The week of May 13 will be a festive one for the soaps. Get a sneak peek of next week’s action with this photo gallery to see what’s coming up on Days of our Lives, Bold and Beautiful, General Hospital and Young and Restless. You’ll see a few images that will tease what is on its way to your screens. One of the soaps is gearing up for a big wedding. Check it out ..read more

The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held on Friday, June 7, with the ceremony airing live on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET. Soap Opera Digest chatted with the nominees to get the scoop on how they found out, what episodes they submitted, and more as we count down to daytime’s biggest night! Chris Haston/NBC Outstanding Supporting Actress Emily O’Brien (Gwen, Days of our Lives) What was it like getting nominated for Gwen, when you’re now playing Theresa? “It’s almost like validation for Gwen, if that makes sense. I just feel like there’s so many people who didn’t like her and support her ..read more

General Hospital has shared the best news in a long time — actor John J. York, who has been fighting cancer (he announced it last September), is back on set and he will start airing again in scenes in June. The show made the announcement that Mac is back on both their official X account (with an image of the actor with onscreen wife Kristina Wagner) and shared more images on Instagram, including with Josh Kelly, who plays his onscreen son (though he doesn’t know it yet) Cody. York let fans know about the news via a video on his social media account. “I said I was going to give you an update o ..read more

Howard Wise/jpistudios.com Jack (Peter Bergman) tries to reason with Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott). Soap fans hate change. We don’t like it when our shows put strangers front-burner, rewrite history, or make a sudden pivot that doesn’t make sense. Good daily drama evolves slowwwwwly to characters we love so that it is familiar and entertaining. Like Nikki’s alcoholism on Y&R. Jordan was a front-burner stranger who rewrote history (as dead Eve’s sudden sister raising a “dead” baby) which was not ideal. But the story jumpstarted Nikki’s relapse which was believable. Being force-fed vodka led ..read more

During the week of May 3 – May 9, stars from Bold and Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital and Young and Restless have been sharing photos they’ve taken on the set or with co-stars elsewhere, hanging out and having fun. Of particular interest this week? The Daytime Unites for ALS event — plus so much more. Be sure to check out this gallery of photos that were shared this past week on social media ..read more

Celebrate Mother’s Day on Friday, May 10 in The Locher Room with real-life husband and wife duo, Kaitlin and Jordi Vilasuso. The couple will join host Alan Locher live at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. EST. The Vilasusos are the parents of three beautiful girls, Riley (11), Everly (7) and almost 6-month-old Lucy, who was hospitalized back in January with RSV. We will hear what Mother’s Day is like in the Vilasuso household from these very busy parents and what they each learned from their own moms. It was 24 years ago this August that Jordi made his debut as Tony Santos on Guiding Light, winning a Dayt ..read more

Deadline is reporting that Giovanni Mazza will be joining General Hospital as a cousin of Brook Lynn’s. He is set to make his debut when his character, Giovanni Cerullo, attends the magical wedding of his cousin to Harrison Chase. The actor is also a musician — and will be playing the violin at the wedding during the week of May 13. Mazza hails from Chicago and started acting when he was 8 years old — when he appeared in a two-year ad campaign for Walmart as well as films that were shot in his hometown. He appeared on Bella and the Bulldogs on Nickelodeon with a speaking role when he was ..read more

The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held on Friday, June 7, with the ceremony airing live on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET. Soap Opera Digest chatted with the nominees to get the scoop on how they found out, what episodes they submitted, and more as we count down to daytime’s biggest night! Ben Rose/Getty Images Outstanding Supporting Actor Wally Kurth (Justin, Days of our Lives) You’ve won a Daytime Emmy for Original Song. What would it mean to you to finally, after all these decades, win one for acting? “Obviously, I’ve been doing this a long, long time. And I work really hard in order ..read more

Howard Wise/jpistudios.com There’s no doubt about it, Young and Restless fans love to hate the insidiously cunning and murderous Aunt Jordan, played to perfection by Colleen Zenk. The soap is listening, which is why the character has had more return engagements than Cher. Every time it seems that Jordan is down for the count, the Y&R writers come up with clever ways for her to extend her reign of terror. While Genoa City has heaved a collective sigh of relief because Victor’s claim that she died after falling off a bridge is considered gospel, Jordan is still alive. She is being held cap ..read more

ABC/Scott Kirkland Laura Wright (l.) with Jacklyn Zeman. Today, May 9, marks one year since the passing of General Hospital icon Jacklyn Zeman, beloved for playing Barbara Jean “Bobbie” Spencer for over 45 years. Her onscreen daughter’s portrayer, Laura Wright, was asked recently about the tribute GH paid to both the actress and the character during Coastal Entertainment’s Ladies of GH event. “We can always honor Jackie, right? Not just a moment…but when we did Bobbie’s death on New Year’s Eve, that was a rough week,” she confided to the audience in Long Island. “We shot all of the epis ..read more