Shawn Christian leads DAYS domination of 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

The fourth time was the charm for DAYS' Shawn Christian, who won Best Hunk in the 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards, when winners were announced today.

The DAYS doctor had been nominated for Best Hunk three previous times before finally winning this year and becoming the oldest hunk ever to win the top prize. He also won for Best Butt and Best Hunk Over 40, marking the the second consecutive year that the same person has won both the regular and the Over 40 races in the same year.

The only race lost by Christian was Best Torso, where he finished second to winner Rob Wilson of AMC. Wilson also won a very competitive race for Hunkiest Newcomer. Wilson's wins were the first for AMC since 2005.

Also winning two prizes were Y&R's Marco Dapper, who won Best Pecs and Best Arms; and DAYS' Greg Vaughan, who took Best Face for a record fourth time and whose priest's collar snared him a win as Most Shamefully Clothed.

All other winners claimed a single prize, but they were almost entirely nabbed by DAYS actors. Among the show's overall 10 wins were Nathan Owens for Best Abs, Galen Gering for Best Hair (his 5th win in that category), James Scott for Best Voice (his 7th), Freddie Smith for Best Smile, and Chandler Massey for Best Eyes. Curiously, last year's Best Hunk winner, Eric Martsolf, was shut out this year. Not curiously, DAYS triumphed as Hunkiest Soap for the 8th time.

OLTL alum and two-time Best Hunk winner David A. Gregory won for Most Missed Soap Hunk.

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

Newcomers, Salemites dominate nominations for 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

Daytime freshmen Nathan Owens of DAYS and Rob Wilson of AMC each racked up a record-tying eight nominations to lead all studs in the 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations, announced Sunday at soaphunks.net. Eighty nominations were announced covering 16 categories.

As no soap hunk has ever earned more than eight nominations in a single year, Owens & Wilson join AMC's Cameron Mathison, who had eight nods in 1999, as well as Mark Collier (2004) and Mark Lawson (2008) for the record.

Both diaper dandies found themselves with mentions in the top category — Best Hunk — along with DAYS' Shawn Christian, Y&R's Marco Dapper and B&B's Lawrence St. Victor. This is Christian's fourth shot at the top prize that has eluded him thus far. Dapper's nomination here is his second, and St. Victor's nod is his first. None of the five nominees has ever won the Best Hunk title — the third consecutive year that's been the case.

Christian and St. Victor each received four nominations, as did DAYS' Eric Martsolf and Greg Vaughan. Dapper got three total nods.

A total of 37 soap hunks received nominations this year, up four from 2012. With 31 nominations, DAYS led all shows for the second consecutive year. NBC led the networks with 32 nominations. CBS scored 24 nods, with newcomer The Online Network (TOLN) grabbing 17 thanks to the re-emergence of AMC & OLTL. ABC brought up the rear with seven.

Other points of interest:

• Until this year, only one African-American had ever placed in the Best Hunk race (Y&R's Shemar Moore in 1999). With Owens and St. Victor up this year, African-Americans grabbed two of the top category's spots. In fact, the inclusions throughout the ballot of hunks like GH's Sean Blakemore, OLTL's Corbin Bleu and Y&R's Redaric Williams & Lamon Archey helped make this the best year ever for black soap hunks.
• Two more nominations for GH's Tyler Christopher put him in sole possession of an unfortunate record: the most nominations (15) without any wins. Will this be his year to finally win?
• The Hunkiest Newcomer race was clearly its most competitive in years, as nominations leaders Owens & Wilson were joined by Williams, OLTL's Robert Gorrie and DAYS' Casey Moss. Left out were the otherwise eligible Bleu, as well as DAYS' Sean Douglas, AMC's Ryan Bittle, GH's Bryan Craig, and Y&R's Lamon Archey & Hartley Sawyer.
• For the first time since 2005, the winningest soap hunk of all time, Brandon Beemer, is not nominated in any caegory.
• Two of the Best Hunk nominees (Dapper and Owens) have already departed their respective soaps, while Wilson's entire show seems to be on permanent hiatus.

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

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

The 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards: We're open to suggestions!

Nominations for the 15th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards are set to be unveiled on November 24, 2013. But prior to that...we're listening to you and your suggestions for nominations. Unlike Adonis, the summertime contest here at soaphunks.net that's really an American Idol-style popularity contest, the nominees for the annual Soaphunks.net Awards are personally decided by the editors of soaphunks.net. We try our best to base the nominations on actual displayed hunkiness in 2013...NOT general hotness and certainly not fan popularity. You can read all about the previous 14 years of nominees and winners here.

