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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mario Lopez 'Completely Lost It' At Cheerleader Suing Him During Explosive Court Appearance
reportedly lashed out at former NFL cheerleader Desiree Townsend during a recent court hearing to request a permanent restraining order against her. The TV personality was sued in June by Townsend over claims of orchestrating a smear campaign against her when he reposted an old, humiliating video of her. Townsend is expected to take the stand later this week, where she will be cross-examined as part of Lopez's ongoing effort to secure the restraining order. Desiree Townsend is also requesting $25 million in her case against Mario Lopez and has expressed her surprise that the actor sought a restraining order. The Actor Called The Cheerleader' Crazy,' 'Unhinged,' And A 'Stalker' In an interview with Radar Online, Desiree Townsend shared a shocking account of what allegedly unfolded during a recent court hearing over Mario Lopez's attempt to secure a permanent restraining order against her. Townsend and Lopez are currently locked in a $25 million defamation battle, which she initiated in June. In response, Lopez filed for a temporary restraining order and appeared in court this week seeking to make it permanent. According to Townsend, the entire courtroom turned chaotic when Lopez took the witness stand during the hearing. She claimed that Lopez "completely lost it" and was screaming, an outburst she said left her feeling threatened and shaken. "He screamed, actually screamed, on the witness stand," Townsend recalled to the news outlet. "He was so 'p-ssed' as he categorized it that the judge had to calm him down." She further noted that Lopez "had a full-blown outburst," adding that he called her "crazy," "unhinged," and a "stalker." Why Desiree Townsend Filed A Lawsuit Against Mario Lopez In 2024, Lopez shared a throwback clip of the ex-cheerleader-turned-paralegal on Instagram, sarcastically writing, "There's gotta be some kind of award for this performance," while adding the hashtags #MethodActor and #OscarWorthy. In the over 15-year-old clip, Townsend appeared to slur her speech and dance erratically in front of the camera. She later explained to an outlet, Inside Edition, that her behavior was due to a rare neurological condition, dystonia. The cheerleader reportedly developed the ailment after taking a seasonal flu shot at the time. After the video went viral following Lopez's repost, Townsend filed a lawsuit against him, accusing the TV host of using a false statement that severely harmed both her personal and professional reputation. The Cheerleaders Claimed She Suffered 'Harassment' Due To Mario Lopez's Actions According to reports, Townsend also alleged that she suffered "emotional distress" and "online harassment" due to the remark. She deemed it as dehumanizing and defaming to "a woman living with a rare neurological disability." "The timing, tone, and scale of the attack support a reasonable inference that Lopez is familiar with deploying reputational warfare as a tool of intimidation, particularly when facing potential exposure," Townsend mentioned in her lawsuit. Mario Lopez Filed For A Restraining Order Against Desiree Townsend After She Served Him Court Papers Instead of sending a process server alone to deliver court papers to Lopez, Townsend chose to accompany the server during the delivery. She later shared a video of the tense encounter with Radar Online, which showed her telling a shirtless Lopez, "You've been served" and "See you in court" as the process server placed the documents in the front yard of his home. Lopez, upset by the unexpected confrontation at his residence, responded by obtaining a temporary restraining order before moving forward with a request for a permanent one. He claimed in court documents that he was "harmed" by the interaction with Townsend and that she caused "chaos and fear for his young children and family members who witnessed the event." Lopez also accused Townsend of escalating the harm by sharing on social media a video of her serving him, which exposed his personal address to the world and placed him and his family at "risk of further harassment, public ridicule, and potential physical danger." The Cheerleader Says She Was Surprised The Actor Filed A Restraining Order In her interview with Radar, Townsend also revealed that she was surprised by the restraining order and called it a "clickbait tactic" that will ultimately "backfire" on Lopez. "I truly don't understand what he's thinking," she told the news outlet. "He's escalating this into a public spectacle when it could have been resolved quietly through civil litigation. The former cheerleader added, "Filing for a restraining order feels like a clickbait tactic, and from both a PR and legal standpoint, it's likely to backfire. Especially when the very behavior he's calling 'harassment' is precisely what he did to me." Later this week, Townsend is expected to face cross-examination when the hearing for Lopez's request for a permanent restraining order resumes. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mario Lopez SCREAMS at cheerleader suing him for defamation during fiery court appearance
