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Another Susan Lucci interview in Toronto promoting AMC on Pluto TV Boy @EricMontreal22 Pluto TV certainly got their money's worth bringing Susan Lucci to Toronto to promote the hell out of this!

Ava was pregnant when she married Jack. When she was pregnant, she could keep Jack in line by using sex. But she started to experience cramps, and the doctor told her that she shouldn't have sex until the baby was born to maintain a safe pregnancy. She knew Jack would lose interest in her, so she continued to have sex with him until she lost the baby. Then she devised the 'padded pregnancy' scheme and told Jack she couldn't have sex anymore (per the doctor's instructions). Jack then went to Stacey since he wasn’t getting any with Ava. Some people said it wasn't Ava or Stacey that was to blame, but Jack for stringing along two women.

And in #258, Ava tells Stacey to her FACE that she is a grade-B slut, a two-bit hooker, a tramp, trash, and a two-bit home wrecker. All in one episode! In all honesty, I don't disagree with Ava's point of view; I agree with Ava on her assessment, as I'm on Team Ava on this, not Stacey's. Stacey should never have an affair with a married man who has a pregnant wife at home.

Although they killed off the character of Stacey, Lauren-Marie Taylor had five months left on her contract before it expired. Meaning ABC was forced to pay her for those five months, even though the character was killed off. This leads me to believe that is one of the reasons TPTB chose Lauren-Marie to host 1 minute segments before and after certain episodes of Loving to keep the audience updated. They were paying her for the next five months, so why not get something for the money!

@EricMontreal22 Susan Lucci made one last stop at the CTV ETalk studios to promote "All My Children" on Pluto TV

For anyone who is wondering, it was Dennis Parlato's decision to leave Loving, as he opted not to renew his contract. But TPTB convinced him to stay an extra 13 weeks, so they could roll his character as one of the victims of the Loving murders.

New Ritual Promo - go 9:55 into video WNEW Commercials - January 27, 1985

No one outside the soap world know about the Lucci - SMG conflict. It wouldn't be a benefit to either actress to sit down together, as it would just draw more attention to this past conflict. Both of them travel in different circles, so it is best to just let it rest. While Lucci has denied any conflict, in later years SMG has said these stories about a conflict were overblown. Though I thought it was in bad taste for SMG to minimize Lucci's Emmy win after 19 nominations. When asked about Lucci's Emmy win, instead of being gracious and offering congratulations. SMG said obviously her tapes were good enough for her to win.

Unless she made it a condition of her return. When Martha Byrne returned to As The World Turns, she made it clear she didn't want Lily to be involved in any business capacity, as she didn't think Lily was the corporate type. The show acceded to that request. But later Lily owned the TV station and then the Lakeview, but by that time she was already on the show for a number of years. So maybe she felt more comfortable in those business settings, than the corporate ones like Luncinda's business.

I remember a story in Soap Opera Digest about fan mail, and Michael Weatherly was quoted in saying that he doesn't read his fan mail, he doesn't care about his fan mail, and throws it out. His reasoning is that people are really writing to "Cooper Alden" a character owned by ABC. They are not writing to him, Michael Weatherly. As far as he is concerned, fan mail is fake mail, and he feels no responsibility to read or respond to any of it, So it goes in the trash, unopened,

I thought her "return" was a figment of Gwyneth's imagination. That when people claimed they saw Trisha wandering around Corinth, that was actually Gwyneth in a wig thinking she was Trisha.

So to this day Trisha still has amnesia and living happily ever after with Jeff as wife, correct?

I agree, maybe they could have a Mac/Alice/Carl/Rachel quadrangle. But JC was opposed to any romantic involvement with Mac. So she only has herself to blame if her year on AW was lackluster.

She was pregnant. Imagine launching this new show, with all this fan fare and publicity. But you just fired someone who is pregnant. Because she was having a baby, she probably wanted to keep working, so she could pad her bank account. Then she could take a year off to be with her baby, as she would officially off the show.

In terms of Alice being involved with Mac; Jacqueline Courtney was vocal in her opposition to that happening. Yes, the character were romantically involved when Linda Borgeson played Alice. When Jacqueline Courtney returned, she told interviewers she found it out of character for Alice to be involved with Mac, calling it "incestuous" (her word). It is doubtful that a Mac/Alice pairing would happen with JC in the role.