'I've always been there for Maine giving her advises,' says Alden Richards who stands by Maine Mendoza as she copes with the demands of show business.

Kris Aquino has been vocal in saying that she likes the AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza.

A year after they first made eye contact on a show within a noontime variety show, Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards — the “love team” known as “AlDub” — are proving naysayers wrong with a new top-grossing movie and more of the same brand of “kilig” that they’ve dealt in on and off screen. Photo by JL JAVIER

Time flies, they say, when you’re having fun. And this old adage does seem to hold true for Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza, who couldn’t quite believe that they will already be celebrating the first anniversary of their phenomenal AlDub love team on July 16.

So, despite his incredibly hectic schedule these days, Alden vowed to make time for that momentous day.

“That’s when everything started. Maine and I are very excited… Things went by very quickly, and we’ve never thought we would reach one year,” Alden told reporters at a press conference for TechnoMarine watches, one of the many endorsements he had snagged since the onset of the AlDub fever.

Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza took a short break from their showbiz commitments to visit a sick fan at the Philippine Children's Medical Center in Quezon City on Saturday, June 25. The couple graciously heeded the request of the sick child's dad, who wrote an open letter to Eat Bulaga on Facebook with the hope of cheering his son, who has been confined since May this year.

By Apo Española. Photos by Ralph Mendoza, styling by Rex Atienza

There’s a concept in animation called the “uncanny valley”: as a character increases in human likeness, so do the feelings of familiarity and empathy towards it. Mapped out as a graph, that emotional response is a line on an upward trajectory. But the “uncanny valley” is the sharp dip that the line takes right before the point of ordinary human appearance: it represents the discomfort people feel towards a subject that appears almost—very close to, but not quite—real.

It’s official: the phenomenal tandem of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza, also known as “Yaya Dub,” has posted a new Twitter record.

Figures from Twitter Asia Pacific showed that 41 million tweets were posted using the hashtag #ALDubEBTamangPanahon from October 23 to October 25.

The tweet volume of the said hashtag has trumped AlDub’s previous record of 26 million tweets last Sept. 25 and the 35.6 million tweets sent during the Brazil vs Germany World Cup semi-final last July 8, 2014.