For more than four decades, soap opera star and icon Susan Lucci has played the manipulative, loveable, exuberant Erica Kane on the long-running “All My Children.”
After learning of the show’s demise after ??? years on Thursday, Lucci immediately reached out to fans through a statement.
"It's been a fantastic journey," Lucci said. "I loved playing Erica Kane and working with [show creator] Agnes Nixon and all the incredible people involved with ‘All My Children.’ I'm looking forward to all kinds of new and exciting opportunities."
Lucci, 64, will more than likely be very busy before the end of the year rolls around. And maybe she can add to that one Daytime Emmy Award she won in 1999, after being passed over for nearly 20 years!
ABC has announced that it will end both “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” as of January 2012. The lucrative day spots will be filled with health-related talk shows, “The Chew,” with chefs Mario Batali and Michael Symon among others, and “The Revolution,” which will star Tim Gunn from “Project Runway” as well as Kimberley Locke from “American Idol” among others.
This leaves “General Hospital” as ABC’s only daytime soap show. CBS has the long-running and No. 1 soap in many categories, “Young and the Restless,” which it kept after ditching “Guiding Light” and “As the World Turns” in 2009 and 2010.
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