Susan Lucci Will Star On "All My Children" And "Dancing With The Stars" At The Same Time

September 3, 2008 4:31 p.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - The powers-to-be at the ABC soap "All My Children" have made plans for their star actress Susan Lucci to spend plenty of time on "Dancing with the Stars" during the dancing reality show's upcoming season. In fact, the "All My Children" people have made long-term plans just in case she wins the show.

Even though Celebrity News Service has been a long-time fan of Lucci's, we aren't banking on her winning "Dancing with the Stars."

You never know what will happen when America starts voting, and Lucci is wildly popular, so she may get near that mirror-ball trophy. Plus, she has more than just fan support going for her. According to "AMC" head writer Chuck Pratt, and we found this amusing, he believes Lucci is tiny and light which will makes it easy to throw her around and do impossible things.

We aren't sure what kind of impossible things Lucci will do, (but we assume they will all be done in sequins) but we do know she will follow the impossibly hard schedule of filming "All My Children" at the same time as she stars on "Dancing with the Stars."

That means Lucci will fly back and forth from one side of the country to the other each week, just as her soap co-star and former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Cameron Mathison did.

Apparently Lucci, who plays the formidably Erica Kane, has a big story line coming up where a character from Erica's past returns to change her life. Hopefully in the midst of her life-changing event in Pine Valley, Erica can throw in a few dances steps just to keep in shape -- because we may not think Susan Lucci will win "Dancing with the Stars" -- but we do think she will go far. She is Erica Kane after all.