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Hawthorne Sr. really does look (and sound) exactly like Overton lmao. I don't mind the senior Duprees being very famous. I do find it silly when they just keep sitting around and talking about it. I'd rather see it manifest in plot and new characters. They've done everything but have a breakfast talking about Vernon being the first Black man in space.

IIRC Stephen Smith is a big fan of the show. That's fine, I don't begrudge him appearing, but I don't need his appearances to be some serious dramatic role.

Go away, devil!

We all know what this means on soaps: Time for Dani to adopt a streetwise white child and deliver them from poverty!

Goofball behavior.

Oh good lord.

That's even crazier than the apparent period report that OLTL almost recast Gabrielle with Eileen Davidson around the same time.

What exactly was the issue with Don Hastings and Veleka Gray?

That I will watch. It sounds lovely.

Posey IIRC offered a different version in an interview some years ago. She said the movie came up, she had a conflict with the show and when she went to them to talk about it they asked if they could write her out ahead of her contract due to the summer months coming up or some such period, therefore it all worked out. Still, tomato/toma-toe.

I just never cared about Julian, lol. WdV is a weird dude to me and I thought he made a good, effete villain but that's about it.

Eddie spent the last few years beating cancer and just got married. He looks good. I don't think acting was ever for him outside OLTL with his sister, though he did end up becoming a great actor. It's too bad we'll probably never see him on daytime again, but I am happy for him.

I do think Jacob and Hayley have real chemistry, I just have yet to find him (or Naomi) very compelling. That's a couple you wanna start busting up to see if they work with others. Jacob's corrupt father is much more interesting, and I would like to see them introduce his family (no way is REG ever coming back to daytime, lol) which they clearly are working on. In part because the only non-related options on canvas are Derek and Tomas the synth! And I just do not buy it when Bill asks 'where's my fire-breathing dragon of a wife?' and Hayley weepily replies 'right here 😢' lol. MG is a nice girl but I have yet to be convinced she can play Hayley as more than a doormat. I hope she surprises me in future. I'll save the rest of my 1 month report card for the end of the week. I think it fits Hayley. I'm not convinced Bill would be into it, but I can totally buy him going with the glam home furnishings picked by a young wife half his age. I do think the living room looks the size of a sorority house's, lol.

It's on the last page.

Hayley's costuming and decor for the house is like drag. It has to be deliberate, but it is tacky.

The difference is that Frank tried for years to off Julian/WDV. At the earliest (if not earlier, depending on some stories) he was supposed to be gone when he tried to kill Alexis with the dagger that killed her mother. Allegedly the network intervened bc of Julian and Alexis' perceived popularity over and over.

I think that may have been where things really got wild and woolly BTS. Because Mulcahey was clearly prepping to dump Valentin.

That's nice, but this isn't SoapZone in 2005. The rest of us are not here to see archival couple clips posted in the daily 2025 episodes thread and we can report them if necessary. I promise you I will not be the only one.

A hundred Internet bucks to the first person who can make me a GIF of Tomas expressionlessly nodding his head like the Latino Howdy Doody. I feel like he's done it a dozen times in the last week.

I believe they're referring to Nia Long, per Robin Strasser's anecdote on the last page.

A bit of idle gossip crossposted from the GL thread. Seems like Nia Long may have been warning Robin off of JFP.

This seems like Robin Strasser is discussing JFP per Nia Long and an EP they shared.

Oh, wow.

I wouldn't go along with Jason/Liz for a lot of reasons, among them being I don't want to reward their delusional behavior online but also I just don't think there's anything left there. It's not 2006 anymore. What beats are left to play after how she humiliated herself for him in 2012 and 2015? By contrast I think Lucky and Liz as adults are still genuinely untapped, and I think they did a good job cleaning up some of the ugly stuff from the Guza II era in some of the recent dialogue over the holidays and in January, when I do think they sort of addressed the scene mentioned above.

A soap generally does not wait to see what the fans think if they feel internally they need to recast for whatever reason. Certainly not a new soap. They just do it. I'll miss MJ but I never expected them to check with me, lol. There are plenty of people I would rather see go first but I am not going to fuss over this when we are what, less than 30 episodes in? I don't see Cady's character as a huge problem, and I expect most of the actors I don't care for to get culled.