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Week of 25 April: Stephanie Erb appears as temporary Alexis (while NLG is recovering from spinal surgery) These photos are from Stephanie Erb's instagram around the time that these episodes were filmed: Stephanie Erb as uninjured Alexis (headshot probably taken at Erb's home): Stephanie Erb -- apparently as injured Alexis in special make-up? Or an actual cut? This is most likely from a physical struggle between Alexis/Harmony/Carly? Relevant spoilers: Monday 25 April 2022 Carly seeks out Alexis at home. Diane makes a compelling argument. Tuesday 26 April 2022 Alexis and Carly find themselves in a dire situation. Week of 25 April: Harmony goes off the rails with Alexis and Carly Harmony is attempting to destroy Neil's case file on her, because this file establishes her motive in Neil's death and also contains Neil's notes on Willow's true parentage. Carly's view on this: Willow is Michael's life partner and is raising Carly's grandson Wiley. Therefore Carly feels protective of Willow. Also Carly has noticed Harmony and Nina's interactions - that something seems off. For all those reasons, Carly is suspicious of Harmony. Carly arrives at Alexis’ house, just as Harmony is about to destroy that file. Meanwhile, Alexis has a frank talk with Diane, which causes Alexis to decide that it's time for Harmony to move out of her house. Then Alexis returns home to break this news to Harmony. When Alexis, Carly and Harmony converge at Alexis' home, Harmony's secret is about to be exposed. (The weekly promo shows that Carly has pulled the file out of the fire and sees Dr. Byrne's name on it). Harmony goes off the rails and there are going to be fireworks.

That reveal (of Summer's husband Austin having had an extended offscreen affair with Abby) happened *during* Austin's funeral. March 5, 2015. Yeah it was out of nowhere. However, it was the best scene Hunter King ever did: After everyone left the funeral, and she was alone with his coffin and ranted with rage at Austin for his betrayal. Her rage was fire. She *can* act. Just most of the time they gave her bland stuff to do.

Emily/Patty and Sarah/Lauren were separate doppelgänger storylines running simultaneously in 2010. (both via plastic surgery) Justin Hartley's Adam had plastic surgery to look like the dead Gabriel Bingham. Apparently Mark Grossman's Adam still looks like Gabriel Bingham.

That M.H. twitter account has no scoop. That account posts rumors. Sometimes they get stuff right but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Krista Allen said that they had filmed pics of her to put into the opening credit sequence, but there was a glitch and it needs to be refilmed, and the refilming was taking time to reschedule.

In the past 5 years, a lot of DAYS actors have had 3-month contracts or 6-month contracts. Most newcomers have contracts of one year or less. Sometimes the actors (oldtimers and newcomers) go on a contract for a while, then recurring for a while, and then back to short contract.

In the old days, the primary contract actors would have guarantees of 3x per week. (And the nonprimary contract actors would appear maybe 2x or 1.5 times per week). Nobody gets that anymore. I think most contract actors right now appear maybe 1x per week or 1.5 times per week. Some average even less. @JAS0N47 would you please clarify that? If actors have low guarantees, then it averages out, so if they are on three times one week, we might not see them again until two weeks later.

Everyone is great here. (except for the boring Noah actor) I think Sharon Case looks better here. They have Sharon Rosales in little-to-no makeup after the death of her husband, and the actress' natural beauty and expressiveness shines through better.

Kristian Alfonso appeared on E! News' Daily Pop on Friday April 22, to talk about Beyond Salem (Chapter 2). https://www.eonline.com/videos/337884/kristian-alfonso-spills-on-return-to-days-of-our-lives The plain video clip is here: https://player.theplatform.com/p/BdHJDC/pdk6PocStable/select/media/tnU_wG6veMbe Update: K.A. on E! Pop - from their youtube channnel

Wow, this is wonderful! Thank you.

That scene of John and Sami watching strippers together... That is not canon John nor is it canon Sami. That scene is from the noncanon Christmas movie. The entire Christmas movie was something from Will's imagination about how he would write a Hallmark Christmas movie using Salem characters. Dead Nick (Blake Berris) is dancing because Brandon Barash got COVID right before they filmed the movie, so the powers that be decide to have Nick be Gabi's love interest in the movie, since none of it is canon. This scene says more about Will's imagination than anything else. Maybe they'll eventually have the regular daytime show characters make a comment that Will once wrote a stupid Christmas movie, but the plot within the movie won't be canon. Right now the only thing that's canon is that, in 2014, Will wrote a movie script about Sami's life, which was never filmed. In 2021, Johnny and Allie read a paper copy of that script.

