Interview with Six Soap Hunks from the 80s

[cassadine1991]

http://www.tvinsider.com/article/74725/80s-soaps-hunks-roundtable/

 

[robbwolff]

A Martinez's comments are strange. Why is he crediting Jill Farren Phelps for "taking a chance" on Cruz and Eden? I believe Farren Phelps was music director when Cruz and Eden were paired up, not executive director. I wonder if he meant Mary-Ellis Bunim.

[Paul Raven]

Don Diamont probably has aged the best and Michael E Knight the worst.

[Gray Bunny]

Cute article. And yes, Don Diamont is still one of the top studs on B&B. I'm glad to hear he's loving playing Bill Spencer, because it is definitely a better role than Brad Carlton. 

[DRW50]

What an awful photo. Kin Shriner looks like he's on meth and they seem to want to make Diamont's cheap dye job even more apparent than it already was. MEK looks like he's covering up a shiner.

 

 

It tells you just how far standards have fallen that this wasn't cleaned up by Logan. She was not EP. If anything her tenure did more to split up Cruz and Eden than bring them together. I guess she just gets credit for anything anyone liked at Santa Barbara.

 

Shriner: When you no longer have a 32-inch waist, you have to be more on your game than ever. These young soap stars today are like, “It’s our time. Get out of our way,” so you have to show up at the studio like a soldier of fortune who’s going behind enemy lines. You need to kill those scenes! 

 

Does Kin even do anything on GH now? 

 

With the exception of Selleck and Stamos and very few others, most primetime stars of the ’80s can’t get arrested now. 

 

That's some first class ego stroking. Primetime stars in the '80s have held on a lot more than most soap leading men of that time. That's just how the industry works. 

 

Ugh Logan sucks. Kissass to the end.

[Soapsuds]

A Martinez and Kin Shriner were soap hunks?   I mean Kin was adorable way back but not a hunk and A Martinez NEVER!

[DRW50]

Martinez was a huge draw in the mid/late '80s.

 

At least Geary and Braeden weren't included...

[Soapsuds]

Huge draw yes for a couple I didn't get the appeal of but not a hunk.

[dragonflies]

You're nuts MEK looks amazing

[Paul Raven]

Sorry,imo he looks like a middle aged lesbian...

[frequentsoapfan]

That's what I said! Especially looking at those pics posted. Not my definition of hunk

[Soapsuds]

At time on GH the ones I found to be hunky were Jack Wagner, Scott Thompson Baker and Steve Bond. As for Santa Barbara those that I found hunky were Todd Mckee and Forry Smith(who was actually a 90's actor on the show).

[YRfan23]

So Davidson's butt shot was during a love scene?....I thought the viewers only saw a side of it when Lauren had Paul pose for that centerfold...

[~bl~]

This was much later. CBS was experimenting and then the Super Bowl happened with Janet and Justin, so they stopped. 

[YRfan23]

Well is that scene online? LOL just curious...