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!

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Ouch! Metcalfe falls on his award-winning butt

PAS alum and three-time Soaphunks.net Award winner Jesse Metcalfe's good luck almost ran out last week. According to US Magazine, the hottie recently was partying at a World Music Awards after-party in Monaco when he fell 40 feet off of a balcony and was knocked unconscious. He is currently in a wheelchair, and can barely walk. Ouch! Metcalfe is expected to recover--slowly.

Non-Hispanic Redford to be PASSIONS' third Miguel

One of the hunkiest roles in daytime television history, that of PASSIONS' Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald, has been recast again. This time, however, it will be filled by the decidedly non-Latino Blair Redford, who played Scotty Grainger on Y&R for about 10 minutes in 2005 before being dropped.

This role, of course, was famously first filled by Jesse Metcalfe, who departed it to head to "Desperate Housewives" in its first season. He was then replaced by Adrian Bellani, who quickly became the most featured actor in Soaphunks.net history given his almost daily shirtlessness. Bellani departed when PASSIONS moved to DirecTV in September 2007.

Redford will assume Miguel duties in mid-November.