David A. Gregory, OLTL earn near-sweep of 13th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

David A. Gregory took top honors as the 13th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards were announced live Wednesday.

The OLTL stud, who also won the site's summertime Adonis contest, won Best Hunk and four other categories for the second consecutive year. He also converted his nominations for Best Torso, Best Pecs, Best Abs, and Best Butt into wins. Gregory's win in the top category puts him in select company: only OLTL's David Fumero and DAYS' James Scott have also won the Best Hunk award twice. Gregory's win for Best Torso was particularly noteworthy: with over 63% of the vote, it was the most dominant margin of victory in awards history.

Gregory thanked his fans via Facebook Wednesday after his wins. "Thanks everybody for all your votes," he said. "I'm truly humbled and honored. It's a wonderful way to say goodbye to a wonderful time of my life. You're the best."

It was a banner night for the now-cancelled OLTL, with 10 victories in all. The series won its third Hunkiest Soap trophy.

Fumero, whose win for Best Arms in last year's awards was actually a frequent point of parody throughout 2011, repeated his win in that category and made him the only nominee to send Gregory to a loss this year. Fumero also won the Best Voice prize--the first time in that award's six-year history that it wasn't won by James Scott.

OLTL also pulled wins for co-stars Nic Robuck (Best Face, for the second year in a row) and newcomer Andrew Trischitta (Best Hair).

Other soaps did manage to pull out some wins. B&B saw all-time wins leader Brandon Beemer win Most Shamefully Clothed honors, as well as Best Eyes for a record 6th consecutive year. His co-star, Scott Clifton, won Best Smile.

Though sidelined in many other races, DAYS did claim two victories in two major categories. Eric Martsolf won Best Hunk Over 40 in his first year of eligibility, while Aussie Bren Foster won Hunkiest Newcomer.

Former GH star Greg Vaughan repeated his win for Most Missed Soap Hunk, just as Jonathan Jackson is departing that role. (Hint hint, GH!)

Complete voting results can be viewed at the Soaphunks.net Award archive.

Llanview's losing its Best Arms

Sad news--OLTL's David Fumero is leaving Llanview for the third time in his career.

The show has announced that Fumero's Cristian Vega will exit the sudser several months ahead of the soap's final ABC episode. He will be written out in a storyline featuring Erin Torpey, who formerly played the Jessica Buchanan who had a teen romance with the hunky actor.

Fumero is one of the most lauded soap hunks in daytime history. He has 25 Soaphunks.net Award nominations to his credit, with seven wins. He was the first actor to win this site's top award--Best Hunk--twice.

Last year, he won in the category of Best Arms--a fact that wound up making the show as a running gag. Fumero's character has been referred to in OLTL dialogue as having won the title of "Llanview's Best Arms" at least eight times.

(Soapy will miss him GREATLY!)

OMG!!! Soaphunks.net shout-out on OLTL!

Imagine how I squealed with delight when on the 04/08/2011 episode of OLTL, soaphunks.net got a shout-out!

In this scene, Rama (Shenaz Treasurywala) compliments Cristian (David Fumero) on his "Best Arms 2010," referring to Fumero's win in that category during the 12th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards.  (And yes, Mr. Fumero, it was indeed a well-deserved win.)

My mouth fell open when she said it, as it hit me that they were talking about MY SITE! I am so stoked!

For that matter, I'm considering the entire episode as a love letter to yours truly, as it was filled with not only Fumero's award-winning guns, but also shirtless scenes from every other OLTL actor to ever win the Soaphunks.net Awards' top prize of Best Hunk: Mark Lawson (2008) and David A. Gregory (2010). (Fumero took top honors in 2001 and 2002.) There was even shirtlessness from newcomer Josh Kelly, who's a surefire nominee for 2011.

Sigh...I just loved it. Thank you so much, OLTL!

More about the annual Soaphunks.net Awards at the site.

Gregory wins 5 Soaphunks.net Awards as OLTL leads way

In an overall strong showing for ABC's One Life to Live, newcomer David A. Gregory won five awards, including Best Hunk, when the 12th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards were announced live Wednesday.

