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All My Children Eyes Resurrection as TV-Movie Franchise

Multiple sources confirm to TVLine exclusively that preliminary discussions are underway at Lifetime to launch a TV-movie franchise featuring legacy characters from the classic Pine Valley-set daytime drama, which ran on ABC from 1970 to 2011 before being briefly resurrected as a web series in spring/summer 2013. An insider cautions that the talks are in the early stages, with one source describing the conversations as “exploratory.”

UPDATE: After initially declining to comment, a Lifetime rep is now confirming TVLine’s exclusive report, adding that there are two AMC movies in development, one of which would be holiday-themed.

The Walt Disney Company, which owns a stake in Lifetime’s parent company A&E Networks, has for years been eyeing opportunities to mine the All My Children intellectual property. In 2020, ABC announced that it had partnered with former AMC stars Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos to develop a primetime iteration of the soap. That ill-fated sequel series, titled Pine Valley, would have centered on a young reporter with a secret agenda who threatens to bring the Pennsylvania town’s deadly history to light.

And last year, ABC’s lone daytime soap, General Hospital, brought back the All My Children character of Jackson Montgomery (once again played by Walt Willey) for a multi-episode arc.

News of All My Children‘s possible comeback comes as rival network CBS is readying the January debut of The Gates, aka broadcast television’s first new daytime soap since the launch of NBC’s late Passions 25 years ago.

A Soap Star’s Dramatic Return to the Runway

“Thank god I do Pilates,” she said on a call on Wednesday. “It helped me pop right back up.”

On Monday, Ms. Lucci, 77, is mounting what she jokingly called her “runway redemption tour”: She is the final model in the designer Dennis Basso’s New York Fashion Week show.

Mr. Basso, who has been working for four decades in New York, is best known for embellished evening gowns and fur coats that exemplify a certain (largely bygone) uptown opulence — the kind possessed by people like Joan Rivers and Ivana Trump, who often attended his shows, as well as by Ms. Lucci both offscreen and onscreen as Erica Kane, the character she played for more than 40 years on “All My Children,” the popular soap opera that ran from 1970 to 2011 on ABC.

That role helped familiarize Ms. Lucci with her turns as a model: One plot for Erica, a diva with a taste for luxury, had the character posing for a photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Another scene required Ms. Lucci to lie down on the fountain outside the Plaza Hotel while modeling a tiny chiffon dress in the dead of winter. “It was some of my best acting,” she said.

Erica’s grandiose persona was often amplified by an over-the-top wardrobe — big hair, big shoulders, big jewels — that brought some glamour to daytime TV, said Ms. Lucci, who described the era of shoulder pads as a time of “very nice proportions.”

The clothes in Mr. Basso’s New York Fashion Week Show, which is being produced in collaboration with QVC, will include pieces from his namesake line as well as items from his brand for the shopping channel. The designer, who was on the call with Ms. Lucci, said he had cast her as a model as a tribute to their 30-year friendship — and he promised that the ensemble she would wear on the runway posed little to no tripping risk.

“It’s a streamlined silhouette,” he said..

Susan Lucci Gives Health Update, Shares If She's Open to Dating After Losing Husband of 52 Years

Susan Lucci is opening up about how her heart is recovering after an emergency procedure and the death of her husband, Helmet Huber.

Sitting down with ET's Rachel Smith for "The grEaTs," the 77-year-old actress provided fans with an update on how she is doing as she embraces this next chapter of her life -- and whether or not she is open to finding love again after losing her 84-year-old husband in 2022.

For the All My Children star -- who was married to Huber from 1969 until his death -- it would be extremely difficult to put herself back out there after already finding the love of her life at just 23 years old.

"I know everybody's different, I can't imagine it, you know?" Lucci -- who previously shared that the casting producers of The Golden Bachelorette reached out to her about starring in the reality show -- said of dating again. "Never say never, but I just can't imagine [it]."

In the two years since her Austrian-born chef husband passed away, Lucci has devoted a good chunk of time to reading about coping with the loss of a spouse and the various ways to move on after. While she knows that finding love after loss is entirely possible, it's not the path forward for her -- at least not at this time.

"It is different for everyone and, you know, part of it is a choice to get up off the floor and put one foot in front of the other. I mean, it is better to go ahead with your life," she shared with ET. "The other thing is that I know that this life is a gift, it's meant to be a gift from God and I'm never gonna thumb my nose at that -- I'm grateful. And I'm very grateful to have the love and have [had] Helmut in my life."

Throughout the course of their half-century-long love story, the pair established a tremendous life together and welcomed two children, Liza Huber and Andreas Huber. Lucci told ET that the secret to their enduring relationship and marital success is not a secret at all. Lucci said that for her, it all came down to being with the person who complemented her.

"He always made me laugh and he was always there for me -- he was a rock and very secure," Lucci said of her "wonderful" husband. "[He was] very funny, very sure of himself in a good way and very take charge, which you wanted him to be."

She continued, "He was one of those people you wanted him to be in charge because he knew what to do and knew how to make things happen. And at the same time, [he was] coming from such a good place."

For now, Lucci is happy to hold onto her beloved memories of Huber. That includes saying no to The Golden Bachelorette -- although she does admit that just because she won't be on it anytime soon does not mean that she won't be seated for the season premiere on Sept. 1.

"I tried it, I became instantly hooked," Lucci said of the ABC reality series. Instead, the show will be led by former Golden Bachelor contestant Joan Vassos for its debut season. "I think I'm just a fan... it wasn't for me but it's something that I do love to watch."

Aside from The Golden Bachelorette, Lucci is using this new era of life to discover what is important to her -- a category that includes focusing on her happiness and her health, especially after undergoing two major heart surgeries in the span of four years.

In 2022, just weeks before Huber's death, the actress and philanthropist revealed that she underwent a second procedure for heart disease after a first heart scare in 2018. At the time, she reported experiencing symptoms like shortness of breath and discomfort in her ribcage and back.

For the second procedure, she rushed to the hospital only to discover she had a 75 percent blockage in one of her arteries as a result of a buildup of plaque. Doctors ultimately used a stent on her heart to open the blockage and try to prevent future issues.

That came after she already had another major open-heart surgery in 2018. In 2019, the All My Children star revealed to ET that the blockage the first time around was even more severe and life-threatening.

"It turns out, I had a 90 percent blockage in my main artery and a 75 percent blockage in an adjacent artery, and so they told me the next day, 'You just avoided a widow-maker,'" she told ET at the time, crediting her doctor for telling her to go to the hospital. "I didn't know! I had no idea."

According to the CDC, heart disease is the number one cause of death for women in the United States. In 2021, approximately one-in-five female deaths in the U.S. were attributed to the so-called "silent killer."

Today, Lucci is feeling great and healthier than ever. She is focusing on spreading awareness on the deadly issue and advocating for women everywhere (including herself) when it comes to their health.

"I'm in very good shape and I feel very good," Lucci said. "I had a blockage, a 90 percent blockage in my main artery and a 75 percent blockage in the adjacent artery. And fortunately, I listened to my body and there was someone there [her doctor] who could prod me to go to the hospital."

"Had I not gone there, I was told the next day when I was checked out that I 99.9 percent would've had the widow-maker. If I had laid down, I never would have gotten up," she shared of the health scare. "I was doing what many women do, I kept thinking, 'Oh it'll go away, it's nothing, it'll go away.'"

Moral of the story? It's always better to be safe than sorry, especially when it comes to your health.

"My takeaway was -- is to tell women to put yourself on your to-do list, to listen to your body and if it doesn't behave the way that's normal for you, take action," she said. "The doctor will not be mad at you for coming if there's nothing there."

Thanks to the doctor who she says "saved her life," Lucci now has the opportunity to continue with her busy and exciting life. That includes a role in Apple TV+'s new dark comedy, Outcome, which is directed and co-produced by Jonah Hill. The script also comes from the mind of the 21 Jump Street star, who penned it alongside Ezra Woods.

"It was a spectacular experience, I'm so glad that I did this and got to work with Jonah," she said of the project. "Jonah Hill has written a very powerful [script] – it’s a dark comedy, a very dark comedy – but he's really a gem and I'm very lucky to have worked with him."

