Actors who were involved in real life

[amybrickwallace]

I read somewhere that before he met and married Genie Francis, Jonathan Frakes was involved with actress Lauren White in the late 1970s. They played married couple MJ and Tom Carroll on The Doctors.

[SamandWillowFan]

I don't remember if Justin Bruening and Alexa Havins were mentioned, but talk about an attractive couple.

[TV4Me]

You are all (or one person with multiple accounts) full of crap. Beth Ehlers never burned any bridges at Guiding Light or All My Children. She was the most beloved and professional person there. Ehlers and her character Harley were the most popular actress and character on Guiding Light right up to the end. The person who caused the most trouble trouble on GL was Zimmer. She refused to take a small pay cut which led to many firings. Zimmer demanded crazy, non-mundane stories all the time, with her being front and center at all times. That is what drove millions of viewers away.

I liked Beth Ehlers as Taylor. The problem is she was never on. The soap magazines were trashing All My Children for not using her. Soap Opera Weekly had a great column where the columnist compared it to someone buying a beautiful piece of jewelry and putting it in a drawer and never taking it out to show off. Beth never said she was doing Shakespeare. She said Pratt expected her to do Shakespeare. She couldn't care less about Shakespeare. Martinez was not an actor. He said so in every interview he ever gave. Pratt refused to write for Martinez because he wasn't an actor. Pratt pressed Ehlers into the role of Martinez's acting teacher. Interestingly, Martinez beat out a disabled vet in a wheelchair who had acting experience. He was really good looking and had great chemistry with Ehlers. He told his local newspaper he was sad that he wasn't going to get to work with Ehlers. They went with Martinez because he was a little older. They made a huge mistake. They should've gone with the other guy.

[TV4Me]

The person or persons here trashing Beth Ehlers know nothing about her. You have obviously never read one interview she ever gave. Her castmates were always praising her to the skies. Lindsey McKeon said Ehlers would always show up to work in a good mood, always smiling, and everyone was happy to see her. Tognoni said Ehlers had no ego. Even Zimmer cried in an interview one year after Ehlers left, saying that her departure was really hard on everyone and they missed her. She even said Goldin leaving was different because he wasn't there as long as Ehlers. The fact is that Ellen Wheeler was the reason the whole cast, not just Ehlers, was in a bad place those last couple years. Morale was low. They all felt that Wheeler was in over her head and the show was definitely headed for cancellation. There were articles where cast and crew were very critical of Wheeler. The reason Ehlers left was because Wheeler wanted her to go off contract. Beth had a mortgage to pay so that was a no go. AMC offered her a contract and a chance to stay in New York and not have to uproot her kids and move to Los Angeles.

[spike99]

Eileen Davidson and christopher mayer  (chip-santa barbara) married and divorced

 

niva arvesen ( cassandra -y&r) and todd curtis ( skip- y&r) dated...

 

marcy walker (eden-santa barbara) and billy warlock (days) married and divorced

 

dane witherspoon and robin wright (santa barbara) married and divorced

[soapfan770]

I forget Beth Ehlers had trolled here once before lol

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[John]

 

Beth Elhers is that you? Don't you have Public Policy to shape????

[TV4Me]

The Kim Zimmer troll thinks she is clever accusing any poster who praises Beth Ehlers, someone with millions of fans, of being Beth Ehlers. Yeah, like she would waste her time on an obscure site devoted to a dead TV genre. She has never had any interest in the internet or social media. She refused to allow any of her fans to start an official fan club for her. The Zimmer troll is so obvious. No matter how many names she uses or how many accounts, you know it's her. She uses the same exact words, terms, and phrases. She spreads the same long ago debunked lies. 

