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NOMINATIONS OVERVIEW
Fans of The Bold and the Beautiful turned out to heap praise on a former star of the show, Marissa Tait (Becky Moore). The young actress, whose character died last year, was nominated for five awards, including Outstanding Younger Actress, Most Missed Performer and Outstanding Supporting Actress.
Her on-screen love, Mick Cain (CJ Garrison) also grabbed a handful of nominations, including Outstanding Leading Actor, Outstanding Younger Performer and Outstanding Overall Performer. The pair's storyline of falling in love also picked up a nomination for Favorite Storyline.
Andrea Evans (Tawny Moore) picked up nominations as Most Missed Performer and Outstanding Recurring Role or Special Guest. In the latter category Evans will compete against Phyllis Diller (Gladys Pope).
THE FINAL BALLOT IS SET
The first phase of the Dankies balloting took place throughout December and part of January. In this phase all B&B Online users were asked to offer their choices for the best of the best of The Bold and the Beautiful over the past year. These users were allowed to nominate any performer or storyline that they felt fit the various categories. When balloting closed, Soap Opera Central tabulated all of the nominations. The top four vote-getters in each category were placed on a final ballot, a ballot for which voting begins today. Additionally, all 16 nominees in the Outstanding and Supporting Actor and Actress categories were placed in an Outstanding Overall Performer category. Voters are asked to choose which of the nominees turned in the best performance over the past twelve months.
STILL AHEAD
Voting on the final ballot will continue through February 9, 2001. At that time voting will close. On February 12th, the winners of the Dankies will be announced on the Soap Opera Central web site. On February 19th, a special "all soap" edition of the Dankies will be held. In this special balloting, the winners of each of categories in all of the ten soap sections of the Soap Central site will compete against one another. Every user of Soap Opera Central will be eligible to vote in the all soaps ballot.
CAST YOUR VOTES
All registered users of the Soap Central site are eligible to vote in the Dankies. Users who are not registered can do so for FREE by visiting our registration page. Each user is permitted one vote. Users can contact friends by Email or other Internet sources and point them to the Soap Opera Central web site so that they can vote. Users may cast their votes in as many of the different soap sections as they'd like.
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