While a lot of soap characters deserve lumps of coal this year, plenty of their portrayers have kept themselves on Santa's Nice List and probably deserve something much better. Though, as the following actors revealed to Soap Central, nothing can compare to the glorious gifts they've received during Christmases past. Read on to get the details on their most-loved presents and then tell us about your favorite holiday gifts in the comment section below.
Lisa LoCicero (Olivia Falconeri, General Hospital) "The best Christmas presents I ever received came when I was about 9 years old from my Grandma Gene. I was a big fan of playing dress up, and she came down the stairs with two giant boxes filled with frilly, flouncy strapless vintage 50's prom dresses. I rarely was seen in anything else for the next couple years -- even into my teens when I wore them with leather jackets and high tops."
Ashlyn Pearce (Alexandria Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful) "Although I have gotten many wonderful gifts over the years, one that sticks out in my mind is The Art of Tim Burton, The Deluxe Edition. I am a huge fan of Tim Burton, and the book is a compilation of his many different sketches, drawings, paintings, and it even came with an original piece of his artwork. I was very happy when I opened that on Christmas morning."
Kassie DePaiva (Eve Donovan, Days of our Lives) "My best Christmas was when I got baby dolls. I loved the smell of brand new baby dolls and dolls at Christmas. So it would have to have been from any childhood Christmas."
Burgess Jenkins (Billy Abbott, The Young and the Restless) "The big man gave our family an 18-pound English Labrador named Jackson for Christmas a couple years ago. Now he's a lumbering 100-pound moose. And he's awesome."
Kathleen Gati (Liesl Obrecht, GH) "When I was five years old, I got a box of red (favorite color!) Lego-like building bricks. I spent many a (faked) sick day at home building homes and putting pipe cleaner people in them, dressing them in beautiful toilet paper clothes and making up stories. I wish I still had those lovely red bricks."
Guy Wilson (Will Horton, DAYS) "When I was, I had to be about 11 years old, we got this small miniature Fisher Price all-in-one billiards table that you could flip over and make into an air hockey table. And it was half sized... so me and my little sister and little brother spent the next two months doing nothing but playing pool or air hockey until the whole thing broke. But that was amazing, because it was like this little entertainment thing that fit into our room. And that's how I learned how to play pool."
Robert Adamson (Noah Newman, Y&R) "One year I got a job that worked me on Christmas. I got to send out gifts and no one could find me. I'd take that any year."
Linsey Godfrey (Caroline Spencer, B&B) "Every year, my mom gets us an infomercial gift. It's completely useless, but she always buys one infomercial gift, and it's like a gag gift, and I like that she does that. And also every year, we have this wooden flamingo that is terrible -- absolutely hideous -- and every year, somebody gets it. So if you get it, you have to hold onto it for a year. It has to go somewhere in your house for a year, and then you give it to someone else. And I love that. It's truly terrible. It's been going on a couple of years. But I think it might have gotten lost, so we may have to get another terrible thing. I might have to find something truly awful and then give it to someone."
Robert Scott Wilson (Ben Ridgeway, DAYS) "Pretty sure when I was a little kid, my parents got me a Power Wheels truck. That I went nuts over for months."
Amelia Heinle (Victoria Newman, Y&R) "My dad is a furniture maker and one year he made me a china hutch. It was doll furniture, but I was little, so it seemed big to me. You were supposed to put your little tea sets on it. And I woke up Christmas morning and I thought it was for someone else, because it was so fancy and beautiful, and then they told me it was mine, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' It was the best thing I ever remember. And he made it too, which was really cool. I went to visit my uncle when I was in my 20s, and it was in his backyard. It had like dirt clogs on it, and I was like, 'Hey, that's my china hutch!'"
Lynn Herring (Lucy Coe, GH) "Fave Christmas present: My engagement ring from Wayne which has led to having an amazing partner, two awesome sons, a wonderful career in daytime TV and an environmentally friendly ranching operation!"
Christopher Sean (Paul Narita, DAYS) "My favorite Christmas present of all time was a toy car that was big enough for me to drive. I got the boy car, and my sisters both got their girly cars."
Kristen Alderson (Kiki Jerome, GH) "Oh man, my mom is great at giving gifts, so basically everything she's gotten me."
Cady McClain (Kelly Andrews, Y&R) "A beautiful, elegant but simple winter coat from my now husband [Jon Lindstrom (Kevin Collins, GH)]."
Karla Mosley (Maya Avant, B&B) "The first thing that comes to mind is a bike. When I was probably about 10 years old, I really wanted this 10-speed teal Schwinn bike. As soon as I heard 'What Christmas present,' I could picture it in front of the tree. I can see it there. I was so excited, and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to get it, so that was really cool. I had this very strange obsession as a little kid, like some kids want ponies, I wanted a mobile home. It was so weird! But I made my parents take us once to the thing where you could tour mobile homes. I just thought it was the coolest thing. So the bike was the closest thing to a mobile home I got."
Camryn Grimes (Mariah Copeland, Y&R) "One very special year, my parents decided to finally get me a puppy! He popped out of a huge wrapped box and I was crying, I was so happy. It was picturesque."
Bryan Dattilo (Lucas Horton, DAYS) "Shogun Warriors. There were about a foot, foot and half tall doll figures from China and they shot missiles out of their hands. They were like my first toy that I really wanted. That and the Godzilla doll, which was really big. And they would fight. So my Godzilla doll and my Shogun warriors. I'll never forget it."
Mishael Morgan (Hillary Curtis, Y&R) "My Canada Goose jacket. I wanted one for so long, and I was ecstatic when my hubby surprised me with it. I don't have much use for it now that I live in LA, but I make full use of it when I go home to Toronto for Christmas!"
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