Mario Lopez allegedly flew into a frenzy and screamed at a former NFL cheerleader as he came face-to-face with her in court. The Saved by the Bell star, 51, lost his cool in court this week as he sought a restraining order from Desiree Townsend, a former cheerleader for the Washington Commanders who is suing him for defamation. Lopez is accused of launching a 'smear campaign' against Townsend and trying to humiliate her with a social media post, and she is seeking $10 million from the actor. Townsend filed her lawsuit over an Instagram post Lopez shared last year, which showed a news clip from 2009 in which Townsend claimed she was suffering a rare neurological disorder called dystonia. She alleged at the time that she developed the condition after receiving a flu shot, and she was seen slurring her words and gyrating for the cameras. The news team then followed Townsend as she began acting normally and driving a car, implying she was faking. Lopez shared the video and captioned it: 'There's gotta be some kind of award for this performance… #MethodActor #OscarWorthy.' After Townsend served him with a lawsuit at his home on Father's Day earlier this year, Lopez got a temporary restraining order against her - and was recently back in court trying to make the order permanent. Townsend told Radar Online that when Lopez took the stand, he 'completely lost it' at her. 'He screamed, actually screamed, on the witness stand,' she claimed. 'He was so "pissed", as he categorized it, that the judge had to calm him down. 'He had a full-blown outburst, yelling that I was '"crazy, unhinged, and a stalker." And yes, he said all that while shouting.' Townsend is set to be cross-examined by Lopez's attorney later in the week, and is likely to be grilled about a video she shared online showing her surprising Lopez at his home. The actor was seen shirtless in the video confronting Townsend outside his home, refusing to open his gate and yelling at her. As he called her a 'crazy b****', Townsend told a process server to throw the lawsuit through his gate. 'See you in court, Mario,' she said as she left his home. Lopez subsequently filed a restraining order against Townsend, saying in court documents that he 'was harmed by the most recent harassment when Ms. Townsend arrived at his home on Father's Day with a process server.' He said she was 'causing chaos and fear for his young children and family members who witnessed the event.' 'She then escalated the harm by posting a video of the service on TikTok, exposing his family and home address to millions of viewers, placing them at risk of further harassment, public ridicule, and potential physical danger,' the documents said. Townsend filed her lawsuit over an Instagram post Lopez shared of news clip from 2009, in which the then-cheerleader claimed she was suffering a rare neurological disorder called dystonia and gyrated in front of the cameras Lopez obtained a restraining order against Townsend after she showed up at his home, which she said surprised her as 'he's escalating this into a public spectacle when it could have been resolved quietly through civil litigation' Townsend told Radar that she was baffled by the restraining order, and said: 'I truly don't understand what he's thinking.' 'He's escalating this into a public spectacle when it could have been resolved quietly through civil litigation,' she said. 'Filing for a restraining order feels like a clickbait tactic, and from both a PR and legal standpoint, it's likely to backfire. Especially when the very behavior he's calling 'harassment' is precisely what he did to me.' Townsend's lawsuit against Lopez for defamation is still pending, and is based on his Instagram post sharing the archival footage of Townsend with 'dystonia.' She became widely known as the 'vaccine cheerleader' when she made the claims in 2009, and was mocked for appearing to fake her symptoms. It is unclear if Lopez and Townsend have any other connection besides the actor sharing the TV news footage to his Instagram over a year ago.
