Arra San Agustin and Paolo Contis. Image: screengrab from YouTube/GMA Netwrok; Instagram/@officialtapein

Arra San Agustin set the record straight amid “fake news” romantically linking her to TV host-actor Paolo Contis, saying this was farther from the truth.

The actress was asked during a “Fast Talk with Boy Abunda” interview if she ever had a relationship with the actor, to which she said: “No. Hard no.”

San Agustin explained that the rumors of her supposed relationship with Contis stemmed from false articles, which used photos from their skit from their now-defunct noontime show “Tahanang Pinakamasaya.”

“Meron po kaming skit, ‘TP Happy’ ‘yung tawag… Love triangle kami—ako, si Kuya Pao at si Betong [Sumaya]. ‘Yung mga tao, they cut out pictures of me and Kuya Paolo, tapos gumagawa sila ng mga articles, like mga headlines na ako daw ‘yung third party. Nag-start po ‘yon last year,” she said.

At the time, Contis was in a relationship with actress Yen Santos.

“Tapos for some reason, nag-resurface po siya, itong news na ito. And fake news, fake ‘yung source—and I don’t know why karamihan sa mga tao naniniwala,” she stated.