What a treat it was to meet GUIDING LIGHT's Ron Raines (Alan) yesterday and ride over to Puttanesca for lunch with the other actors in the show's Spaulding family.Soon after we arrived, Grant Aleksander showed up, and looks exactly the same as when he left the show as Phillip four years ago. Marcy Rylan (Lizzie) arrived as stunning as ever and Marj Dusay (Alexandra) made a fashionably late entrance and lit up the room.
Having these four "Spauldings" all together and sometimes talking at the same time was really fascinating and entertaining. What was nice was that not everyone had seen Aleksander in a while so we were witnessing their reunions in person.
Aleksander will be returning to the airwaves in early February. He begins taping next week and there is a lot of excitement on set about his return and this group was especially thrilled. Aleksander told us that he spoke with one of the head writers, Jill Lorie Hurst, several months ago about the possibility of returning but didn't want the information to be "out there" in case it didn't happen.
We all tried to get spoilers out of him and the publicists, but no such luck. Aleksander said, "I'm not allowed to say anything. Aside from some early conversations about general things, I really wanted to stay out of that part of it. Once we talked and I had the sense of, in general, what they were looking for, I thought, 'this will be okay,' so there's a lot more I have to find out."