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35 minutes ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

Andrea Evans’ Original Audition as Tina Clayton in 1978 for One Life to Live

 

WOW!!!   Just amazing.  Her acting was topnotch and this was only an audition.  I was totally drawn into the scene!  I seriously wanted to know what happens next!

11 hours ago, Errol said:

The merging of the Soaps In Depth website with the Soap Opera Digest website comes just a few months after a360media, parent of Us Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Woman’s World, and the soap opera brands, among others, completed its merger with McClatchy, a legacy newspaper publishing company, to form McClatchy Media Company. 

The fully integrated entity now reaches a collective audience of more than 100 million unique visitors a month, while “fusing a local news chain that has won more than 50 Pulitzer Prizes with a line of lifestyle and entertainment magazines,” a press release indicated.

Y&R is always fictionally doing mergers and acquisitions of media companies.
And now here we are in real life. That press release is dry reading, but still more interesting than some of fictional Y&R.

It seems that McClatchy newspapers and A360 were both already owned by Chatham Asset Management, so it was fairly easy to get approval for that 2024 media merger.

16 hours ago, Vee said:

I remember MM's Belle well enough from back in the day. The answer is the same as it ever was: She got horny for forbidden dick.

9 hours ago, NiqueAlexis2020 said:

Belle doesn't have a "savior complex" she has a half assed martyr hoe complex. See her staying with sponge bob square head Faux Philip(KB)cause he was injured overseas in war & he was "the father of her baby" like it was the 1950s or something. Not out of some true love kinda ish. That's what she told Shawn as to why she couldn't be with him despite cheating with him behind Phil's back. I didn't care but a spade is a spade cause that logic went straight out the window once Shawn moved on with Mimi & stopped letting her string him along. The minute he found someone else & she couldn't string him along while playing house with Phil? It's the minute the facade of her's dropped. Belle just wants to have her cake and eat it too. A self righteous thot who looks down her nose at others Sami, Xander while she lays up with the monster who not only tortured her beloved daddy but her sister & rest of her family. Like her using her daddy "dying" back in 07 as the reason she was having an affair with JKJ Phil & slept with him in her martial bed she shared with her husband. I think it was either before John's funeral or after. Belle's loyalty is too a dick especially one that's not her husbands

I agree with both of these takes.  I have no problem with a person being horny and trying to justify it to themself with whatever rationale.
        edit to add here:
        and/or I have no problem with just being horny for enjoyment and zero rationale

I just can't believe there's any deep emotional love to what Belle is feeling about EJ

I had no problem with Abigail lusting after EJ -- at first. The horniness was fun in the first encounter.  But I disliked how the show wrote later on ... as if Abigail was catching feelings.  

13 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

Thanks for this info! Is this going to stream anywhere?

Looks like in-person only at the Troubadour in L.A.
https://wl.seetickets.us/event/daytime-at-night/648597?afflky=TheTroubadour

Friday May 30

credit JPI Studios via soapcentral

"Next Week on Y&R" preview video for week of June 2-6
 

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Stars from all five U.S. soaps performing tonight May 29 in a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-lily-brooks-obriant-interview-daytime-at-night-benefit-st-jude/2025/05/15/ 

More info here
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-performance-spoiler-the-young-restless-melissa-claire-egan-s-surprise-pairing 

Stars from all five U.S. soaps performing tonight May 29 in a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-lily-brooks-obriant-interview-daytime-at-night-benefit-st-jude/2025/05/15/ 

Annika Noelle is scheduled.

More info here
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-performance-spoiler-the-young-restless-melissa-claire-egan-s-surprise-pairing 
 

Stars from all five U.S. soaps performing tonight May 29 in a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-lily-brooks-obriant-interview-daytime-at-night-benefit-st-jude/2025/05/15/ 

The event is being organized by Lily Brooks O'Briant who plays Lucy Romalotti.

Karla Mosley and Melissa Claire Egan grew up in the same area and happened to attend school together as teens in New York state, and did musical theater together way back then.  I think they'll do a number together tonight.
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-performance-spoiler-the-young-restless-melissa-claire-egan-s-surprise-pairing 

Loren Lott is scheduled to be there

Stars from all five U.S. soaps performing tonight May 29 in a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-lily-brooks-obriant-interview-daytime-at-night-benefit-st-jude/2025/05/15/ 

Karla Mosley and Melissa Claire Egan grew up in the same area and happened to attend school together as teens in New York state, and did musical theater together way back then.  I think they'll do a number together tonight.
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news-performance-spoiler-the-young-restless-melissa-claire-egan-s-surprise-pairing

Stars from all five U.S. soaps performing tonight May 29 in a benefit for St. Jude's Children's Hospital
https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-lily-brooks-obriant-interview-daytime-at-night-benefit-st-jude/2025/05/15/

A few years ago, Mishael wrote about some extended family circumstances (which I won't detail here), and she said that she began a process of reevaluating what was important for her life. After she left Y&R, she decided to live mainly in the Toronto region near family.  She did a short arc on Chicago Med, but has mainly worked in Canada.  Obviously she is willing to do some work in the USA.  But I don't know if she still prefers to be based in Canada.  She has definitely enjoyed producing films.  Would she consider coming back to Y&R fulltime? I don't know.  Based on what she said a few years ago, it's unlikely, but who knows.

