SOAP OPERA UNCENSORED
Volume 02, Issue 37 (No. 47)
BY NELSON BRANCO
Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco
BREAKING NEWS: Another Y&R Actress Fired! Find Out Who! Eric Braeden Re-Signs! Plus: Jess Walton Returns to Y&R! Details In Her Own Words! Plus: Is Tristan Rogers Back?
INSIDE — BREAKING SOAP: Part Two Of UNCENSORED’s Exclusive Interview with Acclaimed B&B Scribe Patrick Mulcahey! The Magic Of Katherine Kelly Lang Explained, His Best Daytime Moments, And The Future Of Brooke and Stephanie! — Special Section: Summer Winners and Losers! Featuring: Sharon Case, Maria Arena Bell, Eric Braeden, Crystal Chappell, Liason/JaSam GH Fans, James Scott, Chandler Massey, Christel Khalil, Finola Hughes, Ingo Rademacher, Scott Clifton, Ronn Moss, Brad Bell, Jill Farren Phelps, Josh Griffith, Galen Gering, and Kirsten Storms! The Y&R Bloodbath Begins: Genie Francis, Debbi Morgan, and Marcy Rylan Fired! Find Out Why Rylan Was Really Let Go! Plus: Who’s Next? Report: Are Billy Miller and Michael Graz Quitting? Jill Farren Phelps Produces Josh Griffith’s First Episode: What Went Down On Set? Also: Why You Can’t Blame JFP For The Firings Engulfing Y&R! GH Time-Slot Switch: Good News! Unbelievable Blind Items!
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Say What?
UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
"She comes back, and John's accepting her at face value.”
—DAYS’s Drake Hogestyn in a recent interview regarding Eileen Davidson’s Kristen
Translation: She’s still mean, mean, mean!
“Sonny will be showing some skin very soon!
—DAYS’s burgeoning gay icon Freddie Smith Jr. in an interview
Translation: When Sonny has sex with a chick.
“We have weathered many storms together.”
—Brooke to Ridge during their seventh wedding on B&B this past week
Translation 1: Especially that one time when you raped me, illegitimately, of course.
Translation 2: Ending in your pay cut scandal.
“I do look forward to see what may arise in the future — no pun intended.”
—Brooke makes a funny during her vows to Ridge on B&B
Translation 1: I hope Jon Hensley’s hung as a horse, too!
Translation 2: Unlike your pay rate.
Translation 3: My love grows leaps and bounds every day — just like your Twitter followers.
“I feel like 25 years has been a damn good run and I am grateful to have it with everybody. But at a certain point, you have to expand you life. I have been meaning to do that for years. We get comfortable with our family and our friends – and when I say family, I mean my co-workers, too. They have been as much a part of my family as my real family for a lot of years. But you get comfortable just being there and going along the same way. And for me, it hit me that, ‘No. I don’t want to continue under these circumstances. It’s time to move on and start on a new road.’”
—B&B’s Ronn Moss on his exit this past week
Translation: Which is why I keep retweeting all the fans who refuse to watch the show without me.
“I think the way you just stated it is right. Yes, the pay cut was definitely a part of it, but it was not everything. But it was definitely a sign to re-evaluate what is going to be important here. And don’t anybody bring up Jay Leno’s taking a 50% pay cut down to $15 million. There is no relevance whatsoever in that. (Laughs) That is a different game, but when you talking a much different scale than that, it is very relevant. And yeah, I want to feel appreciated, and I feel for what we were doing there was no reason to cut like that. There are plenty of other ways to make those kinds of cuts.”
—Moss answers if the pay cut was a factor in his decision to leave B&B
Translation 1: Buying a half million Twitter followers didn’t come cheap!
Translation 2: Why don’t you take a pay cut, Brad?
“There is a respect that all of a sudden doesn’t seem to be there. So let’s move to a place where it is more respectful, and where I feel like I am not going to be taken so for granted.”
—Moss on whether or not B&B’s new youth-focused direction also contributed to him leaving the series
Translation: Ratings and acting ability are overrated.
“I have decided to subscribe to 'Never say never,' but I need a break. But I have been through enough experiences where I have to eat those words, whenever I say it’s a definite thing like that. So, I just will leave that open.”
—Moss on whether or not he’ll return to the show.
Translation: Show me the money!
“Oh yeah! There are acting projects and that is part of the big change that is happening. We are formulating some movie projects right now that will be absolutely fantastic. I want to go back to doing movies.”
—Moss on his future acting plans.
Translation: But I still refuse to take an acting class — so that’s never going to happen because I’m too busy in front of my computer retweeting. I haven’t eaten, bathed or slept in three weeks!
“I would feel betrayed. I would feel like my 25 years really didn’t mean anything. I would also feel that I absolutely made the right choice.”
—Moss on his feelings when B&B recasts his role
Translation: Especially if they find a man who can act.
“Michael, you as well have been part of this. We have a big respect for what you do and the way you have done it. You have always been right on the money, very fair and very honest. No b***s that I can discern for anything you have done, so bless you for that!”
—Moss on his professional relationship with Michael Fairman.
Translation: Unlike that Bastard who writes UNCENSORED!
"I'm not as tough as people think I am.”
—Y&R Chief Jill Farren Phelps in SOAP OPERA DIGEST
Translation: Just ask the myriad fat and ugly actresses I’ve fired needlessly.
“I love to walk, I love my dogs. I like to be with friends and family, go to the movies, read and I especially like to sit quietly and do nothing. There’s not a lot of time for a lot of things.”
—Farren Phelps on how she likes to relax
Translation 1: Soap killing is a full-time job.
Translation 2: But nothing relaxes me more than firing someone’s ass. Namaste.
“I’ve known Genie [Francis] since she was a very young girl — and I was a very young girl. I think she’s a wonderful actress and I’m very fond of her. There is no personal
acrimony between us.”
—Farren Phelps on whether or not there is a feud between her and the iconic GH actress
Translation: I hate that coke whore!
“I was encouraged by the fact that CBS and Sony are committed to the show. That’s not something I have heard in a long time, so it gives wind in your sail when you feel like you have a network and a studio behind you to do what you need to.”
—Farren Phelps on how committed CBS is to Y&R
Translation: I blame everything on Brian Frons — including GH’s bad lighting, the horrible morale and my lack of time on set.
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
—DAYS’s Camila Banus on Twitter
Translation: I should stick to writing and not acting. Also, I stole that quote from Kahlil Gibran.
Exclusive Breaking News
ANOTHER Y&R ACTRESS OUT; BRAEDEN RE-SIGNS! JESS WALTON RETURNS TO Y&R!
• Summer’s coming to an end — in more ways than one for Y&R ingénue Lindsay Bushman. The newcomer has been let go. The