Willie ends rift with Joey on live TV

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Joey de Leon (George Calvelo, NPPA Images) and Willie Revillame (Voltaire Domingo, NPPA Images)

It is quite heartening to witness one spectacle no one saw or even thought was coming. Two popular TV personalities almost always on the warpath over several controversies through the years share the same stage and camera shot on one TV show.
While Willie Revillame and Joey de Leon had buried the hatchet after the former left ABS-CBN and changed his timeslot to late afternoon in his subsequent TV5 show "Wiltime Bigtime," it was really a surprising but delightful sight to see them together on nationwide TV—a very first in a long time.
The occasion was Joey's birthday celebration on the longest-running showbiz talk show, GMA-7's "Startalk," on October 13. Willie said he went to "Startalk" on his own initiative because he wanted to surprise Joey on his special day to formally end years of verbal tussles and heated exchanges.
Monumental clashes
Their clashes were monumental. Willie and Joey would make unprecedented, valuable airtime off their noontime shows just to air their attacks