The Soap Dispenser staff has posted its recaps of all eight terrific soap opera episodes airing Wednesday, October 31. Here are the links to each below:

• One Life to Live
• Guiding Light
• The Young and the Restless
• Days of Our Lives
• As the World Turns
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• General Hospital
• All My Children

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We’ll get back to As the World Turns spoilers and news soon.

First, though, allow us some time to bask in the shirtless glory of two soap opera hunks: Agim Kaba and Austin Peck.

Swoon… 

Dena Higley will be returning to Days Of Our Lives as Co-Head Writer.

Higley returns to the NBC daytime drama, a show she has written for from the mid 1980s to 2004, before leaving to take over at One Life To Live from 2004-2007.

According to report, Higley replaces Meg Kelly, who will remain on the writing staff.

We’ll have more in this story as it develops.

Sterling Sulieman is a new face on All My Children.

Meanwhile, the show is preparing to welcome back an old one.

ABC has confirmed that Kate Collins will return to the show on November 21. The actress who portrays Janet Green will be making appearances on All My Children through the end of the year.

There’s an interesting article in the current Soap Opera Digest, as a number of General Hospital actors discuss the best advice they’ve received from co-stars.

Here’s a sampling:

Josh Duhon (pictured, Logan)
“Kin Shriner (Scott) has been mentoring me. Maurice Benard has taken a liking to me, too. They both told me that in this genre you’ve got to learn what to throw away and what to put emphasis on, what to make a solid point on, because in daytime you have so much material.

They told me that soap actors have some of the best instincts on television and [to rely] on them. They said, ‘Hone your craft. Hone your instincts and trust them.’”

Jason Gerhardt (Coop)
“When I started, Rick Hearst (Ric) told me that if you’re playing an evil character, you always have to find the likability and the truth that the character feels. Because no matter what he’s doing and how bad it is, to the character, it’s the right thing to do.

Maurice Benard also told me that you’re going to get a lot of feedback from everybody about what your character would do, but that you know the character the best, because he’s growing with you. He told me to take their advice and internalize it. If it’s good, process it with your own choices. Then, give them a little of what they want, and they’ll think it’s a lot.

Kirsten Storms (Maxie)
“I was upstairs in [writer] Bob Guza’s office one day, talking about my scenes. I was a little frustrated. He said, ‘Kirsten, go with your instincts. That’s what we hired you for.’ I realized that sometimes I second-guess myself. I over-analyze how I do things, especially if I start watching the recorded episodes. That advice has helped me…going with how I initially feel I should do something.”

Click here to read the full article.

All week, we’ve been sharing with you a handful of soap opera spoilers, courtesy of the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Today, the focus is on One Life to Live.

“It’s sort of ‘all roads lead to Texas,’ ” said One Life to Live writer Ron Carlivati of the Buchanan-infused November. “There’s a few major storylines going on that all will come to a head in November and will collide into each other and I think be really exciting and give a lot of payoff for the audience.”

Natalie/Jared/Sarah/Cristian: “The push-pull between Jared and Natalie is continuing on into Texas. Basically, Sarah invites Jared to the will reading to get under Natalie’s skin and of course, Natalie being her feisty self, does everything in her power to kind of tick off Jared. And we hope and wonder if they’ll cut past all of this and see that they maybe have some feelings for each other underneath.

Sarah and Cristian (David Fumero) also have this building romance, but Sarah goes down to Texas with Jared, partially to upset Natalie, and we might see Cristian finding himself a little jealous of what’s going on.”

Antonio/Talia: “Antonio and Talia is a romance that we’re continuing to build. We’ve had some fun with her being forced to pretend that Shaun is her boyfriend, and we use Jamie a lot as a little, maybe unintentional matchmaker. I think she’s a little girl who wants a mother and also wants to see her father happy, and she continues to kind of put them together in situations.”

Rex/Adriana: “There’s sort of a pregnancy scare that may or may not be what it appears to be between Rex and Adriana. Rex comes to believe that Adriana is pregnant and keeping it from him but there’s sort of a little twist on that.”

John/Todd/Marty/Blair: “John and Todd have taken off together and we don’t want to lose sight of the romance that’s going on, so Blair and Marty, another unlikely duo who can’t stand each other, become very worried that John and Todd (Trevor St. John) together on the road will most likely kill each other, so similarly to what we do with John and Todd, they kind of reluctantly agree to team up and hopefully bail them out of any trouble that they get themselves into.”

The Soap Dispenser staff has posted its official episode recaps of all eight exciting soap operas airing Tuesday, October 30. Here are the links to each one below:

• All My Children
• One Life to Live
• Days of Our Lives
• Guiding Light
• The Young and the Restless
• As the World Turns
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• General Hospital

Thank you for choosing The Soap Dispenser for daily soap opera spoilers, news and recaps. From The Young and the Restless to One Life to Live, All My Children and much more, thanks for making The Dispenser the #1 daytime TV site around.

Ashlee Holland was supposed to begin taping her Days of our Lives role last Friday, but the date has now been pushed back. For good reasons.

Hogan Sheffer, the head writer on Days of our Lives, decided he wanted to beef up the part and give Holland some real material into which she could sink her teeth.

Those that saw the live finale of I Wanna be a Soap Star saw a clip where after Ashlee’s performance of one of the tasks, Sheffer said, “I want to write for you.”

Looks like he was serious.

Holland will now begin taping November 30 and is scheduled to air December 26.

Here are a few casting notes from The Bold and the Beautiful. All three of these actors will appear on the show on Thursday, November 1:

• Dan McVicar returns as Clarke.

• Mick Cain returns as C.J.

• Drew Tyler Bell (pictured) returns as Thomas.

On Days of Our Lives, Kristian Alfonso has played on-screen mother to Jason Cook, who portrayed Shawn Douglas Brady from 1999-2001. She recently talked about him on the official show website.

“I haven’t spoken to Jason in a while. I miss him dearly. I miss working with him and socializing with him. He’s a great guy and extremely talented,” the actress said.

When Jason left the role of Shawn, blue-eyed hunk Brandon Beemer (pictured) stepped in.

“Brandon is a wonderful guy and a delight to work with,” Alfonso said.