Politico
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Politico
The New Faith-Based Hollywood
BUFFALO, New York — In the middle of April, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Mario Lopez of Saved By the Bell fame is shivering outside on set, periodically bundled in a down jacket. Crew members and Los Angeles-based actors mill about in winter gear. Behind them sit a close-to-frozen pond, barren trees and a row of identical light blue homes. Lopez is the star of A Christmas Spark, an upcoming film about a middle-aged lawyer who returns home around the holidays to become a firefighter — and, spoiler alert, finds love along the way. It sounds, looks and feels just like a Hallmark movie. But peek behind the cameras, and A Christmas Spark is part of a new media boom, funded largely by conservative donors, that's reshaping entertainment in the Trump era. It's produced by Great American Media, a company focused on family friendly, faith-based content and led by Bill Abbott, the former CEO of the parent company of the Hallmark Channel who left amid a nasty political split during Donald Trump's first administration. Despite the stars and the sets, we're far from a major studio production. And for GAM, that's on purpose. Most Hollywood studios and streaming services are dealing with turbulent financial waters and concerns about looming tariffs. But in an era in which Americans are interested in living their politics in the companies they support and the media they consume, outfits like Great American Media — which consists of a streaming service, multiple cable networks and produces much of its own content — are growing. GAM is part of an expanding network of faith-based production companies and streaming services that are finding success in an increasingly polarized country. They're both slowly building dedicated audiences and have cashed in with big hits, like the Angel Studios movie Sound of Freedom, which made $250 million on a less than $15-million budget. These companies insist they aren't partisan, seeking only to create a brand associated with family and amorphous American values that parents can feel comfortable watching at home. But GAM and like-minded companies are able to succeed where secular alternatives struggle by using a sense of conservative aggrievement with Hollywood to their benefit. Bad review in a mainstream publication? It's the liberal media, even more reason to support their offerings. Themes like same-sex marriage or pre-marital sex offend you? Try faith-based media. For decades, many of the same concepts could be applied to Hallmark or Lifetime films. While not overtly political, they espoused generally culturally conservative values and a moral tradition that appealed to conservative viewers, with an emphasis on small-town living and heterosexual love stories. But as Hallmark has begun making some content about gay couples and hasn't committed to promoting unambiguously religious themes, a swath of its fans have gone looking for something else that more directly conforms with their politics and their values. That's where many of them find GAM and a growing slate of faith-based or avowedly conservative production companies. Longtime president of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo, for example, helped to bankroll Wonder Project, the Texas-based studio that produced House of David, the wildly popular retelling of the biblical shepherd's story that found a home on Amazon's Prime Video. Leo received a $1.6-billion gift that he's using with the express purpose of making culture more conservative. 'You're only going to accomplish so much in shifting American cultural and social life through politics and public policy if you're not dealing with the cultural institutions that are at the choke point of American opinion, American sentiment, American thinking,' Leo tells POLITICO Magazine. 'So entertainment, of course, is a really important part of trying to rebalance the culture.' GAM leaders don't state their ambitions as quite as directly political. But they also believe there's money and cultural influence in serving people who are tired of what they're getting from Hollywood. 'We're focused on meeting the needs of an unmet audience,' Abbott wrote in an email to POLITICO Magazine. 'Our viewers are multigenerational and value content that reflects faith, family, and country.' Abbott, a spry, 63-year-old Long Islander by birth, has been working in family entertainment since 1988. He worked at big networks like CBS and Fox before he joined the Crown Media Family Networks in 2000 and was named CEO of Crown Media — the parent company that operates Hallmark programming — in 2009. He oversaw the launch of the Hallmark Movie Channel, got Hallmark into the scripted series game, and presided over decades of sustained success for the brand. Everything looked rosy before a tumultuous breakup during President Donald Trump's first term spurred by a White House Christmas event, an ad for a wedding registry website and a public outcry. 'In 2017, you could see the change in the chairman and the management at the parent company and the family to become much more woke,' Abbott said in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference, when asked why he left Hallmark. 