The Tuesday De-Briefing: Greg Vaughan

There was a time when the leading man on Daytime Dramas tended to be a non-threatening type, handsome but anatomically incorrect, so to speak. Perhaps it was because those purveyors of dish detergent thought that housewives didn't know about those things let alone have sexual fantasies. The pivotal moment in the chronos of Soap Opera history happened sometime in the 1970s when Baby Boomers of college age began watching. It had ceased being the bastion of domestic goddesses, although they still tend to be the lionesses at the gate. Someone needs to tell the powers that be, however, that the demos while much lower these days have changed. The non-threatening leading man became a living, breathing man and somewhere along that line, male models segued their careers into acting on Soap Operas. Sometimes the transition worked and many times it didn't. At the very least there was someone handsome to objectify. The tradition continues. One of those transitions that seems to be working is in the living, breathing person of Greg Vaughan whose first forays into acting were not daytime serial dramass. That's where he is now and many are very happy to see him that often on the network monitors.

There may not have to be a call to de-brief Greg Vaughan, currently starring on General Hospital. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter hired him last summer to replace Fabio as their symbol. No need to explain the motivation of melding the passions of food and sexuaity. It's all sensuality.






Our Manhattan correspondent has declared that she's never met a Texan she didn't like. Well, perhaps that is just a microcosm of the kinds of men that appeal to her. Mr. Vaughan would certainly rise to the top of any category -- a cleft chin and the combination of dark hair with light eyes is certainly a winner no matter where the man might come from.




Interesting that neither imdb.com nor Wikipedia lists his role on Any Day Now as the construction worker who helps M.E. get her groove back. General Hospital needs to take the pathos exhibited by Vaughan in his character's current travails with chemical dependecy and being a cuckold and a tio pepe and turn it into the magnetism that he gave us with Annie Potts. What needs to be de-briefed is his somewhat threatening charm.