She's the only television character in history to drive off a bridge — in a fit of postpartum psychosis; become a ghost; an Amish farmer; a clone; an amnesiac, island princess; a time-traveling Nazi fighter and a breast cancer survivor, who learns her husband cheated with her baby sister. Whew, and to think, all of that happened after she baptized herself the Slut of Springfield!

Soap Classics has released Guiding Light — The Reva Shayne Collection, featuring five, classic episodes starring multiple Daytime Emmy winner Kim Zimmer as notorious, Tulsa, Oklahoma-bred she-devil, Reva Shayne.
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As the world mourns the devastating loss of one of the greatest vocal talents of all time, let's take a look back at one of a then relatively unknown Whitney Houston's first TV appearances. It was with Jermaine Jackson, performing their duet "Nobody Loves Me (Like You Do)" on an episode of CBS Daytime's As The World Turns in 1984.

The song was the love theme for ATWT's biggest supercouple, Steve and Betsy Stewart Andropolous (Frank Runyeon and Meg Ryan). Watch the clip, (Also featuring future Oscar winner Marisa Tomei as Marcy Thompson!) after the jump!

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We’ve missed Julie Pinson since As the World Turns went off the air in 2010. Thankfully, the folks at SFN have released a promo focusing on her River Ridge character Kimberly Reeves, who returns to town to confront her past. The series, which also features familiar daytime faces Signy Coleman, Beth Ehlers and Jon Prescott debuts on January 13 at 9 P.M. EST. Watch the Julie Pinson's River Ridge promo at SFN.

If you loved the four-DVD set of classic As the World Turns episodes and the Christmas in Oakdale DVD released by SoapClassics.com, here is more good news. According to We Love Soaps, SoapClassics.com will release a four-DVD set of classic Guiding Light episodes in mid-January. While all of the episodes included haven’t been revealed,  WLS reports Roger Thorpe’s (Michael Zaslow) death and Quint (Michael Tylo) and Nola’s (Lisa Brown) wedding will be among them. The site also teases us with this enticing tidbit.

We can't spoil all the episodes on the disc just yet but fans of Santo Domingo, the Bauer family, personality disorders, fire trucks, the magic of Nick, ex-husbands, singing med students, drunken stepfathers and Irna Phillips will be happy.

No. 100: Maria Arena Bell, The Young and the Restless (Debut or Return)

Welcome to the fourth annual Daytime Confidential Hot 100. Throughout 2011, Daytime Confidential has been tracking which stars or daytime executives our readers have been most interested in, whether positive or negative. Each month we published the Daytime Confidential Top 20, based on your clicks of those individuals. Now, at the end of the year, we’ve compiled the entire year into the Daytime Confidential Hot 100.

In 2011, forty-one individuals made their Daytime Confidential Hot 100 debut or returned to the ranking after falling off the list in 2010. Former The Young and the Restless star Shemar Moore made the biggest jump from 2010, climbing 67 spots. Of the daytime stars that appeared on a soap in 2011, One Life to Live’s Robin Strasser had the largest improvement, rocketing from No. 91 in 2010 to No. 31 in 2011. Former All My Children star David Canary experienced the largest drop, falling 77 spots. One Life to Live’s Gina Tognoni is the only person who maintained the exact same ranking she held in 2010.  Daytime Confidential's 2010 Hot 100 No. 1 star, Kim Zimmer, slid to No. 21. READ MORE

 

Alexis Jordan (Martha Byrne) has grown weary of dealing with inept, lower level madams on this week's installment of Anthony Anderson's Anacostia. The question is, will Lexie be able to get rid of Dominique (Pasha Diallo), before Dom and her henchmen can dig up enough dirt to oust the Beltway Madam?

Elsewhere in town, Sean (Anderson) is worried about having kissed an old flame, as he prepares to wed his back-from-the-dead lover. Tortured, ex-supermodel Nicole (Kena Hodges) is on the brink of falling off the wagon, while another Anacostian familiar with substance abuse drama, Salina (Chante Bowser), is dealing with a hellacious community service stint. Then there's the black Karen Fairgate of the D.C. area, aka Mia (Tamieka Chavis), who snaps on a nasty neighbor as she awaits the results of her biopsy. Check out the latest, sudsy episode of Anacostia after the jump!
 

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