Two former daytime ingenues are teaming up to play a pair of bickering, thieving sisters this summer on ABC primetime. Leven Rambin (ex-Lily, All My Children) and Vanessa Marano (ex-Eden, The Young and the Restless) will both be featured as part of the ensemble drama Scoundrels.

Rambin plays the role of Heather West, a blonde bombshell who uses sex as a weapon, while Marano plays Heather's snarky, younger sister Hope. Virginia Madsen (Sideways) and JAG's David James Elliot headline the series, as Cheryl and Wolf West, the girls parents, a couple who believes a family who commits felonies together, stays together.

When Wolf is sent up for five years, Cheryl decides it's time her family (which also includes twin sons Logan and Calvin West played by Patrick Flueger in a dual role) went straight. Too bad her kids aren't feeling that decision. Scoundrels is a remake of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune.  It premieres June 20 at 9/8c on ABC.  Check out an extended trailer after the jump! READ MORE

It looks like Leven Rambin's stint on Grey's Anatomy paid off. According to EW.com she's been cast in the Mouse House's upcoming summer series Scoundrels based on the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune. 

The dramedy centers on the matriarch (Virginia Madsen) of a family of crooks who attempts to lead her brood on an honest, hardworking path after her hubby (Neal McDonough) is sent to prison. Rambin will play their dumb-as-nails, aspiring model daughter, Vanessa.

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Okay, St. Martin's Press is fast becoming my favorite publishing house. First they released my literary heroine Jackie Collins' latest tome, Poor Little Bitch Girl on Tuesday, now comes news of an adult follow-up to the monster hit teen book series Sweet Valley High!

According to EW.com, St. Martin's has confirmed plans to publish Sweet Valley Confidential, a novel for fans who grew up in the 80's and 90's with identical twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, their friends, rivals and boyfriends in fictional SoCal paradise of Sweet Valley, California. The new novel, which will follow scheming, boy crazy, fashion-obsessed Jess and her level-headed, straight A student sis Liz into adulthood, is being penned by Francine Pascal, who orignally conceived the Sweet Valley saga as a proposed daytime soap opera, before opting to turn her story bible into a book series.

Sweet Valley High ultimately made it to television, at any rate, as a syndicated, weekly dramedy starring real life twins Brittany and Cynthia Daniel as Jessica and Liz, respectively.  The series (which did not do the franchise justice) ran from 1994-97 (See clip after the jump).
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Congratulations are in order for Grey's Anatomy star and All My Children alum Leven Rambin. The 19-year-old actress, who recently returned for AMC's 40th anniversary, announced on her Twitter page that she is engaged to Geoff Clark. Side note: I am re-reading one of my fave book series as a kid, Sweet Valley High and it's so weirdly cool to see Rambin's face on the revised covers as twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield! READ MORE

Good news for All My Children fans. SOAPnet is reporting Julia Barr, Eden Riegel and Leven Rambin will be returning for its upcoming 40th Anniversary episode. This comes after news of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos returning to their soap alma mater. Eva La Rue–who said she'd return if scheduling allowed–is also set to return. Find out which other former stars are returning for the special episode at SOAPnet.

Wouldn't it be great if all these names were returning for good? 

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All My Children alumnus Leven Rambin appears on Grey's Anatomy November 19, according to E! Online. The report reveals, READ MORE

We've been told that Leven's character features heavily in the Nov. 19 episode, titled "Holidaze," and that during the course of that episode (which spans several weeks of story time), Mark (Eric Dane) and Lexie (Chyler Leigh) must cope with the shocking arrival of a woman from his past.
 

Seems like Twitter is the vehicle of choice for clarification on rumors. All My Children alum Leven Rambin took to her page to discuss whether there was truth to the online rumors about her being snagged by The Young and the Restless. According to Rambin:

No Y&R for me right now, peeps.

There you have it, straight from the source.

FOX has cancelled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which anchored its Friday night lineup. The show, which featured Leven Rambin (ex All My Children, Lily Montgomery) in a supporting role this past season, has watched its ratings decline steadily during its run. I started out loving the show, but by the end of this season I had lost interest, ironically at least partly because of the storyline of Rambin's character and her handler from the future.

Did you watch Rambin on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? If so, did you like her storyline?

It looks like Cady McClain (ex-Dixie) wasn't the only All My Children star who caught hell for daring to speak out against She Who Wielded The Poisoned Laptop.  Popular Pine Valley leading man Walt Willey (Jack) revealed during a joint interview between AMC Superposter and Willey's Official My Space profile, that he too "paid the price" for speaking out about former AMC head writer Megan McTavish's decision to pair Jack's Autistic daughter Lily (Leven Rambin) with tumor-less, homicidal maniac Jonathan (Jeff Branson). READ MORE

Yes! I thought there was a resemblance.

Maybe I'd have to pay closer attention.

No! I don't see a resemblance.