Passions

Who Would You Lather?: Ryan Phillippe vs. Justin Hartley


Who would you lather, former One Life to Live star Ryan Phillippe or former Passions star Justin Hartley?

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Huber expecting Lucci's Second Grandchild


Her Passions character Gwen Hotchkiss may not have been lucky in love and life, but the same definitely can't be said for Gwen's lovely portrayer Liza Huber. According to Soap Opera Weekly, the child of Susan Lucci's heart (Remember when Erica called Bianca that?) and her hubby Alex Hesterberg are expecting their second child. Son Royce was born in 2006. Congrats to all!

Who Was Your Favorite Passions Supercouple?

Nine years ago this summer a quirky hour of soap operatic television premiered on NBC in the form of Passions. On the heels of James E. Reilly's triumphant first run on Days (at one point he took the show from Number 7 to Number 2 in Nielsen housholds and Number 1 among women 18-49), NBC offered the scribe his own show.

What Reilly gave them was an outrageous glimpse into the lives and loves of Harmony, a small, seaside village, where moms baked tomato soup cake and/or fought off the occasional werewolf, heiresses were BFF's with Lady Di and a witch and her beloved puppet come-to-life stirred up, well the Devil.

In honor of Passions ending its DirecTV run on Aug. 7 We thought we'd ask the show's diehard fans, of all of Passions many star-crossed pairs, who was your ultimate Harmony supercouple?

All My Children's Jacob Young to be a Dad!

There is a new addition to the Young Family arriving!  Jacob Young (JR, AMC; ex-Lucky, GH) and his wife are expecting their first child together, a boy.  According to Soap Opera Digest, the couple plans on naming their son Luke Wayne Young and no, it's not after Jacob's former onscreen father Luke Spencer.   The newest Young arrives this November.

In other AMC Baby news.... Susan Lucci (Erica Kane) is becoming a grandmother again.  Her daughter, Liza Huber (Gwen, Passions) is expecting her second child.

"Passions", "Jeffersons" vet Marla Gibbs guests on "Lincoln Heights"


Her turn at bat
. Comedienne Marla Gibbs, who shot to fame as Florence Johnston, George Jefferson's jive talking maid on The Jeffersons and later the sass-a-licious Mary on 227, will guest star on ABC Family's sleeper hit Lincoln Heights next season, according to an Essence.com Q&A.

Gibbs, who according to the the interview, has been recovering from an anyuerism and stroke in recent years, is also known to fans of the wacky, soon-to-be defunct DirecTV soap Passions as mean-spirited homophobe Aunt Irma. Glad to hear Marla is still doing her thang!

Brawn and Glamour Trailer Debut


From the stars who brought us Hope & Regret comes a new web based series, Brawn and Glamour. That's right folks, Smallville's Justin Hartley and Passions' Lindsey Harltey are back! Check out the trailer above and then visit You Tube to comment and subscribe.

Word has it that Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Passions' star Kim Johnston Urlich (Ivy) joined the project and will be appearing on the show.

WARNING: If watching at work you may want to turn down the volume or plug in an ear phone. The Brawn and Glamour trailer includes swearing.

Thanks to LondonMami for the tip!