Bradley Cole News

Bradley Cole has almost seen it all on Guiding Light. He started on the show in 1999.

The veteran actor recently spoke to Soap Opera Digest about the development of his character, Jeffrey, and story lines surrounding him. Here are a few excerpts:

Soap Opera Digest: So, let's talk "Jeffeva." They had a break and now they're back together. What's Jeffrey's take on all the drama?
Bradley Cole: Jeffrey's madly in love with Reva, but they have all this stuff going on, and then Reva's preoccupation with the movie of her life and it's a big sort of barrier between them. He's very much devoted to Reva.

Digest: Viewers are seeing a new, softer side of Jeffrey, no?
Cole: All this stuff's catching up with Jeffrey. He's always been an independent person and he's always been on the margins of Springfield society and has never really had to invest his emotions like he's doing now. He's got a [premature] grandson...

So, he's completely out of sorts. He doesn't know how to deal with this and Jeffrey's always someone who, his whole life, has been taught and trained how to deal with things because he's never really invested his emotions. Now, he has family, in a sense. Reva, he considers his family. He's got Olivia and Ava and now he has a grandson. So, it's very, very confusing and a disturbing time for him.

Step right up, Bradley Cole, you're the next soap opera star to get profiled on The Soap Dispenser!

Sorry, there's no cash prize for this honor. Just the revealing of a few fun facts behind this Guiding Light star:

• The actor has released three music albums: Tonight, All Your Dreams and In Our Time.

• Starred as Jordan on All My Children in 2003.

• Cole went to Europe after his initial foray into acting failed. In Paris, he played guitar in bars and on the streets to make money, while also studying French.

• Attended Pepperdine University in Malibu with the intention of playing sports. But an arm injury took him away from baseball and introduced him to acting.

Bradley Cole will be performing in his Rock Show for Charity in New York on Friday, October 5.

Presented by his own label, Nomadic Music Inc., in coordination with the American Red Cross, the event is set to take place at the Red Cross Greater New York Headquarters located at 520 W. 49th street.

The Guiding Light actor occasionally performs his songs and plays guitar on the show. Recognized as an accomplished music artist, he has toured throughout the United States and has released and recorded at least five albums.

In the upcoming musical event, Cole and The Bradley Cole Band, will be joined by other performers such as Kim Zimmer, Ricky Paull Goldin, Ron Raines, Robert Newman, Nicole Forester, Tom Pelphrey, Trent Dawson, John Driscoll, Caitlin Van Zandt, Frank Dicopoulos and other special guests from the cast of Guiding Light and As The World Turns.

Tickets are currently on sale for $125. Proceeds will be donated to the Greater New York Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Forget Guiding Light or anything involving soap operas.

Bradley Cole has far more important topics on the mind: reality TV competitions.

The actor discussed the two most famous one with Soap Opera Digest a few months ago:

Soap Opera Weekly: I’m surprised to learn that you’re an American Idol viewer. What did you think were some of the highlights from the celebrity performers this season?
Bradley Cole: Smokey Robinson was fantastic, the best thing on the whole show [that night] — Gladys Knight, also. Those two were fabulous.

Weekly: Are you a fan of Blake Lewis and his beat-boxing?
Cole: It was all right. It's like, “Okay, do something else.”

Weekly: Were you rooting for anyone in particular?
Cole: The whole season was really bad; a bad crop. Bad is relative — they are all worthy singers — but it was nothing like the other years. This was the first season I watched almost every episode. At first I thought there weren't going to be any boys [advancing]. The boys were terrible this year! That Melinda was by far the best singer, but she's a professional back-up singer.

Weekly: There's no rule that contestants can't be professional singers; they just can't have a record deals.
Cole: It's like Dancing with the Stars. Joey [Fatone] is a professional dancer. He's was in that boy band (‘NSYNC). All they did was dance all day! They certainly didn't sing in the band.

Weekly: But he didn't win.
Cole: That show is very hard to watch in the beginning. You have to sit through all of that horrible stuff. This year, I couldn't believe what those people were doing with just a one-week rehearsal. I tried dancing before. I took dancing lessons. It's hard. You would've have to dedicate at least eight hours a day. We need more soap representatives, though. The winner of one season was a soap star (General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco, Sam).

A few weeks after this interview was conducted, of course, it was announced that Cameron Mathison of All My Children would be Dancing with the Stars in the fall.

It's safe to assume he has Cole's vote.