We try to be as fair as possible and nominate without regard to anything other than qualifications in 2013. But we're human, so it's possible we could miss someone who is worthy. Therefore, we turn to soaphunks.net fans and ask them to submit suggestions for who should--and shouldn't--make this year's list of nominees. And we're pleased to announce that TOLN's reboots of AMC and OLTL make them eligible for 2013!

Please e-mail us with suggestions of whom you feel is a must-have in a certain category...or someone who had better not be there. Please remember that we are looking for thoughtful suggestions across all soaps and multiple soap hunks, so any submissions we receive that say "So-and-so should be in every category" will be ignored.

The same 16 categories will be up-for-grabs this year, and should reflect hunkiness for 2013 only. Don't suggest someone who was a great hunk in 1999 but now, well, isn't. Feel free to review the caps from the entire year on each actor's page on soaphunks.net, as we often use site caps as evidence of worthiness in each category.

Here's a quick cheat sheet for all the categories:

• Best Hunk: The biggest award of the bunch. In order to make it in this category, a nominee must have had noticeable shirtlessness on their soap in 2013. Keep in mind that we often think shirtlessness laying under the covers in bed doesn't count as much as, say, answering the the door in a towel or doing some stripping.
• Hunkiest Soap: Six soaps are eligible (AMC, B&B, DAYS, GH, OLTL, & Y&R), but only five will make the cut. Maybe you should tell us which one should be left out and why?
• Best Hunk Over 40: You can consult the site's actor pages for most birthdates. As long as he turns 40 before November 24, he's eligible. Being 40 counts too, not just 40+.
• Most Missed Soap Hunk: After winning this award twice in a row, Greg Vaughan came back to daytime. Now let's do it again...who do we want back?
• Hunkiest Newcomer: An exceptionally strong field this year for Hunkiest Newcomer! Anyone who debuted from November 2012 thru now is fair game.
• Most Shamefully Clothed: We know he has a great body under all those clothes, but his soap never proves it! Permanently stuck in their shirts throughout 2013, the Most Shamefully Clothed nominees could have saved their shows a fortune in wardrobe costs.
• Best Torso: Best Torso refers to "everything on the front," from the neck to the waist.
• Best Pecs: Just the jugs.
• Best Abs: Always a competitive category, Best Abs contenders are pretty easy to spot...just look at his stomach. If you can easily count to six, he's a keeper.
• Best Butt: To successfully evaluate a fine derriere, one must have proper evidence. We are especially picky in the Best Butt category that we have pic/vid evidence to back up the nominations.
• Best Arms: Bulging biceps get them in every time.
• Best Voice: Whose voice alone makes you melt? Not necessarily reserved for guys with accents, but those are often hard to top. We will pay particular attention to American suggestions here, though.
• Best Face/Best Eyes/Best Smile/Best Hair: These should be pretty self-explanatory.

We look forward to hearing everyone's suggestions. Please submit them by October 31, 2013 to make sure they get considered. We're not able to guarantee that your suggestions will turn into nominations, but we do promise to read them all carefully. Thanks!

Petey Cortlandt, come on down!

When it comes to the reboot of AMC, it appears the price is right for Rob Wilson. The model/actor, who set hearts aflutter as the first-ever male model on The Price is Right, is headed east, as it was revealed that Wilson has scored the recast role of Pete "Petey" Cortlandt.

Though he's best known for his modeling, Wilson is no stranger to acting, as he's appeared in the films The Social Network, Friends with Benefits, and Bride Wars. His television credits include parts on The Secret Life of the American Teenager and The Middle.

Wilson's new on-screen mom, Jill Larson, took to the net to spill the news of Wilson's AMC casting, through both Twitter and Facebook, and who can blame her? With that smile, those eyes and a body that won't quit, Wilson deserves all the attention thrown in his direction. The actor is set to help usher in a new era of hotness in Pine Valley.

Now, this is a re-launch that we at soaphunks.net can get behind!

Production on the AMC revival began this week. Let's hope that Rob won't be the last hunk joining Pine Valley!

Martsolf, DAYS sweep 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

Eric Martsolf finally took top honors as the winners of the 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards were announced Sunday.

