janea4old

Fyi the EW article quotes the People article https://people.com/denise-richards-opens-up-bold-and-the-beautiful-return-exclusive-11983322 The People article contains a 37-second video preview of Shauna's arrival. Wyatt's facial expressions!!! If you can't see the embedded People video, here's a copy: https://ia600504.us.archive.org/15/items/a4dfah6u7sda/a4dfah6u7sda.mp4

Well I kept wishing that the hospital show would focus more on the hospital and that it needs to focus more on doctors and nurses. (sigh) Be careful what I wish for.

Live feed via Reuters of protests outside the Delaney Hill ICE facility, May 26, 2026

Families and neighbors and concerned humans have been protesting outside the Delaney Hill immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Some of the imprisoned residents are on a hunger strike. The outdoor protests and interior hunger strike have been going on for several consecutive days. https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/05/sherrill-denied-access-to-controversial-ice-detention-center-as-calls-for-its-closure-grow.html bluesky thread from U.S. Senator Andy Kim, New Jersey https://tbsky.app/profile/kim.senate.gov/post/3mmpvlejuak2u May 25, 2026 I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4 Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4 This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. 

Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. 3/4 What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again. 4/4

The original concept for Society (in the characters' minds per their dialogue) ... Abby was trying to create a business for herself. At one point she got ideas for real estate, etc. One day Abby stated she was thinking that Genoa City needed a hip upscale spot for young adults to grab dinner and listen to music. She wanted the menu to be high-end and she hired Lola as the gourmet chef. There was a stage where music acts could perform and Ana Hanilton's bio-father hoped to sing there. Abby wanted this as an upscale dinner alternative to Crimson Lights -- a place where trendy adults in their 20s and 30s would want to go. The dedication ceremony happened in 2019, around the time that Neil died. I think they later dedicated the stage to Neil. But then stage was rarely (if at all) shown after that. And Society became more of a place for meetings since nobody has an office or a home. They did keep the unique menu as an attribute while Lola was the chef, so that was the only thing that made the place non-generic. Then Lola left in 2021. Then for the 50th anniversary of Y&R in 2023, the show brought back the Athletic Club main floor as a regular restaurant, and dedicated the lower level as the Neil Winters Jazz Club. And it's as if the stage at Society never existed. Now Society is a generic restaurant owned by Abby and managed or hostessed by Tessa.

Vincent is married to Eileen Davidson. She has lots of family pics on her IG.

Soapy episode from last year with Suzanne Rogers. (this never got posted to this thread). AMAZING episode. Suzanne talked about her life and her experiences as a Rockette, and on Broadway, and interacting with Katharine Hepburn. This is really great. I watched it twice!

May 17, 2026 - Vivica A. Fox Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation (this is about her entire career and not focused on Y&R)

(disclaimer that this is me recapping from memory from years ago, and I might have some things wrong). Daniel was drunk and Cassie took the keys to drive him home and crashed (she was too young to have a drivers license but had a crush on Daniel). Daniel was blamed for Cassie's death and then he and Lily went on the run. The main thing was Nick and Phyllis and Neil were all upset about teens Daniel and Lily running off to California together. Nick wanted revenge on Daniel, while Phyllis wanted to bring Daniel back home, and Neil wanted to bring Lily back home. Nick, Phyllis, and Neil were traveling around together, trying to find the teens; while Sharon and Malcom stayed in Genoa City. Nick and Phyllis were quarreling the whole time that they were travelling (well quarreling at first). They begrudgingly started to like each other but wouldn't admit it, with suppressed/implied sparks. When Nick got home from that journey, he and Sharon were both trying to mourn the loss of Cassie together; but, as happens sometimes when a child dies, the parents become distant from one another. Nick felt more comfortable with Phyllis. Things started to build when Michael and Lauren were planning to get married. I remember that Phyllis was more best friends with Michael than with Lauren then. There was a bachelor's party for Michael, and all the attendees were men except for Phyllis, and Nick and Phyllis and the others were all smoking cigars at the bachelors party. Finally on the day of Michael and Lauren's wedding in December 2025, Nick drove Phyllis home afterwards, and was about to leave, but then they had wild sex on her couch. There wasn't much Phyllis/Sharon interaction at all, other than discussion of Daniel/Cassie. It was mainly Phick interacting. Phick hid their affair, and it went on for a while until Sharon found out.