A release date for the film -- which also stars Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, David Spade, Laverne Cox, Kaia Gerber and Roy Wood Jr. and more -- has yet to be determined. e..

Susan Lucci says her family are her 'biggest rock' as she opens up about their support during challenging times

The All My Children alum is an inspiration to many as a result, not to mention the fact she's worked tirelessly to help others, resulting in her recently receiving the Spirit of Life Award at the annual City of Hope gala, held in New York City at the beginning of June.

During the event, Susan opened up to HELLO! about the lessons she's learnt from the past few years, which have seen her undergo multiple heart surgeries, as well as losing her beloved husband, Helmut Huber, in 2022.

She said: "Ultimately, I have learned that resilience isn’t about bouncing back; it’s about bouncing forward with newfound wisdom and resilience. My biggest rocks have undeniably been the unwavering support of my friends and family.

"Their unconditional love has been an anchor that has kept me grounded and a constant reminder that I am never alone."

Susan is mom to children Liza Huber, 49, and Andreas Huber, 36, who she shares with her late husband. She is also a doting grandmother, and loves nothing more than spending time with her loved ones.

She's looking forward to the summer too, and told HELLO!: "summer always goes by so quickly, but I always look forward to spending as much time with friends and family at the beach!"

Susan gave a powerful speech at the City of Hope gala, receiving a special accolade presented to individuals who exemplify the ideals and values that have guided City of Hope for a century. Past participants have included Jane Fonda, Dr. Jill Biden, Brooke Shields, Cindy Crawford, Hoda Kotb and Robin Roberts.

City of Hope was founded in 1913, with the mission to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes.

Susan told HELLO! before the event: "I have to acknowledge how prestigious it really is to receive this award from The City of Hope. I know the list of former recipients and I'm very honored to be in their presence.

"And also, my goodness, it's very humbling. You just go along in your life and try to do the best you can, but to be acknowledged by the City of Hope for contributions to women's health is just more than I could have ever expected or hoped for. And so I'm very, very honored indeed to accept this award."

Susan has done a lot of work for charity, and during her acceptance speech, she joked that she was excited to wear a pink dress at the event, as she usually wears red dresses.k

Susan Lucci wows in statement pink gown as she receives special honor at NYC luncheon

The 77-year-old actress' dress cinched in at the waist and featured an embroidered bodice and pleated mini skirt.

The award-winning star teamed her dress with a pair of matching pink heels, and wore her brunette hair in a bouncy blowdry.

The All My Children actress was honored the prestigious The Spirit of Life Award at the annual City of Hope Gala.

This is an accolade presented to individuals who exemplify the ideals and values that have guided City of Hope for a century.

Past participants have included Jane Fonda, Dr. Jill Biden, Brooke Shields, Cindy Crawford, Hoda Kotb and Robin Roberts.

City of Hope was founded in 1913, with the mission to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes.

Susan told HELLO! before the event: "I have to acknowledge how prestigious it really is to receive this award from The City of Hope. I know the list of former recipients and I'm very honored to be in their presence. And also, my goodness, it's very humbling. You just go along in your life and try to do the best you can, but to be acknowledged by the City of Hope for contributions to women's health is just more than I could have ever expected or hoped for. And so I'm very, very honored indeed to accept this award."

Susan has done a lot of work for charity, and during her acceptance speech, she joked that she was excited to wear a pink dress at the event, as she usually wears red dresses. This is because she is a huge advocate for heart health and raising awareness of heart conditions, following her own health battles in recent years.

In 2022, the actress began feeling shortness of breath and experienced chest and jaw pain, but despite her previous history, she was reluctant to call a doctor.

Talking to People, she said: "I couldn't believe it. And after telling women for three years to not be afraid to call the doctor and to put themselves on their to-do list, I reverted back to all those things."

It was there that the medical team discovered that Susan had a 80 per cent artery blockage caused by her cholesterol, and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.

Luckily, Susan is now feeling "really well" following last year's procedure. At the beginning of March, she told People: "I'm doing really well. I always keep an eye on myself, what's going on." She added that her recovery is "so far, so good."

‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Contacted Susan Lucci’s Camp About Possibly Appearing, She Claims

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, the All My Children alum, 77, shares that she's a recent Bachelor fan. And while ABC has found their Golden Bachelorette in season 1 contestant Joan Vassos, Lucci reveals that she had a hat in the ring before the decision was made final.

"I believe that they contacted my publicist and it wasn't for me," Lucci explains. "I watched The Golden Bachelor. I really enjoyed watching The Golden Bachelor. This is a new addiction for me."

Though she spent years watching her mother love the franchise, the soap star wasn't interested until a "couple seasons ago" after her assistant inspired her to give The Bachelor a chance.

"My assistant told me she was going home to watch The Bachelor with her daughters," she recalled. "She said, 'Well, it's really good.' I watched it. The first time I watched it was that night a couple seasons ago. I was immediately engaged. I cared. I wanted to know more about these people."

Though the actress called the show "my new guilty pleasure," Lucci said, "I didn't pursue [it] when they called my publicist to see if I would be interested."

"It wasn't for me, but I do love watching," she added. "I'm a fan. I love watching."

ABC and Warner Bros. does not comment on casting news. However, a source tells PEOPLE she was not offered the role.

On May 14, ABC announced at the 2024 Disney Upfronts at the Javits Center in New York City that Vassos, 61, will take the lead as the first Golden Bachelorette this fall.

During an appearance on the Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour podcast, Vassos shared the relatable reason she accepted the offer to be the Golden Bachelorette.

“I really want love,” she explained. “I want to have somebody in my life. I feel like life is better when you share it with somebody. I truly believe all of that."

"As far as my heart being completely open, I think it's nine-tenths of the way there," she continued. "So, I think I just need to spend a little more time in like an environment like The Bachelor environment. I so am not… like I really want to find love. I just don't want to go to the work of going on a dating website.”

‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Contacted Susan Lucci’s Camp About Possibly Appearing, She Claims

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, the All My Children alum, 77, shares that she's a recent Bachelor fan. And while ABC has found their Golden Bachelorette in season 1 contestant Joan Vassos, Lucci reveals that she had a hat in the ring before the decision was made final.

"I believe that they contacted my publicist and it wasn't for me," Lucci explains. "I watched The Golden Bachelor. I really enjoyed watching The Golden Bachelor. This is a new addiction for me."

Though she spent years watching her mother love the franchise, the soap star wasn't interested until a "couple seasons ago" after her assistant inspired her to give The Bachelor a chance.

"My assistant told me she was going home to watch The Bachelor with her daughters," she recalled. "She said, 'Well, it's really good.' I watched it. The first time I watched it was that night a couple seasons ago. I was immediately engaged. I cared. I wanted to know more about these people."

Though the actress called the show "my new guilty pleasure," Lucci said, "I didn't pursue [it] when they called my publicist to see if I would be interested."

"It wasn't for me, but I do love watching," she added. "I'm a fan. I love watching."

ABC and Warner Bros. does not comment on casting news. However, a source tells PEOPLE she was not offered the role.

On May 14, ABC announced at the 2024 Disney Upfronts at the Javits Center in New York City that Vassos, 61, will take the lead as the first Golden Bachelorette this fall.

During an appearance on the Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour podcast, Vassos shared the relatable reason she accepted the offer to be the Golden Bachelorette.

“I really want love,” she explained. “I want to have somebody in my life. I feel like life is better when you share it with somebody. I truly believe all of that."

"As far as my heart being completely open, I think it's nine-tenths of the way there," she continued. "So, I think I just need to spend a little more time in like an environment like The Bachelor environment. I so am not… like I really want to find love. I just don't want to go to the work of going on a dating website.”

‘The Girls On The Bus’ Canceled By Max After One Season

“While Max will not be moving forward with a second season of The Girls on the Bus, we are grateful to have partnered with immensely talented Amy Chozick, Julie Plec, Rina Mimoun, as well as the teams at Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television,” the streamer said in a statement. “We are so proud of this powerful story of found family and the celebration of journalism, in all its forms. We thank them and our unrivaled cast for all their incredible work and collaboration.”

The cancellation news is not entirely surprising. The adaptation of Chozick’s best-selling book Chasing Hillary had a relatively quiet run and didn’t break into Nielsen’s Top 10 weekly streaming rankings through it appeared multiple times on Max’s in-app Top 10 list.

