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Nina Slaps Ronan (September 13 2010)

Chelsea Slaps Heather (Aka Maggie/Frankie Slaps Bianca) (2010)

Katherine Slaps Jill (2010/11)

Ashley Slaps Diane (late July 2011)

Nina Slaps Phyllis (October 04 2012)

Chelsea Slaps Adam (2012)

Gloria Slaps Jeffrey (2012)

Hilary x2 (2014)

Victoria Slaps Kelly (February 18, 2014)

Phyllis and Kelly (2014)

Nikki Slaps Ian Ward (September 02, 2014)

Chelsea Slaps Adam (2015/16)

Summer Slaps Abby (March 2015) 

Sage Slaps Nick and That Crazy Doctor (Early 2016)

Victoria Slaps Billy (April 01, 2016)

Phyllis Slaps Billy x2 (2016)

Chelsea Slaps Chloe (April 06, 2017)

Dina Slaps Graham (And Passes Out) October 2017

Sharon and Abby's Catfight (January 03, 2018)

Phyllis Slaps Summer (August 24, 2018)

Sharon Slaps Nick (October 5, 2018)

Phyllis Slaps Billy (October 18, 2018)

Victoria Slaps Phyllis (January 08, 2019)

Abby And Mia's Valentine's Day Brawl (2019) not sure if there was a slap

Summer Slaps Sally (May 2021)

Diane and Nikki Trade Slaps (May 25, 2022)

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Re April Stevens

I have always seen Janet wood as originating the role and playing it for a short time before Cynthia Eilbacher took over.

Now it appears the original April was Patricia Allbrecht. Jon Michael reed reports the casting in a December 79 column. Maybe Allbrecht was only on for a day or two.

 

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Talk about wasted potential....I was hoping this would have been long term...but with the bad writing and GF unable to play the hard edges... the character didn't last.  You would have thought someone could recall that AMC tried a similar character in the early 90s and when she couldn't play the vixen..turned the character into another Laura.

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Not an old article, but a fun T&C article about the 50th

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42759307/the-young-and-restless-cbs-soap-opera-fiftieth-anniversary-interview/

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Some highlights for the TLDR crowd

If you grew up in the 1990s with a bunch of Ashleys in your school, you can thank the show. Eileen Davidson helped turn the name into a sensation a decade earlier, when she stepped into the stilettos of a character named Ashley Abbott, a glamorous heiress-slash-chemist. (The name Ashley, which previously had mainly been applied to boys, topped lists for baby girls for the first time around then.)

Early reality TV? Y&R was in the vanguard, for sure, when it aired the first live face-lift on TV, back in 1984. It happened when the show’s resident battle-ax, Katherine Chancellor, went under the knife in real time—and at the same time—as her portrayer, the extraordinary Jeanne Cooper.

Not to mention all the coifs that have come and gone.

“My hair has its own dressing room,” jokes Melody Thomas Scott. She is the soap diva who since 1979 has played stripper turned trophy wife Nikki Newman (half of the eternal super-couple Victor and Nikki), and whose dos arrived in increasingly colossal formations, particularly during the 1980s.

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She looks Great but you're exaggerating a Bit!!! She Has Aged but Very Gracefully!

It's mostly in Portuguese but I think you can get the Idea! It must Suck to be a French Fan of Y&R EVERY SINGLE SCENE I POST GETS BLOCKED THERE NO MATTER HOW CAREFUL I AM! 

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