Nathalie Kelley Sheds Light on Her Controversial Exit: 'I Wasn't Up to the Challenge'

[Daniel Avery]

With Adam as her "Joel Abrigore". I could even see Sam Underwood getting a ridiculously deep tan to play it up.

 

[thomaswak]

I'd pay good money to see Nathalie Kelly back on the show. Either as a Cristal Look alike (à la Rita) or as Celia "we never saw the body, she was alive and pregnant with Blake's Baby, and decided to fake her death to run far far aways from the Carrington's madness"

 

[Daniel Avery]

Some character would decide to find (or create) a woman who looks just like Celia and toss her into the mix to play with someone's--most likely Blake's--head. Unlike Krystle/Rita, this would be more like Ciji/Cathy from Knots Landing, where (for instance) Alexis finds the Celia lookalike and uses her to break up Blake/Cristal, or maybe just to make Blake think he's going crazy. They'd likely be accused of copying the wrong nighttime soap, though.

I still want the Krystle/Rita re-telling to involve the return (or "return") of Steven, where the fake Steven inserts himself into their lives while Real Steven pops up at an appropriate time to blow the whole plot out of the water.

 

[thomaswak]

Some character would decide to find (or create) a woman who looks just like Celia and toss her into the mix to play with someone's--most likely Blake's--head. Unlike Krystle/Rita, this would be more like Ciji/Cathy from Knots Landing, where (for instance) Alexis finds the Celia lookalike and uses her to break up Blake/Cristal, or maybe just to make Blake think he's going crazy. They'd likely be accused of copying the wrong nighttime soap, though.

I still want the Krystle/Rita re-telling to involve the return (or "return") of Steven, where the fake Steven inserts himself into their lives while Real Steven pops up at an appropriate time to blow the whole plot out of the water.

I really wouldn't mind the writers talking inspiration from the Ciji-Cathy plot, as it has a nice potential. And would it really be ripping off ? In some ways, the look alike, the doppelgänger, is not new, in the literature, movies, series and soaps. Like "amnesia", or "return from the dead", or the "hidden sibling/sister/whatever"

 

[Daniel Avery]

Maybe the Moldavians have one of those super-secret plastic surgery clinics that specialize in creating doppelgangers and helping the presumed dead characters recover from their particular/peculiar ailments. Most of the daytime soaps have them, where characters go off to play dead for a few years and recover from such mishaps as home explosions, poisoned pancakes, tiger maulings, avalanches, and machine-gun attacks. The best part is that they take Blue Cross!