'And DEI driven, very DEI driven. They were in DEI before it was cool to be in DEI.' According to Abbott, in 2017 the Trump White House chose Hallmark to host a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. After the network hosted the show, he says he was told by his bosses at the Hallmark Channel's parent company, that 'you're either for humanity or you're against it,' chastising him for agreeing to host the event. Hallmark did not respond to requests for comment. Then, in 2020, Abbott departed the company after a December 2019 ad for wedding website that depicted a same-sex couple exchanging vows and kissing. After the conservative group One Million Moms objected to the ad, Abbott and his team pulled the ad from its programming — a move that prompted swift backlash. #BoycottHallmark trended on X, then Twitter, and public figures including Ellen DeGeneres called out Abbott directly. The company ultimately reversed course and reinstated the ad, and Abbott stepped down a little over a month after the fallout and the intense backlash to pulling the ad inside and outside the company. 'We made a decision to not take one commercial and that blew up everything on the planet,' Abbott said in April on the podcast of Moms for America, an organization that recently presented Trump with the 'Man of the Century' award at a gala held at Mar-a-Lago. He noted Hallmark was careful about the ads they took in general, not running ads for political campaigns, alcohol or drugs or feminine hygiene products. In his email, Abbott wrote, 'I am very proud of what we built at Hallmark, but their priority became creating content to align with political and social counterculture rather than staying focused on celebrating tradition and delivering what viewers wanted. My goal has always been to serve the audience with uplifting entertainment that creates trust.' So Abbott pivoted into the world of faith-based media. As Abbott tells it, actor Jon Voight — now Trump's Special Ambassador to Hollywood, who starred in the Hallmark film J.L. Family Ranch in 2016 — introduced Abbott to Tom Hicks, a Texas-based private equity investor who runs Hicks Equity Partners. In 2020, Hicks Equity Partners looked to raise $200 million for conservative alternatives to Fox News and explored buying Newsmax, as they sought to put their political imprimatur on American media. (Hicks' son, Thomas Hicks Jr., is a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee and a national finance co-chair for Trump's 2016 campaign.) The Newsmax acquisition never came to fruition, but Hicks Equity Partners helped Abbott get Great American Media off the ground, aiding in his acquisition of the cable network Great American Country in 2021 from Discovery which was subsequently rebranded to Great American Family. Their original programming airs on both linear cable and streaming. According to Great American Media, Hicks Equity Partners has been joined in their initial investment by several other sources, including Deason Capital (a Dallas-based family office run by conservative activist and donor Doug Deason) and Sony. Hicks Equity Partners did not respond to a request for comment. 'Right now, we're going through a period where religious conservatives are increasingly assertive and very energetic in funding and expanding their own cultural space,' said Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. While it rejects an explicitly political label, Great American Media receives much of its funding from sources that also fund politically conservative organizations and candidates. They and other similar production companies believe they can power their growth through servicing a large swath of viewers who sound a lot like how Republican candidates describe their voters. 'We have people in our culture who very much want all aspects of their life to be consistent with family-centered values,' Leo says. 'When they're in the marketplace, or when they're in the political world, or when they're simply doing what people do in life to engage in leisure and entertainment, they look for that kind of family-values centered thinking and approach to life.' In the world of faith-based television and movie content, business is booming. Sound of Freedom, a 2023 thriller distributed by the faith-based network Angel Studios about child trafficking that critics called a vehicle for promoting conspiracy theories, minted over $184 million in North America. That made it one of the most successful independent movies ever. His Only Son, another 2023 Angel Studios film, made over $13 million on a $250,000 budget. The Chosen, an ongoing television series about Jesus by filmmaker Dallas Jenkins, claims to have crowdfunded almost $100 million and reached a quarter of a billion people via streaming. Crowdfunding is a popular tool for faith-based production companies that use their audience's enthusiasm — often around a particular political point — to raise cash. Since 2022, The Daily Wire, a conservative media company co-founded by commentator Ben Shapiro, has also produced multiple successful television shows and films and has become a big player in this space. House of David was a huge crossover hit for Wonder Studios, and a starting point for Leo's mission to get more traditional studios and streaming platforms to promote these types of stories. 'I don't see this as being in competition with big Hollywood. I see this as being an opportunity for big Hollywood to make targeted investments that make them money at a time when it's hard to make money in producing movies,' says Leo. Great American Family, meanwhile, grew its viewership by 20 percent between the fourth quarters of 2023 and 2024, making it one of the few networks achieving that sort of rapid growth, according to internal documents from GAM shared with POLITICO Magazine and Nielsen ratings. (Others include conservative media networks Fox News and Newsmax.) Over the same timespan, Hallmark's audience shrunk by 9 percent and Lifetime's by 13 percent, according to Nielsen ratings. Hallmark and Lifetime still maintain larger audiences in total than Great American Family, though. On the business side, many faith-based production companies follow a similar proposition to a channel like Hallmark: build out a slate of movies and TV shows that follow a tried and true formula of simple love stories and moral lessons. 