The new Star Magic head, Laurenti ‘Lauren’ Dyogi greeted Johnny ‘Mr. M’ Manahan, the founder of Star Magic. Johnny Manahan celebrated his 74th birthday on Thursday, February 11.
Dyogi shared on his Instagram page his birthday message for the latter with an uploaded art card released from Star Magic’s [official] Instagram account.
“A blessed birthday to the man who built Star Magic. Happy birthday Sir!” @direklauren Dyogi captioned on his post.
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Nikki Valdez, Melai Contiveros, Maymay Entrata, Luke Conde, and Bailey May were among the Star Magic artists who also greeted Mr. M as seen in the comment section of Dyogi’s post.
Manahan’s Star Magic family released an art card on their Instagram accounts, which contained recognition of the qualities he displayed during his 51 years in the entertainment industry.
“Mr. M, yours has been a remarkable life and career, an inspiring story of vision, humility, and grace, written on tablets of hard-work and divine leading. May the many years ahead be even more blessed with divine grace, sound health, and prosperity. Happy birthday!” @starmagicphils
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Manahan led Star Magic, ABS-CBN’s talent management arm, from 1992 until his retirement in 2007.
Despite retiring, he remained active as chairman emeritus from 2007 until his departure from ABS-CBN in September 2020 was reported.
On September 25, 2020, ABS-CBN officially appointed Dyogi as the new head of Star Magic.
Conflict of interest involving shadow talent center and the lack of action from the higher management to solve the said conflict were among the reasons revealed by Manahan on why he left the Kapamilya network.
Dyogi was then asked by PEP.ph when his name was mentioned in the issues raised by Mr. M.
However, Dyogi refused to issue a statement on the matter and said he had great respect for Mr. M, who was the former long-time top man of Star Magic.
“I don’t like to make the issue bigger. I have much respect for Mr. M,” Dyogi said in his message through PEP.ph.
He also stated in a previous interview with Ricky Lo of The Philippine Star that along with Freddie M. Garcia, Mr. M will still be recognized as the founder of Star Magic and that there is no other way he will aim to become another Mr. M.
