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General Hospital’s Cynthia Watros and Laura Wright Respond to a Disturbing On-Line Threat
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
C’mon, people, there’s being invested in your soap, and then there’s… this.
As General Hospital turned the burner up to scorching on Nina and Carly’s storyline, at least one fan got a little… overheated. In a tweet to Laura Wright on January 17, the viewer said — jokingly, we hope — “Listen… I’m afraid if I saw Cynthia Watros on the street, I would punch her in the face for messing with Carly!”
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“Really?” Watros responded simply.
Wright had her co-star’s back 100 percent. Would such a thing really happen? “Not if I was there,” she tweeted, sending Watros her love. As you may know, the Emmy winners go back a long ways — to their days playing Annie and Cassie, respectively, on Guiding Light.
Wright wasn’t the only General Hospital cast member to back up Watros, either. “You are a magnificent actress, and it’s a shame one can’t separate the actress from her role,” tweeted Lydia Look (Selina). “You have my mad love, respect and support. In your corner always. Shine on, sister.”
Liz Vassey — once Emily Ann Sago on All My Children — also weighed in on the unfortunate situation. “Man oh man. I got [a tweet like that] once from someone who hated me so much on CSI that he hoped horrible things happened to ‘everyone I loved,’” she recalled. “Who knew my portrayal of a fictitious DNA tech could hold so much power over someone?!
“[Bleep] ’em all,” she added. “You’re terrific. I’ve always been a fan.”
As Carly and Nina’s feud enters its next phase, heaven help us, count down soaps’ greatest rivalries of all time in the below photo gallery.
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Image: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection (2)
1/28
<p>What had poor Jenny ever done to snobbish Liza? She’d simply radiated a quantity of decency that teenage dream Greg couldn’t resist.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
2/28
<p>Filed under “It goes without saying” is the fact that there was no love lost between Salem’s sweetheart (then Melissa Reeves) and the strumpet who seduced both her son and husband.</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection (2)
3/28
<p>So nasty was Genoa City’s original Mean Girl that she didn’t just go after sweet Traci’s crush Danny, she stole her high-school-yearbook pose, too. Bee-yotch!</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
4/28
<p>When it comes to feuding — and it inevitably does — these two never choke. Well, unless you mean like this, in which case, yeah, they choke a lot.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI (3)
5/28
<p>If ever you overhear Summer’s tormentor and her mother talking about having drinks and chilling, run for cover — <em>this</em> is what they mean.</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection (2)
6/28
<p>From the moment Josh’s “late” wife rose from the grave, his new missus did everything in her power to make us wish she’d stayed six feet under.</p>
Image: Robert Milazzo/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Lisa Rose/JPI
7/28
<p>We couldn’t even risk putting these two together for a photo, not knowing how intense is the animosity stemming from their years of brawling over Bo.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
8/28
<p>A classic case of “like mothers, like daughters,” the stepsisters have been following in Taylor and Brooke’s footsteps for years, fighting over a guy that they’d <span style="text-decoration: line-through">probably</span> both be better off without!</p>
Image: Ann Limongello/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
9/28
<p>What’s that expression on Viki’s face? That’s her realizing that she’d been wrong for years: In fact, she <em>could</em> hate her wicked stepmother more. And at that moment she did.</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
10/28
<p>What the hell — and we <em>do</em> mean hell — did these formidable foes talk about when they found themselves at the same bar at the same time? Nothing much, just… ahem, <em>diss</em> and that.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI (3)
11/28
<p>Jack and Jennifer’s daughter welcomed to the family her new half sister the only way one really could after the vixen seduced her husband and wrecked her parents’ marriage.</p>
Image: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
12/28
<p>“Competitive” doesn’t even <em>begin</em> to cover the dynamic between these perpetual romantic rivals. Erica couldn’t so much as let Brooke peek in the mirror without vying for face time!</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
13/28
<p>If looks could kill, Ridge’s most frequent wife would’ve made damn sure that one of those times his favorite ex “died,” she’d <em>stayed</em> dead.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
14/28
<p>Ever since the redhead became Nick’s “other woman” way back when, she and his first wife have made it their mission to one-shtup each other.</p>
Image: Paul Skipper/JPI
15/28
<p>Like any other sisters, these two probably could have been taught to share. Except that they were both so dang possessive of Austin.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
16/28
<p>Portraits of determination, Finn’s bride and biological <span style="text-decoration: line-through">monster</span> mother have proven to be as unwilling to lose their war with one another as they are this staring contest.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
17/28
<p>Know how you can tell that this is a behind-the-scenes shot? On screen, you’d never in a million <em>years</em> catch the hell-on-wheels homewrecker this close to the Cricket that so bugs her. Unless, that is, she’s moving in for a slap.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
18/28
<p>Thank goodness Jason’s exes eventually buried the hatchet, ’cause you <em>know</em> a feud has gotten out of hand when one of its participants is standing by and letting the other’s child get kidnapped.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
19/28
<p>Do we have to tell you that Kristen (then Eileen Davidson) didn’t like losing John to his true love, or… What’s that? The picture said all that needs to be said? Yeah, we thought so, too.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
20/28
<p>Their loathing of one another is so great, flowers wilt in their presence. (Note: The ones behind them in this picture were obviously fake, or they’d be toast.)</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
21/28
<p>And you thought <em>you</em> had a bad relationship with your mother-in-law! (Then again, you probably didn’t marry both of your mother-in-law’s sons as well as her husband. Twice.)</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
22/28
<p>No wings required: Fur flies anytime Sonny’s moll gets within hissing distance of his babymama. Well, this one in particular. (Sonny has a <em>lot</em> of babymamas.)</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
23/28
<p>As thorny as the frenemies’ relationship tended to be, if either of them ever decided to send the other one flowers, you could bet that this was going to be the means of delivery.</p>
Image: Paul Skipper/JPI
24/28
<p>Something you’ll never hear these two slap-happy nemeses say: Hit me with your best shot. They’ve smacked each other so often, it’s a wonder they still have any cheek left!</p>
Image: ABC screenshot (2)
25/28
<p>After the former let the latter’s daughter plunge to her death, and the latter let the former mourn the “death” of her husband, Webster’s started scrambling for a new, more colorful word for “hatred.”</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
26/28
<p>So epic were the brawls between the man-stealing baby-swapper and her favorite victim, they took the duo from their original soap all the way to <em>The Bold and the Beautiful.</em></p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
27/28
