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Lindsay Bushman OUT as Summer Newman on Y&R! Show Will Recast!
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More gals are on their way out of Genoa City! News today from Soap Opera Uncensored is that Lindsay Bushman is out as the SORAS’d Summer Newman, the now teen aged version of Phyllis and Nick Newman’s daughter!
The Young and the Restless is said to also be recasting the role with another actress, so clearly under the new regime they have story plans for the young Newman girl.
So the question is, who will be the recast? Any casting suggestions? Let us know! And what do you think about Bushman being given her walking papers?
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Jordi Vilasuso Joins the Cast of ‘The Bay’
The Bay has added Jordi Vilasuso to the cast of its Daytime Emmy-winning streaming series. Vilasuso himself dropped the news in a video teaser from Soap Hub during his appearance over the weekend from the Samantha and Friends event.
Jordi is best-known for his Daytime Emmy-winning role as Tony on Guiding Light, Rey on The Young and The Restless, Griffin on All My Children, and Dario on Days of Our Lives. He will now become as series regular in the role of Justin Ramos.
The role was previously played by David Lago (ex-Raul, Y&R) and Justin hasn’t been in the story since season 5. In story, Justin is the brother to Janice Ramos, previously played by Lilly Melgar, and is the son of Nardo played by A Martinez.
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Vilasuso’s new role reunites him with his former Days of our Lives father, Daytime Emmy-winner, Martinez, where in Salem they played Dario and Eduardo Hernandez.
The Bay is nominated for five Daytime Emmys this year including Outstanding Drama Series at the upcoming 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 7th.
Check out the video announcement of Jordi coming to The Bay with his new co-stars, Eric Nelsen, Kristos Andrews, Mike Manning and creator and EP, Gregori J. Martin below.
Now let us know, looking forward to seeing Jordi in his new role on The Bay? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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General Hospital
The Stars Come Out In Support of Nancy Lee Grahn’s ALS Benefit (Photos)
Boasting an incredible line-up of daytime soap opera star power, Nancy Lee Grahn’s (Alexis, General Hospital) ALS Benefit “Daytime Unites” held its fundraising event over the weekend on Saturday May 4th.
According to a post on X from Grahn following the event, she revealed that the fundraiser raised over $71,000 for ALS research. Stars from GH who participated included: Genie Francis (along with husband, Jonathan Frakes), Dominic Zamprogna, Kristen Vaganos, Kate Mansi, Maurive Benard, Laura Wright, Evan Hofer, Parry Shen, Lane Davies, Carolyn Hennesy, Michael Easton, Lydia Look, Tabyana Ali, Maura West, Adam J. Harrington, Cynthia Watros, and Lisa LoCicero.
In addition, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Don Diamont and Annika Noelle, The Young and the Restless’ Jason Thompson, Trevor St. John, Kate Linder, Melissa Claire Egan, and Christian LeBlanc, and Days of our Lives Stephen Nichols and Patrika Darbo, and more were also on-hand.
In her message on X, Grahn, the two-time Daytime Emmy-winner expressed, “Thanks to my beautiful friends who showed up, along with some extraordinarily kind Daytime fans, we raised over 71k for ALS. Truly grateful for the privilege to help move the needle a little closer to finding a cure.”
Now below check out some of the snaps featuring several of your favorites from the soaps below.
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GH’s Lisa LoCicero (Olivia) and Maurice Benard (Sonny) strike a pose with former castmate Jason Thompson (ex-Patrick, GH, now Billy, Y&R).
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B&B’s Annika Noelle (Hope) with the host with the most, Nancy Lee Grahn.
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GH’s Adam J. Harrington (John “Jagger” Cates) attended Nancy’s event, his first with his new GH co-stars.
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Y&R’s Peter Bergman (Jack) flanked by GH’s Car0lyn Hennesy (Diane) and Grahn.
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Good buds and former OLTL co-stars, Y&R’s Trevor St. John (Tucker) and Michael Easton (Finn).
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GH’s Cynthia Watros (Nina) showed her support for ALS and her co-star Nancy Lee Grahn’s fundraising efforts.
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Star Trek favorite, Jonathan Frakes, with his wife, GH’s iconic, Genie Francis (Laura).
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Two of the soaps and GH’s finest, Maura West (Ava) with Maurice Benard.
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Tucker meets Tucker! The former Tucker McCall of The Young and the Restless, Stephen Nichols (Steve, Days) meets the current Tucker McCall, Trevor St. John!
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The Davis girls showed up in support of their on-screen mother played by Nancy Lee Grahn- Kristen Vaganos (Molly) and Kate Mansi (Kristina).
So, what do you think about the star power of Nancy’s event? Glad to know they raised over 71K to help find a cure for ALS? Comment below.