'The reason the model works is because you keep budgets down. These are not genre films. These are not films that require an awful lot in terms of location. Often they're reusing actors,' says Adam Nayman, a Toronto-based film critic and professor at the University of Toronto. 'You kind of build up your own star system where these people are not stars, but they become recognizable to your audience.' GAM's streaming service is currently advertising 'Summer Romcoms' like Sweet Maple Romance, 'Military Heroes' like Peace River: God, Country & The Cowboy Way, and 'Stories of Faith' like Disciples in the Moonlight. The company also launched a specific childrens' hub on their streaming service this week. They are trying to build a catalog of films that fit together in one neat, Christian package. 'Sometimes you'll say, 'I love that show, but I don't know where it is — is this on Max? Is this on Netflix?'' said Kristen Roberts, Great American Media's chief revenue officer and executive vice president of programming, in a recent interview at GAM's New York offices. 'We want to be the complete opposite of that. We want people to say, 'I watch Pure Flix, I watch Great American Family,'' referencing two arms of GAM. The goal, she said, is for viewers to say, ''I watch that service' more than 'I watch that particular show.'' Faith-based networks also have the benefit of being able to position themselves in direct opposition with what they argue is a liberal agenda in Hollywood. The community of faith-based filmmakers can set themselves up as the antidote to cultural products that they see as inappropriate for children and adults alike. 'When you look at White Lotus and you look at situations where they're creating storylines that have incest in them and they're being applauded by the entertainment community, that's an intentional way of taking aberrant behavior and trying to normalize it,' Abbott said on the Moms for America podcast. 'We see it all the time in entertainment — every day. You can turn on almost any movie, any network, go to any movie, and I know it's a very intentional strategy.' The success of faith-based media companies is in large part a reaction to the kind of frustrations that Abbott elucidates. The industry is buoyed by the very thing that it rails against — and it's the response that drives some of the success. 'They've really not ever tried to pretend that they're for everyone,' says Nayman. 'Instead, they say, 'isn't this what you've been missing.' And if you're the one getting that message, and you're the one being reached by that advertisement, then your grievance is being stoked, even if it's underneath the guise of a warm hug.' 'You're assuming that people are fed up with anything that resembles something mainstream or something secular,' Nayman adds. 'And I think they really, really take advantage of a polarized moment.' There's tension between faith-based content and the rest of the media landscape. The faith-based films and television shows — when they're reviewed at all — are regularly panned by critics. Sound of Freedom, the film from this universe that was recently reviewed by the most mainstream critics, has a Metacritic score of 36 out of 100. 'It's bizarre, unsettling and yet — in the filmmaking equivalent of turning wine to water — bracingly dull to boot,' read a review in The Telegraph. 'The quality is a really big issue,' Leo acknowledges. He argues conservatives need to invest in incubating talent that can make family-values movies and shows that are more slick, better produced and appeal to a wider audience. The art in this space often has no real aspirations towards acclaim as it's connoted by an Oscar or Emmy. In fact, in some ways they've created a parallel industry, with their own critics and markers of success. The Movieguide Awards, which are held every year and which largely honor films and television that Movieguide — a service that brands itself as 'movie reviews for Christians' — believes connects with their values. In 2025, winners included the movie Reagan, actor Candace Cameron Bure for A Christmas Less Traveled and Americans With No Address, a documentary about the country's homelessness crisis narrated by actor William Baldwin. Movieguide rates Hollywood films and gives them a 'family content' rating. In the company's annual 'Report to Hollywood,' they argue that films with strong Christian values perform better at the box office. Their formula relies on the often strong performance of children's films and doesn't include every mainstream hit; both Barbie and Oppenheimer had low 'family content' ratings, for example. 'We have a new generation that's having kids, and they want faith and values, their generation does not want sex and violence.' says Ted Baehr, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Movieguide. He cites this year's Academy Awards Best Picture winner Anora, about a New York sex worker, which made a little over $20 million at the domestic box office. 'In Hollywood [that] is pathetic,' he says. 