Y&R: Former OLTL actor joins the show

[Paul Raven]

So this Audra character is contract?

Who is available for her? 

[Sapounopera]

.... Nick, Adam and Billy might make some room for her.

[dragonflies]

Looks like he is gonna be playing Tucker McCall....

[Faulkner]

Waaaaaay too young for that role.

[dragonflies]

The same show who had Gina playing Phyllis lol 

[Faulkner]

Would love to see him with Debbi Morgan. Just trying to picture it.

[Soapsuds]

Stephen is 71 and Trevor is 51. Yeah twenty years too young.

[Faulkner]

This show continues to embarrass itself.

[Paul Raven]

Surely not.

Robert Newman would have made a better Tucker.

As awful as that character was, he does have a place on the canvas, but not as a 50 yr old.

[cattykittens]

Tucker is supposed to be the exact same age as Jill. (Jess Walton is 72)

His origin story is that he was born on the same day as Jill. That's why Jill was thought to be Katherine's daughter for 7 years. They were both at the hospital as newborns at the same time, hence the mix-up.

Tucker was a result of Katherine having an affair with Judge Arthur Hendricks while she was married to her first husband Gary Reynolds. When Y&R began in 1973, Kay and Phillip Chancellor were said to have been married like 10 years already too, so it's impossible for Tucker to be under the age of 65. He's a few years younger than Brock. But now all the sudden Tucker is younger than Sharon? He's now in the same generation as Sharon, Nick, and some others that were born on Y&R.

I don't know another soap role that was cast a full generation younger. This really messes up the historical timeline of Genoa City.

Josh Griffith sucks!

[dragonflies]

AMC did it when they cast Jamie Luner as Liza, who was basically like 5 IRL when Marcy's Liza was married to Adam lol

[cattykittens]

Was it a full 20 years? Because the Gina & Michelle's Phyliss was only 9 years apart.

[BoldRestless]

Damn. Tucker wasn't even necessary or interesting the first time. 

[soapfan770]

I so was hoping he would be Cole Howard, that would definitely have rocked up Nikki, Ashley, and Victoria’s worlds.

[lucaslesann23]

He debuts September 28th. He did an interview in SOD and said the show called him and he was shocked and flattered. He also said he liked Josh Griffiths writing on One Life to Live so he knows he's in good hands.