General Hospital
GH’s Tabyana Ali Responds to Nicholas Chavez Exit: “I Hope That We Will Get the Chance to Work Together Again Someday”
The “Sprina” that everyone knew and loved is not coming back in the form fans have been accustomed to, at least, anytime soon after Nicholas Chavez last week confirmed his exit from General Hospital.
After months of speculation if Chavez would return to his soap role, after exiting to film a leading role in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story, he revealed he has stepped away from the role via a post on his social media accounts.
Now, the other half of Sprina, Tabyana Ali, has offered up her thoughts on Nick’s exit from the series. Speaking to Soap Opera Digest, she shared, “I want the best for him and all of his endeavors and I hope that we will get the chance to work together again someday. I also want to show my gratitude to Sprina Nation as well.”
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As to what the future holds for Trina, and where the character goes from here, Tabyana would like to see a character turn, adding, “I would like her to have a vendetta story or a revenge story. Or the love of her life is gone and now she just turned evil a little bit.”
However, Ali is very aware that Trina is not wired like that emotionally, at least, as she is written now, “I don’t know how much that would be possible. She’s such a kind-hearted person at her core.”
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How would you feel if the show recast the role of Spencer with another actor, and brought Spencer back from the “dead”, given that his body was not found? Would you like to see another actor paired with Tabyana? Or, should Trina find happiness with a new love, and THEN, a recast Spencer shows back up?
And you never know, as Nicholas Chavez put it in his exit statement, “While there are no current plans for me to return, we are still talking very openly about future possibilities for Spencer in Port Charles.”
Vote in our poll below, and let us know what your hopes are for Trina’s future, via the comment section below.
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They SORAS’ed this character to the point that her being this age (must be 16 – the character has her own car!!) negates everything that has happened to this point!!
Now they need to get rid of that talentless Blake Hood – perhaps bring back a younger Kyle, one that didn’t age 12 years in less than 7 months!!
Stop SORAS’ing these kids, PLEASE!!!
Kyle was supposed to Be Abby’s age when Diane and Kyle came back. (they were born around the same time during the sperm switch). But Kyle was aged too much too soon when they did it right.
Well I didn’t like her I don’t like Kyle when I thought I would like them both. It didn’t bother me they were SORA’S they just were written very annoying. Now talk about annoying!!! OMG !!! M.C.E who play’s Chelsea is either the worst actress I have ever scene or she is really written bad!!!
I am glad she’s leaving she isn’t a very good actress for y&r not experienced enough
Here’s a question… if a young character can be SORAS’d… can same aging same young character be reversed, even a few years?
Hmmmmm…
Yes they can, they made AMC’s Bianca younger for her anorexia story and then aged her a year later for Eden Reigal’s Coming out story.
B&B did it with Pheobe and Steffy, they aged to almost 18 and then de- SORA’d them back to younger children.
Well I guess the rumors are true JFP is going to go for the younger crowd, the only problem is Joshua Morrow is only 38 the guy who plays Nick and he looks so young I would have preferred her to leave this alone boarding school. Next will see Faith how old?
Thank God she is gone, she looks older than Cassie did when she died. We got to watch Cassie grow up and they could have done it again with Summer.
I like Lindsay Bushman as Summer but she needs to be a whole lot young to play the role of Summer Newman as Nick & Phyllis daughter and she needs to get in a lot of trouble and make Nick & Phyllis worry a about their daughter and see them worry a about her see them yell at her like Nick & Sharon did with Noah. I can’t wait to see the new Summer being her parents together take care of her when she get hurt.
She and Fen were both aged too soon.
Yes I agree
Me too.
Exactly, aging children is a risk and in the case of both of Fen and Summer it was too soon and too much. Other times, like when Victoria or Billy were at boarding school for a couple of years, when they came back in their late teens, it was more plausible because they were not on the canvas for a while. But when one day Super girl is six years old playing with Faith and then comes home from a sleep over a week later looking like she is in her twenties it is too unbelievable. If they must do this, do it with some intelligence please.
And I never thought the new Fen made sense, hiding away from Daisy. Teen boys at that age are usually pretty much afraid of nothing and you would think he would try and protect his family or something. The SORASed one, though he has not had much airtime, does not leave much to be desired and seems like something is not right with him mentally because of the way he is played. I can only imagine what Maria had planned for him.
Fen will be next to go… Just not feeling him…
Thank Goodness! Now please take Fen & Kyle with you. Don’t mean to sound so mean, but a few more acting classes would do you all a world of good. Best of luck.
The SORAS of Summer went from bad to worse when she started pulling a Cassie. I feel bad for the actress, though! Hopefully nuSummer will turn out better!
Can they get rid of Summer all together? Who cares about her? She was just a device used by the writers to break up Nick/Sharon years ago.
