Susan Lucci had NO IDEA her show was in danger of being cancelled ... in fact, just THREE days before the announcement, the "All My Children" star ADAMANTLY denied the soap was on the chopping block.
TMZ ran into Lucci at The Grove in L.A. on Monday (
see above) and when we asked if the show she's starred on for 41 years was on the hot seat, Susan replied, "No truth to that rumor ... not at all."
We spoke to Lucci's daughter, Liza Huber, who told us the soap star only learned
about the show's fate on Thursday -- at the same time producers informed the rest of the cast -- and Susan was "upset" by the news.
But fear not Lucci fans -- Liza tells us her mother has NO plans to retire ... and she's already receiving offers to do other TV shows and various projects.
When given the choice, Susan Lucci would rather lose 20 Emmys than her fight with gravity.
Good choice Susan. Hot for 62, for sure.
Playing Erica Kane on "All My Children" for nearly four decades just doesn't get old for
Susan Lucci.
Here's 33-year-old La Lucci back in 1980 (
left) -- and the 62-year-old version (
right) at an event in NYC two weeks ago.
She should get an award or something.
In a time where the next President might be an African-American, why can't the next Captain America be Black, too?
Susan Lucci was blindsided by a wannabe superhero last night outside Madeo -- but we doubt this dude could take on Red Skull without the Captain's indestructible shield ... and losing a few pounds.
She's on the current season of "Dancing with the Stars" -- but the only dance our photog wants to do with the 20-time Daytime Emmy loser is the horizontal mambo.
With her husband, Helmut Huber, and newly unveiled wax sculpture in tow, "All My Children" star Susan Lucci, 61, was snapped at Madame Tussauds in NYC on Tuesday.
Will the real Erica Kane please make herself known?!
Where my white women at, you ask? This morning, they were hosting "The View."
Not content to be blandly milquetoast in just their on-camera banter, the co-hosts of the ABC show added the very Caucasian Susan Lucci to the seat formerly occupied by the fired (and African-American) Star Jones.
Whereas Jones would talk about her sex life with husband Al Reynolds with gusto often and unabashedly, Lucci spoke of how her character on "All My Children" would have love scenes "in a coma," sometimes with a green tube up her nose.
Even the audience got into the act, with panning shots of the assembled crowd revealing a decidedly homogeneous group of "View"-ers.
Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning did his best to provide some minority representation, and pop star Brandy returns tomorrow for her second guest-hosting audition-stint.
