ShareThisMAKATI CITY – Billboards in Mandaluyong City showing actresses Angel Locsin and Anne Curtis in sexy poses have been pulled down by authorities for being offensive.
The Metro Manila Development Authority also said that the billboards of the two beautiful actresses also lacked permit and violated the National Building Code.
The MMDA said the billboards along EDSA and Boni Ave. in Mandaluyong City showed the two actresses both clad in bras.
Officials of MMDA said on Monday that similar illegal billboards on EDSA-Trinoma and EDSA-Pasay will also be pulled down.
Anne Curtis, however, denied that she has such a billboard along Boni-Edsa, according to a report from her mother studio ABS-CBN.
“Hello I don’t think I have any billboards along Boni-Edsa to begin with. Most specially in a bra 🙂 I think @MMDA may be wrong :p” she tweeted.
Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos earlier asked advertisers to take down sexy billboards of the Philippine Volcanoes, the country’s rugby team, along EDSA.
The billboards feature members of the team showing off their bodies as they posed in their underwear.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino earlier filed eight cases against three billboard operators illegally maintaining billboards in Quezon City for violations of the National Building Code and its Implementing Rules and Regulations, and for lack of the necessary permits, according to the ABS-CBN report.
The billboards, located along E. de los Santos Avenue, Bonifacio Avenue and Immaculate Conception (Cubao), were erected without any building permit and encroached on setback requirements prescribed in the Building Code, the report added.
All eight billboards had received notices of rolldown/ removal and confiscation of the illegal advertising tarpaulins from the Local Building Official of Quezon City.
A total of 18 cases have been filed against illegal billboard operators, the first batch of 10 billboards having been filed in Makati City by the MMDA Chairman last June.