Soap History For June 27: Michael Easton Exited GH As Finn and More

The Daytime Emmys honored stars like Peter Bergman (Jack, Young and Restless), Finola Hughes (Anna, General Hospital) and Jess Walton (Jill, Y&R), James Read made his Days of Our Lives debut as Clyde Weston, Michael Easton aired on GH for the final time as Hamilton Finn and other memorable soap moments that took place on June 27.

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In 1991, the Daytime Emmys were held in New York City at Radio City Music Hall. For the first time, the ceremony was broadcast in prime-time. The night's big winners included Peter Bergman (Jack, Y&R, pictured) as Outstanding Lead Actor and Finola Hughes (Anna, GH) as Outstanding Lead Actress; both were first-time winners. That trend continued into the Supporting category, with Bernard Barrow winning for his work as Louie on Loving and Jess Walton being honored for her portrayal of Jill on Y&R, and the Younger Actor and Actress category, where the victors were Rick Hearst (as Alan-Michael on Guiding Light) and Anne Heche (as Vicky/Marley on Another World).

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In 2005, Billy Warlock (r., pictured with Darin Brooks as Max Brady) returned to Days of Our Lives as Frankie Brady after a 14-year absence. In 2015, the actor mused to Soap Opera Digest about his comeback, "I thought I was going back home. I didn’t know what I was running into. I don’t think they really had a story in place. But I guess the reason for coming back was to get back with Julie [Pinson, his then ex-girlfriend, now-wife, who was playing Billie at the time]."

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In 2014, James Read (l., pictured with Robert Scott Wilson as Ben) made his Days of Our Lives debut as villain Clyde Weston. The actor enthused to Soap Opera Digest shortly after joining the show, "I was instantly and enormously attracted to the character in the material I was sent. Clyde is not the kind of role that throughout my career people have initially thought of me for. For all these years, many people's first awareness of me was in North and South. I really played the physical hero. Since that initial introduction to a huge audience, most of my roles have been like that. I was extremely flattered that the people at DAYS would think of me for this."

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In 2024, Michael Easton (pictured after filming his final scenes with on-screen daughter Jophielle Love, who played Violet), aired for the final time on General Hospital as Hamilton Finn. He had previously appeared on the show as John McBain and Silas Clay before kicking off his run as Finn in 2016. In his exclusive exit interview with Soap Opera Digest, Easton noted that shooting his on-air good-bye to Love was emotionally challenging, explaining "It was kind of the perfect storm of a lot of emotion. I have such an affinity for Jophielle, honestly. I have a daughter and it’s very hard not to look at her and feel the same way for Jophielle. They were very difficult scenes. Jophielle couldn’t even rehearse them because the finality of all of it was pretty overwhelming. So we didn’t rehearse any of those scenes, which we normally do. We just went up to the floor and I spoke to Rob [Markham], the director, and said, ‘Rob, I don’t think we’re going to get through these if we start rehearsing them.’ And he said, ‘Let’s just do it live,’ and they just turned the cameras on and we went and we taped everything. She was amazing and she broke my heart."

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In 2024 on Young and Restless, Diane Jenkins Abbott (Susan Walters) fired Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) — her own son — from Jabot. “You are my son, and you know how much I love you, but to be honest I’ve had it," she spat after handing him his termination notice.

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