Created by Plec and Chozick, The Girls On The Bus‘ first season centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes a bygone era of campaign reporting and scraps her whole life for a shot at covering a presidential candidate for a paper of record. Sadie joins the bus and eventually bonds with three female competitors, Grace (Carla Gugino), Lola (Natasha Behnam), and Kimberlyn (Christina Elmore).

Despite the title, future installments were not expected to be confined to a campaign bus. Season 1, which ended with a cliffhanger, followed the primaries. Season 2 would’ve moved to the general election with the reporters getting off the bus and onto a plane, showrunner Rina Mimoun confirmed to TVLine.

The cast of the series also included Brandon Scott, Griffin Dunne, Mark Consuelos, and Scott Foley.

Chozick, Plec and Rina Mimoun executive produced with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, and Marcos Siega; Jesse Peretz executive produced and directed the pilot of the series, Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

The Girls On the Bus landed at Max after originally getting a series order at Netflix and then moving to the CW for development.

Jonah Hill’s ‘Outcome’ Adds Six To Cast

No word on the roles to be played by the new cast members. As previously announced, Keanu Reeves leads the ensemble of the Apple Original Film, which will also star Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer.

Written by Hill and Ezra Woods, Outcome centers on Reef (Reeves), a damaged Hollywood star who must dive into the dark depths of his past to confront his demons and make amends after he is extorted with a mysterious video clip from his past.

An Apple Studios production, the film will be produced by Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin and Hill under their Strong Baby banner. The film marks the latest collaboration for Hill and Apple Original Films, who are also developing a Grateful Dead biopic with Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions, to be directed by Scorsese, with Hill starring and producing for Strong Baby. Dines and Goodwin will also produce that pic scripted by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.

Lucci is represented by The Katz Company and Laird & Sobel, LLP; Spade by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and UTA; Cox by CAA, PH Entertainment Group, and Peikoff Mahan; Gerber by CAA, Entertainment 360, DNA Model Management, and Sloan, Offer, Weber & Dern; Wood by CAA and Mainstay Entertainment; and Okatsuka by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.

Susan Lucci Reveals the 3 Foods She Eats Every Day Since Having 2 Heart Operations

After having two heart surgeries in the past five years, the All My Children alum makes sure to always buy salmon, blueberries and kale when visiting the grocery store.

"My doctor told me, ‘You keep doing what you’re doing because something good will come from that,’” the daytime TV legend, 77, told Fox News, explaining that she sticks to the Mediterranean diet.

“I do have the occasional pasta and carbs,” said Lucci, who's now an ambassador for the American Heart Association. “I love cheese, but I don’t eat much of it, hardly ever. I love ice cream, but I moderate it. It’s all about moderation.”

She tries to avoid foods high in cholesterol, which was not something she always did.

“My husband was an executive chef trained in Europe,” she said of her late husband Helmut Huber. “I remember I would eat everything that he was cooking. It was like monopoly food. And I did build up cholesterol.”

Lucci transitioned to a diet full of superfoods — and practices daily pilates — which is why she initially ignored her heart symptoms.

In Oct. 2018, she started feeling intense chest pressure "like an elephant pressing down" and pain around her rib cage. "Like most women, I thought, 'I have too much to do. It will go away.' I didn't want to bother the cardiologist," she told PEOPLE in March 2023. "We take care of our children, we are advocates for our loved ones, but we're not at the top of our own to-do list."

A scan revealed a 90% blockage in the main artery to her heart: "I didn't realize how close I came to a fatal heart attack," she said of needing emergency surgery and a stent inserted in her heart, which is a tube that helps keep the passageway open. Her condition turned out to be genetic ("hereditary from my dad's side") and doctors put in two stents.

In January 2022, after indulging in lots of "comfort food" during the pandemic — "not my normal way of eating," she said, Lucci had another major scare.

The medical team subsequently discovered an 80 percent artery blockage — this time caused by cholesterol — and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.

Now feeling healthy, Lucci wants to remind other women to pay attention to the signs.

"My message for women is to listen to your body," she told Fox News. "Always put yourself on your to-do list. We don’t even put ourselves on the list. I’m lucky I’m here to tell my story."

'Golden Bachelor' Producers Eying Susan Lucci to Star in Spin-Off 'The Golden Bachelorette': Report

The Bachelor spinoff premiered in 2023 with 72-year-old Gerry Turner as the network's first-ever Golden Bachelor — and now insiders claim the All My Children veteran, 77, is poised to expand the reality dating franchise.

According to a recent report, sources alleged the 77-year-old soap star's personal tragedies make her a prime choice for the Golden Bachelorette, which gives a female twist on the one-of-a-kind show centered on contestants finding love in their sunset years.

"ABC sees Lucci as the perfect candidate because of her age appropriateness and the widely known narrative about losing her longtime spouse," a tipster told the National Enquirer.

"Her personal journey is a compelling storyline that will resonate with audiences, making the widow's quest for love heart-warming to watch," the source added.

ABC is reportedly looking to corner TV's brand-new senior singles market after scoring with the runaway hit Golden Bachelor starring Turner. Lucci, who lost Austrian-born chef husband Helmut Huber after 53 years and two children together in March 2022, is said to be "the perfect candidate" to have eligible men falling at her feet.

"Who doesn't want to see Susan find love again?" the insider noted.

RadarOnline.com has reached out to Lucci and ABC's reps for comment.

As RadarOnline.com exclusively reported, a source close to the actress told us that she was ready to date again one year after losing her husband.

"We have been trying to set her up with nice guys for a few months now," one pal dished. "Finally, Susan said yes. Understandably, she is cautious about being in the public eye. It's not like she wants to be set up with Pete Davidson but at least she's dating again."

Given how much has changed in the dating scene over the five decades since Lucci was last single, another insider revealed the actress' strict boundaries for dipping back into the dating pool.

"Susan has made it clear: no online dating. She has also ruled out blind dates," the source said.

While blind dates may be out of the question, the pal noted, "However, if a friend has someone they think she should meet, they can all go out for dinner together and see what happen.".

PERFORMERS AND PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 50TH ANNUAL DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS

The show, hosted by ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’s Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier, includes a historic reunion, as actor Shemar Moore will present the Lifetime Achievement Honor to Susan Lucci. Moore famously presented Lucci with her landmark first Daytime Emmy Award in 1999 after she had been nominated in the lead actress category 19 times for her portrayal of Erica Kane in “All My Children.” At the time of opening the envelope, Moore famously exclaimed, “the streak is over!” in what is frequently cited as one of the greatest awards show moments in history.

In addition, Grammy Award-winning, Emmy-nominated superstar Jennifer Nettles will perform “Life is Sweet” for the In Memoriam segment, which pays tribute to the stars and contributors in the field of daytime whom we lost this past year. The song originally premiered on the Daytime Emmy-nominated television show “American Anthems” and is also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for original song.

Presenters for the evening will include icons of daytime as the show pays tribute to 50 years, including Lauralee Bell (Y&R), Peter Bergman (Y&R), Michael Damian (Y&R), Don Diamont (B&B), Mary Beth Evans (“Days of Our Lives”), Akbar Gbajabiamila (THE TALK), Drake Hogestyn (“Days of Our Lives”), Finola Hughes (“General Hospital”), Amanda Kloots (THE TALK), A Martinez (“The Bay”), John McCook (B&B), Melody Thomas Scott (Y&R), Heather Tom (B&B), Donnell Turner (“General Hospital”), Kym Whitley (“The Bay”) and Laura Wright (“General Hospital”). Maury Povich and Connie Chung will make special appearances to present the Gold & Silver Circle honorees and the In Memoriam tribute, respectively..

Shemar Moore Will Present Susan Lucci with Daytime Emmys' Lifetime Achievement Award

"I am truly humbled to receive this esteemed award from the Academy," Lucci said in a previous statement when news of her award first broke. "Throughout my career, I have been incredibly fortunate to work alongside exceptional talents and embraced by my fans that have been with me every step of the way. This honor is not just a reflection of my journey, but a testament to the enduring power of storytelling and the profound connection we are so lucky to forge with audiences all over the world through television."

