Phillip Returns

Grant Aleksander will return to GUIDING LIGHT as Phillip Granville Spaulding in January 2009. "I love the show very much. I always have, and when I left [in 2004], I tried to make it clear that there were no hard feelings," Aleksander tells Soap Opera Weekly. For more from Aleksander and how GL got him back, pick up the Nov. 25 issues of Weekly and Soap Opera Digest.

WOOHOO!!!!!!!! Best news for GL in a long time and I am totally stoked about it! The character of Phillip has connection with almost everyone on the canvas. It'll be looking forward in seeing scenes between Grant and Marcy (Lizzie Spaulding)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited November 10, 200817 yr by Rocket Man

Wow. That is just... WOW.

If Wheeler doesn't screw this one up. Aleksander's return might, just MIGHT, be akin to Heather Locklear's presence on Melrose. He and his character make things happen.

Well, well, well. GL FINALLY does something right!

I don't think this will change much about the show's current state and I'm sure they'll botch his return up terribly, but I'm definitely tuning back in for this. The show really started to go downhill when he was fired 4 years ago (I can't believe it's been that long!), and I'm really curious about what effect his presence will have on the show.

Edited November 10, 200817 yr by AddictedToSoaps

Doesn't change a damn thing for me. This show is dead.

I have every faith that Wheeler & Co. will find a way to screw this up, but I'm all for this return, it's something fans have been wanting since the day he left and something they've been hinting towards for years. I guess with RPG and BE out of the picture they have some good money to throw around on casting.

I don't care anymore, too much damage has already been done to GL, the Spauldings, and Phillip for me to care.

I love you Grant, but you should have kept away from this shithole.

I guess it's good for GL, but I feel sorry for any actor that has to act with that production model. It's just... ugh.

Why Grant? Have you seen the new production value? The continued shitty writing? Stay far away Grant!!

Why Grant why???

Maybe he's knows the end is near............

Well, now it's definitely being cancelled. No way he'd come back otherwise.

God it will be ugly to look at him having to come back to drab, colorless handheld GL.

I might be being too much of an optimist, but maybe this is just the CPR that Guiding Light needs to save it...if not, for just a little longer.

Edited November 11, 200817 yr by Actor87

I don't care anymore, too much damage has already been done to GL, the Spauldings, and Phillip for me to care.

I love you Grant, but you should have kept away from this shithole.

It's mindboggling that he would come back with the show the way it is (shithole is a perfect description). I think Vee is right. They got him to agree to come back for the last year of the show to wrap up his "story" as told by Ellen W and her conglomerate of "head writers" before it goes off the air. <sigh>

I can't see how they could have lured him back otherwise.

And now that Beth is [!@#$%^&*] Coop, along with his father....

I think it is very classy of him to come back to put "a period at the end of the sentence". That won't be possible with Harley, Gus, real-Cassie, and others. So it is nice that there might be SOME emotional resonance to the final chapter.

Is this April Fools?