Remember Fred Payawan? He is one of Big Brother’s housemates in the first Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition. On TV he doesn’t look appealing but when I saw him once I think he is a lot good looking than Joaqui. He is from the same batch of Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson. Being a son of a military officer Fred showed good attitude specially towards the girls. He became like their kuya inside the house.

Recently, another alleged scandal plagued the ex-housemates of Kuya, if you remember Matt Evans, Josef Elizalde and Ejay Falcon had their own share of the scandal controversy. Now, it’s Fred’s turn, a cellphone scandal is circulating insisting that it was Fred. But as always, the guy in the cellphone video is just another copycat. Obviously, it was not Fred, thankfully!

Anyway, if you are wondering where he is now, aside from continuing his studies at De La Salle University taking up Business Management, Fred is also a mainstay of LipGloss at TV 5 together with Mikee Lee a fellow ex-housemate who was Kim Chiu’s first love team inside the house.

Give respect, get respect. Those are the words that Fred lives up to. A son of an Air Force officer it is no wonder that he landed the ROTC Commandant spot in his school. Fred is one you would ‘call a Golden Boy – he has good grades, very athletic, an obedient son and popular with the girls. He is such a perfectionist, and he likes doing things right. Fred hates not being in control of himself, the reason why he doesn’t smoke, drink or do drugs.

Fred claims that despite his father’s military background, he and his siblings were raised in quite a normal household though his parents are real sticklers about time. “We really have to come home on time.” He admits too that he might have inherited his being not too demonstrative of his feelings from his dad but they do have heart to heart talks sometimes. Fred is very straight forward and avoids emotional encounters. And he doesn’t like being pushed around. He believes that Pinoy Big Brother will give him a better understanding of other people and them of him. “Mataas ang self confidence ko. Yet I know we are all unique individuals inside the House. Sana maintindihan nila kung ano ako kasi irerespeto ko and iintindihin ko din kung ano sila.”