It's only the second time that a soap freshman has won the site's top award, following co-star his Mark Lawson's 2008 feat. Gregory also converted wins for Hunkiest Newcomer, Best Torso, Best Pecs, and Best Butt.

Hearing about his wins, Gregory offered his Facebook followers thanks and indicated he was grateful to his fans and quite flattered. His five wins tied the record for most wins in a single year. 

OLTL won for the second time as Hunkiest Soap, and Gregory's on-screen brother--fellow newcomer Nicolas Robuck--won Best Face. David Fumero, a two-time Best Hunk winner himself, won his first Soaphunks.net Award in six years with a victory for Best Arms. The win marked Fumero's seventh career win.

Last year's Best Hunk winner, B&B's Brandon Beemer, registered two more trophies for Best Abs and Best Eyes. Those are his fifth consecutive wins in both categories, and they put him in first place all-time for career wins, with 15. DAYS' James Scott, the winner for Best Voice, is right behind with 14 career wins.

GH's Steve Burton won Best Hunk Over 40 in his first year of eligibility, while former co-star Greg Vaughan achieved the night's most dominant win as Most Missed Soap Hunk, with over 45% of the vote in that race.

Other winners: DAYS' Shawn Christian (Most Shamefully Clothed) and Eric Martsolf (Best Smile) and B&B's Zack Conroy (Best Hair).

Voters continued the drought for GH's Tyler Christopher, who now is 0-for-13.

Complete voting results can be viewed at the Soaphunks.net Award archive.

David A. Gregory, OLTL lead 12th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations

With a near-record seven nods, OLTL breakout sensation David A. Gregory led all nominees Wednesday as the 12th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations were announced live at soaphunks.net. 80 nominations were announced covering 16 categories.

Gregory placed in the top category--Best Hunk--along with B&B's Brandon Beemer, OLTL's David Fumero, DAYS' Eric Martsolf, and GH's Brandon Barash.

Beemer won Best Hunk last year, while Fumero won in both 2001 & 2002. Beemer is now the only person to be nominated for the top award in four consecutive years, while Fumero's mention ties the record for most Best Hunk nominations ever with five. This is Martsolf's third career Best Hunk nod, and Barash's debut appearance here marks GH's first inclusion in the top category since 2005.

A total of 38 soap hunks received nominations this year, down one from 2009 but still among the most ever. With 25 nominations, OLTL led all shows for the third consecutive year, helping ABC lead the networks with 41 nominations. CBS scored 20 nods, with NBC right behind with 19.

Other points of interest:

• As the world stopped turning for ATWT this year, so did its luck with the Soaphunks.net Awards, placing in only two categories: Best Butt for Billy Magnussen and Most Missed Soap Hunk for Austin Peck. ATWT finishes with a total of 64 nominations and (thus far) 12 wins.
• For the first time in awards history, one soap has managed to claim four of the five available spots in a category. The Best Arms race this year pits OLTL's Fumero, Gregory, Mark Lawson, and Max Tapper all in the same category.
• After 2009 finally saw wins for perennial bridesmaids Thad Luckinbill and Shemar Moore of Y&R, now GH's Tyler Christopher widens his stance in the role of the Soaphunks.net Susan Lucci. Christopher's Best Arms nomination is his lucky 13th with no wins.
• For the first year in Soaphunks.net Awards history, AMC's Cameron Mathison was not nominated in any category. Mathison had placed in at least one category every year since the first awards in 1999. Still, the former Best Hunk winner holds the all-time record for most nominations with a whopping 37.

The entire list of nominations can be streamed online, while the text version is also available. Complete year-by-year history of the awards is also available online.

As always, voting begins December 1 at soaphunks.net.

Have you driven a Ford lately?

OLTL's new resident hunk, David A. Gregory, is looking mighty fine in the soap's new series of mid-show bumpers. There's also a shirtless one with David Fumero, but I haven't located it online yet. In due time, my friends. Until then, enjoy these five seconds of heaven...

Mark Lawson's shout-out to Soaphunks.net!

God bless soap guru Michael Fairman for his latest interview with OLTL fireplug Mark Lawson! After gathering some interesting insights from Lawson regarding his current storyline and pre-nomination for the Daytime Emmys, Fairman saved the most important question of all for last: "Didn't you win the Soaphunks.net Award for Best Hunk?!"

