Gigi Morasco
Actor History
Farah Fath (October 24th, 2007 to present)
Occupation
Waitress at Rodi's Tavern
Former executive assistant at Buchanan Enterprises
Former waitress at the Bonjour Café in Paris, Texas
Resides At
Carriage house at Llanfair (1177 Regency Drive)
Formerly Llanfair (1177 Regency Drive)
Formerly an apartment in Paris, Texas
Marital Status
Single/Never Been Married
Past Marriages
None
Relatives
Unnamed father (deceased; presumed)
Unnamed mother (deceased; presumed)
Stacy Morasco (sister)
Children
Shane Morasco (son with Rex Balsom)
Flings & Affairs
Jared Banks (kissed)
Brody Lovett (lovers)
Rex Balsom (lovers)
Kyle Lewis (brief kiss)
Schuyler Joplin (kissed)
Crimes Committed
None
Brief Character History
An independent single mother who cared for her young son Shane, Gigi Morasco had been on her own for awhile and her sole priority was protecting and supporting her son.
In an attempt to find herself, Viki Davidson left Llanview and embarked upon a new life in Paris Texas. Viki accepted a job as a waitress at the Bonjour Café, and befriended Gigi and several other colorful characters at the diner. Instantly, Gigi developed a close friendship with Viki. Gigi's precocious son regularly visited the diner after school, and the Morascos' second family consisted of Viki, Noelle and Moe - the diner staff. Shane was very proud of his father, a deceased Navy Seal, the child often told imaginary tales about his dead father's heroics. Shane revealed that his dad had died before he was born and admitted to knowing very little about him. Whenever the child would mention his father, Gigi would become agitated. Gigi experienced a difficult time making ends meet, but she did everything possible to support her son. Because Shane suffered from asthma, Gigi would often miss work to care for the child.
While Marcie was on the run with baby Tommy, she encountered Gigi. Believing that Marcie was an abused woman named Sally Ann, Gigi protected her and gave her a place to stay. After learning from Michael that Marcie was in Paris, Texas, Rex arrived at the Bonjour Café looking for her. Gigi was shocked when she discovered, Rex, her ex- high school sweetheart in Paris. Although Rex was happy to see Gigi, Gigi appeared angry. While they were still involved, Rex had left town without telling Gigi. He never bothered to contact her afterward. Gigi came close to revealing a secret to Rex, but decided against it after learning that Rex was preparing to propose to his girlfriend, Adriana. As Rex prepared to leave the diner, Shane entered and Gigi quickly escorted the child out of the room.
When Todd arrived in town and posted a reward for the capture of Marcie and baby Tommy's safe return, Gigi confronted Marcie about her true identity. Understanding Marcie's plight as a single mother, Gigi helped Marcie evade Todd and the psychotic ex- FBI agent, Ramsey - who Todd had hired to help him locate Tommy. Upon learning Gigi was aware of Marcie's whereabouts, Ramsey and Todd kidnapped Shane in an attempt to make Gigi talk. Shane was eventually returned unharmed and Marcie was apprehended, but John McBain arrived in Paris and persuaded Gigi to come to Llanview in order to testify in Marcie's defense.
Once Gigi arrived in Llanview, she faced many obstacles. Although Viki insisted that she move into Llanfair, she was harassed by Ramsey and Rex's fiancé, Adriana caused her much grief. Gigi had every intention of returning to Paris, until Ramsey blackmailed her into staying in Llanview. Rex enjoyed spending time with Gigi and took an instant liking to Shane. Gigi appeared bothered whenever Rex would interact with Shane. Realizing that Gigi was extremely uncomfortable around Rex and noticing Shane's resemblance to Rex, Adriana continued to question Shane's paternity and asked Gigi if Rex were actually Shane's father. Gigi adamantly denied Adriana's accusations and revealed to Adriana the identity of Shane's father - Brody Lovett. Infuriated that Rex continued to spend time with Gigi and Shane, Adriana blackmailed Dorian into investigating Brody Lovett. With her wedding date fast approaching, Adriana feared Gigi could possibly ruin her big day. Thanks to Dorian, Adriana learned that Brody was actually alive. Adriana located Brody and was shocked to learn he was a drunken wild boy. Determined to prevent Gigi and Rex from getting any closer by reuniting her with Brody, Adriana bribed Brody into coming to Llanview. As Adriana continued to plot against Gigi, Brody gave her some devastating news the night before her wedding - Rex Balsom was Shane's real father. After fighting her feelings for Rex, Gigi finally admitted to Marcie that she was still in love with Rex. As the wedding date loomed near, Rex was also wrestling with his feelings for Gigi.
