All- Behind The Scenes Rumors

[SteveFrame]

She was on the show for about 4 years or longer in the 70's. She played Jeri Clayton who sang at Doug's Place. At one time she even wanted Doug. Her daughter was Trish who was in love with Mike but got pregnant by David.

[AllAboutAngst]

Being the die hard Santa Barbara fan that I am, I remember that Nancy Lee Grahn and Lane Davies did an interview where they talked about what happened

Weekly: Did your on-screen romance carry over into your personal life?

Grahn: Yes, and who the hell cares (laughs)? It was a long time ago.

Davies: It's not that it wouldn't have happened under different circumstances, but daytime is an especially dangerous arena for romantic involvement because the mind can be programmed to believe something. If you're thrown in not only from the run of the show but year after year telling someone how much you care about them, trying to create a reality to those scenes so the audience believes them — sooner or later it becomes very hard for your reptile brain to know the difference.

Grahn: We were there for 16 hours a day. There was a lot of lag time.

Davies: And a lot of the time you are by yourself in a dressing room.

Grahn: Or together...

Davies: Frequently, with startlingly attractive people. It's a dangerous place to be. We were young.

Weekly: Do you think it is a bad idea to get romantically involved with a co-star?

Davies: I have never been sure if that had that much to do with the deterioration of the working relationship. It probably had something to do with it, but on the other hand, it might have fallen apart anyway. If you have ever seen (Neil Simon's) The Sunshine Boys, they want to bring them back together but they couldn't because there were so many buttons that were pushed.

Weekly: Would you have big blow-outs?

Grahn: No, he would sit there and not say anything and completely refuse to do anything, and I would be like,"Blahhh, blahhh, blahhh..."

Davies: I knew that would tick her off. I'm Celtic so I brood rather than blow up, generally. And I prefer passive aggression to beating the crap out of each other.

Grahn: We fit the stereotypical man/woman thing. It was classic. I spent many hours in therapy. Between my real-life boyfriend and him I thought: I'm going to figure this out come hell or high water. It took me 10 years, but I have come through the other end victorious.

Davies: I don't think she has made any gains at all. She's as crazy as she has always been.

Grahn: I just don't have boyfriends now. I feel being single is the solution to all my problems.

Weekly: How did everybody on the set react?

Grahn: We provided great entertainment. They loved it, they egged it on. They were like,"Look — he's locked himself in the dressing room and she won't talk to him!"

[AllAboutAngst]

Sorry for the double post.

[SFK]

I had read this, then a close friend worked with him and confirmed it... Daniel Davis (Eliot Carrington, TEXAS; better known as Niles the butler in The Nanny) can be a real tyrant, a monster even. By the end of a run, the rest of the cast is usually not on speaking terms with him.

This puzzled me b/c from what I've read Bevelee McKinsey was fond of him.

[brimike]

I love this interview. Talk about two people who lay it all out on the table, are grown-ups about it, and acknowledge the truth in a situation, while still able to be self-deprecating and honest. Even if they're not the best of friends (or anywhere close) in real life, they both just come across as incredibly human and genuine in this. Thanks for posting it!

[LoyaltoAMC]

Some stuff I remember hearing throughout the years:

AMC: In the early 80s, coke use on the set was rampant and out of control. Peter Bergman has remarked about this in interviews. Supposedly when they taped the Jenny/Tony engagement party on location on a yacht on the Hudson River, the coke was freely making the rounds. Supposedly Kim Delaney got wasted and collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. At that point it got so bad that EP Jackie Babbin had to intervene and do her best to make the set drug free.

Supposedly Kate Collins and James Kiberd hated each other with the heat of a thousand suns, although they had great chemistry on screen. She finally couldn't take anymore and asked to be released from her contract in 1992. Also I heard that her return a couple of years ago was contingent on Kiberd NOT being asked back too.

OLTL: In the late 80s, when Louise Sorel was on the show, she had a wild affair with EP Paul Rauch that did not end well.

GH: Leslie Charleson and Denise Alexander both DETESTED Chris Robinson. He was supposedly a terror to work with. I remember Charleson saying she once found Alexander in tears after an altercation with Robinson. It got so bad for Charleson that she asked to have their characters remains separate storywise, but Monty wouldn't budge.

THere was the fist fight between Tony Geary and Richard Culliton after an argument about the direction of the show.

