If you have been in her circle over the last few years, you would know that her hiatus is a simple statement of telling the world that showbiz has been tiring for her and she wanted some sort of a break.
If you were close to her, you would perhaps say that she simply wanted space because that one person who understood everything about her, and loved her, since she was six, had suddenly died. Like everyone who loses their mother, suddenly lost in this realm.
But if you are one of her legions of fans, your first concern is...what is taking her so long to come out and work again...she's been known to be workaholic and focused in her career.
As I try to go back in the few group conversations that the maricelians had with her in the past, it always bring me to that time where she vividly told the group that she wanted to retire from the business because its very tiring for her...with emphasis on her 40 years of working in the industry that is always competitive and most of the time destroying and cruel.
Of course, I've heard her say the many thanks because of being so blessed beyond her imagination and for still being able to do films and tv shows and commercial endorsements even in her forties, which is not very common even to female superstars that flourished and languished in the limelight before her.
Yet again, Maricel Soriano surprised everyone that sunday afternoon when no one is expecting to see her...much more enjoy her "unkabogable" presence and dance steps in Party Pilipinas.
Oh my, the camera just loves her impromptu Rico Mambo and Body Dancer steps that had stuck to her to this very day after 20 years or so. And yes, even the social networking world was shaken by her sudden appearance that her 10-minute appearance and epic dance steps had been a trending topic of Twitter, surpassing the topic on Independence Day.
Indeed, Maricel couldn't have chosen a better timing but the freedom day.
She couldn't have chosen the most subtle way of freeing her image from the floating nasty rumors from her detractors about her being in rehab and with diminishing beauty and grace.
There she is, looking gorgeous as ever, with that silky-white skin and strutting her body and dancing her immortal dance steps from the 80s in her YSL Tribute pumps.
She is indeed out of that basement and shining brighter than ever in her 10-minute guesting appearance. A clear testament that she has legions and that her detractors have failed again bigtime.