As Rex stood at the altar with Adriana, Gigi finally worked up the nerve to declare her love for Rex. Adriana had a violent reaction; she slapped Gigi in the face. Seconds later, Brody Lovett made an appearance. Gigi was stunned as Shane squealed with joy at seeing his father alive. Ultimately, Rex and Adriana went through with their wedding while Gigi allowed Brody back into her life for Shane's sake. Gigi tried to move on without Rex but neither was able to stay away from the other. Adriana and Brody couldn't help but notice. Each took steps to keep Gigi and Rex apart but to no avail. Eventually Adriana left Rex and then the country.
Free to be a couple, Gigi told Rex the truth about Shane's paternity. Unfortunately, Shane completely idolized Brody. Shane resented his mother's relationship with Rex and didn't even attempt to hide it. Rex and Gigi decided not to hurt Shane further by telling him that Rex was his father. Meanwhile, Brody's mind was slowly unraveling; he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder because of his experiences during the Iraq war. The fear of losing Shane to Rex pushed Brody over the edge. He decided to pick Shane up from school so that they could go camping on Llantano Mountain. When Gigi and Rex discovered that Shane was missing they called Bo. Within a short time, Bo was in contact with one of Brody's army buddies. They hoped they could figure out where Brody had taken Shane. What Wes revealed was frightening. Brody had killed a young boy, Shane's age, in during a skirmish just before Brody was shipped back to the United States.
Fearing for Shane's life, Gigi, Rex and Bo frantically searched until they tracked Brody to Llantano Mountain. Brody was completely lost in his hallucinations of the young boy he had killed. There was a brief standoff with the police and Brody who was waving around a loaded gun. Before it was over, the gun went off and Rex was shot. However, Shane made it safely back to his mother's arms. While Rex was in surgery, Gigi finally told Shane that his real father was Rex. Shane was devastated but in time, as Rex recovered, the two grew closer. So did Gigi and Rex. Eventually Rex moved into the carriage house with Gigi and their son.
Rex and Gigi struggled to pay the bills following Rex's hospital stay, and Rex jumped at the chance to get a big cash payoff for helping the Buchanan family track down David Vickers so they could tell David that he was Asa's son before Dorian could get her hooks in him. Rex and Gigi followed a lead to Las Vegas, only to find out that the couple getting married there was Dorian's cook Moe Stubbs and waitress Noelle Ortiz. While in Las Vegas, a stripper who went by the name "Gigi" spotted Rex and Gigi and followed them back to Llanview. Rex and Gigi were invited by the Buchanan's to the Go Red Ball, but the stripper snuck into the carriage house and stole Gigi's dress and ticket and showed up at the ball claiming to be Gigi. When the real Gigi showed up and managed to track down Rex, they came face to face with the stripper, who turned out to be Gigi's younger sister Stacy Morasco. Gigi was stunned to learn from Stacy that their parents, who Gigi hadn't seen in 10 years, had died years ago. Gigi, who had hoped to reunite with them before she and Rex got married, was crushed.
Gigi invited Stacy to stay at the carriage house with them, unaware that Stacy had harbored a secret crush on Rex for years and had come back to town to get Rex for herself. Gigi kept seeing Rex and Stacy in compromising situations, but she trusted Rex and tried to put it out of her mind. One night, Stacy plotted to get Rex alone by arranging it so Gigi had to work and Shane would stay over at a friend's house. On their way to Shane's friend's house, Gigi and Shane had to swerve off the road to avoid an oncoming car driven by a drugged-out Cole Thornhart. Shane began having an asthma attack, and Gigi and Shane were taken to the hospital for observation and tests before being released. After failing to reach Rex or Stacy by phone, Gigi and Shane took a cab home. Gigi went into her bedroom to find Stacy and Rex in bed together, wearing only their underwear. Rex had passed out but came to, correctly convinced that Stacy had drugged his beer to take advantage of him. But Stacy said Rex had come onto her, and Gigi wasn't sure who to believe. Rex went to the hospital and got a blood test to prove that he had been drugged. There at the hospital, Rex learned that blood tests on Shane revealed he had leukemia. Rex was stunned, and called Gigi to the hospital where Michael broke the news to her. Gigi forgot all about what had transpired between Rex and Stacy, as Rex and Gigi went into crisis mode. They summoned Stacy and Roxy to the hospital to tell them the news, and everyone got blood tests to see if they could be a bone marrow donor for Shane. Stacy happened to be in the lab when Rex's blood tests came back, and she threw the results in the trash. Rex and Gigi told Shane about his illness. Gigi struggled to remain composed and leaned on Rex to get through this difficult time.