Lawson's reaction to his three 2008 Soaphunks.net Award wins is adorable! And of course I selfishly love that he gave my site a shout-out by name.

Check out the interview here:



In addition, Fairman also grabbed a quick sit-down with yet another Llanview dreamboat, David Fumero. Unfortunately, no word from Fumero on what he thought about winning the very same Best Hunk award in 2001 & 2002! Hee hee...



Look out for plenty more video interviews from Michael Fairman at his site.

Soaphunks.net's Top 10 Latin Lovers

What makes a great Latin lover?

Well, obviously they have to be of Latin descent (sorry, Antonio Sabato, Jr.). They're generally heroic but always hot-blooded. They can fight for their true love but then also be just as gentle. Not all of the men on our countdown actually played Latin characters, but their heat was just as sizzling.

For our inaugural Soaphunks.net Top 10 countdown, we take a look back at the most swarthy, swoonworthy Latin lovers in soap history...you may need to sit down for this one!

Start the countdown...

11th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards: Polls open!

It's December 1st, so voting for the 11th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards officially started at midnight ET. You can access the ballot at soaphunks.net/vote.

As always, we have gone to great lengths to provide evidence for each nomination to help make you a more informed voter. "Review the Evidence" links are all over the ballot. Click them before voting! This is one ballot that you will want to spend some time on!

And as usual, in the top category of Best Hunk, we have For Your Consideration videos of all of the five nominees' hunky achievements from 2009. Behold the beauty, then go vote!

11th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards announced!

With six nods each, DAYS' Shawn Christian and OLTL's Mark Lawson led all nominees Wednesday as the 11th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations were announced live at soaphunks.net. 80 nominations were announced covering 16 categories.

Both Christian and Lawson placed in the top category, Best Hunk, along with B&B's Brandon Beemer, OLTL's David Fumero, and Y&R's Daniel Goddard.

Lawson won Best Hunk last year, while Fumero won in both 2001 & 2002. Beemer is now only the third person to be nominated for the top award in three consecutive years. This is Christian's second career Best Hunk nod, and Goddard's debut appearance here marks Y&R's first inclusion in the top category since 2005.

A total of 39 soap hunks received nominations this year, a tie for the second-most ever. With 18 nominations, OLTL led all shows for the second consecutive year, helping ABC lead the
networks with 33 nominations. CBS scored 28 nods, and NBC nabbed 19.

Other points of interest:

• The good news for CBS: B&B once again broke its own record for nominations, with nine nods spread amongst Beemer, Don Diamont (scoring his 26th career mention), Texas Battle, and Rick Hearst. Similarly, sister soap Y&R had its second-best year ever, with 14 nominations. (The CBS flagship soap received 17 nominations in 2000.)


• The bad news for CBS: ATWT posted its worst showing in six years, scoring only three nominations. What's worse: the de-hunkified sudser saw all three of those nods (Van Hansis, Billy Magnussen, & Jake Silbermann) in the Most Shamefully Clothed Category. Memo to ATWT's powers-that-be: Shirts! Off! More!

• The nominations for Murray Bartlett and Lawrence St. Victor mark the final nods for GL, bringing its series total to 28 nominations...and no wins.

• Will you guys ever give the boy a trophy? The Soaphunks.net Susan Lucci, Y&R's Thad Luckinbill, is back with two more nominations, extending his unfortunate lead in the no-wins race, with 18 career nominations but no wins.


• AMC's Cameron Mathison, suddenly finding himself eligible for Best Hunk Over 40 honors, picked up two more nominations this year, widening his lead as the most nominated soap hunk ever, with 37 career nominations.

The entire list of nominations can be streamed online, while the text version is also available. Complete year-by-year history of the awards is also available online.

As always, voting begins December 1 at soaphunks.net.

Soap hunks pinch hit--hilariously--for ESPN

If you haven't seen ESPN's latest series of promotional ads for the network's Fantasy Baseball, you have to check them out. It helps to have the ABC soap stars in the same media family, as that allows access to John-Paul Lavoisier, Cameron Mathison, John Brotherton, and David Fumero, each of whom shows a penchant for over-the-top comedy in this running series.