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Actress Dixie Carter, 70, who most memorably portrayed Southern interior designer Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women from 1986 to 1993, died Saturday morning, her publicist confirmed to EW.com. “This has been a terrible blow to our family,” Carter’s husband, actor Hal Holbrook, told Entertainment Tonight. “We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy.” Carter is survived by Holbrook, her husband of nearly 26 years, and two daughters from a previous marriage.
Soap fans remember her for her unbelievable performance as Brandy Henderson on Edge of Night who was a spoiler for the Nicole and Adam super couple.
Carter, who was born in McLemoresville, Tenn., started her acting career in a 1960 stage production of Carousel. In fact, after an eight-year hiatus from acting, she returned when she filled in for actress Nancy Pinkerton as Dorian on One Life to Live, while Pinkerton was on maternity leave. She subsequently was cast in the role of Assistant D.A. Olivia Brandeis “Brandy” Henderson on Edge of Night, which she appeared from 1974-76. (She went along with the show when it switched from CBS to ABC.) Carter took the role even though some advised her that doing a daytime soap might negatively affect her career. However, it was with this role that Carter was first noticed, and after leaving Edge of Night in 1976, she relocated from New York to Los Angeles, and pursued prime time television roles.
Fantastic news General Hospital fans! Daytime Emmy winner and longtime fan favorite, Jane Elliot is reprising her signature soap role as Tracy Quartermaine just in time for the holidays.
According to EW.com who broke the news, Eliot will make her appearances beginning in December, when Tracy comes home to Port Charles, and is embroiled in the ELQ family business.
Elliot’s last episode on GH aired May 4, 2017 when Jane made the decision to to exit.
Her character left Port Charles by telling her family she was ready to have her own life, away from the shadow of her father. A later episode revealed that Tracy settled in Amsterdam after meeting up with Luke (Tony Geary).
Jane began playing the role of Tracy back in 1978.
So excited to hear Tracy Q will be home for a visit and to stir up some trouble? Comment below.
There was breaking news from the set on Thursday at Days of our Lives. According to Deadline, the series executive producer, Ken Corday announced to the cast that the show will continue on. It appears the 54-year-old daytime drama series received a one-year pick-up.
The article cites that when reached for comment, NBC who airs the show, and SONY TV the show’s distributor had “no comment”. However their sources reveal that a deal is being close to being completed and “looking good”.
This comes as welcome news to longtime and new fans of the series, who were concerned for its cancellation after a story ran over the last ten days that the cast was let-go from their contracts.
Under head writer Ron Carlivati, the soap just launched its innovative daytime drama time-jump on November 8th where all the characters lives were fast-forwarded a year.
So, excited to hear that Salem and Days of our Lives will live on? Comment below.
Congratulations are in order to former One Life to Live star, David A. Gregory (Ex-Ford) and his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Noble. The two finally got engaged.
It seems the engagement happened during a hike, where David joked: “Almost passed out on this hike,” with a photo from the Bump N Grind Hiking Trail in Palm Desert, California, as the two showed of their rings from his Instagram account.
In addition, fans of David’s can see him in his new passionflix movie, Dirty Sexy Saint co-starring Jordan Lane Price (Ex-Celia Fitzgerald, All My Children) which premieres on December 8th. Check out that teaser below.
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Almost passed out on this hike. 💍❤️ #engaged #yesimwearingaring #mybeyonce #wcw
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R.I.P. Ms. Dixie you wil be missed! XO