Five Things That Happened On January 3 In Soap History

In 2000, it was still New Year's Eve on screen, and Scott Baldwin (Kin Shriner) and Lucy Coe (Lynn Herring) agreed to postpone their wedding on Port Charles after little Christina (who Lucy would go on to adopt) went missing. The infant was safely returned, but Lucy noted to Scott that maybe all the problems they had encountered were a sign that they shouldn't go through with the wedding that night. Scott agreed, and the couple informed Scott's dad, Lee Baldwin, of their decision.

In 2001, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), who had only recently come out to her mother, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) was outed as a lesbian at the Crystal Ball on All My Children. She was being badgered by seedy tabloid reporter Donald Steele, and finally, when he demanded she answer the question he had posed to her about whether she was gay, Bianca announced that she wouldn't lie. "I am gay," she said as the crowd reacted with shocked gasps.

In 2003, Y&R’s Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson) confessed to Brad Carlton (Don Diamont) that Victor was the biological father of her infant daughter, Abby. She had previously led him to believe that the child he had volunteered to raise as his own had been sired by her friend Christian via artificial insemination.

In 2005, Days of Our Lives's Shawn Brady (Jason Cook, pictured with Kristian Alfonso as Shawn's mother, Hope Brady) crashed his motorcycle into the church where Belle Black and Philip Kiriakis had just wed. Another motorcycle accident had left Shawn amnesiac, and he fell prey to the manipulations of obsessive Jan Spears, who convinced Shawn that they were in love and engaged to be married. When Shawn's memory return, he hopped back on his motorcycle and raced off to stop Belle from marrying Philip, but despite his dramatic way of crashing the nuptials, he was too late, as their vows had already been exchanged.

In 2018 on Bold and Beautiful, things got ugly between Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) and his pregnant wife, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) after his discovery of a paternity test forced Steffy to confess to Liam that she had had sex with his father, Bill! Sobbing, Steffy tried to explain how she had wound up in bed with Bill after spying Liam in a kiss with Sally. "I hate myself!" she wailed. An enraged Liam snarled at Steffy that their life together was all a lie and walked out on her.