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3 minutes ago, Forever8 said:

Ted King will be playing Finn's father Jack beginning on August 2. 

 

The Bold and the Beautiful: First look at Finn's parents | EW.com

I love Ted King. Cool that they’re making Finn biracial. (Is that Tanner Novlan’s background?) Maybe they’re not gonna kill him off just yet (although Bradley’s ADD is notorious).

11 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Oh I thought you said Omaha

Haha! You thought I was gonna give you one of your blond, corn-fed Midwestern farm boys, huh?  

Here’s an approximation, I suppose: the first openly gay active NFL player, Carl Nassib, defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders:

Note: Michael Sam was cut before ever playing a regular-season game with the Rams.

Rachel Lindsay basically put the entire Bachelor franchise on blast in this essay:

https://www.vulture.com/article/rachel-lindsay-the-bachelor-franchise.html

1 minute ago, crc said:

So Vinny intentionally jumped in front of Bill's car to set up Liam. BUT how would he know that Liam would be driving? I'm also mad that Vinny only got to declare his love of Thomas in death. LOL!

 

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Regarding the spoiler about Justin. I wouldn't be surprised. Spoilers have him "running" Spencer Publications, probably with mustache twirling. And there's another spoiler for this week that makes it sound like he'll be holding Thomas hostage and Thomas will be in danger.

 

I can’t with this idiotic show. If it weren’t for Quinn/Carter, I would have bailed.

Wait, so Justin didn’t kill Vinny? It was even worse: Vinny killed himself?

“Butter” is No. 1 for a fourth week.

4 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I think they still have Wimbledon and the US Open. Not sure how long that will last with TC having everything else.

Oh they have Australian open too.

TC has more tournaments to cover thus them hiring more people.

I know ESPN used to show the later rounds of the hardcourt Masters (I think they showed “Cincinnati” last year) and the ATP Finals, so I wondered about that.

5 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Pam Shriver joins Tennis Channel. That's the second one to leave ESPN.

LOL. She’s… not great.

Have ESPN’s tennis rights changed? I’m not following that.

From Oman  

Anila charging $600 worth of drinks to Lisa Nicole’s hotel room… LMAO.

Mess.

36 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

So not that this is surprising news or anything but apparently CLB finally confirmed during an interview with Maurice Bernard he’s gay and has been with his husband for about 10 years. 

CLB looks SO much better with the beard btw. Dude does NOT look 63.

He talks about being a gay man and the legacy of Stonewall 20 minutes in, mentioning his husband and how he doesn’t hold his hand in public.

Really good interview. I like Maurice Benard’s series a lot. He gets people to open up.

No spoilers but it *sounds* like we might get a decent week next week (starting Monday, June 28).

From Florida  
 

Milos Raonic says he won’t compete at Wimbledon.

I think Y&R would be better off letting the audience in on the schemes of characters like Tara earlier on instead of doing it as a reveal. (Not that Y&R hasn’t hinted that Tara had claws previously, but most of her scenes just completely flatlined and didn’t have enough real subtext.) The show’s not engaging enough in the day-to-day for viewers to sit around to see if the story’s going somewhere. At this point, I’m too annoyed to care that Tara’s openly threatening and manipulating Summer. It’s not like Lucy Coe the mousy librarian being revealed as the vamp.
 

With Y&R’s best villains, we were given their points of view (true to Bill Bell’s obsession with psychology), which made them all the more impactful and disturbing. Even if, say, Cricket knew Phyllis was a bit off, she had no clue about the depth of Phyllis’s evil. But we did. In the past, the audience knew how bad the baddies were long before the other characters did, which added a lot of tension and suspense.

From Nigeria  

Baby-making music.

From the United Kingdom  

3 hours ago, Forever8 said:

All My Children alums Cameron Mathison - (ex Ryan Lavery) and Esta TerBlanche (Gillian Andrassy Lavery) recently reunited. 

 

From Cameron's Instagram. 

 

Esta barely looks different.

I typically don’t love medical crises/near-death stories on soaps because the writers go to that well too often, you know there will be a miraculous recovery, and they’ll be walking around like normal three episodes later (like Curtis and Jason after being shot). The stakes just don’t feel there.
 

But Josh Swickard has really elevated and grounded this in ways that I haven’t seen in years on these shows. I can’t give him enough praise. I liked him before and thought he had more talent and star quality than your bog-standard soap hunks, but he has really impressed me with this illness story. (He’s made me emotional multiple times, without straining for effect.) I hope GH knows how lucky they are to have him, considering he has had some mainstream success.

Gotta say, we dunk on him a lot, but Michael Easton has stepped up big time for this story. His breakup scenes with Finola a few weeks ago were just *bad*, and FH basically had to do all the work. But he’s been really good the past couple of weeks.

Annie Ilonzeh (Maya, GH) has been cast as the lead in an NBC drama pilot.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/annie-ilonzeh-nbc-getaway-1234970539/