She will for sure be a terrible actress but she will bring people to watch the show and help it make it so I’m happy. Since I’m sure she can’t act I’d like them to put her in as little stories as possible and just have her as a bartender who talks to the Llanview residents and eventually when she becomes a better actor then she could be in stories. April, 29 2012 SAVE THE DATE!!!

This is one of the dumbest moves ever made having this Jenni JWoww on One Life to Live. She and the rest of the cast of the Jersey Shore didn’t help Seaside Heights and she is not gonna be a good thing for a Great Show like One Life to Live. I will have to fast forward when they show her cause she CAN’T ACT

Uncertain. Initial reaction: Why? But to be fair, I have to wait and see how it plays out. I am still so excited to see OLTL , I could really care less.

I see nothing positive in having Reality TV (an oxymoron right there) invade OLTL. Nothing!

I’m not happy with this. This worse than having having that Kardashian on. It cheapes OLTL and makes it a joke. The show and viewers deserve better.

i just mention this under a different announcement…out of all the talented actors from recently cancelled soaps: Guilding Light, As The World Turns, and Passions why on earth would PP trash OLTL by hiring a bland and boring overrated reality star from trashy Jersy Shore? I still plan to tune in and give OLTL a chance but this announcement almost change my mind! Whats next…16 and Pregnant or Real Housewives? This isnt current or groundbreaking to me! Its just plain dumb! p.s. others may like her and disagree with me but i DONT care!!!

If she bring viewers to Llanview, why not ? Remember that Kardashian train wreak in 2011?

Only concern….the character’s name is Nikki? I mean tha name is being used? Niki Smith! Hello?!

My Lord, please keep these Jersey Shore girls out of our soaps. They sure aren’t celebraties to a bunch of us. 🙁 I surely will be fast forwarding that episode. Bad enough they brought in Kim Kardashian. That was really bad acting. Just leave it the the stars. If you want to bring in a celebraty go after fun loving actors and actress like AMC brought in Oprah, and Carol Bernett . Sorry. But its not going to fly.:(

I can’t wait for OLTL and as far as the actress goes, I DO NOT KNOW WHO SHE IS, so I ‘m open to her character. Never watched Jersey Shore, but I have heard of it.

I’m on both sides of the fence on this one. She’s gonna piss off a lot of folks who blame reality TV for the premature death of our soaps. On the other hand, like some have mentioned, she can bring in new viewers who start out watching just to check it out and, like all of us started, get totally sucked in.

As we all know, it doesn’t take long to get hooked on a soap. (wink)

I would love to see her paired with Roger H. the REAL TODD! LMAO

Ugh. This is EXACTLY what I was afraid of – they are going to flood this endeavor with “cheap” labor rather than qualified actors – this does not bode well at all. And before people start chimming in and saying that a lot young past soap actors were new and green – it’s not the same thing. She’s a reality person – the kind of programs that have pushed out scripted programming. And her name is Nikki? Whatever.

PP should remember the over 48 crowd that is the backbone of OLTL and AMC’s viewership!! Dumb idea!

OMG I can not believe some of you Fans! She is Recurring which means NOT on much…..She is a Bartender at Blair’s club, how often do you think she is going to be on? She is NOT a Regular player so what the hell is the big deal!??

Personally I say UGH….but if it’ll get some more people to give OLTL a watch, you won’t hear me complain. 🙂

This soap would rather cast jenni farley than create more African american and Latino american and Asian american characters. Think abt that. There’s a complete lack of racial diversity from storylines and casting primarily bec there’s a lack of racial diversity among hollywood’s writers and exec producers. Majority of them are white. Majority of them are not creative enough to write racially diverse characters and write storylines for racial minorities. They write majority of the storylines from white people’s perspectives. The only racial minority headwriter and exec producer for any night soap is shonda rimes. Typical of hollywood bec racial… Read more »

You know all I have heard are people complaining about just about everything…Geeshh people…we fought, we won, we get our shows back…things maybe different then before, new faces, people that we may not like…but my goodness…lets wait and just watch…give it a freaking chance!!! And then if you are not happy…stop watching…but for the love of all thats soapy…stop freaking complaining before it even hits the airwaves! GOD!

