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Former GL and OLTL actress Hayden Panettiere in Glamour "It’s great to be single. It’s great to have boyfriends. Or girlfriends. There are occasions when you kiss your best friend growing up, having fun and goofing about. Like perfecting your technique." Axed CORRIE star will return to old job CORONATION STREET star Matthew Crompton has decided to return to his old job as a builder after being axed from the show. The actor will film his final scenes as bookie Dan Mason on the ITV1 soap later this year. He was told that he was being dropped from the programme in April as part of a huge cast clear-out. "It won't worry me. I had a good laugh on the building site and the people I was working with were fantastic," Crompton told the Sunday Mirror. "Everyone's got to work and pay the rent. Between acting jobs I'd rather get out and do other things than sit on the dole." DAYS OF OUR LIVES Weekly Preview AUDIO: Tom Casiell Interview On their latest podcast, Daytime Confidential's Luke and Jamey visit with Tom Casiello, veteran soap scribe turned blogger, about his career in the daytime industry. BLOG UPDATE: Sara A. Bibel "Recasts are one of the more frustrating aspects of being a soap fan. After years of getting to know every nuance of an actor’s portrayal of a character, suddenly the audience is asked to expect a new face in the role. It’s a convention that doesn’t exist in primetime." AUDIO: The Nuke Fancast Episode #2 This week's show featured a hilarious recap of last week's Nuke story AS THE WORLD TURNS and a live call-in from the Tammy Rubin Rice softball game from yours truly and others. 1 Y&R's Braeden at 57th annual Sun Fun Festival Fans formed a line in front of a tent for Eric Braeden, who has played wealthy villain Victor Newman on soap-opera classic THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS since 1980. "I don't think he's really bad. He's just misunderstood," said Marilyn Barnhardt, who left her Concord, N.C., home at 4 a.m. to secure the first spot. A copy of CBS Soaps in Depth magazine sat on the ground between her and her husband, both daily viewers and Braeden fans for the past six years. "I love him. He's the main character." Tea Time With Kate Linder and Friends Join Y&R's Kate Linder as she host the 10th Annual Afternoon Tea in Vancouver benefiting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Christian Leblanc (Michael) and Emily O'Brien (Jana) will join Kate on Saturday, July 12 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown, Vancouver BC, Canada. High tea will be followed by a question and answer session, raffle, live auction, exclusive THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS merchandise and an autograph session with Kate, Christian and Emily. High Tea is presented by Global TV, Alaska Airlines, Black Press, Clear FM, KlasAct Communications and the Blanche MacDonald Centre. Tickets cost $60.00 US in advance, or are available by calling (604) 683-2873. IMAGINARY BITCHES: Imaginary Sex (Episode 6)

Intense Tuesday Nuke Preview

BLOG UPDATE: Sara A. Bibel "These days, soap characters seem to have the lifespans of fruit flies. Death has always been a part of the genre. It should be. At their best, soaps are a magnified, funhouse version of our own lives, and unfortunately all of us eventually experience the deaths of loved ones. But so many characters have died in the past couple years, often in brutal, graphic ways, that death has lost some of its soap meaning." Breaking SAG vs AFTRA News: Now AFTRA Ridiculously Threatens SAG Sunday it came to light that SAG asked AFTRA to delay asking its membership to ratify the new deal with the AMPTP until after SAG reaches a deal, too. But AFTRA refused and threatened legal action in an unnecesaarily nasty letter in response. You Don't Mess with the Zohan made $40M in its opening weekend The new Adam Sandler flick features a wonderful guest appearance by veteran soap actress Kathleen Noone (ALL MY CHILDREN, PASSIONS, SUNSET BEACH). After 20 Years, Kyle Chandler Gets Off the Bench In a scene toward the end of the second season of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, the NBC drama marginally about Texas high school football and substantively about everything else — love, marriage, faith, class, parenthood, resignation — Eric Taylor is seen conducting the hard business of coaching, which, as is so often the case for him, has very little to do with strategizing the offensive line. "I tried pre-med and pre-law, but I just wasn’t a great student," he said. "Then one night I was with a girl in Athens and we bummed some cigarettes from some people and started talking, and it was just one of those moments. I thought, 'O.K., here are some interesting people,' and it turned out that they were all in the theater department." Burnet returns to HOLLYOAKS Guy Burnet, who plays Craig Dean on HOLLYOAKS, is set to return to the teen-soap later this year. Are we to hope for a ruckus with John-Paul, his jilted-at-the-airport lover? Or maybe some tears from Sarah? VIDEO: Watch the NewNextNow Awards Luke and Noah of AS THE WORLD TURNS lost in the Best Gay Kiss category to Captain Jack and Ianto of TORCHWOOD. Mad May returns to EASTENDERS to seek a fiery revenge As villains go Dr May is probably one of the loopiest ones around. The doctor who fled Walford after trying to snatch Dawn's baby returns to Albert Square to seek her revenge which ends up in a fiery blaze. In dramatic scenes that will be aired later this month, the crazy lady finally gets her chance to reek further havoc into Dawn Swann's life. BLOG UPDATE: Lynn Liccardo "Ever since soap operas began on radio in the 1930s, they’ve have been seen as the homely stepchild of entertainment. Even when soaps were great – and make no mistake, they were once great – the public perception was that they sucked. And now, daytime soaps really do suck – an ironic, self-fulfilling prophecy come to pass. But they shouldn’t… suck, that is."

DAYS, Y&R and B&B Stars at Monte Carlo Television Festival

1 Deidre Hall, Drake Hogestyn, Christel Khalil, Prince Albert of Monaco, Jennifer Gareis and actor Greg Rikaart attended the opening night of the 48th Monte Carlo Television Festival held at Grimaldi Forum on Sunday in Monaco.