Tanner Novlan Debuted As Finn On Bold and Beautiful And Other Big Soap Moments From July 23

In 1970, Days of Our Lives’s Doug (Bill Hayes) and Julie (Susan Seaforth Hayes) shared their first kiss. The storied supercouple would go on to marry three times — and their portrayers also tied the knot in real life — until their incredible, decades-spanning love story came to an end with Doug's passing. The character's death in November 2024 was scripted after Bill Hayes's death at the age of 98.

In 1990, Guiding Light’s Reva Shayne Lewis (Kim Zimmer) was presumed dead after driving her car off a broken bridge in Key West, Florida, as her horrified husband, Joshua Lewis, looked on helplessly. At the time, Reva was suffering from postpartum depression that was causing hallucinations. This marked Daytime Emmy winner Zimmer's exit from the show that she originally joined in 1983. Reva would remain "dead" until Zimmer returned to the show in 1995, at which point an amnesiac Reva was discovered living among the Amish under the name Rebecca.

In 1993, Michael Sutton made his General Hospital debut as Michael "Stone" Cates. Stone's pairing with Kimberly McCullough's Robin Scorpio would become one of the show's most high-impact love stories. Stone, the younger brother of John "Jagger" Cates, became close to his mentor, Sonny Corinthos, and Robin's guardian, Mac Scorpio, disapproved of his fledgling relationship with Robin. Robin and Stone's love blossomed regardless, but after Robin lost her virginity to Stone, they found out he was HIV-positive. Stone died from AIDS in 1995, not longer after Robin learned that she, too, was HIV-positive.

In 2008, Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (Galen Gering) and Fancy Crane (Emily Harper) wed on Passions. After the couple exchanged personal vows with no interruptions, Sheridan Crane entered the church — with Luis's presumed-dead brother, Antonio!

In 2020, Tanner Novlan made his Bold and Beautiful debut as Dr. John Finnegan, better known as Finn. The actor noted to Soap Opera Digest that his first air date had "been a long time coming. We started this process in March, which is crazy to think, and the screen test with Jacqui [MacInnes Wood, Steffy] was all the way back in March, so it has been a pretty unique process." The reason for the delay? The Covid pandemic, which had temporary halted B&B production. Novlan shared that it had been challenging to keep his new gig a secret while he waited to begin work. "I wasn’t able to speak about it or tell anyone about it because we didn’t know how long the shutdown was going to be,” he explained. “And that’s a big thing for me because my family, my mom especially, has been a life-long B&B fan. I mean, she loves the show. Our family dog’s name was Thorne — with an e — so I remember ever since I was young hearing the theme song, hearing the storylines, so it was so exciting, and a real honor to be welcomed into that family. Now that it’s out of the can, I just can’t wait to hit the ground running.”