News Roundup: Words of Warning, Emotional Tributes, Casting Shake-ups, and Shocking Personal Revelations

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Spoilers, venting, back on the set, and wedding bells.

Don’t miss a moment with the latest news for The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless from August 3 – 7 and so much more.

The Bold and the Beautiful

Courtney Hope’s time playing the role of Sally came to a fast end. The character’s rapid change and exit has left fans annoyed and claiming that she deserved better. Find out what warning the actress issued before getting a few hints about the upcoming controversial storyline that could lead to the biggest battle between Hope and Steffy so far. While this will undoubtedly leave Liam with a broken heart, his likely won’t be the only heart broken now that it looks like Maya is headed back to town. Read all about it in the Bold and the Beautiful news room. And Candace was sad about Sally’s exit, especially since it mostly consisted of people lecturing her, had a laugh about the lurch into Steffy’s pain pill plot, and wonders if Ridge and Shauna are really married in the Bold and the Beautiful column.

Days of our Lives

Greg Vaughan revealed the real reason why he decided to leave the role of Eric behind. He’s not the only Days of our Lives actor to be venting about the way their character was treated. See what Kristian Alfonso (Hope) had to say and then catch the latest spoiler videos, including Hope and Ciara finding a battered Ben, and Eve caught spying. Kassie DePaiva (Eve) and Robert Scott Wilson (Ben) discussed how exhausting shooting his torture scenes were. We look at which other characters could lose their lives as Eve takes her revenge. Victoria Konefal (Ciara) questions some story choices while the latest spoiler video has Allie fleeing from the hospital and leaving her baby behind, a choice that could have an impact for generations. Meanwhile, Chrishell Stause (Jordan) was outraged on Selling Sunset season three when Justin Hartley (ex-Adam, Young and Restless) ended their marriage with a text. Gabi’s final story may have been revealed. See what could send her packing as well as what brings Nadia Bjorlin (Chloe) back to Salem for her next big storyline. Melissa Reeves (Jennifer) paid an emotional tribute and shared precious photos of her first grandchild. After reading her words of joy, find out who could be headed to town as Claire’s new love interest. Get a rundown on all latest casting shakeups before seeing which star of the soap opera shared an inspiring story about saving their dog’s life in our Days of our Lives news room. Finally, Christine is feeling put-off by screeching Eve, annoyed by alienating Allie, but giddy about Steve and Kayla in her Days of our Lives column.

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General Hospital

General Hospital has only been back on the air for a week and fans are already weighing in on the new Sam. Could this mean the end of JaSam? If it doesn’t, could killing Jason off do the trick? We give a list of five guys that could have a shot with Sam if Jason ends up in the cold ground. Vanessa Marcil dropped a hint that Brenda could be coming back to Port Charles at some point. Dante is back already. We give a rundown of his character’s tumultuous life and the photos Dominic Zamprogna shared from working on the set as the character again. The Nurses Ball will be returning soon, and it will include some shocking surprises. Visit our General Hospital news room for our take on whether the soap opera is handling social distancing better than Bold and Beautiful. And Dustin digs into the first week of fresh episodes, was shocked by Nina damning Nelle, finds Michael and Willow dull, wonders if Brando was behind Jason’s crash, and almost forgot Maxie could be pregnant in the new General Hospital column.

The Young and the Restless

There may be wedding bells ringing for Bryton James (Devon), but it doesn’t look like the future is bright for his character and Elena. A shake-up coming to Genoa City could end that romance. Hunter King (Summer) and her fiancé have split up. Read how she feels about it before celebrating the birthday of singer and actress Sasha Calle (Lola). What bombshell could destroy Kyle and Summer while paving the way for Theo and Lola? Watch the message that Michelle Stafford (Phyllis) sent to fans from the set and then read about the emotional journey that Daniel Goddard (Cane) has gone through since he was fired. Get a look inside the Spanish villa that Shemar Moore (Malcolm) just sold for more than two million dollars. Kristoff St. John’s (Neil) former wife Mia has promised that she is going to tell everything that was happening at the end of his life. And Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki) opened up about the abuse she suffered as a child. Visit our Young and the Restless news room to get a peek at what’s happening in the latest spoilers. But why are they so underwhelming?

