Matt Borlenghi (Ziggy, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) talked to Soap Opera Digest about his career after his first soap gig as Brian on ALL MY CHILDREN.

     Matt Borlenghi (Ziggy, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) talked about his career after his first soap gig as Brian on ALL MY CHILDREN. "When I left AMC, I didn't feel like there was anything more for me to do there," says the actor. "Hayley and Brian were really a popular couple. I was different at the time, for daytime. I knew that. Other olive-skinned, dark-haired guys like me started popping up on other shows. I started feeling like I've made a mark and that I had a really great run. I'd been blessed with the success of it. But I really wanted to try comedy and that's exactly what I got to do. I ended up with four or five sit-coms, back-to-back after that.

     I did a spin-off of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN that we shot as a pilot. It was myself and Nicole Eggert. We were kind of like a young Al and Peg Bundy. It was a pilot for a series called, ENEMIES. It was supposed to be that antithesis of FRIENDS. It now airs as a an episode of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. That year Fox changed presidents, and the new guy ended up choosing a Pauly Shore show instead. I think Fox lived to regret that. I think it lasted only six episodes. I still think ENEMIES would have been a big hit. We were suppose to replace MARRIED WITH CHILDREN when they went off the following year. It was a bunch of young people... everyone was always fighting, scheming, and screwing each other.  I'm friends with Matthew Perry, and you look how many shows he had before FRIENDS. My best friend at the time, Matt LeBlanc, also had a few series that didn't work out either, then all of a sudden they both got FRIENDS. When ENEMIES first aired, Matt LeBlanc called me up and goes, 'Could you guys have been a little more harsh on FRIENDS? Thanks a lot.' There was another sitcom I did right after AMC, PIG STY, which debuted on the UPN network. It ran a year. That was a funny show. That was actually the show in development for the FRIENDS time-slot on NBC. There was a fall-out between James Burrows and the creators of PIG STY, and James jumped ship to work on a show called FRIENDS LIKE US - which became FRIENDS. That was another near-miss."