[Paul Raven]

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[TV4Me]

The lie about Beth Ehlers and Cynthia Watros having a "fling" comes from the same troll spreading the lie about Beth having a "fling" with Rob Bogue. How do we know? It's literally the same story with the same laughable premise. Beth is going to have an out-of-nowhere lesbian fling with a random co-star she barely knew. There's no evidence they were friends or ever socialized. In 20 years on GL, she's gonna have a one-time-only lesbian "fling" with Watros? Why not Maureen Garrett, a now out lesbian, who was a good friend of Beth's? Why not any of the many female co-stars Beth was close friends with? Because the lie comes from Kim Zimmer's assistant. Zimmer's assistant hates both Watros and Ehlers, two actresses she felt were a threat to her boss' GL supremacy (or shall I say perceived supremacy). The Bogue story is equally laughable. This is where Beth and Bogue were supposed to be having an affair and decided to leave their spouses and get married and have kids. The worst fan fiction ever. So many implausiblities. First of all, why have an affair and then end it because he won't leave his wife? You're having an affair. Who cares if he leaves his wife? Secondly, the part about having kids. Clearly that is saying you won't have kids unless you are married. This makes having an extramarital affair pointless. Ever since Beth was 19, she talked about wanting to be a mother and wanting a lot of kids. She wanted to get married and have kids. She didn't want children out of wedlock. She didn't want to be a single mother. She didn't want to adopt. She wanted a family unit: mother, father, and children under the same roof. If Beth wanted to get married and have more kids, she would've done so.

 

Beth's first marriage ended the day it started. She and her husband rarely saw each other before the wedding. He was a doctor who worked round-the-clock hours. She was at GL. They realized on their wedding day they made a mistake. They realized they would be too busy and wouldn't be able to have kids for many years. They decided to be best friends. Beth referred to her first husband as her best friend 15 years later on The Martha Stewart Show. The second marriage was on the rocks for a variety of reasons: She wanted more kids, he didn't, he supposedly cheated on her, she may have been raped and it caused friction in the marriage (she worked as a volunteer rape counselor after the divorce).

 

I was told years ago the relationship with Derwin ended because she caught him with another woman, and it wasn't the first time or the only woman. Considering how obsessively in love with her he was and how brief their relationship was, that could only mean she wasn't putting out. No other reason for him to look elsewhere. It's pretty clear Derwin never wanted to be a father. He turns 60 in a few months and still isn't a father. He may have proposed to Beth thinking she would have sex with him and she told him not until after the wedding when they were trying to have babies.

 

[JellicleCat]

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[Soapsuds]

so true

Another troll that needs to be banned.

[TV4Me]

Keep laughing "Paul" You just show your ignorance and delusion. Keep living in your Alternate Reality Universe where the people you like are popular and the people you hate are unpopular. The ratings and every magazine and soap site poll (where she dominated and was #1 for all the years she was on GL, even beating out actresses from other soaps from all three networks) and the TVQ rating are evidence of Beth Ehlers' immense popularity. Nothing a hack like you can say can change that. Funny that some troll who posts in a thread about Guiding Light, a show that's been off the air for 11 years, is trying to claim Beth Ehlers wasn't popular. She not only was popular, she was the only reason the show lasted as long as it did. Beth wasn't on the show either time the show was cancelled. You know who was? Your favorites! Now THAT is funny. When Beth left in 1993, GL starting losing viewers like a sieve. Amazingly, it was the OJ trial that saved GL from losing more viewers. Kim Zimmer returned in late 1995 and failed to increase the audience even slightly. Beth Ehlers came back in 1997 twice and both times the ratings increased by more than a full point. That's about a million and a half viewers. Combine that with the fans who were still watching and you get multiple millions. I know math is hard for most people.

[Soapsuds]

@Errol We've got another one.

[TV4Me]

Look in the mirror "Soapsuds." YOU are the villain. I am a member here. You are no more important than me. This is a PUBLIC FORUM. Got it? Don't you dare try to censor me. If @Errol cared about villains posting here, YOU would be gone. You would've been gone years ago. Get lost. Literally nobody agrees with you. You stay in your bubble., keyboard warrior.