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Very sad news this weekend out of the world of daytime television:
Eileen Fulton, an iconic actress best known for playing the role of Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns for nearly five decades, passed away in her hometown of Asheville, North Carolina on July 14.
She was 91 years old.
According to an obituary from Groce Funeral Home, Fulton died “after a period of declining health.”
Due to her advanced age, we may never learn the exact cause of death.
Fulton was married three times throughout her life.
She originally joined As the World Turns in 1960 as Lisa Grimaldi — in what was originally supposed to be a short-term role for actress Lois Smith.
However, when Smith became unavailable, Fulton was cast instead … and ended up staying on the CBS daytime soap for more than 1,800 episodes over 50 years.
“I had a lot of experience being conniving as a minister’s daughter,” Fulton told NPR in 2010. “I found the people in my daddy’s church fascinating. When I went up for Lisa, [the character] was just a nice girl next door. And just for the summer, for Bob’s interest. I didn’t want to play anything so close to myself. So I decided to just give her a background.”
Fulton went on to joke about being a “classic daytime meanie” who had “four husbands and one phantom fetus,” adding to NPR of viewer reaction:
“They hated her — and I thought it was fabulous.
“Once, she told the outlet, a woman even hit her in the middle of a department store.
“And people looked at me like I was rotten and this woman was a heroine. But I thought, you know what? I’ve reached them.”
By the mid 1960s, Fulton’s career was on fire.
She starred in Broadway’s original production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks at the same time as she was filming As the World Turns.
Fulton was inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and earned a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
She remained a cast member on As the World Turns until its cancellation in 2010.
Aside from her incredible soap opera run, Fulton had a minor role in the 1960 drama Girl of the Night and also appeared in the short-lived prime time spinoff of As the World Turns, Our Private World.
The actress — whose funeral service will be held on August 9 — is survived by her brother, Charles McLarty (her second brother James died before her) and sister-in-law Chris McLarty and niece.
May she rest in peace.
Eileen Fulton, As the World Turns Legend, Dead at 91 was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Dog the Bounty Hunter is in dire need of your thoughts and prayers.
On Sunday, we learned that the reality star’s stepson, Gregory Zecca, shot and killed his own 13-year old son, Anthony, in an incident that took place at their apartment in Naples, Florida.
TMZ was the first outlet to break this terrible news.
Police confirmed to the celebrity gossip website that they responded to a call about a shooting around 8 p.m. local time on July 19.
Authorities referred to the tragedy an “isolated incident” and said they have not made any arrests. We can’t say for certain at this time if any are forthcoming.
Dog (real name: Duane Chapman) and his wife, Francie Chapman — who is Zecca’s mother — told TMZ, through a representative:
“We are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible, tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony.”
Francie shares Gregory with her late husband.
She got married to Chapman in 2021 after bonding over the grief of losing both of their partners to cancer, as the latter proposed to Francie just 10 months after the death of his fifth spouse, Beth.
“For a living, she’s a rancher and she recently lost her husband to cancer six months before I lost Beth Chapman so we hopped on the phone, started talking to each other, crying and consoling each other and then one thing led to another and it’s just incredible that I’ve been able to meet someone like her,” Dog shared on TMZ Live in May 2020.
“With Francie, I’m allowed to speak about Beth, we speak about her husband. We cry. We hold each other.”
Zecca, meanwhile, works with Dog on his bounty hunting team alongside Duane’s daughter, Lyssa.
Chapman is a father to 13 children total.
He shares son Christopher with Debbie White; sons Duane Lee II and Leeland with ex-wife Fonda Sue Darnell; and sons Wesley, James Robert and the late Zebadiah with ex-wife Anne Tegnell.
He is also a dad to Tucker, Lyssa and the late Barbara with ex-wife Lyssa Rae Brittain; and he shared daughters Bonnie and Cecily and son Garry with late wife Beth.
The small screen star also revealed in 2023 that he recently discovered that he fathered a son named Jon.
“As far as my gene pool, I think she would approve,” Dog said five years ago of how Beth would feel about him moving on to Francie.
“I didn’t have ranchers in my gene pool. I don’t know if Beth even knows. She’s kicking around with the angels. She’s all happy. I don’t know if she knows.”
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Grandson Killed by Own Father in Horrible Accident was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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