Greg Vaughan
There are some people whose bad side you don’t want to get on. But Days of Our Lives’ Eric doesn’t have a bad side — we’ve checked all of them.
Here’s Lookin’ at You: Soaps’ Handsomest Leading Men of All Time [PHOTOS]
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Trevor St. John
Image Credit: Robby Klein/Getty Images With a mug as magnificent as his is, it’s no wonder the Young & Restless leading man — Tucker in Genoa City — has a driver’s-license photo that could be hung in the Louvre.
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Thorsten Kaye
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection If we loved him with a mullet as One Life to Live’s Patrick, of course we were also gonna love him as Port Charles’ Ian, All My Children’s Zach and The Bold and the Beautiful dressmaker Ridge.
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Joshua Morrow
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Part of the reason we adore the actor who plays The Young and the Restless’ Nick is the cheekbones that are as chiseled as his abs. But on top of that… there’s his irresistible sense of humor.
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Eric Martsolf
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI C’mon, look at that picture — when Days of Our Lives’ Brady invites you to a slumber party, you RSVP yes. Eagerly.
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Randolph Mantooth
Image Credit: Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images It was indeed an Emergency! when the primetime mainstay joined Loving in the late ’80s as Alex. There was no close-up close enough to satisfy viewers hungry for more, more, more.
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Scott Clifton
Image Credit: Gilles Toucas/CBS (3) “You talkin’ to me?” Um, no. More like gawking, enthusiastically, as the Bold & Beautiful Emmy winner reveals that Liam looks dapper during every step of his putting-on-a-jacket process.
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Drake Hogestyn
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Whether he’s been playing Days of Our Lives’ Roman, the Pawn, a priest or just good ol’ John, he’s always been able to catch our eye with no more than the arch of a brow.
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Bryton James
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Here, The Young and the Restless’ Devon offers up an expression that says, “Yes, by all means, appreciate my sexiness, then move along. You don’t want a line forming.” Agreed, sir.
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Peter Reckell
Image Credit: Paul Skipper/JPI We hope he won’t hold it against us that, even all these years later, the hero for whom we’re holding out remains Days of Our Lives’ Bo. Cool? Cool.
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Evan Hofer
Image Credit: ABC We hate to imagine how many obscene phone calls a fella gets when he’s walking around looking as much like a Men’s Fitness cover as the hottie who plays Dex on General Hospital. And no, not all of those calls are from us.
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Tom Pelphrey
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Sure, he may look coy here — “Who, me? Sexy?” — but let’s be real, Guiding Light bad boy Jonathan knew he was hot stuff if he thought he could get away with that shirt. Which he did, BTW.
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Zach Tinker
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Even back when he was Fen on Young & Restless, the scene stealer who plays Days of Our Lives’ Sonny had a hold on our hearts. And also, apparently, this inflatable one.
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Delon de Metz
Image Credit: CBS When we heard that The Bold and the Beautiful was recasting Zende, we were like, “Good luck finding an actor as stunning as Rome Flynn.” Turned out they didn’t need luck at all. #nailedit
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Jon Hensley
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Surprisingly, this shot of As the World Turns’ Holden is not the cover of the novel Catcher in the Rye. Still nice, though, eh?
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Paul Telfer
Image Credit: Jill Johnson/JPI (3) No shirt? No problem. Thankfully, the heartthrob who keeps fans pumped about Days of Our Lives’ Xander is fine with a less-is-more approach to wardrobe.
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Darnell Williams
Image Credit: Dramatic Creations/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Whether he was playing All My Children’s Jesse, The City’s Jacob or The Young and the Restless’ Sarge, one thing the Emmy winner always was… was easy on the eyes.
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Sean Carrigan
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI We still can’t fathom why Stitch isn’t on The Young and the Restless — he was a heat-seeking missile who wasn’t related to anybody. In other words, #priceless.
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Justin Hartley
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI This was him before This Is Us, but a tasty slice of eye candy stirring precisely the emotions that gave Passions its title as the aptly-named Fox.
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Doug Davidson
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Though it’s been decades since The Young and the Restless’ Lauren entered hubby Paul in a centerfold contest — which he won, natch — he’s still a “staple” of fans’ fantasies.
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David Gregory
Image Credit: George De Sota/JPI Honestly, we don’t recall what put One Life to Live’s Ford in the hospital. But an even bigger mystery is how on earth he isn’t surrounded by nurses offering to kiss it and make it better.
