fun soap star facts

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

thought this might be a fun thread where we can put little known things about current and past soap stars.

Jesse McCarteny (ex-JR, AMC) is one of the co-writers of Leona Lewis' hit single Bleeding Love (he mustb be making a lot of that one! lol)

Replies 7
Views 1.3k
Created 17 yr17 yr
Last Reply 17 yr17 yr

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Lisa Rinna (Ex-Billie, Days) & lauralee Bell (Ex-Cricket, YR) both own clothing stores in california. Tracey bregman (Lauren, YR) has a clothing line.

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Cameron Mathison (Ryan, AMC) has one of the ugliest children's clothing lines I have ever seen

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Katherine Kelly Lang and her husband are opening a series of spa retreats in Italy.

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Christie Clark is the owner of a Mexican restaurant called "Mamacita" in the marina in San Francisco where she lives.

http://www.mamacitasf.com/

Edited April 18, 200817 yr by Cheyenne

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Wow she lives in San Francisco? I had no idea! We are only an hour's drive apart!

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

lol Yeah she's lived there with her hubby for a while now. Can't remember exactly but it's for more then seven years.

April 18, 200817 yr

Member

Thorsten Kaye wrote a children's book, that should be available soon.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

No registered users viewing this page.

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

They had ardent fans on certain forums. It drove me crazy because Skye was so poorly shoehorned into the show and nothing about any of her relationships (except maybe the friendships with A.J. and Ned) were believable to me. Liking an actor does not make a character fit!

By Vee · 41 minutes ago41 min
R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away

Luke's already dead and has been for a while, why would they need to need to recover his body to honor him? What for another memorial? Thats depressing especially as you mention, there's been quite a few of those recently and in the pipeline.

They can honor Luke by doing something to celebrate his birthday. Have that come up and several characters get sentimental and think and talk about him throughout the episode

that still exists? I watched it las year on teh ABC app but they decomissioned that

By Cheap21 · 56 minutes ago56 min
ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

I was not a fan of her work on The Bold and the Beautiful, but her work on Beyond the Gates has been outstanding. She truly is one of the best in American daytime, tying with Mandi Line from The Young and the Restless.

By Liberty City · 56 minutes ago56 min
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Perhaps I was giving the entire team too much credit. I assumed the show snapped up Ingo when Titans flopped, were hoping to get Vanessa and it fell through, and scrapped together some wacky plot for Jax last minute, hoping something would stick. I was always a bit surprised they didn't try to repair the coupling of Chloe/Jax.
I can see the idea of tying him to the Cassadines in his return via Alexis, but that story was just odd. Jax left his entire life in PC to find Brenda and gave up after less than a year and somehow ran into Cassadine intrigue?
I could go on and on about the Skye romance. They were barely together and then were getting married. It wasn't anywhere near Jax's worst pairing, but everyone in the audience knew the show was ramping up the obstacles for Brenda's return and nothing was organic about it.
Honestly though I always laugh when I think about Ric and Marianna? What a silly story no one ever mentioned again. Did JFP really think THAT story was going to elevate RH to lead status?

By carolineg · 1 hour ago1 hr
BTG: December 2025 Discussion Thread

I think Eva is at a point where either you love her or hate her. They can do whatever they can to make her likeable and a "good" character but people will forever hate her bc of how the writers wrote her this year. Thats were Im at with her bc I do not want to see her happy and side eye everything she does. Im over her

By Cheap21 · 1 hour ago1 hr
ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Ms. Featherstone looks amazing in that clip. Because of course she would! :)

By janea4old · 1 hour ago1 hr
ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Love this clip!

By janea4old · 1 hour ago1 hr
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

I don't think Jill had any plan there, no. She and likely the network were just snatching Ingo back up once he was free hoping for a ratings bump. Like most longtime GH characters, she and Megan McTavish clearly had no idea what to do with him or who Jax was. That was evidenced by the crap they had him playing with Angel, then the insta-romance with Skye who was Jill's favorite.
As far as I can tell JFP had very little affinity for GH's history or characters. She was about her favorites. That's evidenced again by the strike in 2008, when Guza is gone for a few months and suddenly GH becomes The Rick Hearst Show and resembles early-mid'90s Guiding Light, when Jill was in charge. Not that I don't love Hearst, but suddenly having A-story spinning around Ric and some immigrant woman he married was crazy. But that was Jill.

By Vee · 1 hour ago1 hr
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

Trivia: John P Navin was in the very first scene on Cheers. He was the boy with the fake ID, trying to purchase beer.

By Spoon · 2 hours ago2 hr
ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The next episode of “Soapy Hosted by Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart” features a sit-down conversation with Emmy Award-winning costume designer Jeresa Featherstone (“Beyond the Gates,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”).
In an exclusive clip ahead of the episode’s release on Tuesday, December 16, Featherstone discusses how she began working on “Beyond the Gates” from pre-production through casting and finally having cast members to dress, and how she pulled off the Herculean task of costuming a whole new daytime drama.
Check out our exclusive clip from “Soapy” below.
Launched in July, “Soapy” is a podcast series hosted by “The Bold and the Beautiful” star Rebecca Budig (Taylor Hayes) and “Days of our Lives” star Greg Rikaart (Leo Stark), two real-life friends who have lively, nostalgic conversations with beloved stars from the past and present as well as the creative minds from across the entire soap opera community, including all networks, platforms, and dayparts (daytime and primetime) as it takes a deep dive into the legacy, fandom and enduring appeal of the genre.
After a successful 13-episode first season, the podcast returned for season two in late October and has featured several popular voices from the world of daytime drama past and present, including AnnaLynne McCord (“Days of our Lives”), Lisa Yamada and Christian Weissmann (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) Renee Elise Goldsberry (“Hamilton,” “One Life to Live”), Suzanne Rogers (“Days of our Lives”), Kelly Ripa (“Live with Kelly and Mark,” “All My Children”), Mark Teschner (“General Hospital”) and John McCook (“The Bold and the Beautiful”).
Episodes of “Soapy Hosted by Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart” are available for free via the Audacy app and the CBS brand YouTube channel.
The podcast is produced by the Paramount Multiplatform Production Group, with Mike Benson serving as executive producer and Andrew Pemberton-Fowler as producer.

Note: The post Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE) first appeared on Soap Opera Network.

Read More

By Errol · 2 hours ago2 hr

Sign In

fun soap star facts

Featured Replies

Archived

Recently Browsing 0

Recent Posts

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away

ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

BTG: December 2025 Discussion Thread

ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

ARTICLE: Emmy Award-Winning Costume Designer Jeresa Featherstone-Winfield Talks Path To ‘Beyond The Gates’ On ‘Soapy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Important Information

Account

Navigation

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)

Chrome (Desktop)

Safari (iOS 16.4+)

Safari (macOS)

Edge (Android)

Edge (Desktop)

Firefox (Android)

Firefox (Desktop)