Pop evidences itself the Reggaeton infused Juego and clearly each of the words in the songs set to assert the affirmation of Anitta as being a commanding and respectable Lady Boss.


                      
And did Anitta just get Caetano Veloso to feature on her soothing and revealing Você mentiu?...clearly whoever was lying needed to hear it and hear it right...
                      
This album has infused many sound types and has shown Anitta as the all-rounded artist who can pull off any type and nail it hands down!

Yesterday, on the Luciana By Night show on Brazil's Rede TV, Brazilian singer, Felipe Araújo was interviewed by Luciana Gimenez, where he discussed his professional and personal life.

A bombastic revelation was revealed as he played a game with Luciana Gimenez about expressing what he thought of certain celebrities and whether he would have an affair with that celebrity or not.