Christel interview (somewhat spoilerish, so don't click if you wish to remain spoiler-free.)
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/christel-khalil-young-restless-scrapped-love-match-to-make-holden-lily-siblings-excl/
I'll just quote an interesting nonspoiler excerpt here:
Quote from SOD:
Many viewers had seen on-screen sparks between Khalil and Owens and assumed Y&R was setting them up for a love story — and Khalil confirms that the show did originally intend to pair the two characters. “That was actually going to happen,” she nods. “They were going to play the story that we were going to have a little love match before my maternity leave, actually. We were gonna do this whole little side storyline — and then that’s when Josh [Griffith, executive producer/head writer] got the idea of, like, ‘Oh, my God, they should be siblings!’ And then they were like, ‘Wait, wait, wait — did we ever have them kiss?’ And then they were like, ‘Oh, no. Thank God! We didn’t have them kiss!’ So, they ended up making us siblings, which I think is way more interesting.”
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