Marcy Rylan

This promo has this former Guiding Light viewer deciding to end her 14-year sabbatical....

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Ellen Wheeler's Guiding Light role model The Hills is getting a New York City spinoff called, you guessed it, The City.  Marcy Rylan's Lizzie Spaulding could so be the Springfield version of Lauren Conrad or Whitney Port, if they would just write her that way.

Oh and another thing, both The Hills and The City have arch-nemesis for Lauren and Whitney, who does Lizzie have? No one. Why is it that "reality" TV does soap better than soaps?

Okay you knew it was coming. Now that the Idiots In Charge of The-Soap-Opera-Formerly-Known-as-Days-of-Our-Lives have let the phenomenal Blake Berris go, I decided to start out doing a Wishful Casting about where Berris should end up, but it turned into more of an analysis of which soaps are managing to set things up for their next generation the right way, and which ones are getting it wrong, dead wrong.

Much of the daytime industry is experiencing a serious drought in terms of talented, young stars who can actually, you know, act. Save for The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and General Hospital, the under 30 set at most soaps is pretty much comprised of rejects from the Pamela Anderson School of Acting and Pantomime.  I'll start with the soaps in most need of help and work my way up. Continue Reading...

The news for Guiding Light fans just keeps getting better this week. According to the newest edition of Soap Opera Digest, Marcy Rylan has re-signed with Guiding Light. The length of the contract is unknown at this time.

Rylan joined the show in 2006 as stylish, spoiled brat, bad-girl-with-a-good-heart Lizzie Spaulding. Since that time, Rylan has become one of the show's top stars. I can't wait to see what's in store for the Spaulding princess.

Days of Our Lives Alison Sweeney (Sami) could definitely give Heather a run for her title as the baddest bitch.

GH's Elizabeth Herbst (Liz) would be perfect as an Alison-esque voice of reason.

ATWT's Agim Kaba (Aaron) can brood with the best of them and I bet he looks better than Grant Show in a leather jacket.

If someone from ATWT books the new MP it should so be Van Hansis (Luke). At least Luke got his kiss, Matt never did!

Doesn't Y&R's Greg Rikaart (Kevin) have a certain Michael Mancini thing going for him?

If the show needs a scheming Sydney Mancini-type minx, Y&R's Elizabeth Hendrickson (Chloe) is their girl!

What about GL's Marcy Rylan (Lizzie) as a struggling fashionista ala Josie Bissett's Jane?

Kelly Monaco was born to play a sexy, psycho like Marcia Cross's Kimberly Shaw!

Although Vanessa Williams and Jasmine Guy didn't stick around, OLTL's Tika Sumpter (Layla) could definitely add some flava!

How's this for a soapy twist? Vanessa Marcil's upcoming Lifetime reality show Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist was pitched by none other than Procter and Gamble's media arm MediaVest to promote P&G's Max Factor brand, according to Ad Age. The article goes on to talk about how aggressively P&G is moving into "branded content". Ummmm, haven't they had oh, say 70 years of success with that already with its soap operas? Remember them?

Now before we go all conspiracy theory with thoughts of this being an elaborate smokescreen  to get ABC Daytime's Most Anticipated Promotional Campaign—"The one star you thought would never be desperate enough to come back!"—in at As The World Turns as the next Chris Hughes (Hey, they've tried everyone else in the part.), it is fairly common place for P&G to sell their goods to various other networks and cable channels besides CBS. Continue Reading...

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I'm not certain which former Guiding Light scribe created the character of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Spaulding, but he or she should be credited for envisioning one of daytime's most star-making roles.

Former Lizzie, Hayden Panettiere (who also played OLTL's Sarah Roberts), is fast becoming one of Hollywood's favorite "It" girls with star turns in Heroes and a hot spokesmodel deal with Candies.

Queen of All Media Perez Hilton seems to love the little blonde spitfire almost as much as he loves Rihanna and Angelina, if you look at how much he covers her-in a positive light no less! Another actress to once carry Liziez's purse pup, Crystal Hunt, is also blazing a trail as  both star and producer of The Hicks.

I wonder how long it will be before we see the equally cutesexy (an awesome new phrase I stole from Likely Story!) Marcy Rylan-who is currently occupying Lizzie's Manolos and starred opposite Panettiere in Bring it On: All or Nothing-take Pop Culture by storm?

The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards has just added Trya Banks, Jimmy Kimmel, Susan Lucci, Barbara Walters and Montel Williams to its list of presenters.

ETOnline is reporting that "Kimmel has been asked to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Regis Philbin, who is being recognized for his 40 years in television on shows such as Live with Regis and Kelly, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Million Dollar Password."

Here are the presenters from your favorite soaps.

All My Children: Darnell Williams, Debbi Morgan and Cornelius Smith
As the World Turns: Jake Silbermann and Van Hansis
Bold and Beautiful: Jack Wagner and Heather Tom
Days of Our Lives: Alison Sweeney, Arianne Zucker and Nadia Bjorlin
General Hospital: Anthony Geary, Sarah Brown, Laura Wright, Kirsten Storms, Jason Cook and Bradford Anderson
Guiding Light: Daniel Cosgrove and Marcy Rylan
One Life to Live: Susan Haskell, Michael Easton, Kassie DePavia, Farah Fath and John-Paul Lavoisier
Young and Restless: Melody Thomas Scott, Doug Davidson and Don Diamont.

As we reported previously, daytime's equivalent of Ryan Seacrest, All My Children's Cameron Mathison and The View's Sherri Shepherd will be hosting this year's award show.