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5 Reality Series Inspired By Daytime Soap Operas


 

When it comes to reality series being inspired by daytime soaps—such as ABC's proposed reality version of General Hospital it's really a situation of been there, seen that. For the past two decades, unscripted television has borrowed heavily from scripted, serialized daytime dramas. In fact, they've done so with the help of veterans of the daytime soap community! Here are 5 reality series with strong ties to the daytime soap world.

No. 5:  Dirty Soap


In 2011, E! debuted this unscripted drama from producers and All My Children alums Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. Featuring suds stars: Kelly Monaco (Dancing With The Stars, General Hospital, Port Charles), Kirsten Storms (General Hospital, Days of Our Lives)  Nadia Bjorlin (Days of Our Lives), Brandon Beemer (The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives), John-Paul Lavoisier (One Life to Live), Farah Fath (One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives) and real-life married couple Galen Gering (Days of Our Lives, Passions) and his wife Jenna, DS only ran for one season.

The series did manage to create a new breakout star in Bjorlin's mean-as-hell mama Fary. It also shed light into why Storms and Fath often vacillate back and forth between friends and frenemy status.     
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Jenna Gering on Dirty Soap's Future: "Not Being Picked Up"

Bad news soap fans. Dirty Soap's Jenna Gering announced via Twitter the show will not return for a second season. Gering, wife of Days of Our Lives' Galen Gering tweeted:

Such a shame. Now where am I going to see the show's breakout star, and Nadia Bjorlin's, mother Fary go in on people?

Will Dirty Soap Return For Season 2?

Is Dirty Soap coming back for a second season? Cast member and One Life To Live star Farah Fath answered the million dollar question fans of the reality series are dying to know via Twitter:

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One Life to Live's Farah Fath on Dirty Soap: "It's Very Misleading"




Are E!'s cameras pulling a fast one on Dirty Soap viewers? According to Farah Fath  they are. Fath dished with We Love Soaps regarding her plunge into reality TV and, revealed what you see on the Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos venture isn't always quite what it seems. READ MORE

 

Abtastic Drama Continues on Dirty Soap

Drama, drama, drama and more drama, that’s what you can expect on Sunday's episode of Dirty Soap on E! The latest sneak peek at the Dirty Soap season teases New York fashion week and the relationship struggles of  Brandon Beemer and Nadia Bjorlin.

Meanwhile, Bjorlin’s mother Fary isn’t sure what a six-pack does for a woman. When will John-Paul Lavoisier put a ring on Farah Fath's finger? What is up with Kirsten Storms? Is Kelly Monaco too skinny and will Galen and Jenna Gering be able to get pregnant? Watch the Dirty Soap sneak peek after the jump! READ MORE

Dirty Soap's Nadia Bjorlin's Mom on Brandon Beemer: "If You Get Married and Have Children, I Will Kill You Myself!"




Dang, son! A new episode of E!'s addictive reality sudser Dirty Soap debuted tonight and it wasn't the soapers who were stealing all the scenes, it was their moms (Although Farah Fath's revelation to One Life to Live costar Josh Kelly that JP Lavoisier's ahem, rooster has a tendency to pop out of those pajamas he's forever sporting was almost the episode's parmount moment!)!

Lavoisier's mom, Bambi was worried about her baby boy moving to LA and being rushed into a marriage she thinks he might not be ready for. Bambi, however was about as ferocious as the Disney cartoon character she shares a name with, compared to Nadia Bjorlin's mother Fary! To say Mama Bjorlin isn't feeling her striking daughter's relationship with the equally beautiful Brandon Beemer is an understament on par with saying Kelly Monaco's General Hospital mom Nancy Lee Grahn is a wee bit opinionated on Twitter!




When Mama Bjorlin wasn't cooking up delicious Persian dishes on tonight's eppy, she was calling Beemer names like "stupid" and "arrogant." She also told The Bold and the Beautiful star, to his face, he had no class and said to Nadia, "If you get married and have children, I will kill you myself." Yowser!

Not to say all of Mama Bjorlin's hateration was unmerited, since a clip from next week's show spoils The Beems forgetting Bjorlin's birthday! What do you guys think?

Is Mama Bjorlin the new Supreme Reality Super Bitch, or is she right to be going after Beemer about how he treats her kid?