{"id":2158981,"date":"2025-11-15T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2158981"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:19:20","slug":"7-biggest-soap-controversies-ever-from-luke-lauras-start-on-gh-to-bad-days-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/7-biggest-soap-controversies-ever-from-luke-lauras-start-on-gh-to-bad-days-for-days\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Biggest Soap Controversies Ever \u2014 From Luke & Laura\u2019s Start on \u2018Gh\u2019 to Bad Days for \u2018Days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soap opera fans are accustomed to outlandish plot twists, but some storylines are beyond the pale, and some off-screen developments aren\u2019t acceptable to viewers and even to stars of the daytime drama themselves. From romances with abusive origins to widely-reviled network decisions and even a demonic possession, here\u2019s a timeline of our selections for the biggest soap controversies ever. Warning: The following post contains discussions of sexual assault storylines. 1981: General Hospital weds Luke Spencer<\/a> and Laura Webber<\/a> after he raped her General Hospital\u2019s Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary<\/a>) and Laura Webber (Genie Francis<\/a>) were a soap supercouple whose 1981 wedding episode drew 30 million viewers, but those nuptials came…<\/div>\n

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Soap opera fans are accustomed to outlandish plot twists, but some storylines are beyond the pale, and some off-screen developments aren\u2019t acceptable to viewers and even to stars of the daytime drama themselves. From romances with abusive origins to widely-reviled network decisions and even a demonic possession, here\u2019s a timeline of our selections for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2158982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2158981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-Biggest-Soap-Controversies-Ever-\u2014-From-Luke-Lauras.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158983,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158981\/revisions\/2158983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2158982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}