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In light of the news that All My Children is potentially being rebooted as a holiday movie on Lifetime, Soap Hub reached out to a few of your favorite Sunset Beach alums to see their thoughts about the potential to bring their show back.

Sb History

Sb aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. Sb was the first and only daytime soap opera created by Aaron Spelling. It also marked NBC’s return to new daytime dramas since the network canceled Generations in 1991.

Sam Behrens (Gregory)

How would you feel about a reboot as a movie for Sb? As unlikely as it is, I’d be tickled.

Where do you see Gregory at this point? Well, I haven’t given much thought to the show since it went off the air. Perhaps he and Olivia would be in their rockers on the back porch swatting flies Olivia identifies with. That’s a funny thought.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the first of two batches of this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, with Dick Van Dyke making history.

The 98-year-old actor became the oldest-ever winner of a Daytime Emmy for a his guest performance in Days of our Lives.

General Hospital took home the most awards of the night, with four trophies for best directing, best writing, best supporting performance (Robert Gossett) and best drama series.

Entertainment Tonight hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner returned to host this year’s ceremony, after emceeing the evening in 2022 and 2023. The program also won two awards, for best entertainment news series and best daytime personalities.

Michelle Stafford won best lead performance for her role in The Young and the Restless, and Thorsten Kaye won best actor for playing Ridge Forrester in The Bold and the Beautiful. Both shows were tied for most...

Clawdeena has always had a fascination for dolls. The Los Angeles-based content creator had about 150 Bratz dolls and 50 Barbies in her childhood years. Her favorites: Bratz’s Jade and Barbie’s Raquelle, because they aligned with her half-Chinese identity. Despite having a shared love for both, she says she gravitated toward the street-style appearance and the unapologetic rebellion associated with the Bratz brand as a kid.

“It did feel exclusionary,” Clawdeena, 23, says. “There was a very specific image of what it meant to be a Barbie.”

Greta Gerwig’s hotly...

“Monday Night Football” alum Lisa Guerrero is getting real about her time as a sports journalist in the early 2000s in her new memoir “Warrior,” most significantly revealing that she had a miscarriage during an on-air live football game.

After experiencing an intensifying pain in her abdomen during a game as a sideline reporter, “I pushed through and did my reports,” Guerrero wrote in an exclusive excerpt of her memoir shared with People on Wednesday. “When I felt a dampness between my legs, I thought, ‘Oh, I got my period.’ And then I remembered I was pregnant. I was having a miscarriage! I could feel blood leaking.”

Though the officials’ bathroom was in the tunnel right behind Guerrero, when she informed her assistant that she was headed to the restroom, he looked at the journalist like she was “insane” and said, “They’re about to throw to you.”

Guerrero then...

The Women in Entertainment (Wie) Summit will return with its sixth annual event this June, taking place for the first time since 2019, Variety has learned exclusively.

Founded by Renee Rossi (Relativity Ventures) and Gretchen McCourt, Wie aims to bring together women and men who are “dedicated to celebrating the empowerment of women in all areas of the entertainment industry.” Held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California on June 22, the 2022 summit with panel topics including “how creatives keep a beloved story relevant to up and coming audiences, how media companies are expanding their offerings to meet the needs of today’s consumers, how to negotiate deals within the IP and talent rights space, and much more.”

The current lineup of speakers for Wie Summit 2022 include:

Erika Anderson, West Coast Director, The Slate Group

Casey Kriley, Co-CEO of Magical Elves

Anjali Midha, CEO & Co-Founder of Diesel Labs

Teri Weiss,...

A&e is expanding its documentary series “Secrets of Playboy” with two additional episodes that will delve further into Hugh Hefner and his legacy through conversations with women who have never spoken up before.

“Secrets of Playboy” examines Hefner’s Playboy empire, unearthing allegations of coercion, sexual assault, drugging and manipulation from various women over decades. Since its premiere this past January, it has become A&e’s most-watched series launch in more than five years.

“Secrets of Playboy” airs Monday nights. The two new hourlong episodes will begin airing on March 28 and won’t be documentary style, like the current 10-episode series has been formatted. Instead, they will present new conservations, hosted by investigative journalist and former Playboy model Lisa Guerrero.

