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One Life To Live CAST - Rex Balsom
Full detailed profile on Rex Balsom Played by John-Paul Lavoisier on One Life To Live Daytime Soap Opera.
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Rex Balsom
Actor: John-Paul Lavoisier Who played Rex Balsom over the yearsJohn-Paul Lavoisier (May 9, 2002 - Present) Useful information on Rex Balsom* Married to Adriana Cramer. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Private Investigator
Current: Owner of Ultraviolet
Past: Restaurant owner
Past: Employee at the Palace Hotel
REX BALSOM'S HISTORY
Rex Balsom conned his way into Llanview in 2002. After being taken away from his mother, Roxy Balsom, as a child, Rex grew up with big dreams. However, he wasn't willing to take the hard road to make them come true. When Rex learned that Jessica Buchanan was claiming to be Roxy's daughter, he saw his opportunity to strike it rich quick! Eagerly wanting to bond with his new sister, Rex went to Llanview with Jessica and out of pity, Jessica moved Rex into Llanfair! However, all dreams come to an end as it would turn out that Jessica was not the biological daughter of Roxy, therefore no longer Rex's long lost sister.
Back where he started, Rex stayed in Llanview with Natalie, who grew up with Rex as his sister, and his mother Roxy. After getting a job at the Palace, Rex found his next conquest in Jennifer Rappaport. The two were a match made in heaven with both enjoying the thrill of a good robbery or scam. Shortly after, Rex and Jen married but that soon dissolved after Jen had an affair. Although Rex refused to give Jen a divorce, he couldn't pass up a bribe of money from Kevin Buchanan and ended the marriage. Finding that he truly loved Jen, Rex found a way to not only stay close to her, but make Jen jealous, too. He began a steamy affair with her mother Lindsay! However, just as Jen realized that she, too, loved Rex, tragedy struck when Rex found Jen murdered in her car by Daniel Colson.
Rex later tried his hand at being an entrepreneur. However just when he'd opened a new club, Rex found it ripped out from under him after being late on a loan to RJ Gannon. After borrowing from RJ to open a restaurant, Rex lost his beloved club Ultra Violet when he couldn't find the means to pay RJ back. As luck would have it, Rex came across a missing Asa Buchanan who paid him a hefty reward and Rex was able to mix that with a little blackmail and get his club back!
During the rampage of the Killing Club killer, Rex and Marcie Walsh were strung up by their throats and left to die. After Rex was rescued, it was then that Bo Buchanan realized how much he cared for Rex and treated him as a son. After Bo allowed Rex to work on a few investigations for him, Rex found that he had a talent and became a private investigator, which ultimately turned his life around for the better!
The people of Llanview now seek Rex out to dig up deep dark secrets of the past. Most recently, Rex found Paige Miller's long lost son, and was then asked to locate Todd Manning's son who was kidnapped and given away by Spencer Truman. Since finding out that Todd's son is little Tommy McBain, Rex has been struggling to keep the secret, with the help of his girlfriend Adriana, in hopes of giving Tommy a better life in the home of Michael and Marcie McBain.
Once Llanview's money hungry bad boy, Rex is now a dependable friend to many who will give them the shirt off his back and has reconnected with his high school love, Gigi, again, to which they share a son, Shane. Though he's asked for a divorce from his wife, Adriana, Rex wants nothing more than to start a family with Gigi and Shane and put the past - and the lies - behind him.
PAST MARRIAGES
Adriana Cramer Balsom (separated)
Jennifer Rappaport (deceased)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Gigi Morasco
Lindsay_Rappaport
Jennifer Rappaport
Shannon McBain
Adriana_Cramer
RELATIVES
Walter Balsom (father - deceased)
Roxanne Balsom (mother)
Stella Balsom (grandmother)
Corrine Balsom (aunt)
CHILDREN
Shane Morasco (with Gigi Morasco)
PICTURES
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RELATED DAILY UPDATES
Thursday, December 04 2008: Blown Away By Guilt!
Before Rex, Gigi and Shane enter Foxy Roxy's, Shane talks about how lame photo Christmas cards are, leaving Rex no choice but to head into the salon and tell Roxy to cancel the family photo appointment for the cards. Once Rex is gone, Shane confesses to Gigi that he didn't want to disappoint Rex - but didn't want Brody to see the card and think he didn't mean anything to him anymore. After a reassuring talk, Shane agrees to the photo card then Gigi suggests they surprise Brody with a Christmas card, with only Shane on it, just for him.
Inside the salon, as Rex approaches Roxy, suddenly, Noelle, who Roxy is working on, looks at herself in a mirror and gasps, "This is not the Blair Cramer bob!" However, Roxy assures Noelle that men dig this type of hairdo, but she's not so sure Moe will like it! With a little more teasing, Roxy explains that she's almost done with her masterpiece!
Later, after Rex, Gigi and Shane leave to go get their picture taken, Moe arrives, gasps at Noelle's new hairdo, saying it looks as though she got into a fight with an eggbeater, then announces that they aren't going back to Texas!
Monday, December 01 2008: Thanksgiving In Llanview!
When Matthew talks amongst everyone, at the Buchanan mansion, about some memories of Asa, Shane asks Rex, "Who's my grandpa?" Rex sarcastically leans toward Roxy and asks the same question! Roxy avoids the question and heads off to make a Thanksgiving concoction!
With everyone gathered in the living room, Nora assures Clint that their catered dinner is on its way then they listen as Bo gives his thanks to Rex, Matthew, Roxy, Cole and Shane. "I want to thank you for helping my friend, Balsom, for finding his way back." Just as Renee begins her thanks, Jared and Natalie appear in the doorway! While Jared apologizes and agrees to leave, with Natalie warning that if Jared goes she goes too, Nora answers the door - and Renee hugs Natalie and tells Jared, "You may not be a Buchanan, but you sure as hell behave like one."
Nora then returns to the living room, with the caterer, who was just in an accident - and is covered with their Thanksgiving diner!
At the Buenos Dias Café, Viki, Gigi, Charlie, Noelle and Moe prepare a Thanksgiving diner, as Marcie and Michael arrive, followed by the Buchanans, the Vegas and their crew, as well as Dorian's family. After Shane introduces his dad, Rex, to Moe and Noelle, Llanview celebrates Thanksgiving as one.
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