Anne Curtis dances her heart out for cervical cancer awareness at the PICC Reception Hall Thursday night. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)
Annebisyosa’s goals just got a little more noble.
Already the most popular actress in the country today, Anne Curtis has been honored with the biggest awards of her career including Celebrity of the Year (2nd Yahoo! OMG Awards), Box Office Queen (tied with Cristine Reyes in the Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Entertainment Awards), Pinakapasadong Aktres (14th Gawad Pasado Awards) and the FAMAS Best Actress trophy for “No Other Woman”.
In addition, Anne has also managed to successfully pursue a singing career that she initially describes as “super fun” and “not serious” that actually won her awards for one of the Phenomenal Entertainers of the Year in the Tambayan OPM Awards and—dig this—Most Popular Female Novelty Singer, also in the Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Entertainment Awards.
Now aiming for an even higher goal in the aid of helping an important cause, the ever effervescent entertainer has just helped 1,146 doctors set not one but two new Guinness World Records for Biggest Hiphop Dance Event and the First Large Number of Dancing Doctors to Fight A Disease.
“Going to do some dancing with some doctors!!!!!”, she tweeted earlier in the day to her more than 3.6 million followers on Twitter.
Look, it's not a prison in Cebu! 1,146 doctors dance their way to two Guinness world records. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)
The event was dubbed as “Beat It!: Fighting Cervical Cancer One Beat At A Time” and took place Thursday night at the Philippine International Convention Center Reception Hall. Together with Jason Zamora of the Manoevres, the Philippine All Stars and actor Richard Yap, Anne led the doctors in strutting to some of the most popular dance hits of today, including Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”, which Anne sang with so much gusto to open the program.
Organized by the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (POGS) and sponsored by GSK Philippines, the event did not meet its original target of 1,500 dancing doctors but still managed to achieve its objective as only 1,000 doctors were needed to set the record.
The “new records” are still subject to validation by the Guinness Book of World Records officials and will only become official with their own announcement.
Anne, Jason Zamora, and the Philippine All Stars lead the dance on stage. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)
But more than simply outdoing the dancing inmates of Cebu, the whole exercise was meant to generate more awareness for cervical cancer, which POGS president Dr. Rey Delos Reyes said is the second most common cancer in the world for women. In the Philippines alone, over 7,000 new cases of the dreaded diseases are reported annually, with 12 Filipinas dying every day from it.
“What is worse is that cervical cancer can be asymptomatic during its early stages and women discover they have the disease when it has severely progressed,” Dr. Delos Reyes added.
More than mere awareness, the dance event also generated approximately 1,400 anti-cervical cancer vaccines for the participating regions with one vaccine each for every participating doctor and two for the doctors representing the top two regions that signed up for the event.
Doctors work up a sweat to promote cervical cancer awareness. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)
For Anne and the rest of the dancing doctors, however, setting world records is just the icing on the cake. Saving the lives of many Filipinas from the deathly grip of a fatal but highly preventable diseases is the true triumph of “Beat It!”.
Event organizers said a video of the record-setting dance will be posted Friday on YouTube.
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