On episode 1139 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Joshua Baldwin dish The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines, including:

Carter takes on Steffy and Ridge over the firing of Hope from Forrester Creations on The Bold and the Beautiful.

Ken Corday goes on a publicity tour to talk about the new writing team and also talks about the previous era at Days of Our Lives. Emily O'Brien returns to DAYS. There's a whole lot of scenery chewing going on amongst the Kiriakis boys. Vivian and Ivan are up to their old tricks.

Sasha is kidnapped on General Hospital. Robert and Holly get Jason's help in rescuing her. Michael sees the video of Willow and Drew having sex in the nursery. Nancy Lee Grahn is putting in DAILY Daytime Emmy nomination worthy performances.

The old Newman Ranch house is back on The Young and the Restless. Y&R gears up for its 13,000th episode. This is the most "Phyllis" Phyllis has been in a long time and the Phyllis vs. Sharon scenes have been very dynamic. The green screen cemetery scenes were not good, very bad.

All this and more on the latest Daytime Confidential podcast!

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