Soap Opera Digest
General Hospitals Kelly Monaco
Offers A Revealing Backstage Look at Dancing with the Stars
Over the years shes been very candid about who she is and where she came from. The new issue of Soap Opera Digest (Cover Date: July 26, 2005) takes an even closer look at Kellys journey to become Americas Dancing Queen on ABC-TVs mega primetime hit, Dancing with The Stars
New York (PRWEB) July 18, 2005 -- Soap Opera Digest, Americas first authority on soaps has been documenting Kelly Monacos career since she joined ABC-TVs Port Charles in the vampire-loving dual role of Livvie / Tess." Following the shows cancellation in June, 2003, Monaco moved to sister show, General Hospital, as rough-around-the-edges Samantha Sam" McCall."
Over the years shes been very candid about who she is and where she came from. The new issue of Soap Opera Digest (Cover Date: July 26, 2005) takes an even closer look at Kellys journey to become Americas Dancing Queen on ABC-TVs mega primetime hit, Dancing with The Stars.
Its crazy!" marvels Monaco of her win on the nations No. 1 prime-time show. We came a long freaking way," she notes of partner Alec (Mazo). I had to come up to his level and show him support because he had been supporting me for the last five weeks, so (winning) feels pretty good."
As for that judgmental" tongue-lashing she got for not smiling early on, Monaco gave Soap Opera Digest the real scoop. It was the American Smooth Waltz. Our song was I Have Nothing" by Whitney Houston. The story we were telling was, Im going to kill myself if I dont have you." It didnt call for cheesy smiles, she explains. And one of the comments was, You looked like you got out of the hospital. Did somebody die in the family?" Turns out, they werent too far off. Monaco had a secret. Shed had oral surgery prior to the dance off. I wasnt going to make excuses for myself at the time, but little did they know I had 15 stitches in the roof of my mouth. I had just gotten back from the hospital. But I wasnt going to say anything."
In a feature interview from March 2004: I pride myself on the people in my life. I treat my friends like family and I am extremely loyal to all of them. Id give my left leg to one of them if they needed it." When asked why she decided to stay in soaps when PC was cancelled, Kelly said, I knew that I wanted to stay in daytime, its funny because I actually had battles with my manager and agents, who didnt want me to stay in soaps. I love the genre, I love the consistency and I havent mastered my craft here yet."
The previous year (2003), the actress revealed, Im not a girly girl, I was a tomboy my whole life. Living in Philadelphia, (some of the neighborhood kids) used to call us the Sewer Rat Gang -- me and my sisters and the kids from the block," Monaco recalled. We used to open the lids to the sewers, dangle our feet and see who could climb down the sewer the furthest without falling in. We were hanging out in a disease-infested sewer thinking we were the coolest kids in town." Her subdued nature, she acknowledges, has often been confused with snobbery. Some people mistake silence for being arrogant or snotty, and its not, Im just protecting myself." It was in this interview that Monaco told Soap Opera Digest that shes been a vegetarian for 16 years. I had food poisoning when I was little, so psychologically, I never got over that."
Billed as the comeback kid" in the finale of Dancing with the Stars, Kelly Monacos quote in a 2002 interview seems quite telling, When I come into something new, I sit back and watch. Ive got to assess my environment before I open my big mouth."
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