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Drew’s actions on General Hospital have most of Port Charles up in arms. However, they’re not the only ones. Gh fans were also taken aback by his drastic change into a rather nefarious character. But the viewers know full well that Drew is just a character played by Cameron Mathison. In real life, the actor is a nice guy who’s been super busy. He’s also had some difficulties in recent times, but didn’t let that stop him from opening up about them as he moves toward the next chapter of his life.

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As a guest on Maurice Benard’s (Sonny) YouTube mental health show, State of Mind, Mathison explained how he was very comfortable talking about the trials and tribulations in his life. “It’s been an especially challenging stretch the last, I guess, four years in total, but specifically the last couple months,...

Felicia Minei Behr, the well-regarded former executive producer of “All My Children,” who later served as Senior Vice President of ABC Daytime, has died. She was 83 years old.

According to a statement released by her daughters, Kristina Behr Miller and Francesca Behr, on Facebook, Behr passed away on Sunday, March 2, following a five-year battle with brain cancer.

“We are writing on behalf of our mom, Felicia. She passed away peacefully on March 2nd surrounded by loved ones. We appreciate the love and support you have given our family over the last 5 years as she battled brain cancer,” they said on Facebook.

On Instagram, Kristina shared several photos of her mom and captioned the post, saying, “The irony that she has passed away on the day of the Oscars…it was her favorite, and we’d all watch it together as a family.” She added, “While we are heartbroken, we are...

It’s hard to see anyone else take on the role of Mateo Santos on All My Children. But it could’ve happened. Mark Consuelos was almost passed for the role on the ABC daytime soap.

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Secrets from the show were revealed during Susan Lucci in Conversation with Andy Cohen: All My Children at 55, which took place on Tuesday, January 14 in New York City. AMC’s casting director, Judy Blye Wilson, admitted it wasn’t easy to cast Consuelos for the role of Mateo.

“I don’t know why they were dragging their heels on it, but they actually had him play the role, so he started playing the role, and I had to continue to search for another person,” Wilson explained, per People. “So we screen-tested Mark several times. Finally, I begged the producer, and she relinquished, and it turned out to be the best, one...

Mark Consuelos is known for his co-hosting duties on Live With Kelly and Mark. However, he originally got his start on All My Children. Recently, one of the soap’s crewmembers revealed that they had to fight for Consuelos to be on the soap.

Mark Consuelos Owes A Lot To All My Children

Consuelos’ first acting role was on the educational serial, Connect With English. However, his breakout role would be playing Mateo Santos on All My Children in 1995.

The role would be very impactful for Consuelos, as it on the soap he would meet Kelly Ripa, his onscreen love-interest and future real-life spouse. In fact, the two married by 1996.

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Later, Consuelos would become his wife’s permanent co-host on Live With Kelly and Mark in 2023. Notably, he had been a guest co-host on the series for years, with Ripa joining the talk show in 2001.

However,...

Kelly Ripa gave a big thanks during a panel discussion at the 92Y in N.Y.C. The Live with Kelly and Mark co-host talked about her life journey and how she got to where she is now. She spoke about her rise from starting on a daytime soap opera to hosting her talk show and having a great family with her husband, Mark Consuelos.

Kelly then gave special thanks to one person, who said she would have nothing if not for them. Here is who Kelly thanked and what she said about it.

Kelly Ripa Thanks One Person For Giving Her A Family

Kelly Ripa was at 92Y in N.Y.C. and was on a panel called All My Children at 55. This was a special anniversary event hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen and All My Children legend Susan Lucci. During the panel, Kelly had big things to...

Before going toe-to-toe in Wakanda, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan‘s paths almost crossed in Pine Valley.

All My Children casting director Judy Blye Wilson recently recalled hiring Jordan to play Reggie Montgomery on the ABC soap opera back in 2003 after Boseman was fired from the role.

“I did cast Boseman, who became very famous, as we all know. And he was only on the show for just a week, because they really wanted the character to be about 16, 15 years old,” said Wilson at the 92Y, according to People.

“[Boseman] was a magnificent actor to audition. And long story short, they fired him,” she added. “And then I put in Michael B. Jordan, who became just as famous. And he was only about 15 at that time. Now, I could go on and on, but I think I don’t want to do that.”

In 2020, the late Boseman’s longtime agent...

On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, daytime legend Susan Lucci will host a 55th anniversary celebratory event honoring the daytime drama series “All My Children,” where for more than 40 years she captivated audiences with her portrayal of Erica Kane, a character who quickly became a cultural icon. Look for Lucci to reflect on the creation and evolution of her character and the lasting impact of “All My Children” on television history.

Titled “Susan Lucci in Conversation with Andy Cohen: All My Children at 55,” the event will take place in person and online at the 92nd Street Y (92Ny) in New York City on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. Et. Tickets start at $25 for online viewing while in-person runs between $50 and $70, depending on seating location.

