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Post by glozone on Jan 19, 2020 16:44:14 GMT
The winners last decade were, unsurprisingly Matthew Ashford who returned in 2001 and runner-up Melissa Reeves who returned in 2000. There's been a lot more comings and goings this decade, I think.
And a lot of the actors have returned more than once. Matt, Eileen, Nadia, Thaao, Stephen and maybe more came back twice. Drake came back a whopping three times. So... choose your favorite of those, I guess. For ease, I'm only including people who came back on contract. If I chose everyone who visited this would be too long. It already is!
Last Decade's Winners
2010: Jennifer Deveraux (Runner-Up: Bill Horton) 2011: Jack Deveraux (Runner-Up: Carrie Reed) 2012: Kristen DiMera (Runner-Up: Eric Brady) 2013: J.J. Deveraux (Runner-Up: Kimberly Donovan) 2014: Susan Banks (Runner-Up: Chad DiMera) 2015: Steve Johnson (Runner-Up: Bo Brady) 2016: Bo Brady (Runner-Up: Jack Deveraux) 2018: Abigail Deveraux and Nicole Walker (Runner-Up: Sami Brady) 2019: Jack Deveraux (Runner-Up: Steve Johnson)
Oh. Oops. I see now I usually do this as character returns, not actor returns. Well, I think actor returns are more fun. Otherwise if I did "Kristen DiMera" it's like you're voting for Eileen and Stacy, etc.
I voted for Matt, Chandler and Bryan. Jack and Will's deaths were both travesties that needed to be undone. Meanwhile, Peter didn't get a vote because Bo's return was solely to kill him off... and I think it's pretty clear to see based on the past few years that they'd have been better served just writing Kristian off with him and giving Bope a HEA.
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Post by glozone on Jan 27, 2020 21:00:42 GMT
WINNER: Matthew Ashford (Jack Deveraux) Runner-Up: Chandler Massey (Will Horton)
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Post by leafs27 on Jan 28, 2020 16:11:12 GMT
No surprise there!
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Post by glozone on Jan 28, 2020 17:22:33 GMT
Agreed. Both were unnecessary deaths that just felt wrong and I'm glad they were undone. Killing people like Bo or Lexie is unfortunate, but when there are iconic performers who want to retire, and they have prominent partners who want to stay, I can see doing it. But Matt's clearly happy to be here and didn't have to go anywhere (much less over and over) and they didn't have to up and kill Sami and Lucas' son we saw slowly grow up onscreen just because they didn't like their choice of recast.
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Post by flyboyla on Jan 30, 2020 1:13:35 GMT
I love Matthew Ashford’s Jack now. I’ve been hot and cold with his character. But not because of Matt. The writing of his character became awful and he was always playing the baboon on the show. He’s now playing the role like he did in the early days when fans fell in love with Jack and Jennifer. So glad he’s back and that Ron knows how to write for this very talented actor.
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