In the early 2000s, two of the young actors who were playing brothers supposedly began a hot and heavy affair. Word has it that a make-up or wardrobe lady stumbled upon them having a sexual encounter. Eventually, they both left the show...one joined another show and the other became a born again Christian.

[Mitch]

I thought Lane Davies was gay and having an affair with that cute young guy (at that time) who later went on to the B & B (to play a character raped by his father of all things!?!?! They can do that nasty stuff but they can't have gay characters on that show??)

Here is a blast from the past, all of those "farm hands in tight jeans," Marland was obsessed with in the 80's got on the show via DM's good old casting couch (I dont know if Hensley did or not) the most talked about was I think his name was Tyler something or another..he looked like a gay porn star, he was on loving and he was such a bad actor on ATWT that when the writers strike hit they made him a psycho so they could fire him.

[Heyou]

I thought it was because of her stalker situation not her weight gain?!

Word is that Tammin Sursok has a well known benefactor at Sony which is how she got the job in the first place and also why she keeps it in spite of viewers hating her. Even Daniel Goddard eluded to it one of their joint interviews.

[AllAboutAngst]

Lane Davies isn't gay. After his affair with NLG (during the time I think they both said they were in relationships with others) he was married for a long period of time and I think he's recently divorced.

[FrenchFan]

Jacob Young and Coltin Scott (or Stephen Martines, I don't know which name he wants to be called by now). It seems the logical choice but Young is now married and have a child ...

[SarahJoyBrownFF]

Okay,

DAYS: I kinda believe that one because RKK had great affection for Lisa Rinna.

Santa Barbara: I don't believe this one because Lane was playing opposite Nancy Lee on GH. I always thought they worked well together.

GL: PLEASE!!!!!! She is a perfectionist. Diva? No but I wouldn't blame her if she were. There is nothing wrong with being a Diva (unless you are Diana Ross).

OLTL: I believe this one and it would make me extremely happy if it were true!

[juniorz1]

That interview is AWESOME! Great to have another die hard SB fan on the board!

How funny that Denise ended up working with Chris once again on AW.

Sounds like Robert Tyler to me. RT is the hotness- good for Marland! I'd love to see RT back on daytime. He wasn't the best actor, but he had this quiet, smoldering sensitivity about him that made me love him.

It was DEFINITELY the weight gain. I have that on high authority. I won't reveal my sources though......... coughMICHAELBRUNOcough

He sure did. Their chemistry was amazing. FYI: RKK didn't get along with Crystal Chappell either.

That one is the absolute truth. Remember, they didn't play opposite on GH until over 10 years later. Their not getting along had lots to do with their affair. See their joint interview that AllAboutAngst posted in this thread for further proof.

You say perfectionist, I say self-centered b!tch.

[SteveFrame]

This is from a book that I have in my library.

These are onscreen couples who could not get along when off camera. It says most of them hated one another.

1) Robert Kelker-Kelly & Kristian Alfonso (the book says she refused to sign her contract unless he was fired)

2) James Kiberd & Kate Collins

3) Luke Perry & Shannon Doherty

4) Judi Evans & Vincent Irizarry

5) Nancy Grahn & Lane Davies (it does say they later resolved their differences)

6) Jessica Tuck & Joe Lando (he wanted to quit after the first week instead of work with her; they later became friends)

7) Tristan Rogers & Sharon Wyatt (she was mad because he told the producers not to hire her; after the romance between the two was dropped they became friends)

8) Robert S. Woods & Jacqueline Courtney

9) Susan Lucci & Lee Godart

10) Michael E. Knight and Cady McClain (argued constantly during their first run together about courtesy; some arguments got very very loud. when he returned in 1992 they became friends.

[All My Shadows]

Wasn't RKK like...a freak? In the bedroom, I mean. He'd proposition young female co-stars for sex, and even dirty old woman Frances Reid couldn't stand him. And then there was something about how bare-knuckle boxing or something like that. Some crazy, crazy stuff.

[SteveFrame]

I just wonder if Chris Robinson might have been the actor that Daytime TV magazine referred to in the 70's too. In their California column there was a blind item that one of the actors on GH had such bad breath that his female co-stars dreaded kissing him.

Daytime TV was not prone to print those blind items like some are today. They did it very rarely. I always wondered what actor that was.

Yes that was always the rumor.

Kristian also refused to work with another actor too. I forget his name now but she learned of his gay porn past and wouldn't work with him.