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ALA NAKUNG BALUNG SABYANKEN NAMUNG TUTUKI We Love Lucy By Karla Delgado-Yulo Photos by Ryan Hernandez IT'S NOT difficult to see why Lucy Torres fell for Richard Gomez--handsome, successful and funny are just a few of his more obvious attributes--but it's easier still to see why Richard fell for Lucy. She is the kind of woman who takes your breath away, as she does on this Wednesday evening as she glides down the grand staircase leading from the bedrooms of the Gomez household to the living and dining room on the ground floor. With her hair still wet from the shower and her alabaster skin as luminescent as ever, she is as beautiful as they say she is, only more so because she seems to radiate inner peace. Dressed in a loose sand-colored t-shirt and matching shorts, she shows us pictures of her honeymoon in Europe while Richard is out fencing. Richard and her kissing in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, Richard and her kissing in Paris, France, Richard and her kissing in Dover, England. These two like each other's lips. Oh, and they had their very first fight during the honeymoon. Rushing to catch "Miss Saigon" in London's West End, Richard started walking too quickly for Lucy to keep up. So she told him to go ahead and he snapped back that he couldn't very well leave her in the streets of London to fend for herself. They kissed (of course) and made up as soon as they got to the theater. Romance is plainly at the heart of this relationship. Richard and Lucy met on April 28, 1993 during the filming of a commercial for Lux shampoo and chose to marry exactly five years later to the day after a brief, six-month courtship. Their fairy tale wedding in Lucy's hometown of Ormoc, Leyte was anticipated and watched by millions nationwide. Today, five months after their wedding, he calls her "honey" and "my angel." In return, she calls him "my prince" and "'little boy'--because he's like a little boy when he gets excited!" Going grocery shopping, throwing intimate dinners for friends and dreaming about the six kids they plan to have is their idea of fun. Talk about playing house and loving it. How is married life? "Wonderful," Lucy gushes. "I'm more in love than ever." How is she adjusting to life in Manila? "Pretty well," she decides after some thought. "I take each day as it comes." "If I get lonely like when Richard has work I call my family. We talk everyday, from my dad down to my youngest brother." Born on December 11, 1974 to Manuel and Julie Torres, Lucy Marie grew up in a close-knit family composed of sister Karen, a year older than Lucy at 25, Matt, 17, and Jules, 15. She left Ormoc to attend college in Cebu, where she lived with an aunt who woke her household for prayers at 3 a.m. every first Saturday of the month. Asked how she keeps spirituality in her life in Manila, she replies that she doesn't have a spiritual adviser, nor does she go on retreats. But she does attend mass regularly. "I guess it's already in me. First of all since I was about 7 or 8 we were trained to always pray before eating and both my parents are very religious, especially my mom." So it's not surprising that she turns to her family for moral guidance and emotional support. Which brings us to a subject that can't be avoided: how Lucy, a woman who is pure of heart, is coping with her exposure to the often shallow and spiritually wanting world of show business. Somewhat like a pup being left in a lion's den. Watching her father's emotions get the better of him on her wedding day, one couldn't help but wonder if this was one of the reasons he cried so hard when he gave her away. But Lucy has got Richard by her side, and seems to be taking things in stride. Being a few years older than she at 32, Richard to her is like a teacher. She expects him "to be there for me all the time, (to be) somebody I can depend on and trust. Trust is very important." Richard is not the type of person to say negative things about someone, she says, but he does caution her in certain situations. Lucy adds she's relaxed if she knows the people she's with, show biz or not, but admits she's "guarded" with other people in show biz if she doesn't know them so well. As for the prospect of starring in a new sitcom with Richard, tentatively titled "I Love Lucy," Lucy admits she's "scared" and is counting on Richard's presence to see her through. "I'm very dependent on him," she says. "I want to do most things with him, even go to the grocery or the parlor. But I'm also independent in the sense that if he wants to do his sports, I let him go. I don't stop him from doing whatever he likes to do." One of those things is hanging out with members of their inner circle: Douglas Quijano, Richard's manager whom Lucy lovingly refers to as "Tito Dougs," plus "sina Aiko (Melendez), Gelli (de Belen) and Ariel (Rivera) and Richard's friends from 'Palibhasa Lalake.'" Have they thought at all about the need to protect their marriage from the pressures of being in showbiz? "I know that no marriage is perfect," answers Lucy. "I'm not anticipating that we would have problems but if it comes, whatever we go through will be magnified, 10, 20 times more. "But our private life is our private life," she says protectively. "We don't have to tell people what's going on in our marriage everyday of our lives. We're not answerable to anybody. "And I would like to think people can rise above that and give us that respect." With Richard back from fencing, Lucy gets starry-eyed once more. Like the new lovers they are, they gaze into each other's eyes, smile and touch each other in between bits of conversation. All is well in the castle they call home, a modern two-storey loft in Greenhills that they share with Richard's sister Christine, 24, their boxer Simba and their golden retriever Polo. At this point, Lucy has answered SIM's "Off Guard" questions and is eager to see if Richard's answers match hers. See for yourself. Q: What can't you live without? Lucy: Richard, faith in God and my family. Richard: A television in my room. Q: What was your favorite childhood game? Lucy: I was kikay already when I was small. I'd play house with my dolls. Richard: Patintero, taguan. Q: What was the first book you ever read? Lucy: One of those Bobsie Twins books, then I graduated to Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Mills and Boon, the works. Richard: I don't remember but when I was young we had encyclopedias, the Book of Knowledge and the Book of Popular Science. Q: If you suddenly had one free day, what would you do? Lucy: I would wish that Richard would have that day free too because we hardly spend time together especially with his work which takes him away from the house. Richard: Play golf with my wife. Q: What is your favorite spot on earth? Lucy: Paris and Crans-Montana (Switzerland). Richard: It used to be The Price Club. Q: Do you have a secret vice? Lucy: Wala. Well, if junk food were a vice that would be mine. Or shopping. Richard: (Teasingly) Secret. Q: What is your biggest regret? Lucy: Not being serious about my piano lessons. Richard: Not buying a house in Urdaneta in the early 90s. My budget was P9 million and the owner was selling it for P12 million. I could've gotten it through a loan but I didn't know about loans at the time, I was scared. So I said, I'll just save more money na lang. Q: Is there a piece of clothing that you like to wear? Lucy: Bootleg pants. Richard: (Teasingly) Sometimes nothing. No, I like wearing jeans and a simple shirt. Q: What is always in your fridge? Lucy: Cheese and milk. And there's always tuyo. Richard: Upstairs there's always wine. (Opens stainless steel fridge in kitchen downstairs.) Cheese ba? O sige, cheese and milk. Q: What wouldn't you be caught dead wearing? Lucy: Yung masyadong frou-frou. Richard: Bell bottom jeans and crayon shoes. Q: What do you think is your greatest strength? Lucy: Patience. Richard: Confidence. Q: Your greatest weakness? Lucy: I'm very gullible. Richard: I'm very shy when it comes to dealing with money. Q: Who's the one person you'd most like to meet? Lucy: Patay na siya. Princess Di. Richard: Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher. Q: Your idea of a romantic evening? Lucy: Depends where. If it were abroad like in Paris, taking long walks at night with no fixed itinerary. Richard: A candlelit dinner by the garden. Q: Your least favorite chore? Lucy: Cooking and working out. Richard: Cleaning my room. Q: What kind of people annoy you? Lucy: It takes a lot for me to really get annoyed. But siguro those who go as far as making up stories. Richard: Makulit people, touchy people. Q: What kind of music do you enjoy? Lucy: Old songs from the 70s and 80s. Richard: Swing, 70s. Q: What's on heavy rotation in your CD player? Lucy: Jennifer Love Hewitt, the soundtrack of "A Mirror Has Two Faces" by Barbra Streisand and the "Love Affair" soundtrack. Richard: 70s lately. Q: When do you feel closest to God? Lucy: I guess at night, it's when I pray and go through what I did the whole day. And also I guess for anybody it's when you're at your lowest that you feel closest to Him, when there's nobody else you can count on but Him. Richard: When I'm with Lucy. Q: When are you happiest? Lucy: When I'm with people I'm comfortable with, when you can just let your guard down and say whatever, do whatever and not be judged. I'm actually happy when we have those dinners here because it's all just friends so what we talk about stays here. Richard: When I'm sleeping beside her (touches Lucy's arm and holds her hand). | |||||||||||||||||
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