The new episodes will explore “The Girls Next Door” chapter of Hefner’s reign, taking a look into the E! series that aired in the 2000’s and revolved around Hefner’s younger girlfriends,...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed previously undisclosed charges against Steven Seagal for withholding information about upwards of $300,000 in promotional payments he made in relation to cryptocurrency.

On Thursday, the SEC announced it had settled charges against the 67-year-old actor for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting an investment in an initial coin offering (Ico) conducted by Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G), according to a press release.

The SEC found that the Above the Law star was promoting the investment on his social media accounts in exchange for $250,000 in cash and $750,000 worth of B2G tokens, all...

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland once said he owns three private jets because he doesn’t want to fly commercial with “demons.” The 82-year-old angrily denied the remarks to Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero, who confronted him in an interview where emotions veered wildly.

Guerrero spoke to Copeland on his $3 million Gulfstream V private jet, transportation he purchased from producer and actor Tyler Perry. She asked about his comments on his Believer’s Voice of Victory TV show in 2016, where Copeland called flying commercial to be similar to getting in ‘a long tube with a bunch of demons.”

Copeland angrily denied the remark. “No, I did not, and don’t you ever say I did.”

The Kenneth Copeland Ministries owner said he has other small planes, but mainly uses the Gulfstream and two Citations. Copeland claims he jets back and forth to help the needy.

The minister has also allegedly used the planes to go on vacations.

1953: Guiding Light's Dick dealt with marriage woes.

1976: Ryan's Hope's Faith faced danger from Kenneth.

1981: Another World's Cecile worried about Jamie's safety.

1992: Knots Landing's Pierce gave Paige an unwelcome surprise."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into d ifferent and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1953: On The Guiding Light, Dick (James Lipton) looked for reassurance about his marriage to Kathy from Dr. Keeler. Kathy became sad when Timmy pointed out that her husband had never been to see her.

Thanks to Jennifer for sending in the clip above.

1976: On Ryan's Hope, Kenneth...

Steven Seagal walked out of an interview on Thursday after he was asked about sexual assault allegations made against him.

The 66-year-old actor was accused of rape and sexual harassment by several women including Portia de Rossi, Julianna Margulies, Jenny McCarthy and Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero.

Seagal has denied all allegations.

During an interview with BBC Newsnight on Thursday, reporter Kirsty Wark asked Seagal about the allegations.

“You obviously spend a lot of time in Russia, you spend a lot of time in America, you’re making films and so forth,” she began.

“In terms of your life in America,...

#WhyIDidntReport is top-trending worldwide on Twitter today since shortly after President Donald Trump switched to Slut-Shaming the professor who alleges his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers.

“Why didn’t someone call the FBI 36 years ago?” Trump tweeted this morning of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations.

He also tweeted, “I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charged would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents.”

Hollywood and media personalities are among the tens of thousands who have blasted Trump for his tweets using the Twitter hashtag.

“I had no idea assault wasn’t okay because pop culture taught me that my body existed solely to be objectified and enjoyed by men,” tweeted Whitney Cummings.

Ashley Judd, meanwhile, tweeted, “The first time it happened, I...

Hollywood has been keeping the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office awfully busy this summer. According to the New York Daily News, local law enforcement has handed the Da’s sexual assault task force three new cases for review. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Police Department forwarded the Da their investigations into allegations of sexual assault made against comedian Anthony Anderson, as well as action star Steven Seagal. And in June, according to the Daily News, the Beverly Hills Police Department handed the task force yet another case against Harvey Weinstein,...

1953: Guiding Light's Dick dealt with marriage woes.

1976: Ryan's Hope's Faith faced danger from Kenneth.

1981: Another World's Cecile worried about Jamie's safety.

1992: Knots Landing's Pierce gave Paige an unwelcome surprise."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1953: On The Guiding Light, Dick (James Lipton) looked for reassurance about his marriage to Kathy from Dr. Keeler. Kathy became sad when Timmy pointed out that her husband had never been to see her.

Dutch model Faviola Dadis is further detailing her claims against action star Steven Seagal, who she says sexually assaulted her during a late-night audition when she was 17.

At a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Dadis shared more on the alleged encounter, saying that after arriving at Seagal’s hotel room for the audition in 2002, the actor told her to walk around in a bikini for him — which he told her to wear ahead of time.

