Kim Zimmer Expresses Dipleasure over Guiding Light Direction
It's safe to say Kim Zimmer is a tad frustrated with the current state of her character on Guiding Light. Zimmer expressed as much in a message below fans on her official website.
My absence on the show has been greatly noticed! Not just by me and you, my fabulous die-hards, but also by my business manager who said to me the other day, as the market keeps falling:
"Is this one day a week stuff going to stop any time soon?" My response to him (as I talked myself down) was to say, "I have no idea what this regime is doing!"
All I know is that for the first time in my history on this show I am way under my guaranteed number of shows.
I don't understand why they would rather pay a character (actor) with such history and connection to what was Guiding Light to not work, than to work said actor their negotiated number of shows a week. But then I'm not the executive director nor am I the "suit" at P & G who has to put up the money (free money) to an under worked actor.
I wish I could tell you all that the reason I haven't been on the show was because I was in rehearsals for some fabulous Broadway show or on remote for a great indie film, but the reality is that I've been sitting on my butt wondering why I'm not being written. I don't know who the powers that be dislike more, Kim Zimmer or Reva Shayne.
That being said, I won't be seen after next week for another two because I took my vacation. So hopefully when I get back they will have come up with a bread crumb to throw my way.... Sour grapes? Damn Straight!!!!! I love you all and am so glad to have you in my corner.
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April 13th, 2009 4:57 PM
WHY HAS KIM ZIMMER PUT ON SO MUCH WEIGHT? IS SHE SICK OR DOES SHE HAVE THYROID TROUBLE?
I HOPE SHE IS OKAY AND YES THE SHOW SHOULD GO ON ,HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY END IT?
April 9th, 2009 9:26 PM
Kim Zimmer will be picked up by another soap fast!!! GL should go off the air if they (writers) can't do any better than they have during the last year..."Josh & Reva" are the strengths of that show and they have been pushed aside for what???
April 2nd, 2009 5:12 PM
April 2nd.
I can't believe what I awoke to this morning! Cancelling GL? You are nuts. The only things one can count on are Death, Taxes and GUIDING LIGHT!...at least, that WAS the case.
We have religously while you scrimped and saved, changing your format, moving outside, it was silly, but if that's what it takes to save the show, we were willing to live with it.
How can you say it's declining viewing? Everyone I know that works t'vo's or tapes it, and those who don't work make sure they are home to watch it. Practically everyone I know or talk to watches it.
It's a darn shame and I just hope one of the other soaps, like Y&R, will pick up at least, Kim and 'Josh'....
I don't know much, but I know you are making a big mistake.
Thank You, erb
April 2nd, 2009 9:57 AM
Just heard about Guiding Light going off the air. Please reconsider-it is one of the highlights of my day. I have been watching it since I was 16 and my Grandmother listened to it when it was on the radio. I love Reva, but liked her bettr with Josh. PLEASE find it another home!!
P.S. I am 70 now, so that is a long time.
March 26th, 2009 3:07 PM
Is Kim Zimmer really pregnant?
March 25th, 2009 12:36 PM
My family has been watching GL for so many years we talk about GL like it is part of our family. Let me tell you without Kim Zimmer we feel like we have lost a family member. Please quit giving her such sorry story lines where have you people been don't you people know or even care how great a actress Kim is
so sad that you people are treating her like crap.
January 20th, 2009 6:00 PM
Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman are the only reason why I watch Guiding Light..I have been watching the show since Kim Zimmer first made her appearance on the show. Guiding Lights biggest mistake would be if they lost Kim Zimmer. Reunite Jeva
October 8th, 2008 12:37 AM
I too have been watching GL for a long time, about 37 years, I taped and saved the 2 or 3 shows when Reva had cancer, I was afraid she might not be back, And honestly if she had left I would have left then. Cassie had been replaced,Pillip has been gone and coming back for 2-3 years, that was getting really old, Ross left, Brook became a real B, Tammy and Jonathon left practically at the same time, then you wait for an unreasonable amount of time and Jonathon resurfaces for what 6 weeks, gone again, The filming is absolutely terrible. Actually myself and my two daughters stopped watching in April of this year,(they have been watching since they were little girls, and now they are 27 and 37) mostly because of the filming, but the writing is horrible and I just couldn't sit thru another hour of any of it. So long to the best soap ever, you're also on the bottom of the list for ratings. What a shame. I taped and watched almost every show.. I really miss it, I watched the show a couple wee
September 26th, 2008 12:41 PM
The only reason I continued to watch guiding light is because of Reva or Kim Zimmer. I love her acting and she makes is look so real. I not only admire her but just from her acting I can tell she as spunk and she's a strong interesting woman. I have been watch Guiding Light since I was a kid with my Mom and she was the only reason besides Josh that I watched the show. The team you had before was the best ever. Alan, Josh, Billy, Vanessa are some that come to mind. Also it was really great the way they did the show when Vanessa's Dad died since he died in real live. Guiding Light needs to get that class back and keeping Kim(Reva) off the show is not the way to do it. I have watch this show for 25 years. BRING BACK KIM AND THE CLASS cause this is the only way the show will remain on for the next 71 years !!! Other wise you are throwing away an awesome show for nothing.
August 28th, 2008 3:30 PM
Is the storyline going in the direction of more problems with Reva's health or is this really happening in Kim's life again?????
Kim is in my prayers anyway...