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Tyler Christopher
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI This may actually have been the only way his characters — Nikolas on General Hospital and Stefan on Days of Our Lives — could prove they had nothing up their sleeves: by eschewing sleeves altogether!
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Mark Grossman
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (2) Whether the Young & Restless star is sporting angel’s wings or devil’s horns as Adam, he never fails to leave us in dire need of making confession. “Forgive us, Father, for we have dreamt!”
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David Fumero
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection We only thought we understood the meaning of the word caliente before this One Life to Live heartthrob took over the role of Cristian.
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Steve Burton
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI The Emmy winner who in 2022 reprised his Days of Our Lives role of Harris has never been a slouch in the looks department. But a slouch in the getting-comfy-on-the-couch department? As you can see, that’s a different story.
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Robert Newman
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection He looks like he’s thinking hard here. But we didn’t have to think at all to include Guiding Light’s Josh in this photo gallery.
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Robert Newman
Image Credit: CBS Decades later, when the soap vet passed through Young & Restless as Ashland, he looked… Shades of Dorian Grey! As handsome as ever!
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Richard Dean Anderson
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Long before he was saving the world with paper clips on MacGyver, he was giving General Hospital fans palpitations as Jeff.
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Kristoff St. John
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Now and forever, this is how we’ll remember The Young and the Restless’ Neil: as being so handsome, he could only have been heaven-sent.
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Matt Cedeno
Image Credit: Barry King/JPI Why the actor who played Brandon on Days of Our Lives is on this list, we can’t imagine. Nope. No idea. Oh, wait — there is that photo…
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Jason Thompson
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Even after he stopped playing Patrick on General Hospital and started playing Billy on The Young and the Restless, blushing faces and rapid heartbeats were common reactions to his performances.
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Roger Howarth
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection No matter how villainous his characters — lookin’ at you, Todd on One Life to Live and early Franco on General Hospital — the Emmy winner makes us, however recuctantly, love them.
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James Scott
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI We wish him well on his new life. And we hope he doesn’t mind how tightly we cling to our memories of his stint as Days of Our Lives’ EJ.
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Ronn Moss
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection As if. “Baby, come back” had to be something he never had to say when he was fixing a woman with this gaze that he patented as Ridge on The Bold and the Beautiful.
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Peter Bergman
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection We know him now as The Young and the Restless’ Smilin’ Jack. But he was lighting up rooms — and TV screens — even before that, as All My Children’s Dr. Feel-Good, Cliff.
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Maurice Benard
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI What restraint. The Emmy winner had to know he’d make the first-round draft picks even without altogether unleashing the dimples that have made him catnip to fans of General Hospital mobster Sonny.
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Michael Mealor
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI How many times do we have to tell The Young and the Restless’ Kyle that if his clothes are constraining him — in any way! — it’s fine by us if he just… loses them.
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Van Hansis
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI If ever there was a look that took us back to the intensity of the romance between As the World Turns’ Luke and Noah, it was this one. Although hey, we’re open to other suggestions…
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Michael Easton
Image Credit: Gary Null/NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Had Days of Our Lives realized when it cast this future soap-hopper as Tanner that he’d only become more striking with age, the General Hospital star (as Finn) would still be a Salem resident today.
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Jacob Young
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Given that laser focus, we can only assume that what The Bold and the Beautiful Emmy winner was looking at as Rick was… a mirror?
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Ted King
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection With cheekbones that could cut glass and a gaze that could shatter diamonds, Ted King — whom we first met as Danny on Loving — was always destined to make the camera love him. As well as anyone who got a gander at him on camera.
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Michael E. Knight
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection All My Children fans are keenly aware that one doesn’t get a nickname like Tad the Cad if he’s a Quasimodo.
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Michael E. Knight
Image Credit: ABC Now Martin on General Hospital, the Emmy winner has matured into the slyest of silver foxes.
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Don Diamont
Image Credit: Don Diamont gallery yr brad jp Call him Brad on The Young and the Restless. Call him Bill on The Bold and the Beautiful. But if you have a say in the matter, you’re gonna call him.
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Tom Eplin
Image Credit: Arthur Cohen/NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Another World was exactly where Jake’s portrayer never failed to send us.
