Pine Valley Exclusive: First Susan Lucci, Now Eden Riegel Is Revealing Whether She’d Reprise Her All My Children Role

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The primetime reboot has everyone paying attention.

There’s a lot of chatter lately about Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ primetime reboot, Pine Valley, and we are here to update you on one major Kane family member that should be a part of the ensemble: Bianca Montgomery. We already know that Susan Lucci is “interested” in reprising her role as Erica Kane, but what about Eden Riegel?

Well, Soaps.com has the answer for you after we spoke to the Daytime Emmy winner about the upcoming series — and it sounds like Ripa and Consuelos need to give Riegel a call. “I know that it’s still in development and still a reboot, I think. When it goes, it will focus more on the younger, sexier members of Pine Valley,” she shared. “But I do know if they ever want the Kane women, make a cameo or a couple of appearances, me and Susan and Alicia [Minshew, Kendall] would be so on board.”

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Since Lucci already knows that the revival “takes into account the characters who the audience loves,” Bianca has to be involved somehow, right? In our recent interview with Cameron Mathison, he was even curious as to what Riegel said about appearing on the show, and there are definitely behind-the-scenes conversations going on about the revival between former cast members.

“Eva LaRue (Maria) said they are going to concentrate on the Santos and the Kane families,” Mathison revealed. “I don’t know if that’s true or not, but hopefully, Eden would be part of it.” So Lucci and Riegel are game (as is Mathison to reprise Ryan), so now, we wait on an official cast announcement, which could take a while since the series is still in pre-production.

Riegel shares more with us about what it felt like to see her role recast after she exited All My Children, plus why her role on The Young and the Restless didn’t quite work out. Check out the entire interview above, then visit the photo gallery below, where we revisit the cast of All My Children and find out where they are now.

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Pine Valley Exclusive: First Susan Lucci, Now Eden Riegel Is Revealing Whether She’d Reprise Her All My Children Role

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<p>With her 2021 Emmy win for her work as Jennifer Horton on <em>Days of Our Lives</em>, the erstwhile Dixie Cooney became the first actress to strike gold for three different soaps on three different networks in three different decades.</p>

<p>So popular was the Emmy winner’s pairing with Debbi Morgan as Angie Baxter that he was given a new character to play opposite hers on <em>The City</em>, his Jesse Hubbard was eventually resurrected, and the actors were reunited <em>again</em> by primetime’s <em>Our Kind of People</em>.</p>

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<p>To this day, we cast a skeptical side-eye at jet skis. But at least we can take some comfort in knowing that time hasn’t laid a hand on Jenny and Greg Nelson’s portrayers (the former of whom is now Jackie Templeton on <em>General Hospital</em>).</p>

<p>Correct us if we’re wrong, but in the decades since he debuted as Ryan Lavery, the only thing that’s changed about the actor (now Drew Cain on <em>General Hospital</em>) is that… he grew a little sexy stubble?</p>

<p>Even when she was a teenage brunette making a splash as Erica Kane’s “forgotten” daughter, Kendall Hart, there was no disguising the blonde ambition that would help Buffy’s future portrayer slay Hollywood.</p>

<p>Whatever happened to the boy next door who scrubbed in as Cliff “I’m Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV” Warner? He evolved into one of daytime’s most respected leading men — and, as if you didn’t know, the one who plays Jack Abbott on <em>The Young and the Restless.</em></p>

<p>The gem who played Southern-fried Opal Cortlandt continues to work in TV and movies like the 2021 thriller <em>The Manor</em> (from which the more recent image is taken).</p>

<p>Long after leaving behind the role of baby-faced Jamie Martin, the hunk — married in real life to Alexa Havins, formerly Babe Carey — became a scruffy fixture in primetime.</p>

<p>It’s no wonder the actress remains a soap MVP (as<em> Young & Restless</em>’ Chloe Fisher). Even back when <em>All My Children</em> killed her off as Maggie Stone, her natural charisma was so undeniable that it prompted fans to demand that she be rehired as surprise twin Maggie.</p>

<p>Honestly, we could look at these two photos of Maria Santos’ former portrayer all day and still not be sure which one was “then” and which was “now.” (“Then” is on the left, though, if it was gonna cause you to lose sleep.)</p>

<p>Ah, some things never change. Whether the soap-hopper was playing Greenlee Smythe or <em>General Hospital</em> pot-stirrer Hayden Barnes, the mischievous gleam in her eye was impossible to miss.</p>

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<p>Since meeting when they were cast as future supercouple Hayley and Matéo Santos, the marrieds have gone on to become a Hollywood power couple — and, as a matter of fact, the twosome behind ABC’s primetime <em>All My Children</em> revival, <em>Pine Valley.</em></p>

<p>Aside from the facial hair — grown to play gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok — we’d swear that Jackson Montgomery’s real-life alter ego hasn’t aged a second, never mind a day, since the soap’s sayonara.</p>

<p>We can assure you that this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. Nor is it April Fool’s Day. These really <em>are</em> photos of the soap icon taken decades apart. Erica Kane’s portrayer simply remains as “sensuelle” as ever. (Props to the longtime fans who will get the reference.)</p>

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