Dadis claimed Seagal then told her he wanted to test their chemistry and proceeded to grab her nipples and grope her genitals, after which she ended the audition.

An extra who appeared in Steven Seagal’s 1994 film On Deadly Ground has accused the actor of rape after numerous women have come forward with accounts of his sexual misconduct.

Regina Simons told TheWrap that she was 18 at the time of the alleged rape, which she claims happened after Seagal, 65, invited her to a wrap party for the movie at his Beverly Hills home in 1993.

When she arrived, she said that he was the only one there and that there were no signs of a celebration.

“He took me into this room and then just closed the door and started kissing me,...

Although Jenny McCarthy first accused Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct back in 1998, amid new allegations against the actor, McCarthy, 45, detailed her casting couch experience with Seagal, 65, on SiriusXM.

“They sent me out for Under Siege 2,” McCarthy began, describing a 1995 film Seagal starred in, adding that she “purposefully wore a muumuu to the audition so the casting people would actually look at my face and watch my work.”

When it was finally her turn to audition, McCarthy said she noticed “there was no one else in the room,” but she convinced herself that wasn’t a problem because “he’s a celebrity.

Steven Seagal Photo: Gage Skidmore

Portia de Rossi has joined an increasing number of women making sexual harassment claims against Exit Wounds star Steven Seagal. "My final audition for a Steven Segal movie took place in his office," she tweeted yesterday. "He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants. I ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, 'well, I didn’t know if he was your type.'"

De Rossi's wife, television presenter Ellen DeGeneres, expressed her pride in De Rossi for speaking out.

Last week saw Julianna Margulies recall an encounter in which she agreed to meet Seagal (with whom she co-starred in Out For Justice) in a hotel room to discuss a role. She alleges that he had a gun with him when she arrived and that she doesn't know how she got out of the room unscathed.

Ellen DeGeneres is standing by her wife.

The TV talk show host, 59, tweeted out her support for wife Portia de Rossi on Twitter, after the actress accused Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct on Wednesday.

“I’m proud of my wife,” DeGeneres tweeted Wednesday evening.

Portia de Rossi is the latest actress to accuse Steven Seagal of sexual misconduct.

The Arrested Development star, 44, tweeted her alleged experience with Seagal, 65, on Wednesday. “My final audition for a Steven Segal movie took place in his office,” she wrote.

“He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants,” Rossi continued. “I ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, ‘Well, I didn’t know if he was your type.’ ”

My final audition for a Steven Segal movie took place in his office. He told me...

Portia de Rossi is speaking out.

The 44-year-old actress took to Twitter on Wednesday claiming that Steven Seagal sexually harassed her during an audition for one of his movies.

"My final audition for a Steven Segal [sic] movie took place in his office. He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants," de Rossi wrote. "I ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, 'Well, I didn’t know if he was your type.'"

The Arrested Development star's claims follow Julianna Margulies' description of an alleged encounter with Seagal when Margulies was just 23 years old.

“When I was 23, a casting director, a woman, said, ‘Steven Seagal wants to go over the scene with you in his hotel room at 10 o’clock at night,'” The Good Wife star told Jenny Hutt for SiriusXM’s Just Jenny last Friday.

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Julianna Margulies is adding her own experience to the ongoing conversation about sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood—and claims she had a frightening encounter with actor Steven Seagal. The Emmy-winning actress and Seagal costarred in the 1991 film Out for Justice.

A representative for Seagal did not respond to People’s request for comment on Friday,

“When I was 23, a casting director, a woman, said, ‘Steven Seagal wants to go over the scene with you in his hotel room at 10 o’clock at night,'” Margulies told Jenny Hutt for SiriusXM’s Just Jenny on Friday.

“I lived in Brooklyn,...

Steven Seagal is the latest major Hollywood figure accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

The Under Siege star was recently accused of trying to proposition Inside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero back in 1996. In a new interview with Newsweek, the reporter said the actor asked to meet with her at his home to do a private audition for the movie Fire Down Below. Feeling uncomfortable, Guerrero told the outlet she went with a female representative from her casting firm. Guerrero claimed Seagal greeted them wearing only a silk robe.

“When I read about Harvey Weinstein,...

