Soap Stuff

Okay, you know I avoid spoilers about the soaps as much as I can. I do, however, follow casting news, which can often be a spoiler to some degree. I mean, if you know an actor is leaving the show and there hasn't been a recast, then clearly you know the character is exiting as well.

Anyway, there is an interesting rumor going around that As the World Turns has cast the parts of twins, a brother and a sister, and that the male twin is gay. Could this mean a possible gay love triangle for Luke & Noah?! Now that would be groundbreaking, considering that the love triangle is a daytime staple but there has never been one consisting of three people of the same gender.

There haven't been any actors names announced yet for the roles, though, so I'm still thinking of it as a rumor.

Meanwhile, I read over on We Love the Soaps that actor/musician Jay Brannan, whom you know I love, has auditioned for a role on As the World Turns! I don't know if it's for the rumored gay twin or someone else, but it would be amazing to see him on the show.

It would also be great if Jay Brannan became the second openly gay actor on daytime at the moment! As I noted the other day, One Life to Live's Scott Evans is the only openly gay actor currently working in daytime TV that I'm aware of.

Speaking of Scott, his recurring part of Officer Oliver Fish got a little larger this past week when he hooked up with the new woman in town and even had some shirtless scenes. I'm hoping he'll stick around, maybe even be put on contract, because he's seriously adorable and sexy! See for yourself:

Meanwhile, the happiness for groundbreaking newlyweds Reese & Bianca has been short lived over on All My Children, since Reese (who has been written as a lesbian, not as bisexual) made out with her new brother-in-law before the wedding and Bianca just found out.

If they wanted to go there with the story, they could have written the character as bisexual from the beginning. It would have made a hell of a lot more sense that way. Bianca rightly pointed out that lesbians don't go around kissing men, but Reese apparently is attracted to people's souls, not their genders (again, make her bisexual from the beginning and I'd have no problem with that; doing it this way is a cop out and just confuses people).

Anyway, Bianca had annulment papers drawn up but Reese refused to sign because they didn't grant her any parental rights, meaning that daytime's first LGBT wedding between two major characters might quickly lead to daytime's first LGBT custody battle.