Cady McClain
As the World Turns' Rosanna will really make her presence known this week when she resurfaces in Oakdale, raising a few eyebrows and wrinkling a few people's plans along the way.
Daytime vet Cady McClain — who frankly has not aged a day since I first interviewed her [coughcough] years ago — came by the TVGuide.com offices to talk up her CBS soap heroine's can't-miss homecoming.
Among the topics covered in this video Q&A:
• Who in Oakdale will be most happy to see Rosanna? And who will be rather "irked" by her return?
• Why Rosanna's dynamic with a certain Oakdale hunk is "like wrestling a big, fat seal!"
• What is Ro's take on the Carly-Craig romance? "She's like, 'Oh, no, wrong guy! Been there, done that, don't do it!'"
• For McClain, what has been "the most interesting thing" about reprising the role of Rosanna?
Check out the complete video after the jump!
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Ricky Paull Goldin by Donna Svennevik/ABC
One All My Children character is coming back from hell, another from heaven. On April 30, daytime megastar Ricky Paull Goldin — who just exited Guiding Light — will join AMC as the new Jake Martin. Viewers will learn that Jake, who left town in 2003 to join Doctors Without Borders in Africa, is currently held captive in Darfur, where he is being forced to treat wounded soldiers in one of the illegal armies. Two episodes later, Emmy-winner Cady McClain will rejoin the show as Dixie Martin — in angel form. Fans were furious when the beloved character was killed last year with a batch of poisoned pancakes.Weirdly, the two returns are connected. AMC exec producer Julie Carruthers, who offered Goldin the gig when she heard he was quitting GL, tells me that Jake will be rescued by Aidan and brought back to America against his will. "Jake comes back emotionally scarred and with a very big secret," Carruthers notes. "He does not want to see his family. He wants to get back to...
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Cady McClain by Charles Thompson
This just in, from ABC.com:"You wanted it, you got it! Cady McClain returns to All My Children as Dixie Cooney Martin on Friday, May 2."(This is where you rein in your expectations, and deservedly so. Back to ABC.com.... )"Dixie is back in Pine Valley with a mission: She's reuniting Tad with their long-missing daughter, Kate! As the audience knows, Kate was stolen at birth, put up for adoption and now lives with Nurse Julia under the name of Kathy. Only Adam — Dixie's evil ex-husband and Tad's lifelong enemy — knows the truth that Kathy is Tad and Dixie's child."When last seen in January 2007, Dixie fell victim to a serial killer.... "(You only thought she fell victim to a really bad storyline/inane manner of death. But I digress.... ) "Her ghost watched as Tad received a comforting hug from Kathy. It was then that Dixie realized Kathy was really her daughter. Now, with her angelic hand, Dixie will guide Tad into the loving embrace of their little girl. This is drama you c...
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Hey, All My Children fans! The biggest news about Erica Kane's Mardi Gras masquerade ball isn't last week's unfortunate pyrotechnic mishap. It's party crasher Dixie Cooney Martin's splashy return from the dead! Soap superstar Cady McClain dishes on all things Dixie in Soaps Q&A.
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Cady McClain returns to All My Children as the real Dixie on Dec. 23.... William deVry reprises his AMC role as Bianca's late, hated rapist, Michael Cambias, on Jan. 27.... Watch out, Tess! Kerry Butler joins One Life to Live in the recurring role of Nash Brennan's ex-fiancé, Claudia Reston, on Jan. 18.... Guiding Light starlet Crystal Hunt has quit her gig as prissy prima donna Lizzie Spaulding.... Knots Landing and Port Charles alumna Kent Masters King dishes her new contract role on General Hospital in Soaps Q&A. And lastly, happy holidays, suds fans!
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