paul augustine leyden played simon on as the world turns.
paul augustine leyden played simon on as the world turns.
who played simon on as the world turns?
paul augustine leyden
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paul augustine leyden (born 16 december 1972) is an australian actor, producer and screenwriter. he is best known for playing the role of simon frasier on the daytime soap opera "as the world turns". he played simon in the 2009 mini series "maneater". he also had a brief stint on "the young and the restless" as "blake".
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during sheffer's tenure, "as the world turns" placed a renewed emphasis on romance. although the show was accused during this period of having too many "insta-couples" (which in soap lingo means couples who are put together quickly, regardless of the chemistry between the actors), many popular couples developed during this period nonetheless. at the 2000 halloween party (the theme was roaring twenties, ) katie (terri colombino) and simon (paul leyden), having been scorned by the objects of their affections (married duo holden and lily, respectively,) had a one night stand in the back of a car. katie became enamored with former gigolo simon, and began pursuing him. when the ins came after simon (who was from australia), katie married him to keep him in the country. fans rooted for katie as she schemed to make simon love her, and the duo renewed its vows in fall 2001. unfortunately, the show seemed unable to figure out where to go with the couple, giving them abbreviated or confusing stories such as simon's evil doppelgänger donovan menacing katie, or katie's career-making, "butt buster" aerobic videos, or when psychotic dahlia ventura (colleen dion) befriended katie and inexplicably convinced her simon killed one of his previous wives, her sister, monique farrar (actually, dahlia killed her own sister). in 2003, simon left town due to bartleby shears's threats on katie's life. bartleby (jonno roberts; roberts would also play bartleby's twin, mordecai shears) was a former con man with whom simon worked back in australia. bartleby came to oakdale looking for simon to do one more con. simon didn't want to do the con and he ended up killing bartleby and leaving town. before he left simon took all the money out of their bank accounts. katie went to work at memorial as a nurse's aid. katie was devastated and even as she attempted to move on with mike (now played by mark collier) returned to convince her to move on with her life, but several months later, katie inexplicably learned that simon was behind the return of mike's old girlfriend pilar domingo (played from 1996 to 1997 by roselyn sanchez and in 2004 by daniella alonzo). "as the world turns" never gave any reasonable explanation for simon's sudden turn to the dark side and the moment was panned by many fans and critics. although mike and katie were a popular couple, they were broken up in favor of a romance between mike and jennifer munson (played as an adult from july 1999 to march 2002 by kim onasch and from july 2003 until the character's on-screen death in july 2006 by jennifer ferrin), whose own romance with the theretofore unknown stenbeck son, jordan (chris beteem) was deep-sixed. the mike/jen romance paved the way for a romance between katie and fan-favorite henry coleman (trent dawson). henry, who had loved katie from afar for years, suggested to her that they marry in an attempt to make mike jealous and come back to her. katie agreed; henry, however, was sincere in his proposal and hoped against hope that katie would fall just as much in love with him as he was with her. the two opened a gym together and, for a few months, managed to be happy, even consummating their relationship. by may 2005, henry had realized once and for all that katie could only love mike, and despite katie's pleas, ended their marriage.
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