I say they need to tell us whether she really is Nick’s daughter. Back when the paternity results came in, Nick was the ONLY one to see them. Many of us still believe that Jack is her father and they could still do that.
OOOH, I forgot about that. That would be delicious! Otherwise, please ship her off to boarding school and never speak of her again.
okay what does SORAs’ed mean..???
Are you kidding me? You have never heard this before or decided to look it up yourself? 🙂
Here you go:
S-oap
O-pera
R-apid
A-ging
S-yndrome
According to wikipedia: The practice of accelerating the age of a television character (usually a child or teenager) in conflict with the timeline of a series and/or the real-world progression of time.
No need to be snappish…maybe tolecrazy just started watching soaps.
I am sorry, SZima, that you took my response as “snappish.” I included the smiley face 🙂 . I was not being snappish or snarky or any of those things. I was trying to have fun with tolecrazy.
I really love this website and the fact that the majority of the time people get along. I am sorry if anyone was offended as it was not my intent. 🙂
They should just give the role back to Samantha Bailey. There was no need to recast (and SORAS) the role of Summer in the first place.
Agreed!
The girl had some talent. I was still getting used to the idea of Summer no longer being Nick’s little “super girl.”
I think they should DESORAS Summer and bring the little girl back, then they need to fire the actor playing Fen. DESORAS and recast Fen too. Why do they have to age them to have a story? On Mad Men Betty and Don Draper’s daughter Sally had some storylines with younger kids her age. Why do they always have to make them teens overnight? I don’t see how it brings additional ratings, I just don’t.
I agree that they should de-SORAS Summer and Fen. It was a shock to the system to see them going from little kids who need babysitters one week, to kids driving cars and buying/using vodka the next.
I think they believe teenage storylines will bring in teenagers to watch the show and hence ratings will go up in the demo group. Also since it is easier to SORAS’s an existing character than think up of a new character and fit them into the canvas SORAS’ing has become predictible, like Christmas or the changing of the leaves. You know it is summer time and school’s out when on your favourite soap a child ages 10 years right before your eyes.
I know what everyone means, especially what you said, Mary SF.
I remember back in the 80s/early 90s when I was a teenager I might get bored with whatever soap I was watching to go check out another or when one was not on because of sports. I often did this in the summer when I was home more because I grew up on the soaps.
However, today’s teens do not seem interested in soap operas (unless I am missing something). They seem preoccupied with all the media that is available to them and other shows. I still believe it is the over 30 fans that have watched forever and continue to do so. SORASing is just weird. Sometimes it works with the right character, but to do that to everyone isn’t right.
It is difficult to invest in suddenly grown characters without the experiences of watching them grow up. Robin Scorpio on GH grew up before our eyes and so, her stories as an adult have more resonance and meaning. Same for those who did have some SORAS, such as Biana Montgomery on AMC. Or Lucky and Lulu on GH. Without this patient nutruting of children characters, why should we care for them as teens or adults onthe canvas? They seem to be only new characters in the way.
Not surprised. She isnt a mature actress.
JFP strikes again. That woman is a complete witch.
Supposedly an actress from Hollywood Heights has been cast as Summer. Boy, it helps to have friends in high places. I didn’t think Lindsay was doing a bad job. Not her fault MAB chose to overage Summer.
I feel badly for Lindsay-she got caught in the middle of Y&R’s current confusion. I sincerely hope this soap gets back on course quickly. As viewers we invest ourselves in the characters and in the blink of an eye, they are gone. Please Y&R gives us back what we love-characters we care about in story lines that are riveting.
I have tried to like the new Summer but she will never replace you, Lindsay Bushman in my heart! I found you to be an amazing actress and you did an excellent job! The new Summer is a snob online and not too great on the show, I hope to one day be able to watch your acting skills shine again, Lindsay Bushman!! Good luck with your future!!
Not pleased with Bushmans dismissal i think she is a faboulous actress
Summer – could be Sharon’s real-life daughter in my opinion. And yes, I, from the beginning, felt she was biologically Jack’s.
Fen – his behavior is actually a combo of young Kevin & Michael, and Lauren was no Angel, so again, my opinion is that Fen is being played well.
Harmony – should have kept her.
Chelsea – I like her in her role.
Dru – should bring her back.
Phyllis, Victor – should finally get a visit from KARMA.
Jack – it appears he’s being visited by KARMA currently.
Catherine – needs to stop being so goody-goody, especially where Tucker is concerned.
Adam – I don’t condone what he did in his “dark” moments, but I totally get that he’d be ruthless after the way the Golden Children treated him upon his arrival to GC.
Nick & Avery – are great together …. it’s about time.
Summer – could be Sharon’s real-life daughter in my opinion. And yes, I, from the beginning, felt she was biologically Jack’s.