Bold and Beautiful

On today's Performer of the Week episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jamey, Mike, Melodie and Jillian choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the week of June 29, 2009.

The gang also debates their honorable and dishonorable mentions.

Who are do you think did an outstanding job during the week of June 29 and who do you think deserves an honorable or dishonorable mention?

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On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jamey, Mike, Jillian and Melodie discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news and storylines, including:

Judi Evans joins As the World Turns, but will she be Paulina Cory as Jamey hopes? Riley reveals to Margo that he is her son. Mike has mixed feelings about Henry and Geneva. Is Guiding Light's "Killer Kreitzman" headed to Oakdale?

Nick and Bridget get married on The Bold and the Beautiful. Jillian has Stephanie's grossest line of the week. Felicia and Thorne tell Eric to take their jobs and shove it.

Sami goes in search of help on Days of Our Lives to try and get her child back. Is Stephanie developing a pill problem? We wouldn't blame her if she is. She was locked in a morgue after all. Is it hollow to be enjoying these two storylines without either of the character's mothers on our screens? Did Ed Scott save Days of Our Lives?

Gina Tognoni doesn't extend her contract and tapes her last episode on Guiding Light. Does P&G want out of soaps, as The Hollywood Reporter says? Did Beth Ehlers' comments about JR Martinez throw him under the bus? Bradley Cole's Jeffery is being killed off.

Michael Muhney made his debut on The Young and the Restless as Adam Newman. Are Adam and Rafe as good as Kyle and Fish on One Life to Live. Melody Thomas Scott re-signed with The Young and the Restless. The Globe reveals the storyline for Phillip's return to Genoa City.

All this and much more on today's show.

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Should SOAPnet produce a splashy Santa Barbara miniseries or movie? Jamey lays out the evidence on why he thinks they should. (Daytime Confidential)

Check out the latest rant on the PVB regarding how low can SOAPnet go. Do you agree with Kathy, has the station has "jumped the shark"? (Pine Valley Bulletin)

As the malpractice suit/murder mystery on General Hospital trudges along, we've been entertained by some great quote worthy moments, here are some of the best (Scrubs Hub)

In their latest Soap Opera Digest column, the Serial Drama girls focus on veteran characters. Some shows, like All My Children and The Young & The Restless, use them well and give them great stories, and then there's General Hospital and what they have done with Luke Spencer. (Serial Drama)

I was compelled to pause the DVR after being so totally outraged over the scene that took place at the Chancellor estate. If Neil genuinely recognized the fact that Mrs. "C" was in trouble, he should have called 911 immediately. (Soap Opera Examiner)

Lisa LoCicero just got a contract on General Hospital. Will it matter? Either way, we're happy! (Wubs.net) READ MORE

The woman who started it all, the late great Irna Phillips was born 108 years ago today in Chicago. While other writers were scripting serialized radio dramas around the same time as Phillips, she is by far and wide considered to be the mother of the soap opera, due to her prolific and successful stable of serialized dramas for Procter and Gamble.

The DNA of almost every soap currently on the air can be traced back to Phillips. She created Guiding Light  (1937) and As The World Turns (1956). Co-created Days of Our Lives  (1965) with the late Ted and Betty Corday. Agnes Nixon, creator of One Life to Live (1968) and All My Children (1970), first trained under Phillips as an apprentice script writer in Chicago, as did the late Bill Bell Sr., who went on to create his own soaps, The Young and the Restless (1973) and The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), after writing for Phillips for many years on several of her daytime dramas.

Wouldn't it be great if we could some how pick the brain of the woman who invented soaps on how to save them? Luke, get out the Ouija board! Happy Birthday Irna. Check out the clip below of former Guiding Light star Beth Ehlers (now Taylor on All My Children) brilliantly portraying Phillips during the GL 70th Anniversary special. MVID courtesy of TVgoddess1. READ MORE

Who said Canadians just gave us maple syrup and the wonderfully-warped mind of Imaginary Bitches' Andrew Miller? Our neighbors to the north have also given us plenty of hot like fire soap stars, like this guy in the above picture who is so not wearing a thong, no matter what anyone tells you! For the rest of TV Guide Canada's list of the most famous Canuck soap stars click here.  

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Could things get ugly in Hawaii? Bridget (Ashley Jones) seems to think so.

I got so excited reminiscing about Santa Barbara,  television's best soap opera EVER, on Twitter that I decided to share these soaptastic clips here on DC. They are from SB's infamous Aqua Land remote, where the dastardly Kirk Cranston (Robert Newman) planned to finally do away with our starcrossed lovers Cruz Castillo (A Martinez) and Eden Capwell (Marcy Walker) once and for all! For fans who have only seen Newman as the heroic, straight-laced Josh Lewis on Guiding Light, seeing him as Eden's psychotic ex might be a bit of a shock. I say it's high time SOAPnet assembled 10-15 of Santa Barbara's key players, and produced a splashy two-part miniseries! Thanks Katieeee9999 for the MVIDs. READ MORE

Join us in congratulating author/counselor/soap aficianado Damon Jacobs, who is joining Roger Newcomb and Michael Goldberg at We Love Soaps.com! Jacobs conducted a brilliant interview with Cady McClain (ex-Dixie, All My Children; Rosanna, As The World Turns) published by Daytime Confidential this past February. According to TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco, the We Love Soaps team is about to launch their own interactive podcast series, we can't wait to hear what these always insightful soap nuts have to say! Jacobs is also the author of the self help book Absolutely Should-less: The Secret to Living the Stress-Free Life You Deserve.