James Carlos Yap Sr. (born February 15, 1970), from Escalante City, Negros Occidental, is a Filipino professional basketball superstar player for the Derby Ace Llamados in the Philippine Basketball Association. He is the 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 season’s Most Valuable Player and he is also 2009-2010 Philippine Cup Conference MVP. James is a many-time PBA South All-Star team starter. He is also a many-time member of the RP Basketball Team.
He is the son of Carlos and Annie Yap (parents). Yap is married to ABS-CBN host-actress Kris Aquino, the daughter of slain former senator, Benigno Aquino, Jr. and the late former President Corazon Aquino. Yap and Aquino’s relationship was rumored as early as 2005 before they acknowledged this on various interviews. By 2006, both have admitted to having tied the knot as early as mid 2005; the actual date of their marriage was July 10 under civil rites kept unknown to the public.
His marriage with Aquino was rocked by the revelation of a former receptionist from a beauty clinic that she had a relationship with James, which he vehemently denied in an interview with Korina Sanchez.
This eventually led to Kris asking for “space” with the star cager. James denied the receptionist’s allegations in a press statement. The issue has since died down after Kris’ pregnancy was revealed.
On April 19, 2007 his first son with Kris was born. James Aquino Yap, Jr. (Baby James) was born in the Makati Medical Center, Makati City at 5:08 pm local time and weighing 4.3 lbs. He was baptized on May 19, 2007 at Don Bosco Church in Makati, with 10 godparents.
As of June 26, 2010, Kris Aquino announced that she had separated from Yap, citing personal reasons.
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