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Robert Scott Wilson
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Even without the neckties, Days of Our Lives’ Ben was always a lady killer in our estimation. And don’t even get us started on clothing-averse Alex…
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William deVry
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Once the soap-hopper caught our attention as All My Children’s Michael — and tightened his grip as Storm on The Bold and the Beautiful and Julian on General Hospital — he never let go.
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Shemar Moore
Image Credit: JPI He played Malcolm on The Young and the Restless. Also, he looked like this. Pretty much still does. Any questions?
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Laurence Lau
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection When he was playing Greg on All My Children, he was the boy next door… that we all wished we lived next door to!
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Paul Anthony Stewart
Image Credit: Robert Milazzo/CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection It made sense that Guiding Light cast this alum of Loving (as Casey) as junior mafioso Danny — with a mug as stunning as his, he was always destined to attract a… ahem… mob.
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Billy Flynn
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Forget Ol’ Blue Eyes. Days of Our Lives’ Chad is the New Blue Eyes — and the only one we need.
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Lawrence Saint-Victor
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Yeah, looking at that picture, we’re as bewildered as you are about how Carter’s portrayer ever wound up on the wrong side of a love triangle on The Bold and the Beautiful.
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Jordi Vilasuso
Image Credit: CBS The ill-fated Young & Restless detective was precisely the reason that lines are uttered like — and we give all due credit here to Dick Tracy’s Breathless Mahoney — “Aren’t you gonna frisk me?”
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Rome Flynn
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI OK, we get it. Even the “What, this old face?” look chosen by the original Zende on The Bold and the Beautiful to express his surprise at making this list is hot. That’s just the way his looks go: hot, hotter, hottest.
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Wayne Northrop
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Days of Our Lives may have killed and recast Roman, but the one thing that the show has never managed to do is dull the intensity of our crush on his original portrayer.
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Kin Shriner
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection No matter what mischief the actor’s made over the years as General Hospital pot-stirrer Scotty, he’s remained the kind of trouble that we’re most into.
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David Hasselhoff
Image Credit: Universal/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Before his name became synonymous with “cheesy,” the Young & Restless alum brought to life Snapper, a doctor as likely to give us palpitations as cure what ails us.
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John McCook
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection We’ve intently followed the trail of the silver fox who plays Eric on The Bold and the Beautiful since before he’d even begun to go silver, back when he was lady killer Lance on The Young and the Restless.
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Ryan Paevey
Image Credit: ChrisD/JPI OK, OK, we get it: There’s nothing more all-American than a fella as smokin’-hot as the Hallmark mainstay who used to play Nathan on General Hospital. And yes, we’ll happily testify to that effect.
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James Reynolds
Image Credit: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection How irresistible is — and always has been — Days of Our Lives’ Abe? So irresistible that when an old photo of him was posted online, castmate Paul Telfer (Xander) marveled at his “extreme handsomeness and divine masculinity.”
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Brandon Barash
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Yes, Days of Our Lives’ Stefan is sitting in a wheelbarrow and looking damn sexy while doing so. That’s just one of the perks that comes with being drop-dead gorgeous: arbitrary, sexy wheelbarrow-sitting.
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Todd McKee
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Yeah, looking at that handsome face, we’re as confused as you are as to why The Bold and the Beautiful ever decided that Jake should be a photographer, not a model.
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Eric Braeden
Image Credit: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Look at that glare on The Young and the Restless’ Victor. It all but demands that we paraphrase Mae West and say that when he’s been good, he’s been very good, and when he’s been bad, he’s been better.
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Lamon Archey
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Arithmetic and accounting were never our strong suits, but even as mathematically impaired as we are, we can tell that Days of Our Lives’ Eli is rocking a smile that’s of the $1M variety.
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John Stamos
Image Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection Katy Perry probably didn’t write “Teenage Dream” about the ’80s heartthrob who played Blackie on General Hospital, but she might as well have. If the song fits…
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Tanner Novlan
Image Credit: CBS “The doctor is in… sanely cute” became the way that the saying had to go once The Bold and the Beautiful invited the Liberty Mutual guy to start scrubbing in as Finn.
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Donnell Turner
Image Credit: ABC Having gotten a gander or two at the washboard abs on General Hospital investigator Curtis, we’ve had to altogether rethink our concept of laundry day.
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Christian Jules LeBlanc
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI Did we mention that when one is supremely sexy, sometimes they need a lie-down? Whether we did or we didn’t, kindly allow The Young and the Restless’ Michael to remind you. And also demonstrate proper form.
