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Greg Vaughan (DAYS/GH/Y&R) was spotted on the set of Beyond the Gates during a recent birthday celebration for Clifton Davis (Vernon). Could he be the potential new 'hot' hire Michele Val Jean and Sheila Ducksworth teased?!

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On Queen Sugar, Greg Vaughan was almost the only white actor in a soap about a Black family.
The main characters were three siblings.

  • The lead sister was "Nova", played by Rutina Wesley:
    and Nova's lover was "Calvin", played by Greg Vaughan.

     
  • The male sibling was named "Ralph Angel", played by Kofi Siriboe,
    and his girlfriend-later-wife was "Darla", played by Bianca Lawson.
     
  • The other sister was "Charley", played by Dawn-Lyen Gardner,
    and her cheating ex-husband was "Davis", played by Timon Kyle Durrett.

The other main character was their Aunt Violet, played by Tina Lifford.

It was a great series and all seven seasons still stream on Hulu.
Ava DuVernay created and produced the show. 

The Calvin and Nova romance was complicated and well done.

Rutina's Nova was a feminist, bisexual, a political activist, and a writer -- a very strong, intelligent, and creative Black woman. 

GV's Calvin was a married cop who was leaving his wife for Nova.  After a few years something from the past surfaced -- he had to face up to what he had done many years ago as a rookie cop -- he didn't act to stop someone else's racist violence when he could have.  He faced up to it and served jail time -- they didn't just handwave it.   Nova had other lovers while he was in jail.  He came back eventually and they had a difficult reunion but love won out eventually.

Rutina was the stronger character of the pair, and Calvin understood this and supported her choices in life.

All I can say is, I bought their romance, it felt real.

Here is a random assortment of twitter photos of #calvinandnova through the years:
https://x.com/hashtag/calvinandnova
 

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I'm a happy man with this news :)

 

I still think Piper should have chosen him instead of Leo on Charmed :)

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On DAYS, Elia Cantu plays Jada Hunter, who is a cop.  DAYS simply put her into Sal Stowers' slot after Sal left -- a Black female cop -- but didn't write much for her.  Elia has elevated the little bits that DAYS has given her.
After Queen Sugar ended, and GV was back fulltime on DAYSDAYS decided to pair Elia's Jada with GV's Eric Brady.  It wasn't done organically - something was written that they both liked jogging and lived in separate rented rooms upstairs from the Brady Pub. 
It felt (to me) that the show decided "oh well GV worked with a Black woman on Queen Sugar, so let's write that in for Jada" -- but no real romance was written.
Both actors did what they could with it.  Then Jada got pregnant and Nicole got jealous, and Jada ended up choosing to abort.  Many of Jada's storylines felt thrown together, (but that's been true of most of the characters on DAYS). (Elia Cantu deserves better! )

All I'm saying is -- don't judge how GV would be with a Dupree woman, based on the Eric/Jada pairing - because DAYS wasn't written well.

You can get a better idea from watching Calvin/Nova on Queen Sugar.

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Fyi, since spring 2025 Greg Vaughan has been public about his relationship with Shanna Moakler.  Shanna Moakler is a model and former Playboy playmate who is friends with Kelly Monaco, and almost did a podcast with Kelly.
Interestingly, both Shanna Moakler and Daphnée Duplaix are both currently working as judges to select new 2026 Playboy playmates.

More on all of that on this SON thread (Link
 

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