Charles Teves
Comedian Eric Nicolas has now claimed that UniTeam doesn’t pay him a dime to perform during sorties after previously admitting that he does so.
Nicolas revealed that he performs without charging in a now-deleted Facebook post because the coalition helped Nicolas with hospital bills way before election season.
“Bilang paglilinaw,ako po ay nasa sirkulo ng bbm sara uniteam!ako po ay sumusuporta at nagtatrabaho rin sa kanila ng walang bayad at tumatanaw ng utang na loob sa ginawa nilang pagtulong sa amin ng maospital ang aking asawa at kapos sa pangangailangan nung nakaraang pandemiya.pagbawi sa kabutihang ibinigay sa akin ng uniteam,” he wrote.
“ibig sabhin ay wala pang eleksiyon ay bayad na nila ng kabutihan ang lahat ng ginagawa ko ngayon.again,katulad ng bilin ng uniteam hayaan na natin resulta ng eleksiyon ang manaig at ipagpatuloy ang pagbibigay ng respeto sa lahat.maraming salamat po.” he added.
Before the long post, Nicolas refuted Elizabeth Oropesa’s claim that none of the artists performing for UniTeam are compensated.
“Ipapaputol ko ‘yung dalawa kong paa. Gagapang na lang ako kung binabayaran kaming mga artista kay BBM,” she said.
Nicolas then explained that he’d do anything for his family not to go hungry.
“Walang masamang tinapay para sa akin… Trabaho po para mapakain ang pamilya ko. Minsan lang ‘to at hindi na ako bumabata. Mabuhay ang lahat.” he said.
After his credibility was questioned, Medwin Marfil of Filipino band True Faith clarified that artists do get paid to perform for UniTeam.
True Faith, on its part, declined numerous times when offered to do so.
Not believable.
Kahit na nag-declare na kami na #KakamPink ang #Truefaith we’re still being offered to play sa for Baby M.
When we were in Borongan, our manager got a call asking if we’d play for Unitik-tik. Pang 4 na ata na offer yun. We refused, of course.
May bayad powh. https://t.co/ISowVGl03i
— MEDS Ⓥ (@MedwinTruefaith) April 3, 2022
The vocalist also said that the band was offered to perform for a certain candidate during the 2016 elections, but it declined that and supported the Mar-Robredo tandem.
