SPOILER ALERT!

To quote Star Jones (ugh): Something has been weighing on my heart recently.


Two weeks ago, it was leaked that Emmy-award nominated Vincent Irizzary was being released from his contract on All My Children for the typical "storyline and budgetary" reasons. What's that I smell? BULLSHIT.

Jen and I are going to take a moment of silence and mourn.

FUCK YOU, ABC! Just when I think they couldn't do anything dumber than making Josh Madden Erica Kane's aborted fetus "all grown up" (if you don't know, you don't want to)...

Vincent Irizarry is one of the most talented actors on the show, and David Hayward is quite possibly the best villain ever. To prove why, here are the five best Wayward Hayward moments of all time (in no particular order):

1. David Knows Maria: In quite possibly the most ingenious twist EVER on the Back From the Dead With Amnesia^® storyline, Maria Grey didn't really die in the plane crash. David found her on the beach and nursed her back to health using an experimental drug of his own development which erased her memory as a side effect (see, they name side effects in drug commercials FOR A REASON). He coincidentally ended up in Pine Valley months later, saw a picture of Maria at Wildwind, but kept her away so that nobody would find out he accidentally erased her memory. I have to say, my jaw HIT THE FLOOR when Maria called David the first time (as we had no idea he had been involved until that point).
2. Libidozone: David accidentally drugs an entire yacht full of people with the aphrodesiac Libidozone; maritime orgy ensues. He had intended just to slip it to Tad to get him to cheat on Dixie.
3. Dixie, Part Deux: Met Di Kirby while visiting Krystal in prison and realized she had a startling resemblance to Dixie. To get revenge on Tad and JR, upon her release, he convinces her to pretend to be Dixie back from the dead with a newly reconstructed face (Dix was believed to have died in a car crash four years prior, turns out the asshat had actually been slutting it up in Europe... I hate this sanctimonious whore). Unbeknownst to him (and everyone except Del), Di was really Dixie's half-sister, thus, she fooled everyone when the DNA test proved her to be a blood relative.
4. Nemeses: When blackmailing Allie into getting back together with him didn't work, he drugged Adam to give him a heart attack and blamed Jake, making Adam the first of David's many nemeses. The rivalry between Hayward and Adam is second only to the rivalry between Hayward and Tad.
5. Any Scene With Vanessa: Any scene between Hayward and his socialite-turned-sociopath drug overlord mother was fantastic. Two great characters gone...

Given the shitty state this show is in right now, I don't see how they can afford to lose Hayward. Here's to hoping they don't kill him off.