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Days of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers hops over to the CBS network for a SOAPY guest spot

Days of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers hops over to the CBS network for a SOAPY guest spot

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Days of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers recently shared that she’d taken a meeting with The Young and the Restless when the show was doing its original casting. While she didn’t end up there, she is headed over to a division of Paramount for a guest spot on SOAPY, the soap podcast series hosted by Greg Rikaart (Leo) and Rebecca Budig (Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful).

Days of our Lives, Suzanne Rogers, SOAPY

Days of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) sat down with SOAPY hosts Greg Rikaart (Leo, DAYS) and Rebecca Budig (Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful) ti talk about her career and more | Image: CBSDays of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) sat down with SOAPY hosts Greg Rikaart (Leo, DAYS) and Rebecca Budig (Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful) ti talk about her career and more | Image: CBS
Days of our Lives star Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) sat down with SOAPY hosts Greg Rikaart (Leo, DAYS) and Rebecca Budig (Taylor, The Bold and the Beautiful) ti talk about her career and more | Image: CBS
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Rogers sat down with Budig and Rikaart for an in-depth chat about a variety of topics. The actress is the soap opera genre’s longest-running actress, as she’s played Maggie Simmons Horton Kiriakis since 1973, continuously. Granted, Rogers took a break from DAYS in 1984, but she returned the following year. She was also one of several performers who left the show in the infamous Salem Serial Killer storyline in 2003. Fortunately, she and all the other axed characters were returned to life and were back in Salem before the end of 2024.

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Now, Rogers is opening up about her cancer diagnosis and recent treatments, as well as her previous struggles with Myasthenia gravis. She also recalls highlights from her career, from auditioning for the Rockettes at 17 years old and performing on Broadway, to her groundbreaking storylines and decades of success on DAYS.

Honored by her peers

Days of our Lives star Paul Telfer (Xander) accompanied Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) to the Daytime Emmys last year, when she was honored with a Gold Circle Award, honoring her contributions to daytime for over 50 years | Image: JPIDays of our Lives star Paul Telfer (Xander) accompanied Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) to the Daytime Emmys last year, when she was honored with a Gold Circle Award, honoring her contributions to daytime for over 50 years | Image: JPI
Days of our Lives star Paul Telfer (Xander) accompanied Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) to the Daytime Emmys last year, when she was honored with a Gold Circle Award, honoring her contributions to daytime for over 50 years | Image: JPI
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Fans of the actress recall she was the inaugural winner when the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences implemented awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actress at the Daytime Emmys. (The late Peter Hansen won the Supporting Actor accolade for his role as Lee Baldwin on General Hospital, while Rogers won Supporting Actress for playing Maggie.)

SOAPY, hosted by Budig and Rikaart, is produced by the Paramount Multiplatform Production Group. Mike Benson serves as the show’s executive producer. SOAPY offers a fresh, fun behind-the-scenes look at the stories – and storytellers – that define daytime drama.

Click here to listen to Rogers’ appearance on SOAPY.

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