Maurice Benard has become a soap opera legend ... The Daytime Emmy winner has been happily married to Paula Benard for 35 ...
General Hospital's Lilly Melgar went off to that great soap in the sky when her character, Lily Corinthos, wife to Sonny ...
Maurice Benard got a special surprise on the Tamron ... Benard and his wife Paula, whom he married in 1990, also share daughters Cailey, 28, and Cassidy, 23; and son Joshua, 18.