Just an fyi, @Errol posted a bit more info about Allison Lanier's background here: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/61001-article-‘the-young-and-the-restless’-casts-newcomer-allison-lanier-in-the-role-of-summer-newman/

Thursday March 31: Ashley Jones appeared as Bridget in a phonecall to Brooke, and she was wearing doctor wardrobe. Brooke assumed that Bridget was calling from her home in New York. Bridget replied "Actually, I just wanted to let you know I’m back in L.A. I’m working out of University Hospital for a while to help with restructuring and shortages." Brooke was surprised and said "it will be good to see you". Bridget next appeared Tuesday April 7: Bridget was on the scene when Steffy is brought to the hospital, and became Steffy's doctor. SOD confirmed that Ashley Jones will be around for a while as Bridget.

I posted this for the preview video. I'm sorry I was unable to find the video in any format I could embed (twitter, youtube, mp4) But you can watch the video *inside* the tvinsider link. https://www.tvinsider.com/1041427/general-hospital-ned-adopts-olivia-son-leo-autism-awareness/ This is a clip from the 22 April episode. The scene is titled "Olivia details Leo's theater therapy". If the video won't play for you, here is a description: The Quatermaines are having a party to celebrate Ned adopting Leo. The party guests are at the Q-mansion. Olivia, Leo, and Ned are in a room with Brook Lynn and Drew. Chase is late and Leo is disappointed that Chase is not there. Brook Lynn is on the phone trying to reach Chase, but he doesn't answer his phone, so Brook Lynn leaves him a voicemail. Olivia tells Brook Lynn and Drew .... that Chase was wonderful with Leo during the time when Chase was living with Brook Lynn on the Quartermaine property caring for Bailey Louise. Then Olivia tells Brook Lynn and Drew that Leo is in "theater therapy" for children on the spectrum. She explains that it's an after-school program which uses skits to help to practice using speech, taking turns, making eye contact, etc. Olivia explains that she convinced Leo to participate in the theater therapy program by telling him that Chase, Ned, and Brook Lynn are all performers. Brook Lynn is uncomfortable as she mentions that she hasn't performed lately. Ned says the therapy program will culminate with a performance/show for the parents during Autism Awareness Month. Olivia says Leo has been loving the program and has made a lot of new friends, and he will recite a poem at the therapy show. She asks to Leo that he recite his poem. Leo says but that's not until next week. Olivia says that he could do a practice run today for the party guests, and tells him to go get his note cards. It's a cute video. Leo is adorable. Ned is very proud. Olivia loves explaining this stuff. Brook Lynn is really animated and interested. Drew just stands there and asks a couple of questions. There are other party guests in the other room - you can see glimpses of them through the doorway but I couldn't make out who they were.

Wally has done some longer video or audio interviews in the past. He seems to keep track of all the storylines on both shows - he has said that he watches them! And he comments coherently on what's happening, even storylines he's not in. He seems genuinely appreciative of the opportunity to work on both shows and he doesn't take it for granted. I know that some actors (from various soaps) have said that in order to memorize their current lines, they simply don't have enough room in their brains to focus on what is currently happening with other characters. Some actors have said they literally have to forget what their own characters did in the past, so that they can accurately remember today's scripts. I guess I understand that those actors are just trying to do their jobs. I think they *would* try to keep track of everything if they could, but they can't. But from what Wally has said, I get the impression he can track everyone past and present in both soaps, and that's amazing to me.

Wally Kurth previews the 22 April 2022 episode with TV Insider. "The Quartermaine family and friends celebrate Ned's adoption of Leo." Text interview with photo and a video preview. https://www.tvinsider.com/1041427/general-hospital-ned-adopts-olivia-son-leo-autism-awareness/ Wally talks about what it's like to play the character Ned who is adopting the character Leo - who is a child with autism... while Wally himself is a real-life father of his own son who has autism. And how GH is handling this storyline. He also discusses the storylines about Ned's relationship with Olivia.

