Fuji TV announcer Masai Maya (28) was recently spotted on a date with popular model Maekawa Yasuyuki (30) by women’s magazine Josei Jishin. Masai was in the news last year for getting involved with a fellow announcer while engaged to a producer at the same channel. Fuji has probably been the most successful channel at using its female announcers as sales points, building them up like pop stars or actresses.
• Meanwhile, young actress Ikewake Chizuru (22) was recently spotted with new boyfriend, actor Arai Hirofumi (25), by the weekly gossip magazine Flash. Both have admitted their relationship but deny rumors that they are living together.
• A single recorded by Amuro Namie (26) is to be used as the theme song for a TV drama, the first in six years. Fuji TV’s romance “Kimi ga Omoide ni Naru Mae ni” (Before You Become a Memory) will use the song “All For You”, Amuro’s 27th single scheduled to go on sale July 22. The series will star Mizuki Arisa (27) and the recently married Shiina Kippei (39).