It was Tom's decision to leave because the show was offering her bad terms during contract negotiations so she jumped ship.
One more thing I should mention is I did always like was Nick and Sharon. My biggest problem is Nick and Sharon were married for ten years (1996-2006, they celebrated their tenth I recall) but spent at least eight of them engaged in some sort infidelity story of sorts. Nick and Sharon were at their best during the Cassie story and later on in 2003 when it was Nick&Sharon vs. Victor&Nikki.
Yup. Heather Tom walked on her own. Based on quasi- interviews with Tom and David Shaughnessy back then it was pretty clear that they wanted to backburn Victoria in favor of Nick Newman. If you go back and read her storylines in her final year, it was clear she was in as sinking ship. TPTB wanted to make Nick and Sharon the new Nikki and Victor. Victoria went from being groomed as Victor 2.0 into being pushed aside for her brother who all of a sudden was corporate hungry (which he never was).
Shaughnessy also made it no secret that he wanted Victoria to be "softer" and closer to Nikki which changed the entire dynamic of the Newman clan. They were making drastic changing to the character of Victoria Nicole Newman and Heather Tom disagreed with majority of them. So in the end she walking. I know when it was announced they were recasting that they only planned on the character to be gone for a few months. It turned into almost 2 years. And I know during that time Tom expressed interest in returning, but I think bad blood at the time prevented it. It ended up being the best for Tom in the long run. I can't even picture her in this version of Victoria anymore to be honest.
I know some don't care for Amelia Heinle in the role, but whether she was hired or not -- Victoria was still going to be written the same way. Her title of Victor's heir was stripped years ago. First to Nick and now to Adam. When was the last time we actually saw Victoria in a true business storyline? This for a character they still constantly refer to as being cutthroat, yet they refuse to write it. Instead we get silly baby storylines because women in power still scares these writers -- eventhough the EP are women. Imagine that. Maybe JFP & JG will turn it around. I just doubt it.
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Yup. Heather Tom walked on her own. Based on quasi- interviews with Tom and David Shaughnessy back then it was pretty clear that they wanted to backburn Victoria in favor of Nick Newman. If you go back and read her storylines in her final year, it was clear she was in as sinking ship. TPTB wanted to make Nick and Sharon the new Nikki and Victor. Victoria went from being groomed as Victor 2.0 into being pushed aside for her brother who all of a sudden was corporate hungry (which he never was).
Shaughnessy also made it no secret that he wanted Victoria to be "softer" and closer to Nikki which changed the entire dynamic of the Newman clan. They were making drastic changing to the character of Victoria Nicole Newman and Heather Tom disagreed with majority of them. So in the end she walking. I know when it was announced they were recasting that they only planned on the character to be gone for a few months. It turned into almost 2 years. And I know during that time Tom expressed interest in returning, but I think bad blood at the time prevented it. It ended up being the best for Tom in the long run. I can't even picture her in this version of Victoria anymore to be honest.
I know some don't care for Amelia Heinle in the role, but whether she was hired or not -- Victoria was still going to be written the same way. Her title of Victor's heir was stripped years ago. First to Nick and now to Adam. When was the last time we actually saw Victoria in a true business storyline? This for a character they still constantly refer to as being cutthroat, yet they refuse to write it. Instead we get silly baby storylines because women in power still scares these writers -- eventhough the EP are women. Imagine that. Maybe JFP & JG will turn it around. I just doubt it.