Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Susan Seaforth Hayes, legendary actress, who played Julie on “Days of Our Lives”.
Susan Seaforth Hayes is a highly popular and beloved actress who is, of course, best known for her longstanding portrayal of “Julie Williams” on the hugely successful daytime drama series, “Days of Our Lives”, for which she has received 6 Daytime Emmy Award nominations. In fact, she is the only actor to have appeared on the show for ALL SEVEN DECADES that it has been on the air.
She is also well-known for her recurring role as “Joanna Manning” on “The Young and the Restless”, and as “District Attorney Patricia Steele” on “Sunset Beach”. In addition, our guest has appeared in dozens of other TV shows including “The Loretta Young Show”, “Hawaiian Eye”, “The Young Marrieds”, “The FBI”, “Dragnet”, “Ironside”, “Matlock” and many more.
Susan Seaforth Hayes and her dear husband and co-star, the mega-talented and multi-award winning actor, the late, great Bill Hayes, whom we lost last January, were without question, television’s greatest love story, appearing as Doug and Julie Williams on “Days of Our Lives” for over 50 years, which was definitely the longest running romance in television history.
They became the very first – and still remain the only – soap opera actors in the world to appear on the cover of Time Magazine in its January 12, 1976 issue. And this superstar couple have written 2 best selling books – a novel entitled, “Trumpet”, and a memoir entitled, “Like Sands Through the Hourglass”, which is widely considered to be the best book ever written about daytime television.
They also hosted the wonderful website, SOAP OPERA SECRETS DOT COM. And in 2018, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented our guest and her husband Bill Hayes with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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