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Jessica to Nash: Beat It (Soap Opera Weekly 10/31/06)

As Jessica and Antonio's wedding day approaches this week on One Life to Live, Jessica worries just which alter will make it to the altar.

Not only will Nash be at the wedding, he's in it -- thanks to Antonio asking him to be a groomsman. "She was surprised by that," admits Bree Williamson (Jessica). "Antonio didn't consult her. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing."

Jessica tracks Nash down and pleads with him to bail out. "She says, 'Just don't be there, because I can't handle it and I don't think you can either,'" previews Williamson. "She doesn't want any reminder of her feelings for Nash."

Which is exactly why Nash will be there, tux and all. "At that moment," offers his portrayer, Forbes March, "it ceases to be about the wedding. It's about the fact that she comes to him and he's obviously still under her skin. Nash is a scallywag. That he would have an effect on her is far more interesting than any wedding, marriage or birth. He starts pressing her buttons."

And Jessica keeps pressing his. "He's trying to get his head around the fact that Tess is gone," sighs March. "'Wait, Tess isn't gone, Tess is back. But she doesn't love me.' That's the tragedy for Nash."

Which should make the "Does anyone object?" part of the wedding very interesting.