I wonder if this means we'll see less of Sloan in the future (which would be a shame because she was growing on me).

https://pagesix.com/2023/07/09/leonardo-maria-del-vecchio-pops-question-to-jessica-serfaty/

We hear Del Vecchio, 28, one of the world’s youngest billionaires, popped the question while they were vacationing at the five-star Borgo Santandrea Luxury Hotel on Italy’s Amafi coast. - sounds nicer than spending time in Burbank...

 

Some people have all the luck. He's not bad looking, definitely easy on the eye when you know how much he's got in the bank. 

4 hours ago, Bright Eyes said:

Some people have all the luck. He's not bad looking, definitely easy on the eye when you know how much he's got in the bank. 

This inspired me to do a quick Google search, prior to Senior Del Vacchio, whose family owns the largest manufacturer and licensures of sunglasses in the world, she was engaged to Kaan Gunay, the billionaire owner of the Firefly ad agency, Milutin Gatsby, a billionaire film producer, James Packer, the billionaire Australian media owner and former flame of Mariah Carey, Logan Paul, and Ed Westwick.  So, 4/6 of her engagements were to billionaires.  And she was married at 17 to her baby's father.  Thus, she has seven diamond engagement rings, one for every day of the week.  But, considering her history of serial monogamy, I'd hold off on buying her a wedding gift just yet...

3 minutes ago, j swift said:

This inspired me to do a quick Google search, prior to Senior Del Vacchio, whose family owns the largest manufacturer and licensures of sunglasses in the world, she was engaged to Kaan Gunay, the billionaire owner of the Firefly ad agency, Milutin Gatsby, a billionaire film producer, James Packer, the billionaire Australian media owner and former flame of Mariah Carey, Logan Paul, and Ed Westwick.  So, 4/6 of her engagements were to billionaires.  And she was married at 17 to her baby's father.  Thus, she has seven diamond engagement rings, one for every day of the week.  But, considering her history of serial monogamy, I'd hold off on buying her a wedding gift just yet...

Oh God! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that Sounds like something out of a Soap opera 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so she's a real life vixen? 😳 

13 hours ago, jam6242 said:

Thanks for sharing the clip!

SSH's birthday is tomorrow so they celebrated together.

 

 

If it weren't for the 19 Watergate preemptions from May 17 to August 6, yes Suzanne would have debuted towards the end of July, but her first episode didn't air until August 20.

12 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

 

If it weren't for the 19 Watergate preemptions from May 17 to August 6, yes Suzanne would have debuted towards the end of July, but her first episode didn't air until August 20.

I thought that was what she meant.  Thanks for confirming it.

For one Thing I can be grateful, The Late Great Andrea's Passing reminded me that I got these HD 2012 Episodes to Save! I literally went down a rabbit hole of stuff I got looking for Things with her!

Avaliable soon on the Soap Vault Community!

Edited July 12, 20232 yr by Joseph

Today, I learned/remembered that Nicole's father was Paul Mendez and her mother was Fay Walker, which begs the question of why does Nicole use her mother's maiden name?

And even if there's some specific reason for that, why would Brandon use the last name Walker?

Is this a classic case of soaps de-Latino-izing a family?

46 minutes ago, j swift said:

Today, I learned/remembered that Nicole's father was Paul Mendez and her mother was Fay Walker, which begs the question of why does Nicole use her mother's maiden name?

And even if there's some specific reason for that, why would Brandon use the last name Walker?

Is this a classic case of soaps de-Latino-izing a family?

Not really.  Nicole's dad was abusive and beat Faye and the children.  He also sold Nicole into porn and raped Jan Spears.  Abe helped send him to jail.  Faye was basically a single mom and it makes sense the children used that name. I also believe the family was trying to hide from him at different points in time. I actually think they made Paul Latino after the Walker family was thought out because of Matt Cedeno's casting to explain the reason Brandon looked more ethnic than his sisters.  So, I don't think it was a case of white washing necessarily, but more the kids didn't want anything to do with an evil guy.   But that's just my take and other people could absolutely see it differently. 

1 hour ago, j swift said:

Today, I learned/remembered that Nicole's father was Paul Mendez and her mother was Fay Walker, which begs the question of why does Nicole use her mother's maiden name?

And even if there's some specific reason for that, why would Brandon use the last name Walker?

Is this a classic case of soaps de-Latino-izing a family?

Nicole DESPISED her father! He was abusive, sexually harassed her and forced her to do porn!

28 minutes ago, carolineg said:

So, I don't think it was a case of white washing necessarily, but more the kids didn't want anything to do with an evil guy.   But that's just my take and other people could absolutely see it differently. 

Agreed.

I would also imagine that they created Nicole and her sister before they concocted her backstory.  Because, it would be unusual for a child born in the 1970s to take on their mother's surname, assuming that Faye and Paul were married at the time of Nicole's birth.  I would've assumed it was Nicole's "stage name" from her time as a model, but my question arose from the fact that her siblings all share the same last name.

4 minutes ago, j swift said:

Agreed.

I would also imagine that they created Nicole and her sister before they concocted her backstory.  Because, it would be unusual for a child born in the 1970s to take on their mother's surname, assuming that Faye and Paul were married at the time of Nicole's birth.  I would've assumed it was Nicole's "stage name" from her time as a model, but my question arose from the fact that her siblings all share the same last name.

Definitely.  I think the father backstory was always there as far as the fact he was a bad guy.  Nicole was always vague and shady about the dad and her upbringing.  She was very embarrassed by Faye being a waitress as well.   Taylor first appeared with an entirely different last name (Raines) and I have no idea why.  I don't think it was ever an idea to make Paul Latino until Days had to clumsily handle clearly Hispanic Cedeno and how he might be Abe or Paul's son, which is a whole other issue lol.  The Walker/Mendez backstory has always been a little weird.  

Classic DAYS Roman & Marlena 1983. Marlena is thinking about DJ. Roman has been talking to Don. Comforting Marlena. She asks him to hold her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TR3TT6TKrg&list=PLKmA2lMn5BKs-vZ9yFwJjD4qyfHAcAb1v&index=5&t=150s

Classic DAYS RealRoman bearded, Marlena, Bo, Alice, Hope, Gene with RoMar married. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv875Rw1VP0

On 7/21/2023 at 2:13 PM, carolineg said:

Definitely.  I think the father backstory was always there as far as the fact he was a bad guy.  Nicole was always vague and shady about the dad and her upbringing.  She was very embarrassed by Faye being a waitress as well.   Taylor first appeared with an entirely different last name (Raines) and I have no idea why.  I don't think it was ever an idea to make Paul Latino until Days had to clumsily handle clearly Hispanic Cedeno and how he might be Abe or Paul's son, which is a whole other issue lol.  The Walker/Mendez backstory has always been a little weird.  

Raines or Walker was originally Faye's maiden name. Nicole was a social climber so I think she might have changed her name to distance herself from her working class roots. Original Taylor was a cleaning lady in the building where Eric Brady was handling all his photography. I believe Sally Sussman Morina created Taylor and Nicole, while Fay, Brandon, and Paul came later under Tom Langan, but I might be wrong on some of that.