Emboldened by the avalanche of sexual assault accusations leveled against Harvey Weinstein over the past week, others have begun to come forward with their own experiences of harassment in Hollywood — and they are naming names.

Among them is Lisa Guerrero, 53, an Inside Edition correspondent who says, while pursuing an acting career in the mid 1990s, she was summoned to Steven Seagal's Beverly Hills mansion for an audition for the female lead in 1997's Fire Down Below, in which Seagal plays an Epa agent who investigates the dumping of toxic waste in a Kentucky mine.

Guerrero, then 31, agreed...

In an election where anything can happen, CNN's Brianna Keilar was prepared when a so-called "turd tornado" struck – and later when she was faced with interviewing a "human owl."

If you're confused, imagine how Keilar must have felt when Breitbart reporter Ben Shapiro colorfully described Gop nominee Donald Trump as the aforementioned weather event during a television interview on Wednesday.

"As you probably know, I think Donald Trump's a turd tornado, but I also understand that he has no capacity whatsoever to control himself and be this staid politician that everyone wants him to be," Shapiro said. "Telling him...

In an election where anything can happen, CNN's Brianna Keilar was prepared when a so-called "turd tornado" struck - and later when she was faced with interviewing a "human owl." If you're confused, imagine how Keilar must have felt when Breitbart reporter Ben Shapiro colorfully described Gop nominee Donald Trump as the aforementioned weather event during a television interview on Wednesday. "As you probably know, I think Donald Trump's a turd tornado, but I also understand that he has no capacity whatsoever to control himself and be this staid politician that everyone wants him to be," Shapiro said. "Telling...

Chad Johnson (formerly Ochocinco) has lost his job, his reality show and now his wife of six weeks, Evelyn Lozada, following the NFL star's arrest for allegedly head-butting her after she found a receipt for condoms. Lozada filed for divorce Tuesday.

“I have been married to a baseball player [Scott Erickson] for 17 years and we have been around the world of sports, and we see this time and again where at the decline of a player's career, suddenly he starts to feel insecure, he starts to deal with emotional issues that come to the forefront. And sadly, sometimes he takes out these emotional problems with his wife or partner, and that seems to be something we are seeing right now,” Lisa Guerrero told me last night on Jane Velez-Mitchell's show. “It’s been a long time since Chad Johnson was at the top of his game as a football player.”

Just two weeks ago,...

The clock is ticking. On Sunday, March 7, 2010, ABC will televise the 82nd annual Academy Awards from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, beginning at 5 p.m. Pt/ 8 p.m. Et with hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. If you find yourself away from your television set and still want to catch the live experience of Hollywood's big night, don't stress, there's plenty of available options to you online. This is the age of the Internet, after all; when all things are possible as long as you have access to a computer or a smart phone. At Oscar.com , for instance, the official site for the 82nd Academy Awards, users will be provided with an interactive Red Carpet experience through ``Facebook Connect'', beginning Sunday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm Pt, an online event which will be hosted by Lisa Guerrero...

X-Men star Hugh Jackman is taking time out of his busy schedule to appear in the indie family adventure A Plumm Summer for first-time filmmaker Caroline Zelder. According to Variety, the actor joins William Baldwin, Henry Winkler and Lisa Guerrero in the film about two brothers in Montana who take on the FBI in a kidnapping case involving a puppet from a children's TV show. Jackman is also set to produce and star in The Tourist opposite Ewan McGregor and he recently signed on to topline Fox's musical remake, Carousel.

BRISTOL, Conn. -- ESPN plans to go Hollywood as part of an effort to revamp ESPN2, balancing its live sporting events with a slate of programs that blend personalities with sports news and information just before primetime and in late night. A pilot for ESPN Hollywood, a half-hour show that will focus on the intersection between the worlds of sports and entertainment, will be shot Sept. 13. If it makes the cut, ESPN Hollywood would land in the 6 p.m. ET slot Monday-Friday on ESPN2. ESPN brass also confirmed Wednesday that it is taking SportsCenter on the road this month for a week in the Kuwaiti desert with American troops. ESPN Hollywood will be produced out of Los Angeles, but hosts have not been chosen yet; former Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero will host the pilot, but executives said she wouldn't be the permanent host. Further details about the show, including a start date, haven't been set.