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It's yet another week of trending online for Asia's Multimedia Star Alden Richards as his most recent performance in GMA's drama anthology show, Magpakailanman is once again lauded by netizens.

In this week's episode of Magpakailanman, Alden Richards portrayed “Allan,” a former mama's boy that ends up becoming a gangster because of the bad influence of his uncle. Starring alongside Alden in this episode titled “The Lost Boy” were Shaira Diaz, Ryan Eigenmann, Lovely Rivero, Simon Ibarra, Luke Conde, and Marx Topacio.

In the thousands of tweets found under the hashtag #MPKAldenLostBoy, viewers praised Alden's performance as well as the chemistry between him and co-star Shaira Diaz.

This is just the latest week that Alden has received praise from audiences. A couple of weeks ago, he portrayed marathon runner Jirome De Castro on Magpakailanman and received similar applause online.

Tweets found under the #ALDENRichards hashtag as well as the #ALDENxAugMPK hashtag had fans and netizens showering Alden with praise for his portrayal of the inspiring athlete.

Alden's portrayal of Jirome came after his recently participation in his first fun run. Back in July, Alden posted multiple photos of him at a fun run organized by an online retailer, where he mentioned in the caption that this would be the first of many fun runs he would be attending in the future.

Alden's portrayal of Allan is the latest role in a month-long series of performances from him on Magpakailanman.

His performance as Jirome was followed by an episode titled “Epal Dreamboy: The Richard Licop Story,” where Alden portrayed a social influencer bashed for being “epal” and “mayabang.”

The final episode that Alden stars in addresses mental health awareness and is entitled “Sa Puso't-Isipan: The Cantillana Family Story." The episode centers around Andrew, who must juggle the roles of a loving son, a responsible brother, and a primary caregiver to his mentally-ill parents.