Do we like Angel Locsin?
Our score: 9 out of 10. Years of showing up for others, backing equal rights in her own words and owning her mistakes, with no harmful record turning up.
Angel Locsin is one of the Philippines' biggest screen heroines, and these days she's mostly gone from the screen. Her last TV job was hosting the philanthropic docu-series Iba Yan, which she left in mid-2021. In April 2026 she briefly broke a long social media quiet to say she is retired and no longer an ABS-CBN employee, but still a Kapamilya at heart.
Her loudest recent moment came in July 2026. After Senator Robin Padilla declared “Komunista po ako” during the Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, Locsin posted an open letter. She asked where he was when she was red-tagged in 2020, questioned his backing of detained preacher Apollo Quiboloy, and told him “Tama na, Kuya. Gising na.” The article carried no reply from Padilla.
That red-tagging is the closest thing to a scandal on her file, and she was on the receiving end. In 2020 a military spokesperson linked her and her sister to the communist movement. She denied it flat out, saying she never associated herself with the NPA, and she's kept the issue alive ever since.
On the harm check, the record is clean. In June 2020 she posted a Pride graphic and, when followers quoted the Bible at her, answered that she's “all for equal rights”. In September 2025 she broke her silence again to back an anti-corruption rally, pointing to flood victims and saying it was for truth and justice, not politics. Nothing turned up on anti-vax, climate or anti-trans material, and her recent work isn't tied to any harmful company.
Her best-known good deed also had her worst day. In April 2021 a 67-year-old man collapsed in the queue at her birthday community pantry in Quezon City and was declared dead on arrival. She apologised publicly, said she'd visited his family, and promised to help them. Owning a mistake that publicly says plenty.
Forbes Asia put her on its 2019 Heroes of Philanthropy list, citing her relief work after the Mindanao earthquakes and her earlier giving to scholarships and other causes. That's a long way past a charity photo op.