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Emmy Nominations Are Out! Nominations for the 31st annual Daytime Emmy Awards, to air Friday, May 21, on NBC, have been announced, and ALL MY CHILDREN led ABC Daytime with 14 total nods. "It's been a very happy day," smiles Younger Actress contender Eden Riegel (Bianca), "tempered only by the fact that a lot of people are missing from the list who I work closely with and did phenomenal work this year. I was shocked and disappointed to see Alicia [Minshew, Kendall] and Susan [Lucci, Erica] not on the list, plus Finola [Hughes, ex-Anna] and Vincent [Irizarry, David]."GENERAL HOSPITAL, meanwhile, scored 11 nods, all in major categories. "I was over the moon," executive producer Jill Farren Phelps shares with Soaps In Depth. "We have a really great group of actors. And as wonderfully talented as they are, they also are ladies and gentlemen and professionals like you wouldn't believe." For the full list of Emmy nominations, click here.

GENERAL HOSPITAL grad Billy Warlock (ex-A.J.) co-stars with Mark Dobies (Daniel, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) in The Normal Heart, opening Wednesday, April 21, at the Public Theater in NYC. For tickets, call (212) 239-6200.

GENERAL HOSPITAL's Wally Kurth (Ned) is one of the celebrity guest bingo callers at the Legendary Bingo Night being held Thursday, July 8, at the Sportsmen's Lodge Hotel in Studio City, CA. A suggested donation of $30 gets you 10 regular bingo cards and two grand prize cards; send check/MO payable to Kurth & Taylor Foundation to Elana Bonaventura, P.O. Box 6566, Bakersfield, CA 93386. Net proceeds benefit the Kurth & Taylor Foundation.

Rebecca Herbst last aired as Elizabeth on April 14, and now is on maternity leave. For the scoop on how Ric will keep busy during his sweetheart's asbence, see the latest ABC issue of Soaps In Depth.

Sources tell Soaps In Depth that Lisa Lo Cicero (Jocelyn, THE CITY) is one of the names being considered for the recast of Ned's ex-wife, Lois Cerullo Ashton.

At the 31st annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony, to be held Friday, May 21, at NYC's Radio City Music Hall, ten acting vets will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. The GH actresses are: Rachel Ames, who has played GENERAL HOSPITAL's Audrey since 1964 and Anna Lee, who made her debut as GH's Lila in 1978.