The Young and the Restless’ Courtney Hope Sends a Heartfelt Message to General Hospital’s Chad Duell on Valentine’s Day: ‘I’d Choose You Over and Over Again’

Monday, February 15th, 2021

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Sally’s portrayer didn’t need Cupid to put hearts in her eyes on February 14; she had her boo for that.

On Valentine’s Day, when all the world’s thoughts turned to hearts and flowers, candy and romance, Courtney Hope had just one person on her mind: boyfriend Chad Duell.

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“Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life,” Instagrammed the Young & Restless star, who plays Sally. “I’d choose you over and over again if I had the chance.”

The couple was introduced years ago at a party by Duell’s former General Hospital castmate, Bryan Craig, who played Michael’s ill-fated half brother, Morgan. Since then, they’ve built a life together that has allowed them to continue to evolve, as individuals and together.

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“Thank you for all you are,” Hope wrote to Duell. “Growing, learning and loving alongside you has been more incredible than I ever imagined.”

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In a separate post, the Daytime Emmy winner expressed his adoration for his sweetheart thusly: “Happy Valentine’s Day to this beautiful woman,” he captioned a joyful photo of the two of them. “I love living life with you, and I am a very lucky man!”

In response, Hope posted, “I love you so much, handsome.”

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Aw. And they say romance is dead!

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While you’re here, and perhaps still lookin’ for love of a sort, perhaps you’d enjoy perusing the below photo gallery, a collection of images of soap stars whose marriages to other soap stars 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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