Three cheers for three more years! Soap star Kamar de los Reyes (Antonio) tells TVGuide.com that that's how long he has agreed to stay at One Life to Live. For fresh dish on Kamar's life in Llanview, read our exclusive Soaps Q&A.
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When Daytime Emmy nominations were announced Wednesday on The View, the CBS sudsers led the pack with 29 nominations to ABC's 12 in the major soap-opera categories. After an annus horribilis of budget slashing and cast cuts, there was finally good news for Guiding Light: TV's longest-running serial — which just turned 69 — will vie for best soap honors with As the World Turns, General Hospital and Young and the Restless. GL also scored the most acting nods, with a total of nine!
Speaking of suds thesps, many of the usual suspects were nominated, including Bold and Beautiful matriarch Susan Flannery, GH tough guys Maurice Benard and Anthony Geary, and GL diva Kim Zimmer. But Emmy also honored some newbies, such as One Life to Live's Renee Goldsberry, whose recognition was long overdue.
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As you read here first, Margaret (Tari Signor) turns up alive and ready to give birth to Todd's baby today on One Life to Live. To learn who gets caught up in the pregnant psycho's labor of lunacy, read the scoop straight from OLTL head writer Dena Higley in Soaps Previews.
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Passions heartthrob Galen Gering returns as Sheridan's not-so-dead lover, Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, on March 8. Come back and read Wednesday's Soaps News for the exclusive scoop from Galen himself on Luis' return.... Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott) comes back to The Young and the Restless on March 1. Traci will be in Genoa City to support her troubled papa, John, and share scenes with the new actress playing her daughter, Colleen.... Susan Lucci and many other suds stars from All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live will perform on stage in ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Feb. 6 in New York City. Plenty of tickets are still available at broadwaycares.org for this worthy event.... Matthe
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Another World alum Stephen Schnetzer (Cass Winthrop) returns to As the World Turns this Thursday, Feb. 2. He'll give Jennifer bad news about her not-so-dead brother, Paul.... Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott) comes back to The Young and the Restless on March 1. Traci will be in Genoa City to support her troubled papa, John, and share scenes with the new actress playing her daughter, Colleen.... Susan Lucci and many other suds stars from All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live will perform on stage in ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on Feb. 6 in New York City. Plenty of tickets are still available at broadwaycares.org for this worthy event.
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Speaking of soap hunks named St. John, One Life to Live star Trevor St. John has a can't-miss episode on Friday, Feb. 3. Spoiler alert! "Todd is sentenced to death by legal injection [for murdering Margaret and their unborn son]," OLTL head writer Dena Higley tells TVGuide.com. "Then we cut to Margaret in labor."
Yep, the pregnant psycho is alive, not drowned or strangled. Todd's wrongful murder conviction is, of course, engineered by the evil Dr. Spencer Truman. "Spencer wants Blair," Higley emphasizes. "I wanted the audience to go through phases with Todd where they thought he did it, then they knew he didn't, then they thought maybe Spencer had killed Margaret. Then it's revealed that Spencer has just been sequestering her. [He's done this because] it's not just about getting Todd out of the way physically. Spencer has to kill Todd emotionally for Blair. He has to kill her love for him. Th
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TVGuide.com is sad to report that suds stars Michael E. Knight (Tad, All My Children) and Catherine Hickland (Lindsay, One Life to Live) are ending their marriage of 13 years. "After long and careful consideration we have decided to separate," the couple said in a statement. "Though it is never easy, our decision was made with a great deal of love and mutual respect. We have always been great friends and will continue to be so."
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Hasn't One Life to Live day player Kerry Butler done an impressive job as Nash's neurotic, messy ex-girlfriend, Claudia Reston? OLTL's bosses like Butler so much, they've put her on contract. Uh-oh! This spells trouble for "Tessica." For the latest on the ABC sudser's split-personality saga, read my Soaps Q&A with head writer Dena Higley.
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General Hospital's Luke vanishes from Port Charles today to accommodate Anthony Geary's annual winter vacay. No worries, Luke will be back soon enough to reunite with GH vet Tristan Rogers aka Robert Scorpio.... Will Finola Hughes also return to GH as Robert's wife, Anna? Read what she says about it.... TVGuide.com has the exclusive scoop on when One Life to Live's Nora will awaken from her coma.... The Young and the Restless has cast a new actress to play Lily Winters.... Italian stallion Paolo Seganti hopes to return to As the World Turns as Lily
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Hillary B. Smith, One Life To Live and Tristan Rogers, General Hospital
As you read here first, One Life to Live fully intends to rouse its comatose district attorney, Nora Hanen, now that Hillary B. Smith's contract has been renewed for another year. And no OLTL fan is more pleased than the ABC sudser's head writer, Dena Higley.
"I hate [feeling like] the child of divorced parents," Higley jokingly tells TVGuide.com. "When you've got an actor and the network in some sort of legal battle, you're just sitting there going, 'What do I do?' I have my preferences, but I don't get a vote. It's just so much better now that I can go ahead and burn on [Nora's] story. What a relief!"
So when exactly will Nora wake up? "Late March or the beginning of April," Higley predicts. "I had to wait for the green light [from ABC] and we're writing really far ahead rig
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