The daytime TV queen, 76, got her big break in the role of Erica Kane on All My Children in 1970 and played the role for 41 years until the show ended in 2011. Lucci had many memorable moments on the show and ultimately earned 21 nominations at the Daytime Emmy Awards for her iconic role.

Lucci received her first Daytime Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actress in a drama series in 1978. She finally won in 1999 after 19 nominations, receiving the award from Moore that year.

"The streak is over!" Moore famously said before presenting Lucci with her award.

Beyond All My Children, the actress found time to explore other projects, starring in the 1999 Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun and had solo performances in theaters and cabarets across the country.

On television, Lucci landed recurring roles on shows like Hot in Cleveland, Dallas, Army Wives and Devious Maids. In 2008, she competed on season 7 of Dancing with the Stars with partner Tony Dovolani, finishing sixth.

The actress is also a New York Times bestselling author after releasing her autobiography, All My Life, in 2011, and has championed several charitable causes in her lifetime, including United Cerebral Palsy of NYC, the National AFib Campaign, March of Dimes, the New York Cancer Project, the American Stroke Association, and the American Heart Association, of which she currently serves as the National Ambassador for the Go Red for Women Movement.

On the personal front, Lucci shares son Andreas Huber and daughter Liza Huber with her late husband Helmut Huber, who died in March 2022 at age 84. The two wed in 1969.

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Earlier this year, Lucci recovered from her second heart surgery in four years.

"I'm doing really well. I always keep an eye on myself, what's going on,” Lucci told PEOPLE in March, adding, "It is so far so good."

The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards air Friday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. e

Susan Lucci highlights the importance of heart health in latest American Heart Association PSA

By funding innovative research, fighting for stronger public health policies, and providing lifesaving tools and information, the American Heart Association is working tirelessly to make this goal a reality.

In the latest PSA from the American Heart Association, hear renowned actress Susan Lucci as she candidly shares her personal experience with a heart event.

Daytime Emmys To Honor Susan Lucci & Maury Povich With Lifetime Achievement Awards

The Emmys were supposed to be held today on CBS. But the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in May announced it was postponing them, as well as the June 17 Creative Arts & Lifestyle ceremony, because of the WGA strike.

Lucci and Povich will be celebrated in person once the awards are rescheduled.

“I am truly humbled to receive this esteemed award from the Academy,” Lucci said in a statement. “Throughout my career, I have been incredibly fortunate to work alongside exceptional talents and embraced by my fans that have been with me every step of the way. This honor is not just a reflection of my journey, but a testament to the enduring power of storytelling and the profound connection we are so lucky to forge with audiences all over the world through television.”

“I’m just blown away by this honor from the Academy,” Povich said in a statement. “I have always had great respect for its work as I served on the National Board and was President of the New York Chapter. I guess if you hang around long enough, some good things happen. It’s been a 60+ year ride for me in this business, so I feel extremely blessed with this acknowledgment.”

Lucci starred as Erica Kane for over 40 years on All My Children. In May 1999, on her 19th nomination, she won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Povich hosted the first-run syndicated show Maury from 1998 to 2022.

NATAS also announced the 2023 Gold and Silver Circle Honorees. Inductees are professionals who have performed distinguished service within the television industry, setting standards for achievement, mentoring, leadership and professional accolades for 50 or 25 years respectively. This year’s class is:

Gold Circle

Tanya Hart, Host / Producer, Entertainment News
Wendy Riche, Producer, Daytime Drama
Al Schwartz, Producer, Specials
Vernée Watson, Performer, Daytime Drama

Silver Circle

Christina Knack, Production Coordinator, Daytime Drama
Patrick Weiland, Producer, Lifestyle.

Susan Lucci: “Paying Attention to This Weird Pain Saved My Life!”

But on a January evening just last year, the 76-year-old found herself falling into an old pattern of ignoring and brushing off her symptoms, and it almost cost her her life…again. In the newest issue of FIRST for Women, Susan opens up in an exclusive interview about how she pulled through and what she’s doing differently now. Here’s a sneak peek:

“Put yourself on your to-do list…I didn’t”

“Those first three years since I avoided my ‘widow maker,’ I had been talking to women about what I had learned, trying to pass on my good luck and share my takeaways from my experience,” Susan told FIRST of the advocacy she began after her first heart attack, which is called a ‘widow maker’ because it’s caused by a full blockage in the heart’s largest artery—and only 12% of people survive. “I had two stents put in, but I was fortunate and I wanted to tell other women to listen to their bodies. If it’s not normal to you, don’t sweep your symptoms under the rug. And don’t be afraid of your doctor. Put yourself on your to-do list. As women, we do for everyone else: we’re taking the children to pediatricians, advocating for the ones we love…but we are not on that list.”

“Why would my jaw hurt?”

But late one night at the start of last year, Susan wasn’t taking her own advice. “I’m ashamed to say I reverted back to my original behavior, which was to say to myself, ‘Oh, it’s nothing, it’ll just go away’ and ‘I can’t go to the hospital right now.’ I was shocked that I was feeling some of the symptoms I felt in 2018 again and just thought, ‘This is crazy—it can’t be happening again.’”

But it was happening, and Susan knew the statistics: cardiovascular disease accounts for one-third of the deaths in U.S. women, and is number one killer of women. But even though Susan was experiencing symptoms similar to those she had experienced during her first heart attack, like shortness of breath, radiating chest pain and a sharp pain in her jaw—a lesser known symptom of heart attacks in women—she still wasn’t sure. “It seems so counterintuitive: why would my jaw hurt? But it’s actually a common symptom of a heart attack in women. And I remembered an interview with a woman I heard a long time ago that taught me that sometimes, the pain from a heart attack is something you feel in the jaw.”

“Even after all the signs, it was a shock”

Still, it was only when her husband, Helmut, returned home from his night of playing cards with friends that Susan began to come around to the idea that something was truly wrong.

“He said ‘We have to call the doctor,’” Susan recalls of the moment that changed everything. “I said, ‘Honey, it’s 10:00 at night, I can’t bother him…’ But he just said, ‘You have to.’”

Saying she’d think about it, Susan laid down in bed—the pain still radiating through her rib cage and jaw—and finally made her choice. “We met my doctor at the emergency room,” Susan recounts, where she learned that she had a 75% blockage in her third artery and would need another stent.

“Even after everything, all the signs, it was a shock,” shares Susan, who has since doubled down on her commitment to listen to her body. “I inherited the calcium buildup in my arteries from my dad. It’s hereditary and builds up over a lifetime, so when I asked the doctor if there was something that I’m doing to cause this or anything that I can change, he said no. This event in January was a little different because there was some cholesterol involved. It was post-COVID and my husband was cooking and I was eating anything that wasn’t nailed down that he made, which was so different for me.”

“I know I was truly lucky”

Thankfully, after pulling through that scare, and getting to the doctor before she had a second heart attack, Susan became more mindful, going back to her tried and true Mediterranean diet and daily Pilates. But then, she suffered a heart shattering injury of a different kind: losing her husband of 53 years, Helmut, just two months after her emergency surgery.

“He was the love of my life,” Susan shares. “There are four factors that motivate us all: response, recognition, security and adventure, and they were all so true of my relationship with my husband. And laughter. When I lost him, I felt like half a person. Nothing else mattered and I wasn’t really sure if I would ever go on stage again or in front of the camera. So the better part of this year has been trying to get back to myself, and being grateful for the blessings I’ve had. To have known the kind of love that I experienced from my husband: I know how lucky I was to have that and I knew it then. I always knew it.”

“Caring for yourself is most the important thing”

Today, Susan keeps that gratitude going with the help of loving friends, family and the words Helmut used to say engraved on her happily healthy heart. “When things were maybe a little bit difficult or challenging, he used to say in his adorable Austrian accent, ‘After the rain, the sun, she shines. It’s a wonderful thing to keep in mind. I’m a work in progress, but I am making progress. I have learned acceptance and I have learned empathy. And I think that both acceptance and empathy come from challenges and going through grieving. I’m glad I acquired them, but I wish I didn’t have to learn those things at the same time. Still, I don’t want to give up. I don’t want to lose the fire in my belly. We’re never finished growing—but loving yourself and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.”