Finn Carr interviewed by Steve and Bradford

Monday May 25: B&B has a new episode. (Y&R, BTG, and GH are all airing reruns due to the Memorial Day holiday).

Obba Babatundé at the January 2026 premiere of "A Murder Between Friends" that Jacob Young did with Joan Collins and Nadia Bjorlin. Mr. Babatundé there to support Jacob! He talks about B&B and how his role as the parent of a transgender character affected a viewer, and about some other things he's working on. And mentions other B&B cast he worked with.

Good point! I should not have even called the Britt situation a "surrogacy" storyline! It was offensive for me to refer to it that way. It was plain and simple theft/violation.

Mansi can play crazy well. (see the DAYS scene where Abby sets Ben on fire). I don't know wtf GH was doing but this was all awful. Lily Brooks O'Briant (Lily Romalotti on Y&R) also has endometriosis in real life, in addition to Mansi having it in real life. O'Briant explained it on her IG better than Mansi did. It's not just inflammation of uterine lining tissue, it's uterine lining tissue growing as lesions in parts of the body it's not supposed to be in -- such as intestines, the spine, and other odd places, making an extremely painful life for the patient. The surgery to remove the lesions can be done by very few specialists. Endometriosis affects one-tenth of all women. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/10857-endometriosis I remember, that when she was first hired at GH, Mansi said one of the reasons she took the role of Kristina was because they told her there'd be an endometriosis storyline, and she wanted to advocate for educating about that. But the surrogacy storyline was written in a very offensive manner. I guess the only thing the show did for "education" was give Mansi the opportunity to direct one episode in which Molly explains endometriosis to Cody. But by that time, I'm guessing few viewers cared and I imagine that some fastforwarded. As someone posted upthread or on another thread, (spoiler) It's a serious issue, but the show gave nearly as much gravity to eyemites. The whole thing was botched, and it cannot be blamed only on Haley Pullos' DUI prison term and the recastings of Molly. This makes *** two *** recent surrogacy storylines the show has written offensively -- Molly/Irene/Kristina and Lulu/Rocco/Britt. wtf is wrong with these writers?

He's one of the producers on the Tomb Raider streaming series filming for Amazon Prime. They are currently filming in England, and Kate's latest IG stories are from London.

My post wasn't intended to come off as instructive. To be honest, I hadn't known who played Mikey until I learned of those pics.

the pawn is missing from the chess set image credit XJJohnson for JPI via SOnewss

image credit XJJohnson for JPI via SOnewss

image credit XJJohnson for JPI via SOD XJJohnson for JPI via SOnewss

^ thumbnail for Tues. May 26 (season 39, episode 176) ^ thumbnail for Thurs. May 28 (season 39, episode 178) (images source: youtubetv menu)

Earlier in this May thread, there was discussion of the character Theo. fyi the character Theo appears in the rerun airing Memorial Day May 25 in USA (already aired Friday May 22 in Canada). It's a rerun of one of the 2019 July 4th carnival episodes. Original airdate: July 3, 2019 Episode #11720 (season 46, episode 212) recap here: https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-stless/recaps/544873/victoria-squares-off-phyllis-targets-dark-horse/

In the original January 2026 announcement that Cecelia Specht was being cast was Dr. Lia Whitmore, it was announced as a 20-episode run to conclude with the Tuesday, May 26 episode. (but her exit date could possibly have been changed if there were unexpected scheduling changes or preemptions.) (source)

Monday, May 25, 2026 Episode 9784 (season 39, episode 175) A summer soirée brings Will and Electra closer. Katie needs a final answer from Hope about coming to Logan. Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Episode 9785 (season 39, episode 176) Brooke is excited about Hope's line returning to Forrester. R.J. is the victim of Will's low blow. Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Episode 9786 (season 39, episode 177) Bill summons someone from the past to help expand Logan's empire. R.J. makes a plea to Ridge and Steffy to fire Will. Thursday, May 28, 2026 Episode 9787 (season 39, episode 178) Donna is caught in the crosshairs of the Logan feud. Bill's plan gets thrown for a loop. Friday, May 29, 2026 Episode 9788 (season 39, episode 179) Electra has exciting news for Dylan. Things are finally looking up for Deke. (source)

David Mendenhall played Mike Webber. He appeared at the 2018 GH Fan Club Weekend past cast event with Judith Chapman (Ginny Blake). photo credit Jill Johnson for JPI