Soap Opera Weekly
December 19, 2000
The Gossip

Walt Willey's (Jackson, All My Children) daughter, Merit, just turned 2, but don't try to pin him down on a date. "She was born on Thanksgiving, so I keep saying she's a Thanksgiving baby. When someone asks, 'But when's the date?' I say, 'Well, when's Thanksgiving, you big dummy?' Of course," Walt concedes, "I'm the big dummy, because Thanksgiving's a different date every year. So she has a sort of roving birthday."

And while the rest of us are still trying to trim off those Thanksgiving pounds, Catherine Hickland's (Lindsay, OLTL) talking turkey about how she stayed slim. "I brought a Pilates machine from QVC, and now I can pretty much eat whatever I want. I hate to exercise and the most fantastic part is that this thing feels like you're not even doing anything--most of it is lying down. It's the best $385 I've ever spent!"