News Round-up

WHERE ARE THE NOW: Billy Hufsey visits Cleveland, talks about acting-to-banking-to-acting career
After FAME put away its jazz shoes in 1987, Hufsey went on to DAYS OF OUR LIVES where Hufsey's bad-boy character Emilio carried on a hot romance with Jennifer (Melissa Reeves). Hufsey remembered that Reeves was nervous about their first on-
screen kiss because she'd had his FAME poster on her bedroom wall.

Hufsey walked away from show business to go into banking, but now he's decided to throw his life in reverse. He's relaunching his career in the VH-1 reality series CONFESSIONS OF A TEEN IDOL, which debuts at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4.

SARA A. BIBEL: Soapy Holidays
"Every year, I find myself immune to the holiday spirit. Christmas songs on the radio leave me saying, 'Bah Humbug.' I have no interest in Christmas specials, in large part because I celebrate Hannukah. But a good soap holiday will get me every time."

DVD Review: The Man Who Came Back
"The acting is not all that bad. Eric Braeden, best known as Victor Newman on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, does a good job as the old war hero Paxton and does his best to channel his inner Charles Bronson a la Death Wish. Whether this is a good or bad way to go is up to the audience to decide."

HOLLYOAKS Zoë "worried" over lesbian scenes
Hollyoaks actress Zoë Lister has revealed that she was worried when she first heard about her lesbian romp scenes.

The 26-year-old, who has played Zoë Carpenter in the Chester-based soap since 2006, was last month seen in Hollyoaks - Later in bed with her best friend Sarah Barnes (Loui Batley).

The storyline has since seen Sarah questioning her sexual tendencies, while Zoë has tried in vain to brush the encounter to one side in the hope that Sarah's father, who is also Zoë's boyfriend, wouldn't discover the incident.

Speaking of filming the lesbian scenes for Later Lister told Digital Spy: "I thought it was hilarious! I thought it'd be interesting, though. I was obviously quite worried about them. Loui [Batley] and I chatted a lot when we found out that it was going to be in the late-night eps and we were wondering 'oh no, what does this mean?!' But in the end, they weren't graphic or anything like that, so it was fine."

Kym Marsh expects CORRIE upheaval
Kym Marsh has said that CORONATION STREET fans can expect her character to experience dramatic storylines at the start of 2009. The 32-year-old revealed that Michelle Connor will discover boyfriend Steve McDonald's infidelity with Becky Granger.

"Let's just say there's probably going to be a lot of change for Michelle in the New Year. "Michelle will be devastated when the affair is finally found out. She loves Steve with all her heart and thinks she's going to be with him for the rest of her life. Obviously he has other plans!"