Hypocrites, recasts and Real Housewives

We count down six of the worst short-term recasts and six of the best. See who made the list and then check out the ten soap stars we think should become members of a Real Housewives cast. Take a trip back in soap opera history with our memorial for one of the genre’s most unique stars. Visit the Soaps.com news room for more.

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When NBC’s Santa Barbara debuted, this then-17-year-old Jersey girl was front and center as thimble-brained Jade Perkins. The acting newbie was excited to have gotten her big break… until the ratings came in. “All of a sudden, they started killing everybody,” she recalled to <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/tbt-melissa-reeves/" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> in 1988. “You never knew if you’d be next.” In the end, Jade survived, only to go on a date from which she never returned. But it all worked out fine for Reeves (then Melissa Brennan); she crossed right over to Days of our Lives, where she’s played Jennifer Horton off and on for <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/569861/days-of-our-lives-melissa-reeves-black-lives-matter-controversy/" target="_blank">more than a quarter of a century</a>.

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Almost a decade before the future Emmy winner would make her first big splash in daytime television (as Santa Barbara’s whip-smart Julia Wainwright), she played One Life to Live’s Beverly Wilkes, a gal Friday who was tasked with the thankless job of trying to talk sense into incorrigible boss man Marco Dane (the late Gerald Anthony). Not until almost 20 years later would Grahn join General Hospital in what has over the years become her most famous role, that of Alexis Davis — like Julia, another brilliant attorney with dubious taste in men.

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Everybody remembers this Emmy winner’s star turn as wackadoo Nurse Annie Dutton on Guiding Light. Heck, they remember it so fondly that there wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that they would’ve accepted Signy Coleman (ex-Hope, The Young and the Restless) in the role. But Annie wasn’t Watros’ daytime — or even her Guiding Light — debut. The actress — now General Hospital’s Nina — had previously played a good-time gal who made hay with Matt Reardon before Vanessa Chamberlain became his one and only.

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All My Children never seemed to know what a hot commodity it had in Scott, who went on to become so popular as Days of our Lives’ EJ DiMera that after he was killed off, HBO’s Last Week Tonight resurrected his character for a reunion with Alison Sweeney’s Sami Brady. (Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqvYhb3wf4&feature=emb_title" target="_blank">here for video.</a>) The British-born actor lasted just two years in Pine Valley as Ethan Cambias before the conniver was put six feet under by an explosion at Erica Kane’s Mardi Gras ball — in other words, invited to have his potential realized by another soap!

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This scene stealer, best known now for doing the impossible and succeeding Eileen Davidson (Ashley, The Young and the Restless) as Days of our Lives’ Kristen DiMera, was already a primetime mainstay when she made her daytime debut as as All My Children’s Hannah Nichols in 2007. But, as with her on-screen son (see previous item!), the ABC soap didn’t take near enough advantage of her beauty and talent. So, after a year, Hannah was rubbed out, allowing Haiduk to move on to the showier role(s) of The Young and the Restless’ Patty Williams and Emily Peterson, the shrink whose face her patient stole — and whose life she would’ve if she could’ve!

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Nope, the General Hospital fan favorite (owing to his portrayal of Julian Jerome) didn’t get his start, as you might think, as The Bold and the Beautiful heartbreaker Storm Logan or as All My Children baddie Michael Cambias. His first soap role — and the fact that you forgot it is the whole point of this article, after all! — was Tim Dolan on the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles. A sign of things to come, the character was a bartender who was especially prone to bending an ear in the direction of Ian Thornhart (Thorsten Kaye, now The Bold and the Beautiful’s Ridge Forrester).

