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Kassie tweeted this pic earlier: Kassie DePaiva, Nancy Lee Grahn, Maurice Benard & Roger Howarth…more T&B on the way, y'all! CANNOT WAIT!

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Kassie DePaiva as Blair Cramer in blue

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Kassie DePaiva and James DePaiva OLTL SID 4/24/17 @toddandblair

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past, present and future

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Starr, I'm really sorry that things turned out this way.

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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS GIFSETS (KDP30)

Blair and her most worthy rival, Marty Saybrooke

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Kassie DePaiva as Blair Cramer in lavender/purple (as requested by “slowtuesdays” on Twitter

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I don’t watch soaps anymore but I am actually watching OLTL for the first time in a long time. As long as I get good scenes involving Todd, I’m easy. Sorry, people. Roger’s Todd is the real Todd. I would recommend YT if you haven’t seen Todd as he really is. Todd is not meant to be a romantic lead.

IIRC, that’s one of the reasons why Roger left. They wanted him to play romantic lead to Marty and he refused to play that. I respect him a lot for that. I remember scoffing so much after I heard about the Todd/Marty storyline that OLTL finally did in 2008.

It was like Todd raped Marty all over again and Todd - though never perfect-grew enough as a person that he wouldn’t have done that. He understood the gravity of what he did and he wouldn’t have minimalized rape by air-quoting the word (For some reason, this bit infuriates me more than any other and made me want to punch TSJTodd in the face). TSJ, from what I remember, is a good actor. He just was not and is not Todd Manning. 

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GODDESS

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Most of the website is back up, except for the Gallery and the Press section, which need a lot more work. There's also some new content: Blair Timeline: 1999 -- find out what Blair was up to when Todd was off screen Transcripts: 1995 -- a bunch of new transcripts, including T&B crashing the Gold Star Gala Quotes: 2003 -- a page of T&B quotes from January 2003 If anyone notices any issues with links being broken, please let me know by sending me a Tumblr message. Thank you!

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12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS GIFSETS (KDP30)

Through their ups and downs, Blair and Kelly always had each-others backs when it counted.

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The Men of One Life to Live

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Kassie DePaiva as Blair Cramer in green

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Roger Howarth Says Goodbye to General Hospital

Roger Howarth has left General Hospital after playing the character of Austin Gatlin-Holt. Austin was shot and killed in the episode, which aired on November 17, 2023.

Howarth is a popular soap opera actor who gained recognition for his portrayal of Todd Manning on One Life to Live, which earned him a Daytime Emmy Award in 1994. He is considered an icon in the soap opera genre. Howarth left One Life to Live in 2003 and joined As the World Turns, where he played the character of Paul Ryan until the series ended in 2010. He returned to One Life to Live in May 2011 and continued his role on General Hospital in March 2012. However, he later exited the series in March 2013 and returned.

Howarth returned to General Hospital as Franco, a character formerly created and portrayed by James Franco. When this character was written off in March 2021, Howarth returned two months later as a new character, Austin Gatlin-Holt, and has played the role ever since. In a goodbye post on Instagram, he wrote, "Till life with coffee and rabbit ear. Three things that I know for sure…1 Daytime fans are lovely and amazing and supportive and dedicated and I am deeply grateful to each sparkly one of them. 2 I enjoyed my time at General Hospital and wish the cast and crew the best and continued success. It was a pleasure working with you all. 3 Life is amazing. We just don’t Ever know what’s gonna happen. How great! Turn toward the light. Always. Huge thank you to you all."

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**This is such a huge mistake. Roger is a supremely talented actor who was given a crappy story to play.. He shined as Franco and I don't know who's idea it was to make him play a different character, but it was a huge mistake. Now Roger has a chance to show another show what he is made of. Terrible decision GH!!

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[Soaps In Depth, 2013]

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