Days of our Lives’ Melissa Reeves Shares an Emotional Tribute to Her Favorite ‘Tinyman’ and His ‘Tender Heart’

Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

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Because you’re never too old to be embarrassed by your mama.

Any mom reading this article is sure to get it. On Wednesday, Days of our Lives‘ Melissa Reeves (Jennifer) posted to Instagram a photo of son Larry and his wife, Olivia. “Today, 23 years ago, I gave birth to this amazing man,” she said, beginning a loving tribute to the birthday boy whom she and husband Scott Reeves (ex-Steve, General Hospital) call “Larman.”

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Today 23 years ago I gave birth to this amazing man💙 Larman, we love you so very much and are so incredibly proud of the son, husband and almost father🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻you are!! You make us laugh uncontrollably and also have the most tender heart💙 I love how your always thinking of new ideas and plans and dreaming of traveling and adventures, always with the Lord as your focus🙌🏻 your little boy is going to love being your son! We are beyond grateful that the Lord chose us to be your parents🙏🏻 cannot wait to see the daddy you are going to be💙🙏🏻🥰 we love you so much puppy🥰 23 got here to fast but you were ready to take on the world at a young age🙌🏻 you will always be my tinyman😭😘❤️😘❤️😘❤️. @twoandyonder

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The couple, Mom went on, “are so incredibly proud of the son, husband and almost father you are!” Larman… er, Larry and Olivia will make the Reeveses second-time grandparents in September. “You make us laugh uncontrollably and also have the most tender heart… Your little boy is going to love being your son!”

Scott Reeves also saluted Larry on his birthday, noting on Instagram that he’d “inspired the very first song I ever wrote, and you’ve been inspiring me ever since. I love that you love the same things I love. I love that you don’t take yourself too seriously and aren’t afraid to be goofy.

“You have always been wise beyond your years, and your mama and I couldn’t be prouder of the amazing, godly man you have grown up to become,” he added. “I love that you see the best in people and know no strangers. You are an amazing husband and are going to be an incredible father in a few weeks!!!”

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23 years ago today God entrusted us with this incredible man. Larman, you inspired the very first song I ever wrote and you’ve been inspiring me ever since. I love that you love the same things I love. I love that you don’t take yourself to seriously and aren’t afraid to be goofy. You have always been wise beyond your years and your mama and I couldn’t be prouder of the amazing, godly man you have grown up to become. I love your heart for the Lord. I love that you see the best in people and know no strangers. You are an amazing husband and are going to be an incredible father IN A FEW WEEKS!!! We love you more than words can say and are beyond proud of you. You will always be mama’s “Puppy” and papa’s “Bud”;) Happy birthday bubba!!! “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 @twoandyonder

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Still, the Emmy winner (from his run as Ryan on The Young and the Restless) reassured the dad-to-be that he “will always be mama’s ‘Puppy’ and papa’s ‘Bud.'” You can read their full statements above. And when you’re done, you might also enjoy perusing the below photo gallery, a roundup of the real-life soap couples — like them — whose marriages have stood the test of time.

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Loving wasn’t just the name of the show anymore when Keith was added to the cast as Shana Sloane — it was also the feeling that sprung up between the soap vet and Mike Donovan’s portrayer (better known for his long run as Trevor Dillon on All My Children). The twosome got hitched in 1986, and since leaving daytime, he’s told <a href="https://www.soapoperanews.net/2018/05/exclusive-james-kiberd-talks-all-my.html" target="_blank">Soap Opera News</a> that two things keep him busy these days: “Painting and my wife.”

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As the World Turns made worlds collide for these two; once they were tapped to play Tom Hughes and Margo Montgomery, they fell for one another for real and became husband and wife in 1988. After having two children, the couple (better known for Santa Barbara, where he played Keith Timmons, and Veep) moved from Gotham to New Jersey, then back. Now, she told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/realestate/a-brooklyn-born-actress-rediscovers-new-york.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> in 2017, “all the pets have died and my sons are mostly gone, so I can clean the apartment and it stays clean all week. That’s huge, right?” In a word, yes.

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In 2013 — more than a decade after they got together — the Passions alumni (who played Ethan Winthrop and Gwen Hotchkiss in the early 2000s) got engaged in Hawaii. Following Schuldt’s proposal, his fiancée joked to <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/wp-admin/_wp_link_placeholder" target="_blank">People</a> that “he wanted to make sure he gave the car a thorough test drive before he bought it.” They married that same year and have continued to work steadily in primetime, even briefly reuniting on her TNT comedy, The Detour.

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As the World Turns never capitalized on the chemistry between bad girl Carly Tenney and good boy Andy Dixon, but their portrayers sure did. Discussing DeFreitas in a 1998 interview with <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-maura-west-interview/" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> — before the couple was even dating — West said, “I’m going to marry him.” And indeed, she did, two years later. He and his missus (who now plays General Hospital femme fatale Ava Jerome) have since given her firstborn four younger siblings.

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After meeting in an acting class, these soap legends (best known as General Hospital busybody Lucy Coe and Days of our Lives’ original Roman Brady) said “I do” in 1981, just as Northrop’s on-screen romance with Deidre Hall’s Marlena was heating up. “It bothered me in the beginning,” Herring admitted to <a href="https://people.com/archive/many-women-get-carried-away-by-super-soaper-wayne-northrop-but-hes-lynn-herrings-to-have-and-to-hold-vol-19-no-8/" target="_blank">People</a>. “I kept telling myself, ’It’s the same as my acting class.’ But then I’d remember our instructor telling us we had to feel what we were doing… and I’d get a little worried.”

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One Life to Live knew what it was doing when it hooked up these two as Keri Reynolds and Antonio Vega; they also hooked up in real life, marrying in 2007 and adding twins to a family that already included his son from a previous relationship. “He is my best friend and partner,” Saum told <a href="https://daytimeconfidential.com/2014/04/09/interview-the-fosters-sherri-saum-on-balancing-career-with-twins-and-keeping-in-touch-with" target="_blank">Daytime Confidential</a> in 2015, “and I love him so much.”

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Search for Tomorrow introduced the Simons way back in the 1970s when they were cast as lawyers in love Scott and Kathy Phillips. “We were both married to other people,” he told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/04/archives/search-for-tomorrow-sob-holds-25th-anniversary-party.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> in 1976. “I had three children, and Courtney had one.” But, after their first unions went bust, Guiding Light’s future Ed Bauer tied the knot with the former Courtney Sherman, who went on to win seven (!) Daytime Emmys as a writer.

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Upon being reunited on the set by General Hospital in 2004 (when she was playing Skye Quartermaine and he, Ross Duncan), the couple, hitched since 2000, told <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/reunited-0/" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> that when they were working on Another World as Lorna Devon and Matthew Cory, “we always said to each other, ‘Let’s just cherish this time, because we’ll probably never work together again.” Ha — if they’d only known that fate would re-pair them.

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