Alicia Leigh Willis

After GH's cast and crew threw Willis a goodbye party on the set, executive producer Jill Farren Phelps persuaded her to stay and wrap up the pregnant Courtney's triangle with Jax and Nikolas. "I was ready to go," she recalled, "when [Jill] came to me and said they had this really great story line. Things felt unresolved. [I said] 'Yes, of course.'" As a result, Willis will continue to air through February sweeps and slightly beyond.

When Soap Talk's cheeky cohost, Ty Treadway, asked if Willis would prefer to see Courtney recast or killed off, the actress danced around that tough question. "I would read more