When was the last time we heard "The role of ...is being played by..." in a soap?

[Mickey Valez]

A VO done by Peter Bergman saying "the role of Billy Abbott will be now played by David Tom" in the last scene of the Monday US episode of The Young And The Restless!

[will81]

Jess filled in for Brenda Friday Jun 19th 1987. Brenda was seen on Monday Jun 22nd and Tuesday June 23rd as those scenes had been already filmed before Brenda was absent. Jess took over permanently June 24th.

The funny things is there are clips on YT of Jess' first day (as a permanent cast member) where she is standing outside of Kay's house and they make the announcement, fair enough. Then the next episode she is about to make a speech at Phillip's birthday party and they do the announcement again. Odd.

[Chris B]

I'm not surprised they made the announcement more than once. Jill was the star of the show and in the pre-DVR days, they probably wanted to make sure viewers knew that was Jill.