January 2008 News Archive (Page 15)

The week of daytime drama rolls on. Welcome to the place that covers it all, The Soap Dispenser. Let's recap the Wednesday, January 9 soap opera action ...

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

We appreciate your visiting The Soap Dispenser for soap opera news and spoilers from The Bold and the Beautiful to General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and all the rest. Thanks for making The Soap Dispenser the #1 soap opera site!

Kelly Monaco and Elizabeth Hurley have more in common than just great looks.

They shop at the same fashion boutique!

But you tell us, readers, who looks better in this dress: the General Hospital star or the British actress?

The NAACP Image Awards honor projects and individuals that promote diversity in the arts in television, recording, literature, and motion pictures. FOX will air the live awards presentation on February 14.

Here are the soap opera nominees, just announced by the organization:

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
• Nazanin Boniadi – “General Hospital” (ABC)
• Christel Khalil – “The Young And The Restless” (CBS)
• Brook Kerr – “Passions” (NBC)
• Tracey Ross – “Passions” (NBC)
• Tika Sumpter (pictured)– “One Life to Live” (ABC)

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
• Kamar de los Reyes – “One Life to Live” (ABC)
• Kristoff St. John – “The Young And The Restless” (CBS)
• Bryton McClure – “The Young And The Restless” (CBS)
• Mykel Shannon Jenkins – “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS)
• Tobias Truvillion – “One Life to Live” (ABC)

We've already published news on the following actors returning to various soap operas, but here are the confirmed dates for various comebacks:

January 16: Rebecca Budig returns as Greenlee on All My Children. ABC is promoting her as "the real" Greenlee (versus Sabine Singh, as the "fake Greelee," we guess).

January 18: Angie (Debbi Morgan) returns to All My Children. Angie will come back to Pine Valley to tend to an ailing patient... who turns out to be her son!

January 25: Jesse (Darnell Williams), who is Angie's husband who died on screen 20 years ago, returns. Oops! Even death is a minor inconvenience on most daytime dramas.

January 31: Emmy winner Sarah Brown returns to General Hospital as a new character - not as Carly Benson, the role that won her the Emmy. She'll play the sister of one of the show's gangsters.

Justis Bolding (Sarah), Sabine Singh (Sarah and soon-to-be ex-Greenlee of All My Children) and several of their colleagues are getting ready for the the first-ever Tails N Tots charity event May 10.

It will take place at the Imperial Swan Hotel in Orlando.

Bolding and Singh’s two charities – Best Friends Society for Animals and the Katrina Relief Youth Training Program, respectively – will benefit from proceeds of this star-studded event. Other actors slated to attend include:

• Bree Williamson
• John Brotherton
• Brandon Buddy
• BethAnn Bonner
• Josh Duhon
• Brandon Barash
• Jacob Young

Nadia Bjorlin is not shy.

Of course, if you looked this way, would you hide it? Check out a recent photo spread of the Days of Our Lives actress below:

The week of daytime drama rolls on. Welcome to the place that covers it all, The Soap Dispenser. Let's recap all the Tuesday, January 8 soap opera action ...

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

We appreciate your visiting The Soap Dispenser for soap opera spoilers and news from The Bold and the Beautiful to All My Children, One Life to Live and all the rest. Thanks to you, The Soap Dispenser is the #1 soap opera site online!

We've already added 13 new photos to our soap opera picture gallery this week.

Click on the thumbnails below to see bigger versions of each photo - and remember to scroll down the site to read the latest news on these actors...

As loyal One Life to Live fans know, Erika Slezak's character of Viki is working as a waitress in Paris, Texas.

Residents of that town are thrilled about such a development.

"Isn't that a hoot!' Becky Semple, the Lamar County tourism director, said to The Deseret Morning News. "We've gotten lots of calls; so far it's been very positive."

Joni Kincaid of Paris is too busy working to watch One Life to Live when it airs Monday through Friday. She waits on tables at Magel's Grill. But her daughter is taping each episode for her.

"I've been following Viki at least 20 years, " Kincaid said.

Is she surprised the soap heroine is in Paris, Texas?

"I'm surprised anybody ever comes to Paris, Texas," she said with a grin.

"But really, there's lots of friendly people here."

Singer Shirley Jones will join the cast of Days Of Our Lives in February.

The Oscar winner (for Elmer Gantry in 1950) will play the role of Colleen Brady, complete with an Irish accent.

The role marks Jones' first foray into daytime television, and while we have no Days of Our Lives spoilers right now regarding any story lines, the singer/actress did say:

"It's hard work! I didn't want to do it - but they gave me more money than ..."

We'll let you think of the four-letter word Jones used to end that sentence.