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WATCH: Charo Santos shares 'powerful lesson' from Jim Paredes

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Reyma Deveza

ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA -- Screen veteran and ABS-CBN executive Charo Santos learned a &quot;powerful lesson&quot; in humility from APO Hiking Society member Jim Paredes.</p><p>This is what she revealed in her newest &quot;story time,&quot; which was uploaded on her social media accounts on Tuesday.</p><p>In the video, Santos recalled a moment in 1995 when she had to tell Paredes and Gel Santos Relos that their show, &quot;Tatak Pilipino,&quot; had to end due to low ratings. </p><p>&quot;Maganda &#x27;yung programa, award-winning. You know, it ran on for a year, then after a year, medyo bumaba &#x27;yung ratings, and then advertisers started to disappear, and the inevitable had to happen. And ako po ang naatasan as a programming director to talk to the hosts and say na kailangan nang tapusin ang programa. I met with Jim and Gel at sinabi ko &#x27;yung reasons behind it, tinanggap naman nila,&quot; she said.</p><p>Santos thought everything was okay until one day, during a team building for APO Hiking Society, Paredes told her that she&#x27;s &quot;heartless.&quot; </p><p>The singer pointed out that she announced the cancellation of &quot;Tatak Pilipino&quot; on his birthday.</p><p>&quot;Jim suddenly blurted out, &#x27;You know, Charo, you&#x27;re so heartless.&#x27; Nabigla ako-- parang, ha? I mean why? Why are you saying, that anong nagawa ko?&quot; she said. &quot;Sabi niya, &#x27;You couldn&#x27;t even wait. You know, when you cancelled &#x27;Tatak Pilipino,&#x27; it was my birthday.&#x27;&quot; </p><p>&quot;Oh my God, natunaw ako sa hiya, I said sorry many times,&quot; she added.</p><p>Santos then shared the &quot;huge&quot; lesson she learned from what happened.</p><p>&quot;I realized that actors, talents are not just a cog in the showbiz machine, they are persons who get hurt. Tinuro ko po &#x27;yon sa lahat ng mga minentor ko afterwards--I took note of all the birthdays of all our talents. And from then on, we never cancelled a program on any of their birthdays,&quot; she said. </p><p>Santos concluded her video by saying thank you to Paredes.</p><p>&quot;And Jim, if you are watching this, thank you so much for teaching this huge lesson in humility,&quot; she said. </p><p>Watch Santos&#x27; &quot;story time&quot; below:</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIeCoQDz6vZ/embed/captioned/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A3208461.600000024%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="950" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Santos is gearing up for the return of &quot;Maalaala Mo Kaya&quot; (MMK). The drama anthology will be back with a bold new chapter as a limited series on iWantTFC on April 24. </p><p>MMK will also air on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live, and A2Z every Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. beginning April 26.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS:</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xbdso6O74tc?autoplay=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bBZC4b44UYo?autoplay=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wgy_1JVZcRY?autoplay=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Screen veteran and ABS-CBN executive Charo Santos learned a "powerful lesson" in humility from APO Hiking Society member Jim Paredes.</p>

Screen veteran and ABS-CBN executive Charo Santos learned a "powerful lesson" in humility from APO Hiking Society member Jim Paredes.