Here are a couple of soap opera notes, courtesy of the latest Soap Opera Digest and Weekly:

Tamara Braun comments on her return to daytime drama in this issue.

"There was nothing wrong with leaving daytime and there's nothing wrong with coming back," said Braun, who played Carly on General Hospital from 2001-05 and joins Days of Our Lives as Ava, a mystery woman from Steve's past, on February 8. The February 12 issue of Soap Opera Digest has a report from her first day on set.

Meanwhile, a General Hospital spoiler:

Sam is hit by a car this week and the question is: who was the driver? It seems much of Port Charles was out driving on that snowy night. And what does Kelly Monaco (Sam) have to say about this? Pick up the latest Soap Opera Weekly to find out!

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