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Earlier today, soap opera fans from all over let out a huge sigh of relief. The long running daytime dramas All My Children and One Life to Live have been saved! Both shows had been given the axe by ABC a few months ago in an attempt to make room for cheaper programming.

ABC Daytime Chief Brian Frons stated that two new shows called The Chew and The Revolution, would takeover their afternoon slots. They’re both reality shows, which means they’re cheaper to produce for the network. Fans of AMC and OLTL didn’t take this laying down. They protested, emailed, and complained to anyone who would listen and they got their wish — sort of.

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Earlier today ABC announced that they were canceling two of their three daytime dramas (All My Children and One Life to Live). Over the past 10-15 years, soap operas have taken a huge nosedive in the ratings. It’s mostly because their primary audience is no longer tuning in. Daytime dramas were created to entertain housewives and sell domestic goods, such as soap (hence the name). With more women in the workforce, their audience has all but disappeared.

A lot of people are starting to look back on the actors who got their start on soaps and made it big in Hollywood. We’d like to shift the focus onto those who are living legends within the genre. There was a time when being a soap actor wasn’t seen as a stepping stone to something better. It was the thing to do. Some actors have spent 30, even 40 years playing the same character on the same show, and we’d like to salute them. Here are five soap legends we’ll miss from All My Children and One Life to Live.

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If you’re a fan of soap operas — more specifically One Life to Live, you may have caught an epic event on Monday’s episode. Reality TV star and socialite Kourtney Kardashian made her acting debut on the series playing Kassandra Kavanaugh, a lawyer who finds herself in some legal trouble.

The episode was alluded to on this Sunday’s installment of her show Kourtney & Kim Take New York, where the older Kardashian nervously rehearsed her script and prepared for her debut. Her stint only lasted an episode but within that hour, she got into a fight, got arrested, and got to kiss her hot co-star. All in a days work!

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