Moderated by Bravo star Andy Cohen, fans can look forward to seeing Kelly Ripa (Hayley Vaughan Santos; “Live with Kelly and Mark”), Eva Larue (Maria Santos), Jill Larson...

Maggie Blye, the blond Houston actress who supported such action films as Hombre, Hard Times and the original The Italian Job, has died. She was 73. Blye died on March 24 in West Hollywood after a two-year battle with cancer, her sister, casting director Judy Blye Wilson (The Young and the Restless), announced. Blye also portrayed the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Henry Fonda's characters in Ash Wednesday (1973) and appeared in Waterhole #3 (1967) opposite Carroll O’Connor and James Coburn and in Diamonds for Breakfast (1968) with Marcello Mastroianni. Blye stood out as the girlfriend of Benny Hill's

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While the Oscars have yet to make room for casting directors — a pivotal part of the Best Picture equation — the oversight isn't stopping the Casting Society of America from readying its third decade of picking up the Academy's slack. Csa announced Monday morning that the 30th Annual Artios Awards will honor Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Rob Marshall and Emmy Award-winning casting director Ellen Lewis for their individual work in the world of casting. The news arrives with nominations in categories of television, theater, new media and short film, and on the heels of the ceremony's move from November to Jan. 22, the thick of the awards season. Feature film nominations will be announced closer to the show date. Marshall, whose adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" bows Dec. 25, will receive the New York Apple Award, "recognizing individuals who have made special contributions to the New York entertainment...

Giving props to the hottest shows and stars rocking the airwaves during the day, the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards nominees were just unveiled.

And the top nod-getter this year is “The Young and The Restless” with 23 chances at glory, while “General Hospital” nabbed 19 mentions.

“Days of Our Lives” and “Sesame Street” both tied for third place thanks to 17 nominations each, and there are plenty of other big names on the list as well.

The 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards will take place on June 16th. The nominees are:

Outstanding Drama Series

The Bold and the Beautiful

Days of Our Lives

General Hospital ABC

One Life To Live

The Young and the Restless

Outstanding Children’S Animated Program

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness

Penguins of Madagascar

Robot and Monster

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

WordGirl

Outstanding Children’S Series

The Aquabats! Super Show

Everyday Health

R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour The Series

SciGirls...

CBS has renewed its entire daytime lineup—including daytime dramas “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless”—for next season, the network announced Jan. 29.CBS chat show “The Talk” and game shows “The Price Is Right” and “Let’s Make a Deal” are also returning for the 2013-14 TV season, after all reported ratings growth over last year. Viewership for “The Bold and the Beautiful” was up 6 percent this year.“The Young and the Restless,” which CBS says has been the top-rated daytime drama for “more than 24 years,” was previously given a multi-year renewal through the 2013-14 season. The soap celebrates its 40th anniversary March 26.“We are proud of CBS’s history of quality and leadership in daytime, thrilled with our current success, and we look forward to more great things ahead from the outstanding creative talent in place at each of the shows,” CBS Entertainment...

The Casting Society of America tonight announced the winners of the 28th Annual Artios Awards for outstanding achievement in casting. The Big Budget Feature Drama award went to Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee for The Help. Mindy Marin and Kara Lipson (Associate) received the Big Budget Feature Comedy award for Crazy, Stupid Love. There was a tie for Television Series Drama. The honor was shared by Mark Saks and John Andrews (Associate) for The Good Wife and Judy Henderson, Craig Fincannon (Location Casting), Lisa Mae Fincannon (Location Casting) for Homeland. Nicole Sullivan hosted the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The New York ceremony was canceled due to Hurricane Sandy. Here is the complete list of winners: Big Budget Feature – Drama The Help, Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee Big Budget Feature – Comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, Mindy Marin, Kara Lipson (Associate) Feature – Studio or Independent – Drama My Week With Marilyn, Deborah Aquila,...

Last month TV Guide posted a story about Sarah Michelle Gellar possibly returning to All My Children before the soap ends its run on ABC on September 23. Soap Opera Digest has now confirmed the news. Said Gellar, "I have no idea what I'm doing or who I'm playing. I told them I don't want to be Kendall; that's Alicia's [Minshew] role now. She has made that beyond her own. She's amazing. I just wanted to be a part of it. I said I would be a patron in a bar, I don't care."

Gellar also had another funny suggestion that ties into the history of the show: "I can come down from the attic with Bobby Martin; I can be his ski bunny wife."

“When I heard that the show was canceled I didn’t understand," she went on to add. "It just doesn’t make sense to me. So, I called Judy Wilson,...

Smg says she ‘just wanted to be a part’ of the soap’s final season! How gracious, amazing, etc. of her!

Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to TV in a big way this fall — and we’re not just talking about her sweet new CW thriller Ringer. “I can officially confirm that I will be doing a guest spot on All My Children,” she announced Aug. 4 at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour.

Before she was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah originated the role of Kendall on the soon-to-be-defunct ABC soap, winning a Daytime Emmy in 1995.

“When I heard that the show was canceled I didn’t understand,” Smg said. “It just doesn’t make sense to me. So, I called Judy Wilson, who is the casting director and has been since I was there, and I said I wanted to do something. … I was very specific — I...

Updated: It’s official: Sarah Michelle Gellar will return to All My Children for a guest star appearance during the show’s final batch of episodes — but not in her previous role as Kendall.

“I can today officially confirm that I will be doing a guest spot on All My Children,” Gellar told critics. “When I heard that the show was canceled, I didn’t understand. Like, ‘forget it, it just doesn’t make sense to me.’ And I called Judy Blye Wilson, who is the casting director and has been since I was there, and I said, ‘I want to do something.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is headed back to Pine Valley, but there’s a twist: She will not be reprising her role as Kendall.

“I can officially confirm that I will be doing a guest spot on All My Children,” Gellar announced at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, where she was promoting her new CW thriller Ringer. “When I heard that the show was canceled I didn’t understand. It just doesn’t make sense to me. So, I called Judy Wilson, who is the casting director and has been since I was there, and I said I wanted to do something.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards.

The Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards will be broadcast from Las Vegas for the second year in a row on June 19th, 2011 over the CBS Television Network, hosted by Wayne Brady, the Emmy® Award winning actor, singer, and comedian and host of the CBS game show, Let's Make A Deal.

“It is with great pleasure that the Daytime Emmy® Awards returns to the CBS Network again,” said Darryl Cohen, Chairman, NATAS. “The Daytime Emmy Awards is one of the cornerstones of our business and this year’s Las Vegas-based celebration, produced with our broadcast partner, Associated Television International, and hosted by Wayne Brady promises to be an exciting evening of entertainment.”

The 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to game show hosts Pat Sajak of...

Here are the Daytime Emmy nominations in the technical categories.

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design For A Drama Series All My Children ABC Production Designer James Jones Art Director Bryan Langer Set Decorator Kay Dee Lavorin The Bold and the Beautiful CBS Production Designer Jack Forrestel Art Directors Fabrice Kenwood Charlotte Garnell Scheide Set Decorator Elsa Zamparelli General Hospital ABC Production Designer Chip Dox Art Director Daniel Proett Set Decorators Jennifer Elliott Andrew Evashchen One Life To Live ABC Production Designer Roger Mooney Art Directors Ruth Wells John Kenny Martin Fahrer The Young and the Restless CBS Production Designer William Hultstrom Art Director David Hoffmann Set Decorators Joe Bevacqua Andrea Joel Fred Cooper

Outstanding Achievement for a Casting DirectorFor A Drama Series All My Children ABC Casting Director Judy Wilson General Hospital ABC Casting Director Mark Teschner One Life To Live ABC Casting Director Julie Madison...

Joseph Gatt and Justin Bruening have has been cast in NBC‘s Wonder Woman. The 2011 Wonder Woman production sees Joseph Gatt as a retainer of Elizabeth Hurley‘s Veronica Cale. Joseph Gatt will be “a physical presence against Wonder Woman” on the superhero TV series. What that basically means is that Wonder Woman (Adrianne Palicki) and Joseph Gatt will be fighting on screen during David E. Kelly‘s pilot. “It’s assumed that should the series be picked up that Gatt will join as a recurring character.”

So who is Joseph Gatt you ask and what has he been in previously?

Gatt shot his first film role in Greece, playing opposite Oliver Reed, in Orpheus & Eurydice. Among other roles, Gatt performed in Miss Saigon, produced by Cameron Mackintosh ‘Len Miller’ in ITV’s police drama The BillSaurian, for the Sci-Fi Channel ’Incubus’ in Killing Ariel and ‘Uber Phantom’ in the...

"No Country for Old Men" and "Juno," two of the most honored films of 2007, made one more appearance on the awards circuit Monday night as they took home top prizes at the Casting Society of America's 24th Artios Awards.

Recognizing outstanding achievement in casting, the awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, singled out Oscar winner "No Country" in the studio feature-drama category, with the trophy going to Ellen Chenoweth and Jo Edna Boldin (location casting). In the studio feature-comedy category, the winners were Mindy Marin, Coreen Mayres (location) and Heike Brandstatter (location) for "Juno."

The group gave its Career Achievement Award to producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Thomas Schumacher received the New York Apple Award at a simultaneous event in New York hosted by Julie Halston, and the Hoyt Bowers Award was presented to the late Mali Finn.

Donna Morong...