For all things Otalia & Venice

Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera, (Otalia) were a fictional couple from the American CBS daytime drama Guiding Light. Olivia is portrayed by Crystal Chappell, and Natalia is portrayed by Jessica Leccia.

Their story began in 2007 when they were vying for the affections of Gus Aittoro. After he died in early 2008, their relationship has slowly blossomed into a beautiful love story.

As I had not followed the Otalia storyline until pretty late on and wanted to see how it all unfolded, I scoured the YouTube universe searching for as many Otalia videos as I could and then put them into Playlists in chronological order. I have decided to share the playlists on this channel so that others can benefit from them as well.

Sadly, Guiding Light aired its last episode on 18th September 2009. Crystal Chappell, was immediately snatched up by daytime drama Days of our Lives, to reprise her portrayal of, Carly Manning. I have added playlists, DOOL Carly 1.0, to enable you to catch up with Carlys previous storylines, and 2.0, so that you can keep up to date with her new ones.

Crystal is also in the midst of producing the web series, Venice, with co-producers, Kim Turrisi, and Hope Royaltey. Crystal will play the lead character, Gina, and is being re-united with her Otalia co-star, Jessica Leccia, who will play Ginas ex. The series is creating quite a worldwide buzz and promises to be an exciting groundbreaking show. I have added two playlists to this channel with videos released by, or relating to Venice. The series will premiere in November, so make sure you tune in!

For more info on Venice visit; http://www.venicetheseries.com

& follow the three ladies behind this project on twitter;

Crystal; http://twitter.com/crystalchappell

Kim; http://twitter.com/KimmyT22

Hope; http://twitter.com/nycwriterchick

I would like to give a BIG thank you to all the wonderful people who have taken the time to upload these videos. There are far too many of you to name, but youre all fantastic!

Finally, during the progression of the Otalia storyline, a wonderful community has developed on the Otaliafans Forum. You can find all things related to Otalia and Venice there, and podcasts hosted by the wonderful forum creator, Destini, with a few featuring the actresses themselves. So check it out; http://z8.invisionfree.com/otaliafans.

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