PP is not playing to old fuddy duddies who won’t come into the 21st century way of media.. It is on-line and on-line viewers are much younger/modern people than the ones who don’t even know how to watch it on-line lol .. Time, people and places change and the word evolves into different era’s .. We gotta go with it or be left being in the 20th century .. “JWOWW” and Jersey Shore has millions of more viewers than OLTL could hope to have, so bringing on “JWOWW” is a good move.. The internet is mostly the generation who don’t… Read more »

This is a very strange decision. I could understand if they were doing some stunt casting with someone more of the moment but ‘Jersey Shore’ is long gone. Was Mama June or one of the Sister WIves not available?

Oh, dear God……..Why? Why? Why?

Recurring. Relax.

I’m not worried. I’m sure Jwoww is just going to be the comic relief in between the Destiny-whores-herself-out scenes. Unless the Destiny-whores-herself-out scenes are meant to be the comic relief between the Jwoww scenes. Too soon to tell. But either way, if they needed a wacky bartender character, they really should have invited Ilene Kristen back and put Roxie behind the bar. I’m scared that with this New OLTL, I might actually start to miss Rex & Gigi, which I never thought possible. Oh well, if all these strange new choices go bust, they can always bring back Mitch Laurence… Read more »

JWOWW is the carrot in dog race or the dogie in the window to get people in to watch, and hopefully her fans, and yes she has fans, will look in and stay..
JWOWW is bait for new younger viewers…. 🙂

I say good. this show needs new blood, otherwise it will suffer the same fate as before. change is good people. I say more Nikki kess Dorian.

I think its crazy. But it’s funny to see eveyone angered and say she can’t act. how do we know???? She’s was on a drunkin hot mess reality show. She’s only recurring so it went be much. I for one can’t wait to see this LOL

Maybe it’s because I’m older, but I think casting her is like going out tot the back alley and looking for the next “anybody” to wonder by. This person was on a “reality” show. That doesn’t make her a qualified actresss. Seems to me, it’s all an icky PR attempt to bring in the younguns. I really mean it when I say that I hope it pays off and that if she’s bad, they cut her from the cast quickly. IF I’m wrong and she’s good, I’ll gladly eat my words. But I really hope casting people from “reality” shows… Read more »

Jwoww’s Effect Even if Jwoww fans only hang around for her scenes(2-3minutes a show), it still counts as a hit or download, depending on if you watch the show on Hulu or iTunes. The more hits and downloads that register, the more the viewers PP/TOLN/OLTL can claim are watching the show, and they can sell this to advertisers who will pay more money to advertise, which will increase profits for the show.. and more money can be put into the show.. and eventually the show can afford to be moved back to an hour format.. and they can pay the… Read more »

I say, give her a chance.

Comparing Carol Burnett or Elizabeth Taylor doing cameos on AMC to this skank from Jersey Shore doing a recurring role on OLTL is absolutely ridiculous. I have no idea what OLTL is thinking but to hire an untalented, and untrained, “reality star” to recurring status while longtime actors like Ilene Kristen (Roxy) are not even invited back makes me sick!

Did people on here ACTUALLY compare legendary, talented stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett to this, for lack of a better word, talentless tramp. I could SOMEWHAT understand when Kourtney Kardashian was brought on for a cameo appearance, she was a genuine fan of the soap and it was just a two day thing. But if people think Kourtney Kardashian is bad, JWOWW (the name alone, I mean, c’mon!) is scraping the bottom of the gutter. She became famous for an MTV reality show that is about several overly-tanned, self-absorbed, animalistic people who non-stop party, drink, and have sex.… Read more »