'It's worthless. And all the Academy Award winners were pathetic.' (The film was generally considered an indie success; it was made on a $6 million budget.) While Hollywood has long been a bastion of liberalism, there wasn't always such a stark divide between mainstream Hollywood and religious fare. But in today's political climate, the gap is widening. According to April 2024 research from Pew, 59 percent of Protestants align with the Republican Party compared to 38 percent who align with Democrats, and among white Evangelical Protestants, 85 percent lean Republican while only 14 percent lean Democrat. Christians of all faiths are more likely to be Republicans, where Jews, Muslims and anyone unaffiliated with a particular religion are more likely to be a Democrat. The large partisan split among white Evangelical Protestants in particular has grown steadily and significantly since the start of the Reagan era. And that gap has been reflected in available entertainment options. In the Facebook group 'Great American Family (GAC) Fan Community', users post every day about how the network is one of the only ones that represents their interests, values and politics. In a recent post, a fan wrote, 'GAC SEEMS TO HAVE SOME GREAT PROGRAMMING COMING UP FOR GOOD FRIDAY INTO EASTER. THANK YOU! I SAW SOME DISTURBING STUFF ON A MOVIE WITH HALLMARK OVER THE WEEKEND. ONLY TUNED IT IN WHEN IT WAS ALMOST OVER AND IT WAS 10 MINUTES OF AGENDA!' Her post was flooded with supportive comments. 'Stopped watching Hallmark movies when they cowered to the masses allowing same sex couples. Don't miss it and LOVE Great American Family!!,' another member of the group replied. Abbott uses and cultivates that sense of cultural alienation to market his content. Along with A Christmas Spark — where after two days on set Lopez's character has moved from a big-city office setup to charming small-town USA — GAM's offerings include the upcoming Home Sweet Christmas Wedding starring Cameron Bure and a slate of released Easter-themed productions including Forty-Seven Days with Jesus. Watching GAM is not only an escape from Hollywood, but also a signifier of your own values or politics. While spending your money or time with a Great American Media product, you're voting for something. It's not about artistic innovation or form, it's about sending a message. 'I think that 'Christian' is used by the media to downplay or to stereotype,' Abbott told Moms for America. 'It's reverse racism or however you want to define it. You get stereotyped and put in this box. And that's what they want to do, they want to put faith in a box and make it go away. And we will never let that happen.' — Tessa Berenson Rogers contributed to this report.
South China Morning Post
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
‘Great American family'? Meet Mario Lopez's glamorous wife, Courtney Lopez: the Saved by the Bell actor met his partner during his Broadway debut in A Chorus Line, and they share 3 kids
Last December, Mario Lopez brought his family to the Hollywood Christmas Parade, where he was honoured with the Humanitarian of the Year award. 'What an honour to be recognised as 'Humanitarian of the Year' with my family at the Hollywood Christmas Parade!' the Saved by the Bell actor wrote in his caption on Instagram, alongside a pic of his wife, Courtney Lopez, and their three adorable kids, Gia, Dominic and Santino. Advertisement In another post, the fivesome are seen riding in a car while waving into the camera. 'Great time spent with the fam at the Hollywood Christmas Parade!' the TV host wrote. Courtney Lopez has appeared in various projects alongside her husband Mario Lopez. Photo: @courtneym_lopez/Instagram Mario, 51, is no stranger to sharing snippets of his family life on social media. Here's what we know about his glamorous wife, Courtney Lopez. Courtney Lopez is an actress and producer Courtney Lopez is from Pittsburgh with Italian roots. Photo: @courtneym_lopez/Instagram Courtney, 42, is an actress and producer. Her TV and film credits include Saved by the Bell, Feliz NaviDAD (2020) and Steppin' Into the Holiday (2022) – all opposite her hubby, Mario. The couple's latest Great American Family project, Once Upon a Christmas Wish, is set to come out on December 7. Mario also hosts On with Mario Lopez, an iHeartRadio show, and the On with Mario Interviews podcast, both with Courtney appearing alongside him. How did Courtney meet Mario Lopez?
GMA Network
03-06-2025
- General
- GMA Network
SC launches ‘burnout' app for judges
The Judicial Burnout Scale was launched by the Supreme Court, an application that will help judges detect warning signs of burnout. (Photo from the SC website) The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday announced that it has launched the Judicial Burnout Scale, an application that will help judges detect warning signs of burnout. In a statement, the High Court stressed that burnout can impair the judgment, decision-making, and well-being of judges, which may threaten the fairness and integrity of the justice system. 'This tool not only detects warning signs of burnout, it will also guide the Court in designing mental health programs, policy reforms, and interventions that promote our judges' overall well-being,' Associate Justice Mario Lopez said. According to the court, the application was developed by the SC Governing Council for Mental Health as part of the SC Compassion, Awareness, Education, and Save Program. The SC said the app was inspired by the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and considered Filipino cultural values such as sense of shame, sense of community, and empathy. Though the application is currently limited to judges, the SC said there are plans to make the tool available to all court personnel. —LDF, GMA Integrated News