7/15

OK, no one could say that the Emmy winner’s first soap role was forgettable: He played All My Children’s halo-clad Dr. Cliff Warner off and on for a decade — and, as an added bonus, was half of a supercouple. (They would’ve been #Clina, had Twitter existed back then!) But Bergman has done such a bang-up job of making the role of The Young and the Restless’ Jack Abbott his own (after replacing the now-deceased Terry Lester) that Cliff isn’t foremost in our thoughts anymore, he’s barely even an afterthought!

8/15

If you don’t recall Walton’s daytime debut, no worries — you are forgiven; it was almost 40 years ago, after all. Back then, the future Emmy winner (as The Young and the Restless’ Jill Abbott) stepped in as a recast for the original Kelly Harper on Capitol, CBS’ pre-The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera… which, by the way, would be must-see TV now! Not nearly enough viewers were tuning in at the time, but Walton’s star power was so undeniable that she lasted until the sudser’s cancellation in 1987.

9/15

If your thoughts on this Emmy winner begin and end with his long run as The Young and the Restless’ Michael Baldwin, we understand. But — and this is one big “but” — the shady lawyer wasn’t his first soap role. Almost a decade before LeBlanc set foot in Genoa City, he spent two years on As the World Turns playing poor little rich boy Kirk McColl. And though his tenure might have been — OK, was — forgettable, his leading lady wasn’t: He was paired with future Oscar winner Marisa Tomei as Marcy Thompson.

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10/15

A few of you might think that the actress who brings to life The Bold and the Beautiful’s Quinn Forrester got her soap start playing spunky Rocky McKenzie on Loving in the late 1980s. But she didn’t. A lot of you might think that Sofer made her daytime debut as Lois Cerullo on General Hospital in 1993. But she didn’t. Sofer actually lathered up for the first time a year before she was cast on Loving; she briefly appeared on Another World in 1987 as Sam Fowler’s ex-girlfriend, Joyce Abernathy.

11/15

So synonymous is Hall’s name with that of Marlena Evans, the Days of our Lives heroine that she’s played for more than 40 years, that it’s almost impossible to think of her in any other role. (Well, except maybe Electra Woman.) However, Salem’s beloved Doc wasn’t her first part in daytime. That would be The Young and the Restless’ Barbara Anderson, a nurse whose neurosurgeon boyfriend took flight after fatally botching what should’ve been a life-saving operation on her son.

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Back in 1978, before Lauren Fenmore was even a gleam in The Young and the Restless’ late co-creators’ eyes, her portrayer made her daytime debut on Days as our Lives. And the character was not one of the ones that you’d call forgettable, that’s for sure. Donna Temple Craig was trouble with a capital T, an incorrigible teenager who, in just two years’ time, managed to throw herself off a building (to protest her father’s remarriage), get knocked up and, however accidentally, become a nudie model.

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Zeman lasted just over a year as One Life to Live’s Lana McClain, a waitress who had the misfortune of serving as Brad Vernon’s mistress: He wound up killing her with a glass of drugged milk! But the story still has a happy ending, at least for Zeman. She so impressed General Hospital’s then-executive producer Gloria Monty with her turn as the hash-slinger-turned-nurse that she was soon cast as hooker-turned-nurse Bobbie Spencer, a role she’s now held for more than four decades.

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What, are we saying that Stone Cold wasn’t always red-hot? Yes, in fact, that is what we are saying. Three years before the future Emmy winner was cast as General Hospital’s Jason Quartermaine — well, Morgan in the end — he recurred on Days of our Lives as Harris Michaels, a young conniver who tried to score with teenage hooker Eve Donovan. Though at the time the NBC soap passed on the chance to redeem the junior deceiver, more than 30 years later, his portrayer was brought back by Peacock… to play a version of Harris that had in common with the original… well, his name, at least.

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