Exclusive Interview with Veleka Gray

[SteveFrame]

SoapsWEB recently was happy to conduct an exclusive interview with Veleka Gray, former star of Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, How To Survive A Marriage, Somerset, Love of Life, As The World Turns, and Young & the Restless.

Check it out:

http://s15.zetaboards.com/SoapsWeb/topic/6517264/1/?x=0

[Khan]

From the interview:

SF: There have been rumors over the years that one of your co-stars at As The World Turns did not want to work with you and that is why you were replaced. Can you comment on that?

VG: He wanted his wife to have my role. That's all I'm going to say about that most unpleasant and awful business.

Hmmmm, lol.

(I have my theory/suspicion/guess...but I won't share.)

Thanks, SteveFrame!

[SteveFrame]

Oh it is no secret. The actor was Don Hastings. I just didn't call him out in the interview. It is very well known that he got Veleka fired from ATWT. It was reported in several magazines at the time.

[EastMA2]

Wow - great interview! I remember her mostly from ATWT and Y&R. It's interesting that Don got her fired from ATWT - yet it was Anne Sward that replaced her and not his wife.

[Khan]

At the risk of making an awful pun, soaps can be a very dirty business.

(BTW, SteveFrame, that's exactly who I was thinking of. Thanks for the confirmation, lol.)

Did you ask her how she ended up playing two different (and unrelated) characters on Y&R simultaneously?

[SteveFrame]

Not this time. There is going to be a follow up interview soon. I wanted those questions answered first. I think from our past correspondence that it was all an outcome of that bet with Wes Kenney which I hope will be explored more in the follow up interview.

We are trying to see how well the interview is recieved.

There are some out there that say current fans are not interested in reading about the older stars of the soaps.

Of course if they are, I am not one of them.

[brimike]

Steve, this was AWESOME!!!

THANK YOU!!!

[FrenchFan]

Waouh I didn't think Don Hastings could be like that. Maybe I cherish the image of good ol' Doctor Bob.