25. Mick Hazen
Parker’s dedication to Liberty on As The World Turns still makes us weepy a decade later. Nobody had more loyalty than him — nobody!
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24. Anthony Turpel
Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The Bold and the Beautiful‘s R.J. Forrester was an eternal optimist — sigh — always hoping his parents would get back together or his crush, Coco, would finally let him out of the friend zone.
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23. Kyler Pettis
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Theo made us all understand autism a little better on Day of Our Lives, but it was his love triangle with Ciara and Claire that had us captivated.
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22. Bruce Michael Hall
Image Credit: JPI Reese was Passions‘ lovable geek with a big heart. He and Kay never sealed the deal, but his love for Jessica always burned brightly.
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21. Michael B. Jordan
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection All My Children gave Reggie a dramatic life makeover as he shifted from a gang member to romantic lead. Danielle broke his heart a million times over — and we just wanted to console him. Fun fact: Pictured is Bianca, not Danielle.
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20. Max Ehrich
Image Credit: JillJohnson/JPI Is it just us or did you want to be Summer kissing Fen out on the skating rink? The Young and the Restless‘ modern-day Danny Romalotti was pretty dreamy.
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19. Lucas Adams
Image Credit: FayesVision/WENN Days of Our Lives‘ Tripp seems to go from one dicey situation to another. And cute as he is, we follow right along, whether crushing on him or dying to offer motherly advice.
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18. Jesse McCartney
Image Credit: Patrick Ecclesine / Spelling Television / Courtesy: Everett Collection Before adopting dad Adam Chandler’s conniving qualities, All My Children’s JR was a teenage dream whose life was… well, a nightmare.
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17. Tequan Richmond
Image Credit: Dee Cercone/Courtesy of the Everett Collection General Hospital gave us TJ Ashford in 2012, and Port Charles was never the same. Sure, he got into a bit of trouble from time to time, but his charm always brought us right back. (Still does, even now that he’s older and recast.)
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16. Diego Serrano
Image Credit: Robert Milazzo/NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Back in the 1990s, Another World gave us the suave Tomas Rivera, who couldn’t quite get his relationship on track with Maggie Cory. It’s OK, we loved him, anyway.
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15. Michael Sutton
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Even though it’s been 25 years since Stone Cates passed away on General Hospital from AIDS-related illness, we still feel Robin Scorpio’s broken heart all of these years later.
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14. Chandler Massey
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI We loved Will Horton’s coming-out story on Days of Our Lives, but we stan his love story with Sonny Kiriakis even more. Team WilSon!
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13. Scott Clifton
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI Don’t let the spiky hair and chain-metal bracelets fool you, General Hospital‘s Dillon Quartermaine had a hilarious sense of humor and an artistic dream.
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12. Ashton Arbab
Image Credit: ABC/Todd Wawrychuk General Hospital is finally giving us more of the cutest but sneakiest pickpocket around. Just don’t let Dev get a hold of your diary.
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11. Nathan Fillion
Image Credit: Ann Limongello/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Joey Buchanan found himself in a hot affair with his mother’s archrival, Dorian Lord. One Life to Live sure knew how to stir the pot! Of note: Pictured isn’t the older woman but Joey’s kid sister, Jessica.
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10. Steve Burton
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Who did you love more on General Hospital — the preppy Jason Quartermaine or the brooding Jason Morgan? Or were you more into Sean Kanan’s A.J.?
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9. Jesse Metcalfe
Image Credit: Chris Haston/NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald’s smoldering good looks had us from his first moment on Passions, but he only had eyes for Charity Standish.
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8. Brian Bloom
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Oh, what a tangled web Dusty Donovan wove on As The World Turns as he got ever more deeply entangled in his love triangle with Lily Walsh and Meg Snyder. We couldn’t get enough of it.
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7. William Lipton
Image Credit: Walt Disney Television/Matt Petit The sweetest thing about General Hospital‘s Cameron Webber just may be his musical talent. Well, that or the hair. No, the musical talent. No, the hair. You know what? They’re both awesome.
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6. John Stamos
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Teen Time was the coolest place to hang around on General Hospital because Blackie and the Riff Raff might be there for us to swoon over.
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5. Jacob Young
Image Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Rick Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful was the bad boy we all wanted to love and our parents wanted us to stay far, far away from.
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4. Jensen Ackles
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection The return of long-lost Eric Brady was certainly worth the wait when Days of Our Lives cast Jensen Ackles in the role in 1997.
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3. Michael Damian
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Even all these years later, the crush that we had on The Young and the Restless‘ budding pop star Danny Romalotti continues to, ahem, rock on.
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2. Laurence Lau
Image Credit: Robert Phillips/Courtesy of the Everett Collection In the 1980s, All My Children‘s Greg Nelson was the prom date we all wanted — but only Jenny Gardner got the teenage dream. Sorry, Erica.
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1. Jonathan Jackson
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Who among us didn’t contemplate changing their handle to Elizabeth when Lucky Spencer sang to his girlfriend the song he’d named after her on General Hospital?
