Emily 2.0: “General Hospital”

General Hospital regretted its decision to make the character Emily Quartermaine a victim of the text messaging killer during one of the many serial killer storylines on the soap. So, they rehired actress Natalia Livingston back in 2019 to play a different role. However, this role was played by Emily’s unknown sister, Rebecca Shaw. Livingston thought that Rebecca was going to be a different character, so she came up with ideas on how to approach her character. Producers told her to make the character exactly like her previous character, Emily. Let’s just say that Rebecca was not loved as much as Emily. 

The Gemini Twins: “Days of Our Lives”

“Days of Our Lives” is no stranger to crazy storylines, but one of the craziest was dubbed “The Gemini Twins” by fans of the show. The early 2000s storyline took place during a meteor shower that hit the town of Salem. Two teens had crash-landed in the town during the meteor shower and were believed to be aliens by the other characters. Two high school students, Belle Black and Shawn Douglas Brady, had been on a date watching the meteor shower together when an object landed near them. They went to investigate and found two people who were dressed in silver and did not speak English. The teen couple had originally hid the existence of the twins. They gave the pair clothes to wear and taught them to speak English. As every soap does, you cannot keep secrets for long, and the news about the twins was circulated around the town. Later in the story, it was revealed that the twins’ names were Rex and Cassie, and they were genetically engineered humans. It was also discovered that they were the biological children of Kate Roberts and Roman Brady. But they were born using Marlena Evans as a surrogate when she was being held captive by Stefano DiMera. It was one of the craziest storylines of the early 2000s soap operas. 

The Violent Battle for Esther’s Liver: “Hollyoaks Later”

The Violent Battle for Esther’s Liver plot in 2013 happened on the aftershow of the popular soap opera “Hollyoaks” called “Hollyoaks Later.” The plot comes to a climax as Esther Bloom’s bullying by Ruby and Sinead comes full steam ahead. A new character, Jade Hedy, who had been recently introduced on the main show for the bullying storyline, had taken quite an interest in Esther. The audience of the show had to ask themselves why Jade was so interested in Esther in a very creepy way. In a turn of events, it was revealed that Esther’s liver had belonged to Jade’s late boyfriend, and she wanted it back. As Digital Spy put it, “We’re pretty sure that’s not quite how the transplant system works.” The teen characters on the show were out on a holiday together in the country, which gave Jade the perfect opportunity to strike with her attack. She had tied up Esther and tried to take her liver. But luckily Callum Kane had saved her life, but unfortunately for him, he ended up being stabbed through the chest with a samurai sword. 

Jamie Bulger Plot: “Hollyoaks”

This is one of the most controversial storylines in soap opera history. It was so controversial that it did not even make it to air. According to Yahoo! News, Channel 4 scrapped a plot in 2009 that had scary similarities to the 1993 murder of two-year-old Jamie Bulger. He was killed by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. The producers of the popular British soap opera “Hollyoaks” planned to run a storyline where one of the soap’s popular characters, Loretta Jones, and her friend Chrissy admitted to killing a girl when they were only 12 years old. They scrapped the plot after the mother of Jamie Bulger, Denise Fergus, had a private screen, and she said that she would be upset if they broadcast the episodes. Since the storyline was scrapped, Chrissy never appeared on the show.