

Source Interlink bought Soap Opera Digest in 2007 from Primedia, which bought it in 1991 from News Corp, which bought it in 1989 from Network Publishing Corp, which bought it in 1980 from co-founders Angela and Jerome Shapiro. But it turns out that the company has just been operating it for the last year or so under license from Source Interlink Media. I’ve been so encouraged by their support.I thought American Media already owned the 37-year-old magazine devoted to soap operas.

“It’s thrilling that so many have offered to help. “We agreed not to try and calculate how long it’s been since we spoke!” Samms added. Linda Evans, John James, Heather Locklear, and other Dynasty alums joined Samms for the nostalgic fundraiser. See Also Remembering the Short-Lived ‘General Hospital: Night Shift,’ 15 Years LaterThe primetime spinoff aired just 27 episodes, compared to the 15,000-plus of its mothership show. “And that horrible sensation is constant.” “It’s so hard for me to catch my breath, to feel enough oxygen is in me,” Samms told People at the time. In March 2021, Samms organized an online Dynasty reunion to raise money for the North Bristol NHS Trust in her native United Kingdom, so that the organization could continue helping COVID long-haulers like herself. More recently, Samms played Amanda Vardalis on the British soap Doctors in 2005 and again in 2018. The actress also starred as Fallon Carrington Colby on the ABC primetime soap Dynasty and its spinoff The Colbys in the late 1980s.

Samms has appeared on General Hospital off and on since 1982, when Holly was introduced as a con-artist love interest for Luke Spencer ( Anthony Geary), the two characters pictured below. GH executive producer Frank Valentini added that he was “thrilled the wonderful Emma Samms will be returning to the canvas in October, so we can continue telling Holly’s story and the fans can finally see what happened after we learned she was alive and being held hostage.” No one is more interested in what’s happened to her since we saw her two years ago, being held captive by a mysterious villain, than me!” In a statement to Deadline at the time, Samms said, “I can’t believe that it’s been 40 years since I first appeared on General Hospital and that, once again, I get to play the wonderful character of Holly Sutton.

As Deadline reported in August, Samms last appeared on General Hospital in September 2020, when the presumed-dead Holly was revealed to be alive and imprisoned in Monte Carlo.īut Samms’ return to the long-running show had to be postponed when she came down with COVID-19 and then suffered the effects of long COVID.
