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Happy Father's Day - Soap dad's reflect
Jack Wagner (Nick Marone, B&B): "The best part is always watching them grow. It is such a bizarre process. To watch them grow, you have to grow with them. You have to understand when they want to be let go. It is a different world than when I grew up. Kids are into computers and cell phones, and that is a whole disconnect compared to the way I grew up. I have to constantly adjust and understand it more before I can discipline it. It is finding a way to participate in their life, which is so unlike the one I grew up in."

Shawn Christian (Dr. Daniel Jonas, DAYS): "What is really beautiful about being a dad is I get to expose my kid to all the little things I take for granted, and I get to see it through his eyes brand-new."

Daniel Cosgrove (Billy Lewis III, GL): "My kids are still young, and as they are getting older, I see them through different phases of life, from baby to toddler, reaching different goals. I know that everything I do and say they are absorbing. How that will manifest itself, I don't know. I have a huge impact on their life. This is a long-term investment, and I cherish every day of it, even when it is the most frustrating, hardest thing and you are, 'Oh, my goodness, I am going to go out of my mind.'"

ABC, PBS win big at Daytime Emmys
ABC and PBS took home ten Daytime Emmys a piece Friday night, as the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences held the kudofest’s annual creative arts awards in Gotham.

VIDEO: Former OLTL actress Kerry Butler
Kerry Butler's current role in the Broadway hit musical "Xanadu" has earned her a Tony nomination for best actress. Now she's taking her talents off the big stage and into the recording studio. The star stopped by the THE EARLY SHOW's "Second Cup Cafe" Saturday to perform music from her debut album, "Faith, Trust & Pixie Dust."

Soap rivals frolic in waves
EMMERDALE babe Victoria Hawkins gets to grips with her new man as they frolic in the Spanish surf. Victoria, 25, couldn't hide her joy as she tussled with rival soap star Kevin Sacre on holiday in Majorca.

Kevin, 28, who plays HOLLYOAKS bad boy Jake Dean, playfully dunked the sexy actress into the sea after giving her a piggyback swim. The TV couple became an item after meeting at the British Soap Awards two months ago.

Victoria usually does the breaststroke as man-eater Sharon Lambert in the ITV1 sheep-and-sex saga. But Channel 4's Kevin will hope she's less shallow in real life.

Julianne Moore has new film out - Savage Grace
Moore, 47, got her earliest recognition for her role as Frannie Hughes on the soap opera AS THE WORLD TURNS, but it wasn't until her early 30s that she began to make a mark in film, most forcefully by playing a marital spat in Robert Altman's Short Cuts naked from the waist down. In her new film, Savage Grace, which opened Friday in limited release, Moore plays Barbara Baekeland, a onetime actress who married the heir to the Bakelite plastic fortune.