Five Things That Happened On December 10 In Soap History

In 1981, Tiffany Hill's (Sharon Wyatt) agent, Mickey, played by Milton Berle, tried to recruit Laura Spencer as Miss Star Eyes on General Hospital. Asked by the New York Times why he had agreed to do a three-episode guest arc on the soap, the legendary comedian said, "Anytime I get a chance to do a straight part, I jump at it."

In 1991, Bo Brady (Peter Reckell) and Carly Manning (Crystal Chappell) wed in a symbolic Mayan ceremony in Mexico on Days of Our Lives. The lovebirds, along with assorted other Salem residents, had wound up in Mexico after Victor Kiriakis (Bo's biological father, who was then married to Carly), had fled after faking his death. In love with Bo, Carly was eager to get her union annulled, but Bo saw no reason to wait, and they married themselves in a heartfelt service atop a Mayan ruin. "Legal we can do some other time," he told his bride-to-be. "This time, I want to do something that comes from my heart, something for us." (Alas, they never did make it legal.)

In 2007, Steve (Stephen Nichols) and Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) nearly caught Kate tampering with the brakes on their car on DAYS. Kate had made a promise to her son Lucas to help him with his quest to get Sami back. This move was to make it seem as though the DiMeras had reneged on their promise to end their vendetta, which Lucas hoped would force Sami to end her "in-name-only" marriage to EJ.

In 2014, Dylan and Avery got engaged on Y&R. He took her to Chancellor Park, near the bench where he had first proclaimed to the world that he loved her. He got down on one knee, but she asked him to stand back up. She jumped on the bench, as he had before, and yelled out that she loved him, surprising onlookers. She got off the bench and he once again got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She said, "Yes." Onlookers applauded as they kissed.

In 2019, Matt Cohen exited General Hospital as Griffin Munro. He made his debut in the role in 2016. Regarding his decision not to renew his contract with the show, Cohen told Soap Opera Digest, "To be honest, I don’t know when I started thinking about leaving or when I made the decision at all. It just came up that, 'Oh, wow, these three years that I’ve been here [for the length of my contract] are completed,' and I was starving creatively to push myself to a place I’ve never gone before. I hadn’t done that in three years, and I’m one of those actors where if I’m on a set and I’m too comfortable, if I’m not struggling, I get annoyed.... I needed to just pursue something else that would be a challenge to me for a little bit, and that’s just where we are."