Jamey Giddens: Hearing Maria Arena Bell is "devastated", reaching out to top #YoungAndRestless stars..

Come on Maria, the nose job isn't that bad.

I hope this isn't a case of people regretting getting what they wished for.

They already got that with LML and MAB. It could get worse, sure, but unless JFP starts playing pinata with corpses, I doubt it.

I'd rather be on MAB's sinking ship than JFP's sinking ship. Bringing another outsider reminds me of LML who tried to make Y&R her own style, and fired all those long time Y&R vets. Scott "Murder Mystery" Hamner leaving is great news, but Hogan needs to go too. I would've liked to see MAB working along side Y&R vets like Alden.

I hope this isn't a case of people regretting getting what they wished for.

Yeah, going to stop wishing for EP or HW changes, they never seem to be for the better any more, only seems to get worse.

I'd rather be on MAB's sinking ship than JFP's sinking ship. Bringing another outsider reminds me of LML who tried to make Y&R her own style, and fired all those long time Y&R vets. Scott "Murder Mystery" Hamner leaving is great news, but Hogan needs to go too. I would've liked to see MAB working along side Y&R vets like Alden.

We've been on MAB's sinking ship for 4 years. Other than having the last name Bell has there ever been any indication that she cares any more about the show than LML did?

We've been on MAB's sinking ship for 4 years. Other than having the last name Bell has there ever been any indication that she cares any more about the show than LML did?

MAB makes wrong decisions but I do believe she truly cares about the show - it's part of her family. To LML and to JFP, Y&R is just another show. MAB also brought back Y&R vets like Mike Denney, Noel Maxam, Janice Ferri and promoted Sally McDonald. Also, Y&R's dark background music returned from LML's "rock and roll" background music.

MAB makes wrong decisions but I do believe she truly cares about the show - it's part of her family. To LML and to JFP, Y&R is just another show. MAB also brought back Y&R vets like Mike Denney, Noel Maxam, Janice Ferri and promoted Sally McDonald. Also, Y&R's dark background music returned from LML's "rock and roll" background music.

+1.

MAB makes wrong decisions but I do believe she truly cares about the show - it's part of her family. To LML and to JFP, Y&R is just another show. MAB also brought back Y&R vets like Mike Denney, Noel Maxam, Janice Ferri and promoted Sally McDonald. Also, Y&R's dark background music returned from LML's "rock and roll" background music.

To me a lot of that is surface changes. I think if she cared about the show then decisions like separating Katherine and Jill, having Adam as a psycho, having Diane brutally murdered with everyone saying she deserved it, aging the young characters 20 years for no apparent reason, etc. never would have happened.

Jamey Giddens' twitter is entertaining again as he dishes about MAB's stewardship being privately disliked by the Bells. It beats reading his fanfic or his embarrassing public fights.

Jamey Giddens: Sony and various regimes at CBS didn't agree with her (MAB) and neither did at least two of the Bell siblings, so I hear.

@prezpat Sony and various regimes at CBS didn't agree with her and neither did at least two of the Bell siblings, so I hear.

— Jamey_Giddens (@Jamey_Giddens)

July 26, 2012

Now that's interesting. I wonder which two Bells did like MAB? Brad never seems to talk about Y&R or mention MAB ever, so he could be one.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lauralee was one. She refused one return appearance, and the other two have been horribly written.

Um have some of you watched Y&R recently are we talknig about the same MAB? She cares about the show so much she already accomplished everything tah tJFP would allegedly do.

I think you can still make horendous decisions and still care about the show (ie. MAB, Corday, Brad Bell, Kay Alden, Jack Smith). Then there are others where the show is just a job to them and once they leave, they won't look back (ie. LML, JFP).

Well looks like it's official now JFP is the new EP and Josh Griffith is new HW. SONY Press Release:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jill-farren-phelps-named-executive-producer-and-josh-griffith-named-head-writer-of-the-young-and-the-restless-the-number-one-daytime-drama-163936346.html

Lauralee is conflicted.

She wanted to retire from acting completely but she felt obligated to help fix the embarrassing debacle Y&R became under LML as a favor to her parents.

To me a lot of that is surface changes.

Yeah, but Carl, the surface is half the show.

Well looks like it's official now JFP is the new EP and Josh Griffith is new HW. SONY Press Release:

http://www.prnewswir...-163936346.html

Well... if she's just the EP.... and she's not WRITING, then maybe it won't be so bad. We'll see,