Shane Balsom

Shane Morasco Balsom is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera, One Life to Live. The character is born March 26, 1996, born off-screen to high school sweethearts Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) and Gigi Morasco (Farah Fath).

Storylines

Gigi initially befriends Viki Davidson (Erika Slezak) in 2007 when both women are working at the Bonjour Café in Paris, Texas. Despite being energetic and curious, Shane is asthmatic, and has attacks which can send him to the emergency room. Gigi asserts that his father is a deceased war hero, a story Shane thrills to hear again and again, but is especially troubled when her old high school boyfriend Rex Balsom later appears at the Bonjour.

Fugitive teacher Marcie McBain (Kathy Brier) — in disguise as Bon Jour waitress "Sally Ann" — recommends fantasy books to Shane to encourage him to read. When Todd Manning (Trevor St. John) and Lee Ramsey (Hunt Block) come to Paris to apprehend Marcie, Shane is taken hostage along with Gigi, whom they hope can lure Marcie into a trap. After Marcie is apprehended, Gigi is arrested for aiding and abetting a fugitive, but Viki pays Gigi's bail. She and Shane are reunited as Viki returns to Llanview.