For more of Susan’s brilliant tips on how she beats stress, keeps her bones healthy and boosts energy, pick up the latest issue of FIRST for Women at your local grocery store or subscribe and save here!

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May 2, 2023

Susan Lucci

Talk Show Appearance

May 2, 2023

Susan Lucci

Tongues wag as Susan Lucci meets much-younger man at hotel

When the “All My Children” star, 76, was spotted at the Lowell asking a stranger if he was the guy she was there to meet, an onlooker surmised she was on a blind date.

She approached the guy and asked, as a source tells it, “Are you so and so?”

“He said, ‘No,’ and she left,” the spy told us.

The ever-stunning star eventually located her man, it seems. She was later spotted with a man who appeared to be “barely 30,” according to spies.

“They were very into their conversation,” we’re told.

But it turns out the late lunch meet up was all business and no play according to her rep, who told us, “She was there for a business meeting.”

“She was with a producer, but that’s all I can share at this time,” they said.

Besides, Lucci told Page Six back in February that dating isn’t in the cards after her husband of 52 years, Helmet Huber, died last year at the age of 84.

“[Dating is] not on my radar… He was a very hard act to follow,” she said at the American Heart Association’s Red Dress Collection concert.

Still, she likes to hang with “amazing friends who like to be out and about… And I like to be out and about,” she said.

Lucci first met Huber when she was a waitress and he was the executive chef at Red Salt Room restaurant at Long Island’s Garden City Hotel in the ’60s. They went on to have two children together.

Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos blasted for 3-day workweek: ‘What a joke’

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are catching heat after it was revealed Thursday’s episode of “Live With Kelly and Mark” was pre-recorded.

Viewers tuning in were met with a disclaimer from ABC stating that the show had been taped on a previous day.

Consuelos, 52, joined “Live” as a co-host on Monday, sitting alongside wife Ripa, also 52, who has helmed the program for more than two decades.

Given the strong interest in the couple’s first official week together on the air, it’s surprising to some that they chose to tape Thursday’s episode earlier.

However, pre-recording “Live” is not a new phenomenon that has been introduced with Consuelos.

During the six years that Ripa co-hosted with Ryan Seacrest, the pair occasionally pre-recorded episodes of “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” sometimes in order to accommodate the “American Idol” host’s busy schedule splitting time between New York City and Los Angeles.

Ripa and Seacrest would most commonly tape a Friday episode prior to broadcast — something they did for Seacrest’s final episode last week.

Given that this Friday’s installment of “Live with Kelly and Mark” has likely been pre-recorded, it appears Ripa and Consuelos will work just three days this week.

The Post has reached out to ABC for clarification of how often “Live” would be pre-recorded in a regular week.

Several fans were unimpressed by the fact that Thursday’s show was taped prior to airtime.

“Three days live, two taped,” one raged.

“Why not just record five in one day and call it a week? #youknowyouwantto” another sniped, with one more adding, “3 day a week contract, what a joke.”

One speculated that Ripa and Consuelos would only be working three days per week on a regular basis as part of a deal they cut with ABC.

Meanwhile, another wrote: “It would be nice to see an audience again and for the shows to actually be live and not prerecorded.”

ABC is bringing back the “Live” studio audience, with the show’s Twitter account posting a callout to people wanting to attend.

“Come see us live!” the post read. “Get tickets to be in our studio audience.”

Criticism over the chat fest’s pre-recording comes amid a rocky first week for Ripa and Consuelos together on the air.

Some viewers have taken issue with the married couple’s on-air PDA, while others criticized a discussion about Consuelos’ snoring.

However, live or pre-recorded, other fans are relishing Ripa and Consuelos’ pairing.

“Ahhhhh LOVE Kelly & Mark… just the morning show I’ve been waiting for. So glad you two are working together… and doing it SO WELL,” one cheered.

“I’m like a proud parent watching the show. I smile throughout because I love them together. You can tell they are still madly in love,” a second stated.

“Congratulations Mark!! When are y’all bringing the live audience back? I want to come to NYC and support in person!” they concluded.c.

'Naughty' Daytime Star Susan Lucci: 'I Don't Feel My Age'

If you’ve caught an episode of All My Children, you’ve seen Susan Lucci in her element. The Emmy award-winning actress is known for portraying Erica Kane on the series for the show’s entire 41 years. “Erica was the bad girl in town, the naughty girl, the pot stirrer,” says Lucci, 76. Playing her, she says, was one of the best times of her life. “I never thought that the audience was going to love her as much as I did,” she says. But they did: The soap garnered devoted fans from across the nation, with Lucci’s notorious character becoming one of the genre’s most beloved roles of all time. She spoke with Parade about her years as Erica Kane and how she coped with a dangerous heart blockage that nearly killed her.

An Audition That Would Change Her Life

Lucci grew up on Long Island, New York, the daughter of an American-Italian father and Swedish mother. As a child, she admits to being painfully shy. But one summer day, her mother shooed her outdoors, encouraging her to play with the neighborhood kids. “The first time they knocked me off my tricycle. I ran home crying, but I went out again,” she recalls.

Then, she discovered television. “I was the first one up in the morning and I would turn the TV on and watch all kinds of stuff,” she says. At night, she would lie in the hall outside of her parents’ bedroom, sneaking glances at the reflection of the TV on the far wall. “I saw a lot of stuff I probably shouldn't have seen,” she says. She remembers being 3 or 4 years old and thinking, I don't want to be watching. I want to be doing that.

Before she knew it, she was blasting her parents’ Broadway cast albums, wrapping herself in her mom’s scarves to look like Grace Kelly and acting out scenes with those neighborhood friends. She went on to study drama at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., and one day in 1969, Lucci found herself at the audition that would change her life. All My Children was calling to her. And they called her a lot.

“There were five callbacks,” recalls Lucci, who had gotten used to being told that she didn’t have the looks for television. People in the business would say to her, “If you only had blue eyes, if you had dark eyes but you had blonde hair, if you weren’t so ethnic looking,” she says. But on that humid day in New York City, the young actress tied a scarf around her head to tame her curls and met with casting directors. The show’s creator, Agnes Nixon, took a chance on the hopeful star, who admitted she wasn’t sure at first if she should accept the part. “I had to sign a four-year contract and I thought that was a big commitment. Four years is the length of high school, the length of college!” she says. But after an eight-page audition scene with Frances Heflin, who portrayed her mother Mona on the show, Lucci was hooked.

“There was so much about Erica that an actress could sink her teeth into,” she says. “The character was unpredictable, so to dive into that and find out what made her tick was really fun for me.” Lucci, who was 23 at the time, was also thrilled to portray a teenager in her natural element on television. “And at that time, teenagers didn't have a major storyline; they were always sent out of the room to go do their homework or something like that while the grownups talked,” she says. “But [All My Children] had full storylines around us and introduced humor, comedy and glamour. And I got to be the character the show told a lot of those stories through.”

A Star Is Born

The fandom behind the show reached a level Lucci had never dreamt about. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1978 and 19 nominations later finally won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. She knew that night that she wasn’t going to win…again. But her seatmate, Rosie O’Donnell, quelled her doubts. “She said, ‘Let me take your evening bag because when you go up there, you'll probably step on it,” Lucci recalls. Indeed her name was called and she would go on to be nominated two more times, for a total of 21 nominations.

“Winning is much better than not winning,” she says with a smile, hopping out of the Zoom frame to grab her Emmy off her living room mantel and proudly show it off. “I was surprised how heavy they are,” she says, with a grin and the disclosure that after winning it, she took it to every interview she did that year.

Her string of consecutive losses wasn’t forgotten, though, and has resulted in her being spoofed on Saturday Night Live and having people refer to themselves as “The Susan Lucci of” when they found themselves losing. She found the spoofing comical, she said, and then was flattered when Martin Scorsese once said, “I’m the Susan Lucci of the Oscars.”

