The biggest and brightest stars gathered last night, February 23, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of YES!, the number one entertainment magazine in the country.

The NBC Tent at The Fort, Taguig City, was witness to the star-studded event—a night of music, laughter, friendship, and camaraderie among popular celebrities, the people behind YES!, its sponsors, and just about anyone who gave their whole support to the magazine throughout the past decade.

Celebs who let their hair down to party included more than 100 stars and showbiz personalities, thereby heralding the event as the most star-studded event of the year.

The YES! 10th anniversary party was also one of the few events that was attended by executives of both GMA-7 and ABS-CBN. Gracing the party for the Kapuso channel were network chairman, president and CEO Atty. Felipe L. Gozon, GMA Films president Annette Gozon-Abrogar with husband Lito Abrogar, senior vice president for Entertainment TV Wilma Galvante, VP for Entertainment TV Lilybeth Rasonable, and senior program manager Redgie Magno. The Kapamilya channel, on the other hand, was represented by network president Charo Santos-Concio, TV head Cory Vidanes, and ABS-CBN Corporate Communications head Bong Osorio.

The revitalized TV5 also showed their support to the YES! party by the presence of Luchi Cruz-Valdes, Paolo Bediones, and others.

ROLL CALL. A handful of the stars who walked the red carpet before the program started. Stars who had a busy schedule that day arrived later.

Among the celebs who arrived early included Margaret Wilson, Giselle Sanchez, Donita Rose, Bayani Agbayani, Wendell Ramos, Sam Concepcion, Dino Imperial, AJ Perez, Ricky Davao, Jaclyn Jose, Isabel Oli, Marichu Vera-Perez, Ricky Lee, Cooky Chua, Conrado de Quiros, Dra. Vicki Belo, Fanny Serrano, and Mr. Eddie Garcia.

Stars who arrived with their family included Mother Lily Monteverde and daughter Roselle; Lorna Tolentino and son Ralph Fernandez; Tirso Cruz III with wife Lyn Ynchausti and their children Bodjie and Djanin; Lani Mercado and son Bryan Revilla; Boots Anson-Roa and brother Monching; Armida Siguion-Reyna and daughter-in-law Bibeth Orteza; Jeffrey and sister Arnee Hidalgo; Sylvia Sanchez and her children; siblings Angelo and Kristine Patrimonio; and, of course, the Gutierrez family—Eddie and wife Annabelle Rama with their children Ruffa, Raymond, and Richard.

Husband-and-wife couples who arrived included Aga Muhlach and Charlene Gonzalez, Dawn Zulueta and Anton Lagdameo, Gladys Reyes and Christopher Roxas, Nonito Donaire and Rachel Marcial, Ciara Sotto and Joe Oconer.

Talent manager Perry Lansigan arrived with his roster of stars, including Geoff Eigenmann, Gabby Eigenmann, Arthur Solinap, Carl Guevarra, Carlo Gonzales, and Jolina Magdangal. Geoff arrived with screen partner Carla Abellana, while Jolina arrived with boyfriend Mark Escueta.

Dingdong Dantes, one of the most anticipated stars of the night, arrived immediately before the program started. Dingdong is also being handled by Perry. His girlfriend Marian Rivera failed to attend the event because she was taping the sitcom Show Me Da Manny.

Stars who came much later to extend their full support included KC Concepcion, Ai-Ai delas Alas, Pops Fernandez, Iza Calzado, Kyla, Pauleen Luna, Assunta de Rossi, Ynna Asisto, Kris Bernal, Maxene Magalona, Ciara Sotto, Rachel Alejandro, Julia Clarete, Snooky Serna, Ruby Rodriguez, Jean Garcia, Michelle Madrigal, Ana Roces, Miriam Quiambao, Eula Valdes, Yayo Aguila, Viktoria Agbayani, Joanna Ampil, Pinky Amador, Bernadette Allyson, Ana Abiera, Mommy Carol Santos, Carla Humphries, Bubbles Paraiso, and Gretchen Barretto,

Also present were Ogie Alcasid, Jake Cuenca, Jay-R, Chris Cayzer, Kris Lawrence, Miguel Escueta, Enchong Dee, Paolo Paraiso, Emilio Garcia, Marco Morales, German Moreno, Tim Tap, Geoff Taylor, Eduard George, Manuel Chua, Jose Sarasola, Rocky Salumbides, and the StarStruck V Final 5 (Steven Silva, Sarah Lahbati, Enzo Pineda, Diva Montelaba, and Rocco Nacino).

PEP also spotted the following directors and talent managers: Joel Lamangan, Joyce Bernal, Dante Mendoza, Wyngard Tracy, Manny Valera, Ethel Ramos, Malou Choa-Fagar, Leo Dominguez, Dolor Guevara, Boots Plata, and Shirley Kuan.

Angel Locsin and John Lloyd Cruz came in very late with only a few people left inside the ballroom. Angel was reunited with GMA-7 senior program manager Redgie Magno, who handled some of her shows in the Kapuso network before, like Darna and Asian Treasures.

Kring Elenzano and Chrina Cuna of Flippish.com hosted the live web feed of the YES! magazine Party red-carpet event and main program.

MAIN EVENT. The main program started with the introduction of Ms. Jo-Ann Maglipon of the staff of YES! and PEP to the audience.

After this, Summit Media president Lisa Gokongwei-Chen YES! and PEP editor in chief Jo-ann Maglipon read a speech in tribute of the late talent manager Douglas Quijano, who served as editorial consultant of YES! since its birth.

“He knew that YES! has potential. He knew that it would be a chronicler of the entertainment world… Douglas, you are missed by us and the industry,” Lisa said.

Then, Mr. Lance Gokongwei, COO of JG Summit Holdings, thanked the sponsors of YES! for their continued support.

“Let’s raise our glasses for YES! Magazine’s 10 more years of success,” he told the audience.

After the introductory speeches, singing trio La Diva—composed of Jonalyn Viray, Aicelle Santos, and Maricris Garcia—fired up the night by performing Whitney Houston’s “Queen of the Night” and En Vogue’s “Free You Mind.”

Multi-awarded singer Bituin Escalante then sang Mariah Carey’s “Hero” and Florante’s “Handog.”

A 10-minute audio-visual presentation showing the history, triumphs, and accolades of YES! followed.

Then, Jed Madela belted out a medley of some of the best-loved OPM songs and followed it up with an upbeat version of “Stand By Me.” He was followed by Rhap Salazar, who sang a nationalistic song titled “Galing ng Pinoy.”

The WCOPA champions then tried to coax everyone to dance and have a good time with Black Eyed Peas’s “I Got A Feeling.”

OPEN MIKE. Ricky Davao and Tirso Cruz III hosted the open mike session, and convinced several stars to go on stage to sing impromptu accompanied by a pianist.

Some of the celebrities who obliged to take center stage were Jay-R, Kris Lawrence, director Joel Lamangan, Carla Humphries, Chris Cayzer, Ogie Alcasid, Pops Fernandez, Miriam Quiambao, Assunta de Rossi, Cooky Chua, Ynna Asistio, Julia Clarete, GMA-7′s Redgie Magno, among others.

The party may have ended at a little past 1 a.m. but with help of Pinoy’s biggest stars, YES! will continue to bring memories, breakthroughs, and milestones to the entertainment world.