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SOAP OPERA UNCENSORED

  Volume 02, Issue 30 (No. 40)

  BY NELSON BRANCO

  Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

  INSIDE — BREAKING NEWS: Inside Y&R’S Coup d'état! Source: Maria Arena Bell Out; Jill Farren Phelps In! Plus: Writing Shake-up! Publicist Quits! Plus: Major Cast Bloodbath In The Works? Are Sally Sussman Morina, Josh Griffith In? — FOREVER RESTLESS: Y&R’s Jeanne Cooper Previews Her Tell-All Memoir in an Exclusive Interview! Plus: Her Thoughts on What Bill Bell Would Think of Maria Arena Bell’s Y&R! Also: Is a Sequel Memoir in the Works Already? Extra: Why Did It Take So Long For Bill Bell’s Bio To Be Sold? Extra, Extra: Inside Cooper and Melody Thomas Scott’s Past Feud! And Cooper’s Current Love Life Exposed! Confirmed: Jen Lilley Out; Kirsten Storms In! DAYS: Explosion — Who Lives; Who Dies? Will Sami Die Saving EJ’s Life? Plus: Joe Mascolo Returns! Is DAYS Moving To New Studios? Will NBC Renew DAYS? Interview: Chandler Massey on a Will-Sonny Romance; And The End of EJ and Will! Find Out Which Former GH Actor Is Begging To Return? Brandon Beemer’s New Role! More Soap Hunks Expecting Babies! Inside Eric Braeden’s Recent Toronto Sojourn! GH/DAYS Star Jason Cook Sounds Off In A Must-Read Article on the Future of Daytime! Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

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  UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

  “Oh my gosh, we did [get criticized]. It was crazy and Brian Frons took a lot of heat for that, and I was sad to see [ALL MY CHILDREN] go, but what I saw in it was that the soap fans were so passionate, and there’s a beginning, and middle and an end for everything, and even for us there’s a beginning.”

  — THE CHEW’s Carla Hall in a recent online interview

  Translation: The beginning of the end.

  “When something ends, something else begins, and sometimes we don’t like that change. But soap fans [and] new fans have really come to enjoy the show, and I think it’s because it’s a party in the kitchen and it reminds people of what it’s like to entertain, you know? And you have your friends and you’re talking about whatever and you’re learning, you’re cooking together, and I think the surprising thing — I was hoping that the show would be successful, but I think the surprising thing for me — was how well we all get along. We really like each other. It’s a motley crew that works.”

  —Hall continues to chew the fat

  Translation: Those mushrooms we cook on set are very magical!

  “It’s hard for me to watch.”

  —GH’s Kassie DePaiva in SOAP OPERA DIGEST regarding Roger Howarth and Laura Wright’s explosive chemistry

  Translation: But I will cut the bitch when I’m given a contract.

  “It’s a wonderful transition that is true to what has been created, and then they take the stories to some extraordinary places.”

  —Shawn Christian in DIGEST on DAYS’s new creative regime

  Translation: I used to be on prime-time TV! Give me a fucking storyline that doesn’t blow!

  “Thank you all for inviting me into your living room on a daily basis! I feel incredibly honored to have been part of such an iconic show”

  —Exiting GH sweetheart Jen Lilley on Twitter

  Translation: Now give me my fucking job back!

  “It was a different show then.”

  —Eileen Davidson to TVLINE on returning to DAYS 14 years later

  Translation: Like, we had a real head writer and stuff.

  “Yes, it’s true — I slept with her.”

  —Chandler Massey in FRONTIERS magazine about taking his Emmy Award to bed with him on the night he won Outstanding Younger Actor

  Translation: Emmy’s the only chick I’ve slept with!