But all good things come to an end and in 2009 there were rumblings the show was getting expensive, and the cast moved to Los Angeles for more economical filming. Then in 2011, while Lucci was in the middle of a book tour for her bestselling memoir All My Life (fans would line up for hours to meet her), she was told that All My Children was coming to an end. “That was a very bitter pill to swallow and we all went into a mourning period, disbelief and denial and anger,” says Lucci. The fans, she shares, crashed the phone lines and computers at ABC demanding the studio execs reverse their decision. “There was a menu of numbers you could call, and you would hear the recording ‘if you are calling to protest the canceling of All My Children, press one. For all other ABC business, press whatever…’”

Will All My Children ever come back? In recent years, there have been rumblings of a spinoff, titled Pine Valley, shepherded by previous cast members Kelly Rippa and Mark Conseulos. “If it does go, I know I'd be in good hands again,” says Lucci who says she’d absolutely consider revisiting Erica.

A Scary Wakeup Call

In 2018, Lucci experienced recurring chest pain that eventually landed her in the ER and learned she had a 95 percent blockage in the main artery of her heart and a 75 percent blockage in the adjacent artery. She was taken in immediately for surgery and had two stents placed into her heart. “The nurses said if you had not come in, there is no question you would not be here today; you would have had the heart attack called the Windowmaker. That's how serious it was.”

Lucci, who had always assumed she had good genes (her mother lived to 104), found she had calcium buildup in her arteries, something that could have come from her father’s side of the family. She phoned her publicist on the way home from the hospital, desperate to figure out how to get the word out to women that they need to prioritize themselves, take their symptoms seriously and realize that unlike men—who predominantly experience chest pain with a heart attack—women can have entirely different symptoms like jaw pain and nausea. She’s a proud national ambassador for the American Heart Association, sharing the story of how her healthy diet of salmon and kale, plus her near daily Pilates habit, wasn’t enough to combat her family history. She had a third stent put in in 2022.

“Without sounding corny,” she says, she had been praying for a way to do something meaningful with her platform. “I didn't know it was going to mean almost having a heart attack that would kill me!” she says. She lost her husband of 53 years, Helmut Huber, who was 84, to a stroke in 2022 and is also planning to do some work to raise awareness about atrial fibrillation. “It’s been nine months and there aren’t words to say how much I miss him,” she says. Huber, a TV producer whom she married in 1969, was the great love of her life, she says. “He was my rock. It was a great marriage. I was kissing all those guys and he would take so much ribbing from his friends, but he was very secure and had a sense of humor and was always right there, telling me, ‘oh, honey you can do this with two hands tied behind your back.’”

Age Is Just a Number

Age has certainly not shown on the outside of Lucci, who is famously asked, “How do you look so young?” Her secret, she says, is a lot of discipline—staying hydrated, being sun smart and focusing on posture. After competing on Dancing With the Stars in 2008, she learned to “let your power come from your core.” And the chorus boys at Radio City Music Hall, she says, taught her to “walk as if your legs begin right from your ribcage. Oh, it makes you feel like you have the longest legs in the whole wide world,” she says.

These days, the resident of Garden City, NY (for more than 50 years!) has been leaning into being a grandmother. She has two children who both have children whom she dotes on. “I'm trying to spoil them. I have to follow the desires of their parents…but I have plans,” she says with a grin. After she turned 75 last year, she has learned to not get fixated on being in her 70s. “I don't feel my age,” she says, revealing that when she turned 60, she called her mother. “I was having trouble with the number and I asked, ‘mom how do you do this?’ There was a pause and my mother said, ‘Well, I just don't think about it.’ And I thought that's probably good. Just live your life, be who you are and don’t let it get you down.”

Lucci's Loves

Susan Lucci's favorite meal

Italian food hands down. Veal meatballs, some pasta, I'm there.

Everyday health ritual

Drinking hot water with lemon and fresh ginger. It boosts your metabolism, balances your pH and hydrates you at the same time.

On a Sunday, you’ll find me

Having an extra cup of coffee. I love coffee.

A character I wish I’d played

Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Someone in the entertainment industry I look up to

Jessica Chastain and Meryl Streep are amazing actresses. I admire Amal Clooney as a woman and for beauty and style.

Someone I’d love to act with

Martin Short

What I’m watching

My husband and I loved Yellowstone. And I’m late to the party but I just discovered Law & Order. Every episode is so well done.

Most embarrassing moment

Wearing a knit pantsuit in the '70s that started unraveling as I was walking through Penn Station!

Favorite quote

I saw one just a couple of days ago: “Whoever survives a test, whatever that may be, must tell his story. It's a duty.” That’s from Elie Wiesel. He survived quite a test with the Holocaust.

What I’m reading

The Maze by Nelson DeMille.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on Marriage, Kids and Co-Hosting 'Live' : 'It's Going to Be Off the Rails!'

"To have Mark join me at that desk every day, it's a dream come true," Kelly, 52, tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "We've been so uniquely blessed."

As for what the pairing means for the irreverent and feel-good show? "It's going to be off the rails!" Kelly says, with a laugh.

"It's indescribable [and] we're super, super grateful," says Mark, who first made an impression on Kelly when she eyed his smoking-hot headshot nearly 30 years ago.

"I'm a very practical person, but there was something about him," says Kelly of the moment in 1994 when the casting director for All My Children showed her a photo of Mark, then a budding 24-year-old actor up for a role opposite Kelly, already one of the soap's breakout stars. "I was like, 'Oh my gosh, it's my person. This is my husband. My future hubs.' I just knew it."

As fate would have it, Kelly's intuition was spot on. The pair fell hard and fast while working on All My Children, and over 28 years, built a family — they share kids Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 20 — and thriving individual careers.

And now, 22 years after Kelly began co-hosting Live and helped make it the No. 1-rated daytime talk show it is today, Mark, 52, is excited to get in on the action.

"I had filled in so many times and had a blast every single time," says the Riverdale alum, who guest-hosted 92 times during Kelly's tenure before replacing Ryan Seacrest at the helm. "Some people would die to have this opportunity. No one does it like she does… I can't think of anybody that I feel more safe with, and protected by, than Kelly."

For the power duo, teaming up on Live offers an ideal chance to hang out together after spending long stretches apart for work over the last decade.

"During the pandemic when Riverdale was shut down for about six months, it was the first time we had been together uninterrupted for like, five years," says Kelly. "I prefer the togetherness. I really enjoy being around him — he's great company, so funny, so smart, insightful, pragmatic and super level-headed. He doesn't get rattled, and that's very reassuring and comforting to be around."

Of course, like any enduring married couple, they've had to work hard at growing their healthy partnership. "I don't understand when people say, 'We never fight.' I go, 'Oh, they're in trouble,'" says Kelly, who eloped with Mark in Vegas in 1996.

"Many people we know have gone through a divorce and a separation and when you ask 'Why did you guys wind up getting a divorce?', it's always the same answer: 'I don't really know.' I feel like we could have over the years let something small turn into that and [instead] we just put our heads down, got together and said 'Let's work it out…'"

She adds: "Now we can work it out on camera!"

While they don't intend to drag out all the dirty laundry ("We're not going to be like 'About that thing you said about my mother…'" she says), they've never been ones to hold back.

"We're not afraid to go there," she says. "We have the confidence in our marriage that no matter what we discuss, I don't mind being the villain in the argument, nor does Mark. Neither one of us needs to be the hero."

And given the already upbeat, playful tone of Live, Mark says, "If we think something is really going to be funny, then it can be magic."

Watch the full episode of People Cover Story: Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos here.

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Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos admit they have ‘ludicrous’ FaceTime sex ‘rituals’

When the actor was in Canada filming “Riverdale” for 10 months in 2020, he and Ripa developed “sexual rituals” that were “ludicrous over FaceTime.”

The “Live! With Kelly and Ryan” host, 52, joked on Wednesday’s premiere of her “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast that she got “really close to [herself]” during their virtual rendezvous.

“I became so alarmed at my appearance over FaceTime that I started rigging the computer to hang from a ladder,” Ripa recalled.

“I hung the computer over a ladder so that I could look up to Mark and he did not have to see what gravity was actually doing [to me].”

She and Consuelos have been married since May 1996 and are now empty nesters as their three children — son Michael, 25, daughter Lola, 21, and son Joaquin, 20 — are all away at college.

The “Pitch” alum told Ripa that the only “potential dealbreaker” in their relationship as it stands would be if she “cut [him] off sexually.”

He amended, “Unless you had some type of medical condition where, like, you lost the use of [your body].”

