For months, Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) has tried almost everything short of holding his breath and turning blue to get mama Roxy (Ilene Kristen) to reveal the identity of his father. All Roxy will say is that the dude is dead – and according to her, he is. Little does Roxy know that the plug she pulled did not actually kill the comatose patient from whom she filched bone marrow to save the life of her leukemia-stricken grandson Shane (Austin Williams).
Soap Spoilers Don't Always Get it Right
In Roxy’s one-sided conversations with her unseen baby daddy, she repeatedly referred to him as despicable, so for months One Life to Live viewers have been on the edge of their seats wondering which supposedly-dead villain is Rex’s father. According to some soap spoilers at popular soap sites such as soapcentral.com, it would be revealed that Dr. Spencer Truman (Paul Satterfield) is Roxy’s ex and sperm donor to Rex. After months of common soap opera dirty deeds like murder and blackmail, the wicked Dr. Truman was sent in 2008 to that special holding area where soap villains go to await rewrite, contract renegotiation or sweeps, whatever is most conducive to the storyline.
Villain is a Veteran of ABC Soaps
Played to wicked perfection by soap opera veteran Roscoe Born, Mitch Laurence first appeared in Llanview in the mid 1980s, wreaking havoc on the family of Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak). During his last less-than-welcome visit in 2003 to Llanview, Mitch was thought to have been permanently exterminated after weeks of causing mega trouble for the denizens of the fictional Philadelphia suburb. Born has been identified with the villainous Mitch Laurence for so long, it can easily be forgotten that he made his ABC soap debut as Joe Novak on Ryan's Hope in the 1970s.
One Life to Live Thrives on Intricate Family Relationships
One Life to Live viewers got their first experience with bi-paternal twins (also called heteropaternal superfecundation) when it was revealed that it was Mitch who fathered Viki’s daughter Jessica (Bree Williamson) and not then-husband Clint Buchanan (Jerry Ver Dorn), who was actually the father of Natalie (Melissa Archer), Viki's other twin. Natalie had grown up believing her mother to be the low-rent Roxy and never knowing that she was a twin -- and an heiress.
To further complicate matters, parents Viki and Clint didn't know of Natalie’s existence, making her the second child birthed by Viki of which she had no recollection at all. Sound confusing? Not to soap opera fans particularly those of One Life to Live, who are in for a hoot this November as Mitch Laurence returns, replenished and ready to wreak havoc all through Llanview. That is until he meets his doom – again. Stay tuned.
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