TV personality and blogger Daphne Oseña Paez trended online after supposedly hinting at which presidential bet she’s supporting in the upcoming elections.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Daphne posted a photo of herself wearing a red blazer with an embroidered Philippine flag patch.
“Mahal ko ang Pilipinas. Sama-sama tayong babangon muli,” read Daphne’s caption.
While she made no mention of any candidate, netizens in the comments, mostly pro-BBM supporters, surmised that she is backing the presidential run of Bongbong Marcos.
Bongbong, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has been using red as his campaign color.
“Sama-sama tayong babangon muli” is also a line used in the former senator’s political advertisements.
Daphne also released an interview with fashion designer Avel Bacudio, who’s been making Bongbong’s campaign clothes.
In her posts, Daphne used the the hashtags #BBM and #BBMSARA2022 and thanked controversial director Darryl Yap, a known BBM supporter, in the comments section after sharing the interview on his social media pages.
In a Philippine Star feature story dated July 2009, it was stated that her father, Col. Delio Oseña, was the pilot of former President Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda.
According to the article, he was assigned to Canada as a diplomat in the early ’80s but when the EDSA revolution happened in 1986, his papers were “lost” and his “temporary posting ended up an exile.”
She was further quoted in the Star interview: “My father was not allowed to come back because he was a senior military official. It was just sad and strange that he was on the wanted list — and he was simply a pilot and a diplomat when all this heaviness happened. As a teenager it made me confused. I rejected the Philippines altogether; I didn’t have Filipino friends in Canada. But in my adult life, I ended up coming back here — and I was the only one of all my siblings who married a Filipino.”
