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.

Revival cancelled: Prospect Park not producing OLTL, AMC online

The news broke today that Prospect Park will not be producing online versions of OLTL and AMC as previously announced. Read all about the sad news here.

Needless to say, like the rest of you, we here at soaphunks.net are bummed. With these two sudsers now truly cancelled and GH on Couric-induced life support, that'll leave precious few soaps on daytime. This just sucks.

DAYS' Foster, OLTL's Gregory lead nominees for 13th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

DAYS freshman Bren Foster and OLTL sophomore David A. Gregory both scored six nominations to lead the 13th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations, announced Wednesday at soaphunks.net. 80 nominations were announced covering 16 categories.

Both Foster and Gregory placed in the top category--Best Hunk--along with B&B's Adam Gregory, OLTL's Josh Kelly, and AMC's Jordi Vilasuso.

This is the first year since 2006 where four of the five Best Hunk nominees are competing in that category for the first time. Only OLTL's Gregory has previously been up for Best Hunk, having won the title last year.

A total of 36 soap hunks received nominations this year. With 24 nominations, OLTL led all shows for the fourth consecutive year, helping ABC lead the networks with 38 nominations. NBC scored 22 nods, with CBS at 20.

Other points of interest:

• In AMC's final broadcast year on ABC, the sudser managed five nominations, three of them going to Vilasuso. Cameron Mathison's nod (for Best Hunk Over 40) marks his 38th career nomination, lengthening the record he already held. And the soap itself picked up its eighth nomination for Hunkiest Soap, an award it hasn't been up for since 2007. AMC finishes with a total of 116 nominations and (thus far) 22 wins.
• Austin Peck's 22nd career nomination (Most Shamefully Clothed for ABC's OLTL) makes the actor the first hunk in history to pick up a nomination for appearances on all three networks. Peck's 21 previous nominations came from NBC's DAYS and CBS' ATWT.
• AMC's Jordi Vilasuso sets a record this year for the longest gap between nominations. His three nods in 2011 are his first in a decade, since receiving two bids in 2001 for GL.
• By referring to him on the show SEVEN TIMES as having won the fictional title of "Llanview's Best Arms," OLTL was clearly shouting-out to star David Fumero's win in that category last year in the Soaphunks.net Awards. And 2011 finds him up in that category yet again, with a record on the line: A win would give him four victories in that category, which would be the most all-time.
• Just three months shy of his 17th birthday, OLTL's teen heartthrob Andrew Trischitta becomes the youngest nominee ever with his three nominations.

The entire list of nominations is available online. Complete year-by-year history of the awards is also available online.

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

Adams goes ultra

Anytime we come across an ad that features a shirtless soap hunk, we like to share it with you. So, check out Soaphunks.net Award winner Timothy Adams showing us his cure for athlete's foot!

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!)

David A. Gregory wins Adonis 2011

Congratulations to OLTL's David A. Gregory, who won the Adonis 2011 title at soaphunks.net!

Gregory's win marked the first time in five years that someone has defeated DAYS' James Scott for the title. Scott finished second this year. For more details on the contest, check out the annual Adonis FAQs page.

After his win was announced, David himself had a video message for his fans. Check it out below!

BIG NEWS: OLTL & AMC saved!

Hallelujah! ABC has confirmed today the rumors that Agnes Nixon's recently cancelled sudsers OLTL and AMC will indeed live on via the Internet. ABC has sold licensing rights to both shows to the Prospect Park media group and production company.

More details will be forthcoming regarding how the long-running soaps will change--and stay the same--when they make their transition to online format.

Until then, check out Daytime Confidential's coverage of this breaking story.

Way to go fans! You made this happen!

38th Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations

The usual suspects and some strange head-scratchers dominated the list of nominees for the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. GH led with 21 nominations, while Y&R claimed 20.

Both of those soaps are up for Best Drama Series, along with AMC (13 noms) and last year's winner, B&B (14 nods).

OLTL, generally considered to be the best soap on the air, received scant recognition thanks to their annual bungling of tape submissions. (Really, OLTL? You submitted "Starr X'ed Lovers?") The show received 12 nominations, nothing bigger than the supporting races.

NBC's lone soap, DAYS, received five nominations. The now canceled ATWT got four nods in its last at-bat.

Among soap hunks nominated were DAYS' James Scott and Chandler Massey, GH's Jason Thompson and Chad Duell, Y&R's Billy Miller, and B&B's Scott Clifton.

The major nominations:

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
All My Children (ABC)
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
General Hospital (ABC)
The Young and the Restless (CBS)

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
Maurice Benard, GH
Ricky Paull Goldin, AMC
Christian LeBlanc, Y&R
Michael Park, ATWT
James Scott, DAYS

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Susan Flannery, B&B
Alicia Minshew, AMC
Debbi Morgan, AMC
Michelle Stafford, Y&R
Laura Wright, GH
Colleen Zenk, ATWT

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR

Doug Davidson, Y&R

Jonathan Jackson, GH

Brian Kerwin, OLTL

Billy Miller, Y&R

Jason Thompson, GH

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tricia Cast, Y&R
Melissa Claire Egan, AMC
Nancy Lee Grahn, GH
Julie Pinson, ATWT
Heather Tom, B&B
Bree Williamson, OLTL

(No Robin Strasser, Academy? Really?!)

OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTOR
Scott Clifton, B&B
Chad Duell, GH
Chandler Massey, DAYS

OUTSTANDING YOUNGER ACTRESS
Lexi Ainsworth, GH
Brittany Allen, AMC
Emily O'Brien, Y&R

The 38th Annual Daytime Emmys will be televised live from Las Vegas June 19th on CBS.

Win the shirt off Max Tapper's back!

Now here's our kind of contest!

As you can see, hunkalicious Max Tapper (OLTL's Detective Theo Price) has very little reason to wear a shirt. And since he has no use for it, he's giving you the chance to literally win the shirt off his back!

In his new online contest, Tapper is giving away a personally autographed workout shirt and along with a personalized 8x10 color photo to one lucky fan. To enter, just send a standard-sized postcard with your name, mailing address, email address to Max Tapper/Det. Price, c/o One Life to Live Studios, 320 W. 66th St., New York, NY, 10023. You can even include a phone number to possibly receive a congratulatory phone call from Max himself.

Best of all, if OLTL receives a good number of postcards, maybe they'll see the light and feature the gorgeous Mr. Tapper more often!

Full details (and more hot pictures) are available at this site.

TRAGEDY: ABC cancels both AMC and OLTL

Terrible breaking news to report: ABC announced Thursday that it is cancelling both AMC and OLTL from its daytime lineup, leaving it as a one-soap network with only GH remaining in tact.

Daytime Confidential is reporting that AMC will wrap in September 2011, to be replaced by "The Chew," a food/cooking show. OLTL will conclude in January 2012, to be replaced by "The Revolution," a health & lifestyle transformation show.

The entire press release from ABC Daytime's boob-in chief Brian Frons is available at the Daytime Confidential link above.

Obviously we at soaphunks.net are just sick about this, as we will be left with only four soaps in all of daytime (GH, DAYS, Y&R, and B&B). Of particular sadness to me is the OLTL cancellation, because that was MY soap, not to mention by far the hunkiest soap currently out there.

Sorry, folks. :(

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.

Model Chris Campanioni hides his pepperoni

First it was Maxwell Zagorski. And now the powers-that-be at OLTL have hired another gorgeous model as a day player. On the 04/01/11 episode, studly Chris Campanioni (aka Chris Cuba) played the pivotal role of a porn actor shooting the latest entry in the "Hide The Pepperoni" canon.

After seeing the video and caps below, all I can say is Domino's never sent anyone like him to my house! YUM!

Lots more pics of Chris are available at Model Mayhem.

OLTL hunks strip at Broadway Bares--er, Cares

OLTL hunks Tom Degnan, David A. Gregory, Josh Kelly, Mark Lawson, Lenny Platt, and Nic Robuck recently poked fun at their characters' frequent shirtlessness at Broadway Cares 2011. Check out the clips below.





Our thanks to cincense for providing these YouTube clips.

Comic strip: Zagorski's 3rd OLTL appreance just as shirtless as last two

Okay, so I'm about a week behind with posting this, but model Maxwell Zagorski (also known as the hottest day player in OLTL history) was back in action on the Feb. 2nd episode as a bachelorette party stripper. And while his previous pair of appearances had him posing as a nude art class model, this time he was allowed at least a little wardrobe...a pair of skimpy police boxer briefs.

Check out the caps below and the video here. Please note: his "dancing" needs a lot of work. His body, though, does not.

Okay, OLTL, start scheduling Appearance No. 4.

Austin Peck gains new Life!

In breaking soap news, Austin will bring his award-winning pecs to Llanview! That's the word from Soap Opera Digest, which is reporting that Austin Peck is joining One Life to Live in a new contract role.

Peck is best known for his stints on DAYS and ATWT. The 9-time Soaphunks.net Award winner scored a Best Hunk award for his role as the often-shirtless Austin Reed on DAYS. Peck followed up that role by showing off not just his hot body, but also his acting chops, when he took on the role of Brad Snyder on ATWT. Now, Peck will complete the network trifecta as he joins the hunky cast of OLTL.

Peck made waves during his ATWT stint due to his reported off-screen romance with co-star Terri Conn, who also recently joined OLTL as the scheming Aubrey. There's no word yet on who Peck will be playing, or whether he'll interact with his real-life love on the series. One thing's for sure: OLTL has a tradition of making good use of their soap hunks and it shouldn't be long before Peck is showing off his pecs in Llanview.

Peck begins filming at the end of January.

Zagorski returns to OLTL, and forgets his clothes again

OLTL must have been pleased with model Maxwell Zagorski's one-day stint as an art class hunk, because he was recently brought back for a follow-up strip-down. Hopefully the hunk-a-licious Zagorski is a long lost Ford brother so he can start appearing shirt-free in Llanview full-time!

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.

Santa stuffs our stockings

We must have been very good this year because Santa's rewarding us with a treat: three Fords! That's right, check out SoapNet's new version of "Santa Baby," featuring the vocal talents of the ladies of Llanview and the eye candy of the Brothers Ford: OLTL's gorgeous trio of David A. Gregory, Nicolas Robuck, and Lenny Platt. Just hurry down the chimney tonight!

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.

Adams gets covered

What does a hunk do when he's not busy memorizing his lines for a soap? Well, if the hunk is OLTL, GL, and SUBE alum, Timothy Adams, the answer is simple. He poses for romance novel covers.

The studly actor/model's flesh has graced the front of over 100 romance books. How does Adams manage to keep his Fabio physique? Read more about Adams' workout routine and photo shoots here.