"Nominated: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series/Outstanding Supporting Actress"2003 Port Charles"Nominated: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series/Outstanding Lead Actress"2006 General Hospital

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"Kelly Marie Monaco" is an American model (person)/model, actress, and reality television personality. She is the Playboy Playmate for the April 1997 issue of Playboy magazine. She later gained fame among soap opera viewers in 2003 when she originated the role of Sam McCall on the soap opera General Hospital, in which she has appeared until the present. In 2005, she was a contestant on and the winner of the Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1)/first season of the reality TV competition series Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)/Dancing with the Stars.

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This has catapulted me to another level.

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People ask me about the dancing thing a lot. We're a young team, but we get the job done. After the loss [to Regina last week], we became a whole different team.

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Look at the numbers. How can you compare 25 million people to my core fan base of 2 million? Does it help? Sure. But they aren't the deciding factor.

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No, I'm not going to dance. That's what people would expect.

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I think it's amazing, ... We all came out winners in the end, didn't we?

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I won this challenge fair and square. That is our win, that is our trophy and that's the way it's going to stay.

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Just because someone whines about losing enough, does not make them a winner. The viewers voted for Kelly last time and they will vote for Kelly this time.

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I feel like I won, but I'm going in as the underdog because the results were disputed, ... Until I prove otherwise, that's the situation. This is supposed to be all in fun. I don't want to scratch anyone's eyeballs out. But I'm competitive by nature.

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