GL: Keeping It In the Family
Repeat offender: Reva Shayne Lewis
A family affair: Married brothers Josh and Billy Lewis and their father, H.B. Lewis
The details: Josh and Reva were childhood sweethearts, but when Josh went off to college a lonely Reva married his brother Billy to get back at him. After the marriage crumbled, Alan lured Reva to Springfield to break up Billy and Vanessa, but she instead rekindled her romance with Josh. Josh’s father, H.B., bribed Reva into marrying him as a way to keep her from Josh. After overcoming paralysis and paternity questions, Josh and Reva married in a grand wedding at Cross Creek. The two would remarry twice more. Reva and Josh are currently separated, while Billy has once again developed feelings for his ex.
Repeat offender: Olivia Spencer Lewis
A family affair: Married Josh Lewis and his nephew Bill Lewis; wed Alan Spaulding and his son Phillip
The details: Olivia’s steamy marriage to Josh ended when he had her arrested for insider training. Years later, she wed Josh’s nephew Bill to avoid deportation. They fell in love, but divorced when Bill learned that she set up his father, Billy, to fall off the wagon.
After her split from Josh, Olivia became ensnared in a triangle with Alan and his son Phillip. After Alan faked a heart attack, Olivia agreed to wed the patriarch out of guilt. But when Alan learned that she had kissed his son on their wedding day, he kicked his bride out of their home. Olivia and Alan eventually divorced, and she wed Phillip. Both unions ended bitterly.
Repeat offender: Alan-Michael Spaulding
A family affair: Married Harley Cooper and her half-sister Lucy Cooper; wed Eleni Andros and dated her daughter Marina
The details: Though his family disapproved, Alan-Michael married Harley in order to get his $1 million trust fund. Thanks to his brother Phillip, Alan-Michael failed to obtain the trust and was forced to work at Harley’s grandfather’s diner, and the two fell in love. The couple divorced after his affair with Blake Marler. After hiring Lucy, Harley’s half-sister, as his assistant at Spaulding Enterprises, the two fell in love. After escaping the murderous Brent Marian, the two wed at Universal Studios. They are recently divorced.
Between Cooper wives, Alan-Michael married Greek immigrant Eleni so she could enter the country. Afraid of losing his bride to Frank Cooper, Alan-Michael replaced her birth-control pills with placebos, and she became pregnant. However, the pair split and Eleni wed Frank. It was revealed that Eleni had been bedding Frank, and the child she was carrying was in fact his, not Alan-Michael’s. Alan-Michael recently returned to Springfield and began dating Marina, the woman he briefly believed to be his daughter.
Repeat offender: Ross Marler
A family affair: Engaged to Holly Reade before marrying her daughter Blake Thorpe
The details: After lending Holly money to help buy 25 percent of WSPR, Ross and Holly became engaged. Ross called off the engagement after learning that Holly and Roger Thorpe were keeping company. When Ross and Holly began dating years later, Blake attempted to seduce Ross to get revenge on her mother. Her plan worked and she and Ross fell in love, marrying not long afterward.
Repeat offender: Blake Marler
A family affair: Married golden boy Phillip Spaulding and his black sheep brother Alan-Michael Spaulding
The details: Sent by Alan to spy on his son, Blake soon fell for Phillip and they wed. When Phillip learned his true love, Beth, was still alive, Blake was unable to keep her marriage alive. Desperate to keep the Spaulding wealth, Blake set her sights on brother Alan-Michael and faked a pregnancy test to trap him into marrying her. When Alan-Michael learned the truth, he divorced her.
Repeat offender: Cassie Winslow
A family affair: Married brothers Richard and Edmund Winslow; dated Richard’s look-a-like Jeffrey O’Neill
The details: A down-on-her-luck Cassie fell in love with Prince Richard Winslow. Though Cassie was sterile and unable to provide Richard with the biological child he desired, the pair wed. After Richard’s untimely death, Cassie grew closer to his brother Edmund, once her tormenter. Cassie and Edmund were briefly married, but she left him upon learning that he had set the fire that nearly killed her son RJ. Soon after, Cassie began dating Richard’s dopplegänger, Jeffrey, who had posed as the prince in San Cristobel.
Repeat offender: Beth Raines Spaulding
A family affair: Married first love Phillip and his father Alan Spaulding
The details: Beth and Phillip were high-school sweethearts and each other’s first loves. They married shortly after the birth of their daughter Lizzie and moved to Arizona, but later split. After Phillip’s “death” years later, Beth married his father, Alan, in order to get control of Spaulding Enterprises and “repair” the dismantled Spaulding family.
Repeat offender: Harley Cooper
A family affair:Married Alan-Michael and his older brothers Phillip Spaulding and Gus Aitoro; dated and had a child with Dylan Lewis, and was engaged to his uncle, Josh Lewis
The details: Harley married Alan-Michael in order to help him get his $1 million trust fund but surprisingly fell in love with him soon after. After his affair with Blake and a faked pregnancy test by Harley, the two parted ways. She and Phillip became friends during her courtship with Alan-Michael, but it was not until years later the two became an item. They married (to Beth’s dismay) but it was short-lived; they divorced after Harley learned Beth was carrying Phillip’s child. Eventually, Harley wed her current husband, cop Gus Aitoro, who was revealed to be Alan’s biological son, and therefore a brother to two of Harley’s previous husbands! (However, neither Gus nor Alan-Michael are biologically related to Phillip, who was adopted.)
A teen-aged Harley had a child with boyfriend Dylan, but gave the baby, Susan, up for adoption. Harley eventually fell for Dylan’s uncle, Josh, while acting as a nanny to his children. They became engaged, but split when Josh left town in search of his presumed-dead wife, Reva.
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