When Ripa noted that they had a sneak preview of abstinence when she went through menopause, Consuelos joked, “I didn’t give you a break. There have never been months [between having sex] unless I was in another country.”

Later in the episode, Ripa poked fun at her husband, saying he only “recently” learned the difference between sex and intimacy after 26 years of marriage.

“I’m going to blame it on the fact that I traveled so much,” Consuelos replied. “A lot had to happen in the time that I was home.

“I wanted to get intimacy in and the sex in,” he explained. “So they became one and the same.”

Ripa joked, “You wanted to get it in.”

The couple, who were joined by their marriage counselor for the candid conversation, also spoke about how “insanely jealous” Consuelos acted early in their romance.

“[It was] a hard pill to swallow,” Ripa told listeners. “It’s very hard being married to somebody who is jealous.”

Their joint episode dropped one month after news broke that Consuelos will be joining Ripa on “Live!” in April once her current co-host, Ryan Seacrest, exits the talk show.l

Kelly Ripa: ‘Insanely jealous’ Mark Consuelos made marriage ‘very hard’

“It’s very hard being married to somebody who is jealous,” Ripa said in a preview clip of her new Sirius XM podcast “Let’s Talk Off Camera,” before adding that Consuelos’ jealousy was a “hard pill to swallow.”

Ripa — who married the “Riverdale” alum in May 1996 — recalled that her husband revealed his jealous tendencies just one week after their wedding.

“We went to this Italian restaurant and the waiter was this very cute old man,” Ripa, 52, began. “He was definitely in his 70s if not 80s, and he leaned down and he said, ‘And for the principessa?'”

The “All My Children” actress — who shares children Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 19 with Consuelos — went on to say that Consuelos, 51, “picked a horrible fight” with her after she gave the waiter her order in a “very smiley way.”

After acknowledging that he remembered picking the fight, the actor joked to his wife that he was “pretty insane” at age 25, and while the “jealousy thing” followed the actor for “a while,” he is “not jealous anymore.”

The couple agreed that Consuelos — who replaced Ripa’s co-host Ryan Seacrest on “Live” last month — has since managed to grow away from his jealous tendencies, crediting the work he’s done on himself for how he’s managed to improve.

“I’m so grateful that you’re not [jealous anymore],” the “Live” co-host said, sharing that at times she would even “pray” for her hubby to “lose this personality flaw.”

Despite the confession of rocky emotions in the past, Consuelos and Ripa consistently gush over each other online by posting PDA pics and thirst traps to Instagram.

Ripa even celebrated their marriage by getting their wedding date, May 1, 1996, tattooed.

Ripa’s new podcast releases on Wednesday, March 22.

Mark Consuelos Announces When He Will Take Over for Ryan Seacrest on 'Live' at Oscars 2023

The television personality, 52, was joined by Live with Kelly and Ryan co-host Ryan Seacrest and her husband Mark Consuelos — who is slated to replace Seacrest on the long-running ABC talk show this spring — on the red carpet at the 2023 Oscars.

On ABC's The Red Carpet Live: Countdown to Oscars 95, Seacrest shared that his exit is "bittersweet."

"We have such a great relationship and friendship and working relationship," Seacrest said. "And Mark is going to take over, and he and I have the same kind of relationship and it's going to be an exciting last few weeks. I'm not done yet!"

Ripa added: "We keep saying nothing will really change between the three of us. It's just Ryan will get to have his coffee later."

Consuelos then revealed when he will be joining his wife on the talk show, sharing, "I am so excited, I start the show on April 17, which is a Monday, and I could not be more honored and excited."

The dapper trio will film Live's annual After Oscar Show, which will air hours after the 95th annual Academy Awards wraps.

"They move out and we move in," Ripa previously joked to PEOPLE about the show, teasing how it goes from Hollywood's biggest night to its biggest morning party. "We're like the changing of the guards."

In addition to footage from red-carpet special correspondent Carson Kressley, the show will feature live interviews in front of a studio audience.

This will mark Seacrest's final After Oscar Show as he announced in February that he'd be leaving Live after six years.

Seacrest previously told PEOPLE hosting the show day-to-day has not changed his and Ripa's friendship.

"We were in each other's lives before the show, and we'll be in each other's lives after the show," he said.

"It doesn't feel like anything's really changed," Ripa added. "We won't see each other every morning, but we are so ensconced in each other's lives. I'm such a busybody in his life, so I don't really see our relationship changing."

"I'll just be getting more sleep on Oscar night next year," Seacrest joked.

Susan Lucci, 76, dazzles in corset and sheer skirt at Writers Guild Awards

Susan Lucci may have just recovered from her recent heart surgery, but she’s making hearts pound with her latest look.

The former “All My Children” star, 76, hit the Writers Guild Awards 2023 red carpet in NYC on Sunday wearing a waist-cinching black corset top and a sheer, sparkly skirt that showed off her legs.

Lucci once told Page Six Style she works out “almost every day,” sticks to a “disciplined” skincare routine and relies on a “balancing act” when it comes to her diet to retain her ageless good looks.

During the ceremony, she presented the Best Writing in Daytime Drama award to Lorraine Broderick, who won for “Days of Our Lives” but previously served as the head writer on Lucci’s soap opera as well.

“LORRAINE BRODERICK!!! Last night, I was the lucky one who had the honor of presenting Best Writing in Daytime Drama at the prestigious Writers Guild Awards!!!,” Lucci captioned a photo of the pair embracing on Instagram.

“Lorraine won for Days of our Lives—BUT, I had the privilege, thrill and fun of being inspired by her writing for me as Erica Kane on AMC!!!”

Lucci told People she’s doing “really well” after doctors put a stent in her artery in January, marking her second heart procedure in four years. The first, which took place in 2019, corrected a 90% blockage in one part of her organ.

She has since launched a jewelry line, called Empower Your Heart, in collaboration with Tiary; 25% of the purchase price of her heart-shaped necklaces benefit the American Heart Association.

According to the brand’s Instagram, the design is meant to serve as a reminder for women to “put yourself on your own to do list.”

Ryan Seacrest Announces He Will Leave ‘Live With Kelly And Ryan’ This Spring; Replacement Is Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa, who has hosted the show since 2001, will be joined by actor and husband, Mark Consuelos, and the show will be rebranded as Live with Kelly and Mark.

Seacrest plans to head back to the west coast where he will remain part of the ABC Entertainment family, continuing to host American Idol and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Seacrest will transition this spring as he prepares for American Idol live shows in Los Angeles.

Seacrest said on today’s episode that he will occasionally fill in as a guest host on Live with Kelly and Mark, but didn’t say how often.

“Working alongside Kelly over the past six years has been a dream job and one of the highlights of my career. She has been an amazing partner, friend, and confidant, and although we will always be a part of each other’s lives, I will miss our mornings together,” said Seacrest. “I also want to thank Michael Gelman and the entire staff and crew – we’ve made memories to last a lifetime, met some of the most incredible people and had the warmest welcome into the homes of so many viewers across America. It’s been a memorable ride and now I’m excited to pass the baton to Kelly’s ‘real’ husband, Mark.”

“I’m so grateful to have spent the last six years beside my dear friend of too many decades to count and will miss starting my days with Ryan,” said Ripa. “Ryan’s energy, passion and love for entertainment is one-of-a-kind.”

“Goodbyes are never easy, but we look forward to welcoming Ryan back regularly with open arms. As a fan-favorite guest host for years, Mark is no stranger to the ‘Live’ family. Having him join the show is so special for us and we’re sure that viewers will feel the same,” said Michael Gelman, executive producer of “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”

Seacrest had initially signed on to host the show for three years and ended up staying on for six.

This season, “Live with Kelly and Ryan” is the No. 1 daytime talk show network or syndicated in Households, Total Viewers and Women 25-54. “Live” has ranked as the top daytime talk show for 56 straight weeks among Women 25-54.

'Naughty' Daytime Star Susan Lucci: 'I Don't Feel My Age'

If you’ve caught an episode of All My Children, you’ve seen Susan Lucci in her element. The Emmy award-winning actress is known for portraying Erica Kane on the series for the show’s entire 41 years. “Erica was the bad girl in town, the naughty girl, the pot stirrer,” says Lucci, 76. Playing her, she says, was one of the best times of her life. “I never thought that the audience was going to love her as much as I did,” she says. But they did: The soap garnered devoted fans from across the nation, with Lucci’s notorious character becoming one of the genre’s most beloved roles of all time. She spoke with Parade about her years as Erica Kane and how she coped with a dangerous heart blockage that nearly killed her.