From the official Y&R facebook (Link to the fb post) 
Also on Y&R CBS instagram

9 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

I would say it would be wayyy more interesting if Dumas was revealed to be Hilary alive in the flesh since we have MM back at the moment

I would have very much preferred that!  

22 minutes ago, j swift said:

I would argue that the EJ/Belle pairing has been well explained.

Shawn left Belle feeling vulnerable, and unloved, because she has a savior complex and he is healing his addiction on his own.  EJ makes her feel needed, he appreciates her legal mind, and they have good physical chemistry.  

To me, the scene that solidified the relationship was when she tried to break up with him, and he said that he refused to absolve of her guilt. It really explained all that we needed to know about that dynamic.  And, despite my frequent pokes at Belle, it showed that she has gone into this relationship with her eyes wide open.  She is not being conned, nor is she using him as a rebound.  She is genuinely attracted to him, and she can't shake the feeling.

And, TBH, you don't want soaps to go back to being morality plays, where the audience is treated as if they only understand moral absolutism, and can't appreciate shade of gray. 

EJ raped Belle's sister more than once.  He tried to kill John.
I don't think it's being overly moral for a viewer like myself to want her away from him. Personally I don't find rapists entertaining.   And there's nothing that will justify it (for me).

I think that for me, there is so much darkness and hatred in the real world nowawadays that I want my fictional dramas to have the bad guys lose.

I don't need (or want) a show to be all sunshine and roses.  I watch L&O.SVU.   It's nuanced and shows various points of view, but in the end, the goal is to punish the rapist, and I find that satisfying.

6 hours ago, Efulton said:

If Billy Flynn is Cane I will now have an extra hour in my day. Cane is not needed back on the canvas. Recast or not.  Billy should be playing Scott Grainger, Brooks Prentiss or a new Brooks or Foster. 

The **Rumor** is that  Aristotle Dumas is a pseudonym that Cane is using.
Not proven yet.
Discussed in more details with info on a June 2025 Dumas party reveal at (Link)
 

From the Mishael Morgan interview above:
At the end of the interview she says there is a party coming up for the Dumas reveal, they built a whole new set for it, it's going to be fun and very beautiful.

Dumas Reveal Party

Canadian day-ahead recap for
Thurs. May 29 CDN (Fri. May 30 USA) ...
https://soapsspoilers.com/the-young-and-the-restless/recaps/yandr-day-ahead-dumas-invitations-nikki-party
and another recap here:
https://yandrrecaps.com/recaps/yr-recap-may-30-nikki-celebrates-birthday-mysterious-invitations-from-dumas/

some characters are preparing to attend Nikki's birthday party, some are avoiding it, some are arriving at the party.... meanwhile...

Lily tells Damian about her past marriages to Daniel and Cane... and she mentions that Cane is the father of her children.

Damian, Lily, Jack, Diane, Ashley, Victor, Nikki, Nick, Victoria,  Michael, Lauren, etc, each receive invitations from Aristotle Dumas. Dumas is having a private party in the south of France on Friday June 13th.  The invitation mentions something about "an extended stay in his summer home" departing from Nice, France (possibly on a yacht ? ? )
At the end of the episode, in the preview for week of June 2nd, Billy discusses with Sally that he is going to the Dumas party, too.
 

So I guess it's the Newmans, the Abbotts, the Winters, and Michael/Lauren, (so far) who are in process of receiving invitations. And Chancellor Industries is involved due to Nikki.  Of course Amanda as Dumas' attorney would be there.  I assume other characters will be included also.

 ^ photo from the Canadian day ahead recap.  Fourth day in a row that Canada is a day ahead.

1 hour ago, dio said:

It's because of Beyond the Gates - all these shows are trying to quickly write "black storylines" and line up black characters

They've got all these BIPOC characters appearing regularly: Lily, Nate, Damian, Holden, and Audra; with somewhat less regular appearances by Devon, Amanda, and Amy.
This was already an improvement.  I thought some of this was in response to BeyondTheGates.

I don't see how bringing in Cane-as-Dumas helps Lily in any way.

I didn't enjoy this episode.

Just now, DemetriKane said:

Because Shanice isn't a cop.  Jacob is more trustworthy. 

Why doesn't Jacob question the head nurse Shanice himself?

4 minutes ago, Cheap21 said:

 Why not go to Shanice and show her a picture of Leslie and ask her if that was the nurse

thank you

Leslie's scheming has become repetitive and less interesting.

I don't understand why Ted let Leslie in to his hotel room.  He should have called security immediately.