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 Alden (Alden Richards) and Yaya Dub (Maine Mendoza) interacting through split screen television. The primary means of dialogue between the two are the use of audio samples of popular media and handwritten messages shown on screen.[1] | |
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AlDub was a love team which originated from the Kalyeserye portion of the "Juan for All, All for Juan" segment of the variety show Eat Bulaga! They were also called as the "phenomenal love team" due to their rise in popularity after they were accidentally paired on the July 16, 2015 episode of the Problem Solving portion of "Juan for All, All for Juan" which later became the first episode of Kalyeserye. AlDub was derived from a portmanteau of the tandem's character names in Kalyeserye, namely Filipino actor Alden Richards, who portrays a fictionalized version of himself, and Yaya Dub (Divina Ursula Bokbokova Smash, a playful reverse-acronym of Dubsmash), portrayed by Dubsmash Queen personality and socialite actress Maine Mendoza, who initially does not talk and interacts through lip-syncing.
Both joining the program's cast in 2015, Richards first appeared as a host of Eat Bulaga! segments, such as the "That's My Bae" portion, while Mendoza originally appeared as Yaya Dub in the show's portion "Problem Solving". During the first few months of Kalyeserye, they exclusively interacted through the show's split screen frame, the AlDub couple's main communication is through lip syncing audio clips from popular songs, films and TV series. After they personally met in September 2015 and Yaya Dub was later allowed to speak, the couple's interaction is no longer limited to split screen and lip-syncing.
Outside Kalyeserye, they're still referred to as AlDub even if they are no longer portraying their Kalyeserye characters. They have been product endorsers and have appeared in films, notably My Bebe Love: #KiligPaMore and their very first solo film Imagine You and Me.
In 2017, AlDub starred in the romantic comedy teleserye Destined to Be Yours, which aired from February 27, 2017, until May 26, 2017.