Richard Burgi has been playing Ashland Locke on The Young and the Restless for almost a year, but he was recently fired from the role. The actor took to Instagram to explain why.
Over Christmas break, Burgi tested positive for COVID-19. When he returned, he followed the CDC guidelines and returned to work, with two negative tests, five days after he tested positive. However, the show’s policy says that he needed to wait for ten days. Since the actor didn’t, they decided to let him go and replace him with Robert Newman, according to Soap Opera Digest.
He feels terrible about what he did. Personally, I think they should have suspended him, as compared to firing him because he didn’t know that they were not following the Center for Disease Control’s new guidelines. If anyone is at fault here, it is the CDC.
When it comes to if Burgi has any animosity towards the Soap Opera, he does not. He said,” “It bothers me mightily, but it is what it is. I respect whatever the show’s decision is. They’re doing the best they can, as we all are. I truly wish the gentleman who’s coming in to play Ashland a wonderful time. He’s going to be working with the most incredible actress and a great, great cast. It’s an amazing show, I have nothing but good memories and good wishes for it.”
He is handling the situation with class. I can’t wait to see what he does next because this should not fault him in Hollywood. It was an innocent mistake, and he made sure he was negative before returning to work.
Eric Braeden is on TikTok, and he took part in one of the social media site’s newest trends. That trend is dancing to Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Do I think the 80-year-old is sexy? In a word, YES! He will always be Young and Restless no matter how old he gets.
Back in 2015, Anthony Geary retired from General Hospital. However, his character Luke Spencer lived on.
That is until now. Because yesterday, Tracy Quartermaine (Jane Elliott) knocked on Laura’s (Genie Francis) door and told her Luke is gone. Today, his current love explained to his soulmate that he was killed in a cable car accident in Austria. Then Tracy said that the cops identified his remains and gave her his personal items, so it was really him.
But it is? In the world of Soap Operas, only time will tell.
Do you think this is how Luke finally met his demise? Or are you expecting to show up at his funeral?
When I was a kid, I used to love watching how soap operas did Christmas because they made such a big deal about the holiday.
This year, Peacock wants to up the game, so they are giving us Days of our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas on December 16th.
In the telemovie, Will Horton writes Christmas stories about his friends and family based on some of their favorite movie plotlines. However, they will all be filled with lots of twists and turns that only DOOL has perfected.
The special stars Deidre Hall, Alison Sweeney, Eileen Davidson, Jackée Harry, Drake Hogestyn, Camila Banus, Chandler Massey, Ari Zucker, Raven Bowens, Eric Martsolf, Billy Flynn, Paul Telfer, Lindsay Arnold, Lucas Adams, Carson Boatman, Greg Rikaart, Dan Feuerriegel, Zach Tinker and Blake Berris.
This is the second special that Peacock has done with the daytime drama. Back in September, they did a week-long limited series Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem. I cannot wait to see what they do next and who they bring back for it.
For weeks, there have been rumors that Steve Burton was out of General Hospital because he wasn’t going to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, he confirmed that his days as Jason Morgan are done. At least as long as they have the vaccine mandate.
In his Instagram video, he said that no one “should lose their livelihood over this.” Call me crazy, but I don’t think anyone should lose their life over COVID-19 if they can get a shot that could prevent that. Not only could it prevent it for them, but also people who really have medical reasons on why they can’t get the shot.
I am sick of the personal freedom bullsh!t. It is not all about you; it is about caring about others besides yourself. Let’s say Burton or Ingo Rademacher got the virus (Burton did), went to work, gave it to a co-worker, and that co-worker died. How would they Feel? We need to protect ourselVes and the people that are vulnerable to the virus.
Stop being selfish, and get the shot. I am fully vaccinated with the booster, and I am fine. So are my friends and family. I didn’t hug my favorite person in the world for over a year until I was vaccinated because she was 7, and I didn’t want to do anything that could harm her. We don’t know how each individual is going to react to the virus. Some are fine, and others don’t survive. I think of the ones that don’t. Plus, we don’t know the long-term effects. How long did it take doctors to discover that Shingles comes from Chickenpox? COVID-19 is too new for us to understand the actual dangers of the virus. It terrifies what we are going to learn about this coronavirus of the next few decades.
Kudos to General Hospital for being the only soap opera that has the mandate. Days of our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, and The Young and the Restless need to do better. Sony, what are you waiting for?
