When word got out that Leonardo DiCaprio might be visiting the Philippines a part of an environmental tour of the country, everyone wanted a piece of the action. Itinerary suggestions started popping up, local blogs lit up, and everyone speculated as to where he might go and what he should do.

Consequently, this did not sit well with the woman attempting to make it all happen.

“We are calling all other news agencies to please stop making false reports, as well as interviewing personalities who are not in any way involved in this project,” wrote Joyce Ramirez, Director for International Publicity of PR Asia Worldwide. “We would like to ask them to please refrain from further publishing, blogging, and announcing the coming of actor Mr. DiCaprio, and from using the name, likeness, images, and so forth pertaining to the actor until we reach an agreement and all has been approved by both our firm and artist.”

“We are afraid that if these people will not stop making their own little announcements and creating their own itinerary suggestions without informing us, all discussions to bring him here will be called off due to security reasons,” she added. “Right now, all news are false reports unless the statement come directly from me. Everything is all gossip and hearsay if they do not get an official statement from me.”

So there.

All of this puts the governor of Albay province in an interesting pickle. In a news conference yesterday, he confirmed that the 35-year-old actor was scheduled to visit and would be staying the first week of August. “We are excited that what he wants to do in Albay is to promote environmental protection. So we are preparing environmental options for his one-week stay here,” Salceda told the media.

“He will be treated like an ordinary tourist,” he added.

Hahaha, bullshit! The next time I visit the Philippines, I expect a news conference in advance heralding my arrival too. And honestly, Leo should just go since all of these false announcements and random suggestions mean that nobody will really have a clue as to where the hell he is anyways.

We’ll keep you updated.

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