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The winners of the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced Sunday evening, June 16, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA and broadcast live on the HLN cable network. Although the production quality of the program itself left much to be desired, Soapdom applauds HLN for continuing to support the Daytime genre.  

And the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Award for daytime drama categories went to:

Outstanding Daytime Drama
Days of our Lives
Ken Corday who accepted the award, quipped, "It's been 38 years!"   And we say, long over due for Days.

Carly makes an unforgivable mistake

This week, Carly actually outdid herself – she went too far ordering the hit on Franco. Because of Carly’s actions, Olivia was shot and seriously injured. At this point, we don’t know if the fair Olivia will survive.

I never thought I would see the day when Sonny would threaten Carly’s life and mean it. ‘If Olivia dies, you die,’ Sonny hissed to Carly. Somehow I believe Sonny meant every word of that threat. I think if Olivia dies, Sonny may just shoot Carly himself.

The Bold and the Beautiful has done it again!  The world-watched soap opera was the recipient of the International TV Audience Award in the "Telenovela/Soap Opera" category today at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, confirming that it remains the world's most watched series in its genre. This is the eighth consecutive year that the series has been the recipient of this award.

Cast members Katherine Kelly Lang ("Brooke") and Don Diamont ("Bill") accepted the award on stage at the Closing Awards Ceremony at the Grimaldi Forum.

Eileen Davidson of Days of our Lives said that playing the role of Kristen Di Mera is "fun, exuberating, and exhausting", but think about it, what actress would not want to play her?

"I know! The part is so well written that whatever I'm doing I enjoy doing it," Davidson said. "The character of Kristen has I mean... done it all."

Admitting that someday she'd like to see Kristen give birth, but of course she can't have children. "Wild" and "Can't even imagine" is how Davidson described having a baby would be.

How many reality fans are out there in soapdom?  Do you have your favorite reality couples? As I am sure you know, reality shows give birth to a fair amount of public romances, and a lot of public breakups. It's just like soap operas, but in real time! In reality (pun intended), fact is truer than fiction and some of these reality couples engage in more outlandish activities than the most contrived storylines on our favorite soaps.

As in real "everyday life," couples have their ups and downs.  What's coming up roses one day, is cause to walk the plank on another. But when your personal life is played out on the airwaves for the world to see, it adds a new and distracting dimension to to being able to keep one's personal life personal.

They say everyone has a double but this is ridiculous

As a huge fan and lover of John McBain, it pains me to see Michael Easton playing a different role. John was wonderful in Port Charles. He had romance potential with Sam. And he was cute, funny, and charming. John McBain will be missed – that’s for sure.