DC Blind Item: Former soap ingenue finds a new gig

[dragonflies]

Daytime Confidential BLIND ITEM: It didn't take long for this former West Coast soap princess to find a new gig. Just a few, short months after news broke she was leaving daytime, the thesp has booked one of this fall's hottest drama pilots. Expect the news to drop any day now...

I bet it's Melissa Claire Egan

[Soapsuds]

Yup

[Cheap21]

good for her! I will be watching

[Soapsuds]

I wonder if its the same pilot that Eric Sheffer Stevens is in??

[Cheap21]

he was cast in a comedy, not drama

[Soapsuds]

Oh ok..couldnt remember....thanks

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Yeah my guess is Melissa Claire Egan, so happy for her if it is!! I will follow her wherever she goes

[UKBoi]

Has to be MCE. Shame the CW's Melrose Place incarnation didn't stick around longer, she'd have been perfect on that!

I wonder, could she be headed to the much buzzed about "Good Christian Bitches"?

[Jonathan]

The first person I thought of was Shannon Kane. MCE /= ingenue

She look so much older than she really is.

[OLTL_fan]

Thats the first pilot that came to my mind.

[Cheap21]

I thought Shannon Kane but she has a blossoming movie career thats just picking up. I dont see her putting that on hold to do another tv show, at least not this soon. She's a Tyler Perry star now and that alone will guarantee her a few roles in a couple of films

[dragonflies]

Well it was posted as "Soap Ingenue" but also saw it as "soap princess" LOL

[Cheap21]

What other west coast actresses recently left? It could be Shelley Henning from Days

[SFK]

I only watch AMC and OLTL, but could "princess" be some sort of clue or just a general term like "diva" in this case? I also wouldn't call MCE or SK an ingenue, Colby's the closest thing AMC has to a fortysomething ingenue.

[Soapsuds]

I just found it...its a Fox comedy. I wish it was on one of the other networks...oh well...I'l watch if it gets picked up..and commercial he is in with no words...lol

http://greginhollywood.com/eric-sheffer-stevens-the-former-as-the-world-turns-star-has-been-cast-in-comedy-pilot-for-fox-46351