Ricky Lo, a veteran entertainment editor, died at the age of 75.

 

The passing of beloved veteran entertainment editor/columnist Ricky Lo on Tuesday night, May 4, has  once again gripped the Philippine entertainment industry.

Susan Lee, Ricky's sister, pleaded with the family to respect their grief.  

This is the explanation why the cause of Ricky Lo's death has yet to be revealed.

Ricky Lo was born on April 21, 1946, in Las Navas, Northern Samar.

At the University of the East, Ricky earned an AB in English.

From 1969 to 1972, Ricky Lo worked as an editorial  assistant at Variety magazine.  

The Sunday supplement of the old Manila Times was  Variety magazine.

Ricky Lo's first assignment as a reporter for the  Manila Times was to cover Pope Paul VI's visit to the  Philippines in November 1970.

From July 1986 to May 2021, Ricky Lo was the  entertainment editor of The Philippine STAR.

Ricky Lo published Star Studded, a collection of his articles about artists, in 1995.

Ricky published Conversations with Ricky Lo in 2001, which was a collection of his exclusive interviews.

Ricky Lo is not only a well-known entertainment editor/columnist and showbiz commentator, but he has  also appeared on talk shows in the entertainment industry.

When ABSCBN's The Buzz first aired in 1999, Ricky Lo was one of the show's co-hosts.

In 2005, Ricky Lo collaborated with Melanie Marquez on QTV 11's Showbiz Stripped, which was replaced in 2007 by The Ricky Lo Exclusives.

Ricky was a regular co-host of Startalk from 2008 until it was cancelled on September 12, 2015.

Ricky Lo has won numerous accolades and honors over the course of his fifty-two-year career for his outstanding writing and distribution of showbiz news and scoop stories.

Ricky Lo is a name that almost every actor, young or old,is familiar with. 

He is often referred to as the "dean of Philippine showbiz reporters," a title he accepts with a quiet smile.