The Bold and the Beautiful can be wildly goofy and trash-tastic — and we do love that! — but the CBS soap turns deadly serious for its 6,000th episode on February 7. That's when stage 4 lung-cancer patient Stephanie Forrester, played by Susan Flannery, and several actual lung-cancer survivors — including Desperate Housewives star Kathryn Joosten and Chinese opera diva Zheng Cao — will attempt an intervention to convince Nick (Jack Wagner) that he needs to deal with his addiction to cigar smoking. TV Guide Magazine got a rare chance to speak with the ultra-private, four-time Emmy winning Flannery — herself a cancer survivor — and got her take on this groundbreaking story.
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Cancer survivor Kathryn Joosten is taking her real-life drama to a daytime soap. The veteran actress, a two-time Emmy winner as feisty Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, will appear as herself on the 6000th episode of The Bold and the Beautiful (airing February 7). The show's matriarch Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) is currently battling lung cancer, which Joosten has kicked twice — in 2001 and 2009. The anniversary plot finds Stephanie going online to try to form a lung-cancer support group. Joosten decides to join up, as do several other real-life lung-cancer survivors who will also appear in the episode. TV Guide Magazine spoke with Joosten about her very Bold guest stint...
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Why is Desperate Housewives' Mrs. McCluskey such a favorite of Academy voters? Joosten believes it's because "I'm relatable to every family. Everyone has one McCluskey in their family, but not everyone has a gorgeous Housewife." Joosten, who after six years of playing a recurring guest star will finally work this year as a series regular, submitted the episode in which her character...
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Kathryn Joosten, who plays Wisteria Lane's cranky snoop Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, is battling a recurrence of lung cancer.
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Doctors found a spot on the 69-year-old Joosten's left lung during a recent physical. She was previously diagnosed with the disease in 2001, but went into remission after surgery, without having to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Joosten, who is also known...
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Fresh off their Emmy wins at the Creative Arts ceremony, Kathryn Joosten, Cynthia Nixon and Glynn Turman will make the trek to the big show to present at the Primetime Emmy Awards.Joosten won her second guest actress Emmy for Desperate Housewives, while Nixon was honored for her multiple personality turn on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Turman won for his stint on In Treatment.Other stars set to present are nominees Alec Baldwin, Glenn Close, Sally Field, Sandra Oh and Ricky Gervais. Funnyman Craig Ferguson, former TV President Martin Sheen and Lipstick Jungle-r Brooke Shields are also confirmed to present.Pairings are also coming together: TV icons Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White will present together, as will Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Here's hoping if they do comedy actor again, the winner will actually be Steve Carell.The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards airs 8pm/ET Sunday on ABC. — Joyce EngRelated• Griffin and Silverman are Effin' Emmy Winners• Opra...
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