The DAYS stud, who has previous lost the awards' top contest three times, finally won the Best Hunk prize. He also won for Best Arms and Best Hunk Over 40, marking the first time the same person has won both the regular and the Over 40 races in the same year.

Martsolf re-tweeted news of his wins Sunday with his thanks.

It was effectively a sweep for DAYS, a soap that had not had as much success the past few years in these awards. With the recently-sweeping but now-cancelled OLTL out of the way, DAYS managed 12 victories in all. The series won its record-setting seventh Hunkiest Soap trophy, in the most dominant race in awards history.

The only person to win multiple awards outside of DAYS was Y&R's Marco Dapper, whose leading seven nominations going in turned into wins for Hunkiest Newcomer, Best Torso, and Best Butt.

It was a pair of victories each for the DAYS trio of Chandler Massey (Best Pecs and Best Eyes), James Scott (Best Abs and Best Voice), and Freddie Smith (Most Shamefully Clothed and Best Smile).

Other DAYS victors: Greg Vaughan for Best Face and Casey Deidrick for Best Hair.

All-time wins leader Brandon Beemer of B&B won Most Missed Soap Hunk, padding his lead with his 18th Soaphunks.net Awards win.

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

Y&R's Dapper leads nominees for 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards

Y&R hottie Marco Dapper landed seven nominations to lead the pack in the 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Award nominations, announced Wednesday at soaphunks.net. 79 nominations were announced covering 16 categories.

It is the first time a Y&R actor has held the yearly nominations lead.

One of Dapper's nods came in the top category — Best Hunk —along with B&B's Scott Clifton & Adam Gregory and DAYS' Shawn Christian & Eric Martsolf. Gregory, Christian, and Martsolf have six previous Best Hunk nominations between them, but none has ever won the top prize.

Christian, Gregory and Martsolf each received five nods, as did DAYS' Chandler Massey. Clifton got four total nominations.

A total of 33 soap hunks received nominations this year. With 28 nominations, DAYS led all shows for the first time in four years, though it was CBS that led the networks with 32 nominations. NBC scored 29 nods, with ABC at 18.

Other points of interest:

• With his five nominations this year, DAYS' Eric Martsolf passes B&B's Don Diamont for the second-most total nominations all-time with 33. Diamont's two 2012 nominations give him a lifetime total of 32. (AMC's Cameron Mathison remains in first place with 38.)
• The Best Voice nomination for Y&R's Daniel Goddard ties the Aussie actor with GH's Tyler Christopher for an unfortunate record: most nominations without any wins.
• After having won the award for Most Missed Soap Hunk the past two years, DAYS' just-debuted Greg Vaughan turned his one week of eligibility this year into a nomination for Best Face, the 18th nomination of his career.
• The good news for GH's Erik Valdez and DAYS' Schuyler Yancey is that both were nominated as Hunkiest Newcomer. The bad news is that both have already received walking papers from their respective shows. A third nominee, GH's Nathin Butler, was killed off earlier this fall.
• With four of the five nominees in the Best Face category, DAYS becomes the first soap to accomplish that feat since OLTL landed four hunks in the Best Arms race in 2010.
• GH's Drew Cheetwood, who has recurred on the soap since 2006, finally stripped down in 2012, and his first Soaphunks.net Award nomination followed (Best Arms).

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

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

Who would YOU nominate for the 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards?

Nominations for the 14th Annual Soaphunks.net Awards will be announced on November 21, 2012. But before they are, here's your annual chance to get in our heads prior to our deciding who's in and who's out. Unlike Adonis, the summertime contest here at soaphunks.net that often boils down to a popularity contest among rabid fanbases, the nominees for the annual Soaphunks.net Awards are personally decided by the editors of soaphunks.net. We try our best to base the nominations on actual displayed hunkiness in 2012..NOT general hotness. You can review the past 13 years of nominees and winners here.

We try to be as fair as possible and nominate without regard to anything other than qualifications in 2012. But we're human, so it's possible we could miss someone who is worthy. Therefore, we turn to soaphunks.net fans and ask them to submit suggestions for who should--and shouldn't--make this year's list of nominees. With fewer soaps than ever to pick from, it will be interesting to see how the only eligible soaps (B&B, DAYS, GH, and Y&R) split the nominations.

