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March 2, 2025 European summit on Ukraine, held in London. Earlier in the day, UK Prime Minister Starmer had spoken to the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who would not be attending this summit in person. (President Alar Karis of Estonia, Prime Minister Evika Siliņa of Latvia, and President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania). https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-leaders-of-estonia-latvia-and-lithuania-2-march-2025 (Apparently the summit was arranged hastily and somehow the three Baltic leaders were not included, so Starmer called to apologize?) Per Lithuanian radio, Starmer offered the three leaders an apology for their exclusion from the meeting. Starmer reiterated that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have roles in supporting Ukraine and all parties "agreed that Europe must unite" to get "the best outcome" from any peace deal, which would be "vital for Europe's future security".

March 2, 2025 Names per Getty Images (please tell me if there are any errors!) (Back row, left to right) NATO -- Secretary General Mark Rutte Netherlands -- Prime Minister Dick Schoof Sweden -- Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson Germany -- Chancellor Olaf Scholz Norway -- Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre Czech Republic -- Prime Minister Petr Fiala Italy -- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Türkiye -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan (Middle row, left to right) Spain -- Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez Denmark -- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen European Commission -- President Ursula von der Leyen European Council -- President António Costa Canada -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Romania -- Interim President Ilie Bolojan (Front row, left to right) Finland -- President Alexander Stubb France -- President Emmanuel Macron U.K. -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer Ukraine -- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Poland -- Prime Minister Donald Tusk

too late to edit my typo. re: the bolded ... I meant to say, after reading all the info about Cousins' OLTL character with aliases, I can see why Cousins was cast on Y&R as the suspicious character who turned out to be actually two twins, with the evil one masquerading as the good one to manipulate the situation.

Vernon's grandson (Nicole's son) Martin the congressman. Interestingly Martin and his husband Brad "Smitty" both seem to be wanting more. They're married with two teen children they've mentioned but we haven't seen yet. They seem happy but ... Smitty is a bored househusband who apparently wants his journalism career back? and Martin loves being a congressman but says he wants something more, but he's not sure what it is that he wants.

They did! They had that conversation after getting dressed, then undressed and had sex a second time. Then they got dressed again and she gave him some fuzzy pink handcuffs, which which she wants him to arrest her later tonight. He then stood behind her and wrapped himself around her but that scene ended ... and Naomi was next shown at the club with family, so presumably they resisted doing it a third time.

Well I just *assumed* that Hayley didn't want anyone to find out and that's why she thanked Vanessa, but Vanessa would have kept quiet regardless because she's professional. But who knows. Maybe there's more to it?

Vanessa served as real estate agent for her client Hayley, and, as a professional, she kept the confidence of her clients, and didn't tell anyone (not even the Duprees) that Hayley and Bill were buying a home in Fairmont Crest. Vanessa didn't tell anyone until after the deal was closed and Hayley had the keys. And then we saw the scene afterwards where Vanessa went to the club and told the Duprees who bought the house.

From Cady McClain instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGqT3v_xpDE/ Quote: “Pamela” is also a bit of “Opal” to “Erica,” and if you know your “All My Children” you’ll know what I mean. Thank you to the lovely Jill Larson for the inspiration! There’s more to the concoction but I can’t give away all my secrets… End Quote.

Thank you. Whoops, I should have looked it up before posting!

@Errol Cady thanks you! https://www.instagram.com/p/DGqT3v_xpDE/ cadymcclain Thank you Soap Opera Network for this lovely recognition of my work, and how funny it is that this is the first role I’ve originated on daytime! The focus of the story is “Dani,” and so my focus has been how to build upon what was given to make a compelling friend for her. There’s a saying I learned when studying Shakespeare: “the clown makes the king,” and I do so love being a clown. “Pamela” is also a bit of “Opal” to “Erica,” and if you know your “All My Children” you’ll know what I mean. Thank you to the lovely Jill Larson for the inspiration! There’s more to the concoction but I can’t give away all my secrets… I hope you enjoy this ride with me, and I thank you so very much for your kind support! Link to full article in bio Photos by Quantrell Colbert / CBS @beyondthegatescbs @soapoperanetwork @karlamose .

Cady's character is "Pamela".

I think this is Michele Val Jean's vision, so not really inspired by other shows. Also Sheila Ducksworth said she'd dreamed of a Black soap for decades and was finally introduced to Michele Val Jean. I've never seen Greenleaf. I did watch all of Queen Sugar and this isn't really like that, but I imagine there might be a few serious scenes at some point that explore things deeply like Queen Sugar did. BTG reminds me somewhat of the shortlived primetime soap "Promised Land" about about the Latine wealthy California winery Sandoval family, and their secrets. The major difference is that Promised Land periodically showed scenes from prior decades to enrich the story and show character progression, jumping around in time like "This Is Us". This factored in when scandals were revealed. I was disappointed when Promised Land was cancelled. The characters drew me in. ("Promised Land". Not to be confused with "The Promised Land".) It ran for one 10-episode season on ABC. It was on Hulu, but not sure if it's still there.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land_(2022_TV_series) https://www.forbes.com/sites/anneeaston/2022/01/23/wine-soaked-power-struggles-permeate-latino-family-drama-series-promised-land/ Fyi, "Promised Land" reminded me a bit of "Ambitions" with a few of the tropes, but was much, much, better and subtler. I liked Ambitions but I think Robin Givens' performance wasn't layered enough -- some of that may have been due to her acting, and some may have been due to Jamey Giddens' writing. Michele Val Jean had a producer credit on Ambitions but I don't think she wrote any of it.

