John & Evangeline

renée oh my GOD

HAMILTON 10 year Anniversary Performance at the 2025 Tony Awards

GIRLS5EVA + opening credits

Michael Easton & Renee Goldsberry’s OLTL end show bumper in the 2000’s. ♥

Renée Elise Goldsberry as Wickie Roy Girls5eva Season 1 (2021 - )

And I see years later (2007, I guess) they fucking won.

From the moment these two first met in Angel Square to discuss a case for which they were on opposite sides, there were sparks. But would One Life to Live go there? Most didn’t think so due in part to the obvious, Evangeline being African-American and John being white one of the most popular male leads on the show, who already had a “soul mate”🙄😒 in Natalie Buchanan. African-American women were just not paired with the male lead of a show. Well they did go there. First with a dare kiss, then a game of pool, a bottle of wine and a locked basement door that led to one of hottest love scenes in daytime history. Vangie and John decided that their night together in that locked basement was just too much wine and thus a “one-time thing”, but then they slept together  again and it turned into a “two-time thing.” They quickly became friends with benefits (FWB), which soon led to lunch dates, movie dates and eventually “some strings” i.e. double dates, football games, an exchange of house keys and a him giving her his mother’s pearls. The natural progression of their interactions from FWB to a real relationship was interesting and grown-up and their chemistry was FIRE🔥 . These two had the potential to become one of the most popular couples on the show, but the writers torpedoed that potential with their need to return to the old and tired status quo.  John was reunited with Natalie Buchanan, who he wasn’t even lukewarm about, and Evangeline was shuffled off to Cristian Vega, an unemployed artist who was beneath her, with her and John never to be revisited again. Its truly a shame because it can’t be said enough how much these two sizzled and their lives could and did make sense together. I still smile at what these two were and sigh 😔 at what could’ve been.

Hamilton Cypher

New Year’s Eve together.  This scene is in the Denzel Washington film “Deja Vu”.