A lifelong soap-opera addict obsessed with sex and suffering in the afternoon, Coleridge penned a soap column for his college newspaper, which helped him score a staff position at
Soaps In Depth after graduation. He joined TV Guide in 1999, where he currently enjoys his dream job as TVGuide.com's resident soap expert. In 2006, he published
The Q Guide to Soap Operas, a sudsy page-turner written in the sassy style of his popular TVGuide.com blogs, Soaps News and Daniel's Dish. He's also a frequent guest on SOAPnet’s
Soap Talk, and has dished up showbiz gossip on E!, VH1, MSNBC,
Extra, A&E’s
Biography and the TV Guide Channel. A multitalented man, he has also dabbled in acting, making cameo appearances on ABC’s
General Hospital and TNT’s cop show
Wanted.
Daniel R. Coleridge Fast Facts:
- His mother watched One Life to Live during her pregnancy and is fond of saying, “My baby became a soap-opera queen in utero!”
- Regularly watches all daytime soaps, as well as reruns of Dallas, Dark Shadows, Dynasty and Knots Landing.
- Daniel R. Coleridge Relationships:
- Maria Bond - Mother
- College:
- Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY (BA in English Literature, 1995)