image credit X.J.Johnson for JPI (via SOD)

Per soaphub, Clyde Kusatsu returns this week as Mr. Wei Shin (DiMera executive and father of Wendy and Li). Per Jason47's stats: the character was played by: Donald Li for 3 episodes July-August 2014, Michael Hagiwara for 4 episodes August 2019, and Clyde Kusatsu for 5 episodes 2022-2023. (Back in 2003, Clyde Kusatsu played Japanese sushi chef "Nobu" who was a guest on Jack&Jennifer's TV show "In the House").

Feb. 28: soaphub interviews Carson Boatman (no spoilers)

I watched OLTL early years, but missed most of 1990s OLTL, so the recent posts on this thread are interesting to read. I didn't know anything at all about Christopher Cousins' OLTL character and aliases... until reading a little bit last year. Christopher Cousins debuted on Y&R in 2024... as Ashley Abbott's platonic friend from Paris -- the retired psychologist "Alan Laurent"... and his evil twin "Martin Laurent". (Alan eventually became Traci Abbott's boyfriend and I think he still recurs as such). When the Alan/Martin characters debuted on Y&R, I read up on Christopher Cousins' character and aliases on OLTL. wow. crazy. I had to read the archive.org of soapcentral's OLTL site to find bios of Cousins' character and the Llanview characters he interacted with. And other wikis. It took a while to sort it all out. Especially since he seems to have returned a few times under various aliases. It's hard to understand the convoluted mess from reading summaries and wikis. After reading all that, I see why Cousins was cast on OLTL. At first I thought Alan Laurent was scamming Ashley and wasn't who he appeared to be. Well he was but then it was revealed that some of it was his evil twin Martin. Seems like Josh Griffith threw it together somewhat haphazardly for Y&R. re: OLTL: It annoyed me to read that Tina was hoodwinked (catfished? scammed?) by this guy. The Tina Lord I remember was vulnerable at times, but she was also smart, I think? I don't know. I was going to ask here, but then, maybe the character is not worth me investing time/energy/reading about.

Johnny and Chanel 'put on a show' to adopt Sophia's baby. “Chanel comes out in a little apron, and she’s going on about a Bible study that she doesn’t actually attend.” https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-days-preview-johnny-and-chanel-put-on-a-show-to-adopt-sophias-baby/

Within Canada, some cable and satellite services have "CHCH" channel, and you can watch BTG on broadcast TV there and record on your recorder. Outside Canada (and inside Canada) You can watch the episodes on the live feed from Canada at chch.com. I found it here: https://www.chch.com/live/ click on the "WATCH LIVE" button on the website at the time of broadcast. It works from outside Canada and you don't need VPN. That's at 2pm New York STANDARD Time through March 7th. That's at 2pm New York DAYLIGHT Time starting week of March 10th. Note that Canada/USA go to Daylight Saving Time March 9, but Europe goes to Daylight/Summer time March 30, so time difference would be off by one hour for a few weeks. If that's confusing, go to a reliable timezone converter to check the time differences during the weeks in March. NOTE, during week of 24 February, sometimes it took a long while for the live feed to start working on the website, so I suggest setting the live page up 30 minutes early. Click on the page, and give it time to load, so that it's actively giving the live feed by the time BTG starts. I don't know how to record the live website feed. I don't know where to legally find the shows recorded outside the USA, unless you have a VPN. You might be able to watch any recent episodes you missed by going to cbs.com with a VPN, but cbs.com usually has *only the most recent 5 episodes* of any of their shows.

(The actors in the SoapStarts video are *alive*) Edit: oh I see you tried to edit but the one-hour edit deadline had passed.

Happy Women's History Month from Susan Seaforth Hayes If you can't see the youtube in your region, there's another copy here: https://www.facebook.com/daysofourlives/videos/1856665678436299

Thanks for posting the screengrab! Update, found the video: https://x.com/MicheleValJean/status/1896080035678994788 For high-definition, go to the 0:33 mark (I attempted to queue it)

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Or maybe it's supposed to reference retired Senator Dupree covering up something related to Congressman Richardson? At first I wondered if Ted's father was also a senator, but that would have meant that Ted and Nicole would have first met via political circles as children. But that can't be the case, since we watched Andre videoing Ted and Nicole saying that they first met at the medical conference on Maui.

Someone on the promo says "Senator Richardson has a big secret". Who is "Senator Richardson"? I guess he/she is related to Nicole's husband Dr. Ted Richardson? and Ted's nephew Andre?

Paula Cwickly and Jeanne Marie Ford episodes begin airing April 24, 2025, per Stephanie Sloane TV insider. (from spoiler article dated 1/1/2025, which I won't post here since it was full of spoilers)