Gigi prayed for a donor who would be a match for her son, saying she would do anything to save Shane, and she thought her prayers were answered when Stacy told her that she was a match. But then Stacy told her that she would only donate her bone marrow if Gigi broke up with Rex, because she had seen Rex first and had been harboring a crush on him for all these years. Gigi was stunned, and didn't know what to do. When it seemed that Shane would never find another donor, Gigi decided she had to break up with Rex and make it convincing. She enlisted Brody, and arranged so that Rex would walk in to Brody's apartment and find her and Brody in bed together. The plan worked, and Gigi told a shocked Rex
that she couldn't get over him sleeping with Stacy. Rex tested her resolve, telling Gigi that he forgave her for sleeping with Brody and even proposing to marry her, but a tearful Gigi insisted they were through. Gigi hated Stacy for what she was doing, especially as she saw Stacy getting ever so closer to Rex. Stacy even moved in with Rex after her ex-boyfriend Schuyler Joplin kicked her out. One day, Schuyler went to Gigi's home and told her that he had seen Stacy throwing away the bag of blood she supposedly had donated to save Shane. Schuyler was convinced that Stacy was lying about being the donor, and Gigi knew that if they could prove that, then she could tell Rex the truth and reunite with him. Schuyler had taken a sample of the blood to the Llanview Hospital lab to get tested, but when he and Gigi showed up to see if Stacy was a match for Shane, lab technician Kyle Lewis doctored the file to show that she was a match. Schuyler knew Kyle was in cahoots with Stacy, although he didn't know why. Gigi got into a fight with Stacy and ripped out some of her hair, which they then had tested at another lab. Those results proved that Stacy was not Shane's donor. Gigi realized that Roxy also knew that Stacy wasn't the donor, but Roxy refused to tell Gigi what Stacy was holding over her head. What Roxy couldn't admit to anyone was that the real donor was Rex's believed-dead father, who was lying in a hospital bed in a supposed coma and whose true identity Roxy was desperate to keep secret.
Gigi tried to find out who the real donor was by flirting with Kyle Lewis, but he rejected her advances and said he would only reveal what he knew if Gigi could get Natalie and Jared to drop the blackmailing charges they had filed against him. Gigi asked Natalie and Jared to drop the charges and, with some prodding from Schuyler, told them the truth about what Stacy had done. Natalie and Jared said they couldn't lie to Rex and encouraged Gigi to tell him the truth. Gigi did just that, spilling everything to Rex while he was working at Ultraviolet. Rex was stunned, and when Stacy showed up he lashed out at Gigi, who believed that Rex would never forgive her. But Rex came to the carriage house and said that he believed everything she had said, but he wanted to keep Stacy in the dark so they could figure out who the real donor was in case Shane needed a blood transfusion. When a bag of blood belonging to Roxy was stolen by a nurse at the long-term care facility where Rex's father was staying, everyone assumed that Stacy had the blood. When Rex couldn't find it, he and Gigi hatched a scheme in which Shane pretended to get sick again and Michael McBain told Stacy that they needed another transfusion. When Stacy went to retrieve the bag of blood, which she had stashed in a cold-storage fur closet, Rex confronted her and told her he knew everything, and eventually Stacy gave up the blood. Rex and Gigi thought their long nightmare was over, but then Gigi caught Stacy in the act of vandalizing her car. They got in a bitter fight and Stacy ended up falling down a flight of stairs. Stacy later checked herself out of the hospital. When Gigi and Rex located her at Rex's loft, Stacy told Rex that she was pregnant with his baby and Rex was forced to admit to Gigi that he had lied when he said he never had sex with Stacy. Rex wanted to do right by Stacy and let her stay in his loft rent-free as he moved back in with Gigi, who warned Rex that Stacy would use the baby to drive a wedge between them.
In August, Gigi went to Stacy and offered to give her $300 to have an abortion but Stacy kicked her out. As Stacy's pregnancy began to dominate every conversation Gigi had with Rex, she found comfort in talking with Schuyler. But Gigi didn't realize that Schuyler was harboring a crush on her, and one day Schuyler kissed her. Gigi was stunned, and Schuyler was forced to backtrack and say that it was a mistake that would never happen again. Gigi told Rex about the kiss and he went ballistic, ordering her to never see him again. Later, Rex encouraged Schuyler to leave town, but Gigi told Rex that she would never cheat on him and Rex agreed that she and Schuyler could remain friends.
Gigi found a pregnancy test in the trashcan at Rex's loft, where Stacy and her friend Kim were staying, and hoped that Stacy was faking her pregnancy. But when Rex accompanied Stacy to her doctor's appointment, the obstetrician confirmed that she was pregnant. Gigi grew more hopeless and frustrated about Stacy's pregnancy and confided in Schuyler that she didn't feel close to Rex anymore. When Rex overheard the conversation, he suddenly proposed to Gigi, but Gigi knew Rex only proposed because he was worried he would lose her and turned him down. Gigi got jealous when she saw Schuyler and Kim out on a date together, and later admitted to Rex that she had feelings for Schuyler. Gigi said she wanted to work things out with Rex and convinced him to go to couples counseling. But at the last minute, Rex canceled after taking a top-secret assignment that took him out of town. Schuyler stepped in for Rex for the Halloween contest, playing Batman to Shane's Robin, and they won. Later, after Gigi told Schuyler he had been accepted into medical school, Schuyler kissed Gigi and she didn't pull away, admitting that she had feelings for him.
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