Y&R: TV Guide interview with Jill Farren Phelps

[JaneAusten]

Anna lee was promised by the prior regime shed have a job for life. It's not like they were using her a ton. What was she on maybe once every 2 months? I'm sure it really saved them a ton of cash firing her.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Jill needed that extra budget, so Anna Lee's old immobile ass had to go. LOL!

Seriously though, in no business are you guaranteed a "lifetime contract." GH wasn't using and would likely never again due to her poor health, what was left in it for them? It's just business. Not that it means much, she was dropped to recurring, not killed off while Anna was still alive.

It's not like Jill had an intern wheel Anna out to her senior citizen bus and tell her she had just worked her last day....

[wingwalker]

What a great interview by Michael Logan, asked pointed questions. I like Jill's answers for most of them, but I need to see it in action before I'm willing to trust her.

[dragonflies]

Anna Lee It did her in being fired from GH

It sure didn't get any less boring with her in charge and bringing in one of THE worst Kevin Buchanan recasts ever. To go from Kevin Stapleton to that was enough she should have had her ass canned

[Y&RWorldTurner]

My post was in regards to GH, not OLTL.

Does anyone remember that interview from 2001 when she had recently joined the show?

[Khan]

[dragonflies]

For all we know she could have She did let an intern bring JZ's things to her.

She is the one who told Jackie "no one wants to see old people kiss" as well

[Khan]

But, dragonflies, she loves people over 40! Why, some of her best friends happen to be Black gay over 40!

[ChitHappens]

LMAO! I almost choked on my chips!

[Khan]

Is this a dig at Y&R's current, anemic younger cast, perhaps?

[wingwalker]

I love how she confesses to killing like Maureen Bower but denies Frankie Frame like she's tried for murder and these were real people that were killed. Only in soaps.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I don't deny she has some ageist tendencies, but Jill broke the news to Jackie that she was being dropped to recurring.

It's not up to her to gather Jackie's stuff and bring it to her personally, no EP does that.

[DeeeDee]

:lol:

[juniorz1]

I don't understand why anyone cares if Genie is safe. Genevieve is not a core Y&R character and JFP would be more than justified in dumping her. Maybe she'll be lucky enough to do it in a PC way, aka "trade" her to GH.

[juniorz1]

You're not alone. I completely agree and wish ABC would have just left her there. The only problem I had was with the Robin Strasser friction, but Strasser's not exactly a shrinking violet herself. Either way, I enjoyed that period as well and the vets were thriving then. Sure, she brought in her newbies and some recasts. But most of those characters were brought on to create story for the core characters so I wasn't bothered by them as much (i.e. the Rappaports).