An Audition That Would Change Her Life

Lucci grew up on Long Island, New York, the daughter of an American-Italian father and Swedish mother. As a child, she admits to being painfully shy. But one summer day, her mother shooed her outdoors, encouraging her to play with the neighborhood kids. “The first time they knocked me off my tricycle. I ran home crying, but I went out again,” she recalls.

Then, she discovered television. “I was the first one up in the morning and I would turn the TV on and watch all kinds of stuff,” she says. At night, she would lie in the hall outside of her parents’ bedroom, sneaking glances at the reflection of the TV on the far wall. “I saw a lot of stuff I probably shouldn't have seen,” she says. She remembers being 3 or 4 years old and thinking, I don't want to be watching. I want to be doing that.

Before she knew it, she was blasting her parents’ Broadway cast albums, wrapping herself in her mom’s scarves to look like Grace Kelly and acting out scenes with those neighborhood friends. She went on to study drama at Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., and one day in 1969, Lucci found herself at the audition that would change her life. All My Children was calling to her. And they called her a lot.

“There were five callbacks,” recalls Lucci, who had gotten used to being told that she didn’t have the looks for television. People in the business would say to her, “If you only had blue eyes, if you had dark eyes but you had blonde hair, if you weren’t so ethnic looking,” she says. But on that humid day in New York City, the young actress tied a scarf around her head to tame her curls and met with casting directors. The show’s creator, Agnes Nixon, took a chance on the hopeful star, who admitted she wasn’t sure at first if she should accept the part. “I had to sign a four-year contract and I thought that was a big commitment. Four years is the length of high school, the length of college!” she says. But after an eight-page audition scene with Frances Heflin, who portrayed her mother Mona on the show, Lucci was hooked.

“There was so much about Erica that an actress could sink her teeth into,” she says. “The character was unpredictable, so to dive into that and find out what made her tick was really fun for me.” Lucci, who was 23 at the time, was also thrilled to portray a teenager in her natural element on television. “And at that time, teenagers didn't have a major storyline; they were always sent out of the room to go do their homework or something like that while the grownups talked,” she says. “But [All My Children] had full storylines around us and introduced humor, comedy and glamour. And I got to be the character the show told a lot of those stories through.”

A Star Is Born

The fandom behind the show reached a level Lucci had never dreamt about. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1978 and 19 nominations later finally won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989. She knew that night that she wasn’t going to win…again. But her seatmate, Rosie O’Donnell, quelled her doubts. “She said, ‘Let me take your evening bag because when you go up there, you'll probably step on it,” Lucci recalls. Indeed her name was called and she would go on to be nominated two more times, for a total of 21 nominations.

“Winning is much better than not winning,” she says with a smile, hopping out of the Zoom frame to grab her Emmy off her living room mantel and proudly show it off. “I was surprised how heavy they are,” she says, with a grin and the disclosure that after winning it, she took it to every interview she did that year.

Her string of consecutive losses wasn’t forgotten, though, and has resulted in her being spoofed on Saturday Night Live and having people refer to themselves as “The Susan Lucci of” when they found themselves losing. She found the spoofing comical, she said, and then was flattered when Martin Scorsese once said, “I’m the Susan Lucci of the Oscars.”

But all good things come to an end and in 2009 there were rumblings the show was getting expensive, and the cast moved to Los Angeles for more economical filming. Then in 2011, while Lucci was in the middle of a book tour for her bestselling memoir All My Life (fans would line up for hours to meet her), she was told that All My Children was coming to an end. “That was a very bitter pill to swallow and we all went into a mourning period, disbelief and denial and anger,” says Lucci. The fans, she shares, crashed the phone lines and computers at ABC demanding the studio execs reverse their decision. “There was a menu of numbers you could call, and you would hear the recording ‘if you are calling to protest the canceling of All My Children, press one. For all other ABC business, press whatever…’”

Will All My Children ever come back? In recent years, there have been rumblings of a spinoff, titled Pine Valley, shepherded by previous cast members Kelly Rippa and Mark Conseulos. “If it does go, I know I'd be in good hands again,” says Lucci who says she’d absolutely consider revisiting Erica.

A Scary Wakeup Call

In 2018, Lucci experienced recurring chest pain that eventually landed her in the ER and learned she had a 95 percent blockage in the main artery of her heart and a 75 percent blockage in the adjacent artery. She was taken in immediately for surgery and had two stents placed into her heart. “The nurses said if you had not come in, there is no question you would not be here today; you would have had the heart attack called the Windowmaker. That's how serious it was.”

Lucci, who had always assumed she had good genes (her mother lived to 104), found she had calcium buildup in her arteries, something that could have come from her father’s side of the family. She phoned her publicist on the way home from the hospital, desperate to figure out how to get the word out to women that they need to prioritize themselves, take their symptoms seriously and realize that unlike men—who predominantly experience chest pain with a heart attack—women can have entirely different symptoms like jaw pain and nausea. She’s a proud national ambassador for the American Heart Association, sharing the story of how her healthy diet of salmon and kale, plus her near daily Pilates habit, wasn’t enough to combat her family history. She had a third stent put in in 2022.

“Without sounding corny,” she says, she had been praying for a way to do something meaningful with her platform. “I didn't know it was going to mean almost having a heart attack that would kill me!” she says. She lost her husband of 53 years, Helmut Huber, who was 84, to a stroke in 2022 and is also planning to do some work to raise awareness about atrial fibrillation. “It’s been nine months and there aren’t words to say how much I miss him,” she says. Huber, a TV producer whom she married in 1969, was the great love of her life, she says. “He was my rock. It was a great marriage. I was kissing all those guys and he would take so much ribbing from his friends, but he was very secure and had a sense of humor and was always right there, telling me, ‘oh, honey you can do this with two hands tied behind your back.’”

Age Is Just a Number

Age has certainly not shown on the outside of Lucci, who is famously asked, “How do you look so young?” Her secret, she says, is a lot of discipline—staying hydrated, being sun smart and focusing on posture. After competing on Dancing With the Stars in 2008, she learned to “let your power come from your core.” And the chorus boys at Radio City Music Hall, she says, taught her to “walk as if your legs begin right from your ribcage. Oh, it makes you feel like you have the longest legs in the whole wide world,” she says.

These days, the resident of Garden City, NY (for more than 50 years!) has been leaning into being a grandmother. She has two children who both have children whom she dotes on. “I'm trying to spoil them. I have to follow the desires of their parents…but I have plans,” she says with a grin. After she turned 75 last year, she has learned to not get fixated on being in her 70s. “I don't feel my age,” she says, revealing that when she turned 60, she called her mother. “I was having trouble with the number and I asked, ‘mom how do you do this?’ There was a pause and my mother said, ‘Well, I just don't think about it.’ And I thought that's probably good. Just live your life, be who you are and don’t let it get you down.”

Lucci's Loves

Susan Lucci's favorite meal

Italian food hands down. Veal meatballs, some pasta, I'm there.

Everyday health ritual

Drinking hot water with lemon and fresh ginger. It boosts your metabolism, balances your pH and hydrates you at the same time.

On a Sunday, you’ll find me

Having an extra cup of coffee. I love coffee.

A character I wish I’d played

Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Someone in the entertainment industry I look up to

Jessica Chastain and Meryl Streep are amazing actresses. I admire Amal Clooney as a woman and for beauty and style.

Someone I’d love to act with

Martin Short

What I’m watching

My husband and I loved Yellowstone. And I’m late to the party but I just discovered Law & Order. Every episode is so well done.

Most embarrassing moment

Wearing a knit pantsuit in the '70s that started unraveling as I was walking through Penn Station!

Favorite quote

I saw one just a couple of days ago: “Whoever survives a test, whatever that may be, must tell his story. It's a duty.” That’s from Elie Wiesel. He survived quite a test with the Holocaust.

What I’m reading

The Maze by Nelson DeMille.

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