This soap opera actress who has many more lucrative offers, can’t stand her “mother” and the feeling is mutual. The thing is, the daughter has a much higher rate for her services these days after being the darling of another network. As much as I have enjoyed her coming back recently, only to leave again, her television mom, a longtime veteran, demanded that her pay be matched. That caused a lot of cutbacks. Writers were fired, which annoys me. And other cutbacks were made to pay the matriarch of the show a similar salary that she demanded. At some point, you should be happy to have the same role for decades and just acknowledge that someone has surpassed your popularity on the show.
There are also a lot of blind items circulating about this show having a casting couch, and my sources say that is far from the truth. At least for the people I chatted with.
Lisa Rinna?
Eileen
Rinna?
Eileen’s mother passed away, does Rinna’s mother act? My guess is Erika Jayne?
I assume “mother” means mother on the show.
Actually scratch that, Erika was a stupid quest, I have no idea lol
No, it’s Eileen Davidson & her “TV mom” Marla Adams, the matriarch of Y&R. Quotes are important, people! Of course I’ve been watching this show since Niki was a stripper.
Marla Adams is not and has never been the matriarch of Y&R. Her character, Dina Mergeron, has always been reoccurring. In all these years I don’t think Marla has ever been on contract with Y&R.
The true matriarch of Y&R will always be the late Jeanne Cooper who played Katherine Chancellor for 40 years. Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman) would be a close second.
THANK YOU!! No one could ever come close to taking that title from Jeanne Cooper.
She’s definitely the matriarch of Days of Our Lives though. Who even watches Y&R anymore?
You’re out of your mind. Y&R is still the #1 rated soap – Days is in fact the one nobody’s watching. And no, Eileen Davidson is most definitely NOT the matriarch of either show.
You don’t have to be mean. I didn’t say Eileen was the matriarch of Days. I said Deidre Hall is.
Amen to that, Kevin!
I watched Y& R in the mid-70’s- beginning when I was about 10yrs old. I Loved Katherine and the whole Chancellor vs Foster family storyline. Anyone remember David Hasselhoff as Snapper? I loved the Foster family. It was the Foster’s vs the Chancellor’s If I recall correctly.
The original families on Y&R were the Chancellor’s, the Foster’s and the Brooks’. With the exception of Katherine Chancellor and Jill Foster, the rest of those families/characters were written out in the early 80’s when the Williams, Abbott and Newman families became the focus. Katherine and Jill’s early battles were legendary. And yes, I remember David Hasselhoff as Snapper.
Pretty sure TT has gone away from Housewives here as this describes Days of our Lives, Ali Sweeney coming back to the show recently to a T…..???
My guess as well! The TV mom being Deidre Hall (Marlena).
My thoughts too, everyone loves Sammi Brady!
I agree on this …it has to be Alison and Deidre
Sammi and Marlena
Alison Sweeney…she plays Sami Brady on days of our lives and is a big Homemark Channel Star. Her tv mom is Diedra Hall who plays Dr. Marlena Evans.
Allison Sweeney and Marlena Deitrich.
Deidre Hall and Alison Sweeney?
What other network considers Allison Sweeney their darling though?
*I’ve been out of the soap loop for awhile*
Hallmark Channel.
Alison Sweeney and Deidre Hall. I have heard for years that there is no love lost between these two.
Quick question – if you even read this. Why blind items l? Is it because you’re liable to be sued if you out the person, or…?
I have no life, I absolutely LOVE TT Blind Items even though I completely suck at them.
Me too lol. I have never guessed one correctly!
I so suck at these! I never know who it is, but love reading everyone’s guesses.
NO wire Hangers
susan lucci and her daughter