We're truly interested in hearing what you guys are thinking in each of the categories. Feel free to e-mail us with suggestions of whom you feel is a must-have in a certain category...or someone who had better not be there. Please remember that we are looking for thoughtful suggestions across all soaps and multiple soap hunks, so any submissions we receive that say "So-and-so should be in every category" will be ignored.

The same 16 categories will be up-for-grabs this year, and should reflect hunkiness for 2012 only. Don't suggest someone who was a great hunk in 1999 but now, well, isn't. Feel free to review the caps from the entire year on each actor's page on soaphunks.net, as we often use site caps as evidence of worthiness in each category.

Here's a quick cheat sheet for all the categories:

• Best Hunk: The top award. In order to make it in this category, a nominee must have had noticeable shirtlessness on their soap in 2012. This person really needs to have taken off his shirt in 2012. Did he?
• Hunkiest Soap: No need to suggest here, as all four remaining soaps will be on the ballot.
• Best Hunk Over 40: You can consult the site's actor pages for many birthdates. As long as he turns 40 before November 21, he's eligible. Some guys are over 40 that you don't realize!
• Most Missed Soap Hunk: Greg Vaughan has won this award the past two years running, and now he's back on daytime...see, it's fate! So now which other former soap hunk would you most like to see return to daytime? They can be recent exits, or long-ago departures.
• Hunkiest Newcomer: Which newbies caught your eye in 2012? To be eligible, freshmen had to have their first major appearance in 2012, or perhaps the very end of 2011.
• Most Shamefully Clothed: We know he has a great body under all those clothes, but his soap never proves it! Permanently stuck in their shirts throughout 2012, the Most Shamefully Clothed nominees could have saved their shows a fortune in wardrobe costs.
• Best Torso: Best Torso refers to "everything on the front," from the neck to the waist.
• Best Pecs: Manboobs alone.
• Best Abs: Always a competitive category, Best Abs contenders are pretty easy to spot...just look at his stomach. If you can easily count to six, he's a keeper.
• Best Butt: To successfully evaluate a fine derriere, one must have proper evidence. We are especially picky in the Best Butt category that we have pic/vid evidence to back up the nominations.
• Best Arms: Bulging biceps get them in every time.
• Best Voice: Whose voice alone makes you melt? Not necessarily reserved for guys with accents, but those are often hard to top. We will pay particular attention to American suggestions here, though.
• Best Face/Best Eyes/Best Smile/Best Hair: These should be pretty self-explanatory.

We look forward to hearing everyone's suggestions. Submit them by October 31, 2012 to make sure they get considered, and thanks!

Oh Noah He Didn't!

After leaving Oakdale, Soaphunks.net Award winner Jake Silbermann has been honing his craft on stage, with his starring role as Brad in the play "3C," which parodies the classic comedy Three's Company, with the 2009 Adonis runner-up as the male lead.

About 3C:  The war in Vietnam is over and Brad, an ex-serviceman, lands in L.A. to start a new life. When he winds up trashed in Connie and Linda’s kitchen after a wild night of partying, the three strike a deal for an arrangement that has hilarious and devastating consequences for everyone.

Silbermann has also been making headlines for baring all, as his character is introduced on stage fully nude, showing more than he ever could on ATWT. "3C" is currently showing at the Rattlestick Theater in New York City and is set to wrap on July 14th.

Vaughan joining DAYS' Brady Bunch?

Major rumors are circulating that Y&R and GH alum Greg Vaughan could be headed to Salem to play Sami's long-absent twin brother, Eric Brady. The role was previously played by Jensen Ackles, who has moved on to primetime stardom on Supernatural. Eric Brady hasn't been seen since 2000. 

Adding fuel to the rumors, Vaughan will be co-starring with DAYS' Alison Sweeney in an upcoming Hallmark movie.

The 8-time Soaphunks.net Award winner would make a welcome addition to the hunky roster at DAYS. Vaughan's talents have been sorely missed on daytime, as proven by his consecutive Soaphunks.net Award wins for Most Missed Soap Hunk of 2010 and 2011.

Soap hunk gets sassy for Crystal Light

With Crystal Light sales lagging for 2011, Kraft decided to scrap its current ad campaign and come up with a "sassier approach." With a peek at PASSIONS alum Charles Divins' hunky chest in their newest spot, which begins airing today, sales are sure to skyrocket!

Check out the ad and an article with more information on Crystal Light's "sassier approach" here. Warning: "You're gonna get wet."

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.