Wed April 20 Canadian (Thurs April 21 USA). omg I'm crying and I cannot type. Here are just *some* of the things that happen... Chance is at Crimson Lights bonding with Connor as they wait for Rey to return with the tickets. They all realize Rey must be delayed for some good reason, probably police work. (They don't yet know Rey died) But you can see that Sharon dreads something. Chelsea says it's getting too late to go to the game and she takes Connor home. At Crimson Lights, Chance receives a phonecall from the station about an accident, but he doesn't tell Sharon what it's about, and he leaves, saying he has police stuff to do. Chance and Nick are at the accident scene and have confirmed that Rey has died. Chance told Nick to tell Sharon. Other stuff happens. Mainly VIctoria not caring about anyone or anything except for Rey. Ashland starts saying he loves her but Victoria starts talking about Rey again. She doesn't entirely believe Ashland, she wonders why he left Rey there. Ashland said he wasn't breathing so he left. Victoria says someone should perform CPR. Ashland says it was too late. She insists on standing up to go outside to find Rey's car and help him. She tries to stand but her leg won't cooperate. Even when Victor and Nikki find her in the cabin, all she wants to talk about is Rey. Victor and Nikki want to know why the f*ck is Ashland there. Victoria hurriedly explains that he saved her (no details, just the minimum so her parents stop focusing on Ashland) and then she immediately goes back to talking about Rey. She's very worried about Rey, and wants to know if the EMTs came. Victoria is mainly worried that Rey is hurt. She's also concerned that she may have caused this. Her parents tell her that it's confirmed that Rey is dead. I'm telling this out of order but I'm too emotional to be coherent. The most important scene... Nick arrives at Crimson Lights. Sharon sees his face and she just knows what he's going to say. She turns her head away and rambles on about Rey's favorite foods. Finally she turns and looks at Nick and tells him she just knows. He gently tells her. He holds her (platonically of course, like a best friend or a brother). I cannot describe the scene. Amazing Sharon Case. I'm crying too hard. Just watch.

I agree with what you said, we don't know yet which episodes they're from. The source is a video interview with Greg Vaughan - in the background of the interview these pictures displayed. I think it's basically upcoming Eric scenes which could air at any time in the future. The show has been promoting GV's return - he's done at least 4 or 5 interviews in the past week or two. Thank you for posting the pictures!

Wed. 20 April: Chad brings a surprise guest to the wedding. (It's drag queen Jackie Cox) According to SOD, Jackie appears this week, with scenes in drag wardrobe and in nondrag wardrobe. BTS pic of Billy and Jackie.

Chelsea's son Connor has been bonding with Rey (mostly offscreen) but apparently a lot over the past year. Some of it started when Chelsea was released from the prison/mental institution where she'd been confined after poisoning Rey etc. She was allowed to leave to go home to take care of her sick mother Anita in another state, but she had to remain in police oversight. So Rey was charged with accompanying Chelsea and Connor out of state to Anita's place. He was there a while. When she seemed stable, he returned to Genoa City. She remained at Anita's. I might have some of the details wrong, but you get the idea. (Chelsea leaving town to care for her mother ... was how the show wrote in Missy Claire Egan's maternity leave.) I guess Connor and Rey began to bond during that trip. This relationship is something the show wrote in (retconned?) to be a fact at some point ... In the past few months Rey and Connor have apparently been connecting in Genoa City *offscreen*. (I got this from comments that the adults have made onscreen referencing this). The past few episodes have shown lots of Rey/Connor *onscreen* connecting with banter at Crimson Lights. And how they were going to watch the professional hockey game tonight ... and they discussed plans for maybe in the next week or two, that Connor would show Rey how to do some hockey moves. Etc. etc. So with Rey's unexpected death, Connor will be sad. I guess he is currently more bonded with Rey than Adam (as another plot device). All of this *seemed* to be leading to the Chelsea/Rey affair we had expected. But then Jordi was suddenly let go. There's a spoiler for later this week "Adam supports Chelsea" so I guess he'll be there for her (and hopefully for Connor) when they learn of Rey's death. What comes next? It seems like Adam will stay with Sally. Connor and Chelsea will be grieving Rey, I guess? During today's Canadian episode - Victor and Nikki were aware of Victoria's accident since she was on speakerphone to Nikki when it happened, and Nikki heard Victoria scream and the sound of the crash (VIctor was sitting beside Nikki when she was on the phone with Victoria). Victor immediately notified Nick and Adam that Victoria was missing might have been in a car accident. I had to laugh because, of course, nobody bothered to notify Abby. Neither the Abbotts nor the Newmans include Abby in any important family stuff anymore. It's like she doesn't exist. It seems to me that Chance will play a role in the accident aftermath. Chance is now the only cop in Genoa City! (Paul exists only in rare conversational mentions - but Paul hasn't been onscreen for a couple of years.) Obviously Chance will be investigating the car accidents. Rey was Chance's police partner. I would assume that both Chance and Nick will act as support for the widow Sharon. I think Chance will try to comfort Connor. Just speculating! (There's no spoilers about this at all), Just random wild speculating. It's just that when a police officer dies, their partner often checks on the children who are associated with the deceased partner. The whole Chance/Abby pairing is dismal. Speculation: Will they pivot Chance away from Abby and over to Chelsea? Who knows.

oh I see yes it is!

Yeah it feels like the focus will shift from the Newmans to the Abbotts once Kyle is back and Allie arrives. And maybe a recast Summer? I can see little Harrison in the story with Diane (and Ashland if he's still around)

TR is Lani's biological father. Lani considers Abe to be her father in every way that matters.