Exactly, I don’t know what some expected her to say. I respect your kind of attitude and sympathize with fans who have lost a favorite character or actor. I know I would be disappointed if my favorites were written out of the show. MM ‘s fans have every right to be disapppointed. I even understand them choosing to not watch any longer but those who are going on the attack in such a nasty manner make not only other MM and Adam fans look bad but all soap fans look bad. He is hardly the first nor will he be the last actor to be fired from a show, Peaceful protests are one thing but a small group of MM fans have gone way too far.

The thing about it, and I say this respectfully to everyone. I know everyone wants answers, I’m curious myself but it’s none of my business when it comes down to it. CBS could be held liable IF this were true. Now none of us want to believe these rumors. He could have been fired for this hubris he spoke about. But IF those leaked rumors are true, his rights would be violated if they expressed why he was fired. Now if YOU were fired, would you want the reason you were fired published on the news, in a magazine, or on television? I mean we have to be realistic here. I’m not being a smart alec to any of you. I mean to be very respectful. Before the gag order was put into place, when Michael first Tweeted on Dec. 19th I believe it was, and he was so shocked ( I was in total shock and heartbroken!!! I still am!!! ) I believe if he had wanted the reason released, he would have said, “Hey, I was fired because ” such and such a reason” or “Eric Braeden did such and such” ) but that is not the case! You have to understand there are laws, I don’t know for a fact that HIPPA laws apply in CBS (LOL) but there are definitely laws that CBS has to follow that they CANNOT tell us why they fired him. My point was to leave the actors alone and stop harassing them about it. I’ve seen it daily, and then the people harassing them get furious and call them &*%*^*^ for spouting off at them but I cannot fault them for being mad. It’s insanely crazy for people to be treating these people that way. I’ve also thought, if they are going are possibly going to hire Michael back, would he come back to Y&R if everyone is going to boycott it. Why not carry on and watch it and keep it #1 and show it love, the way he has loved it. He may be hurt, but he loves the actors on that show and I know he wants them to do well. He would support his cast mates, I’m sure. His mother also Tweeted to leave the cast of Y&R alone. Thanks for listening. Todays Y&R was so sad. Michael and Billy both are outstanding and I will follow them wherever they go, but will never leave Y&R. I love Y&R and everyone on it. Too many great actors on Y&R and I think it’s a huge mistake to punish everyone over being mad at the writer(s) or whoever fired him. Much love to all the fans. Thank you Michael Fairman!

I also agree. If MM was really let go for sexual harassment.. why wasn’t he immediately fired and walked off the set ASAP? That’s what was done to someone I worked with in the past. Once they continued to allow him to continue working until he finished his storyline, they lost all credibility as far as I’m concerned. I have had enough of all the wonderful actors leaving the show and will stop watching Y&R after 1/30. I hope all the fans the way I do will also boycott so that CBS starts listening to the fans. Besides hiring MM back, I hope they bring back Michelle Stafford as Phillis. I am sure if CBS made a fantastic offer they could persuade her and even Billy Miller to reconsider returning to the show.

I’he watched Y&R for 40 years!!and I’m only 46. MM is awesome and perfect to accept the next Newman generation torch. Love him with Chelsea, I wish they would just bring him back. I love watching him, and will follow him, hopefully to prime time. Will miss you, MM 🙁

Linda, I agree with you. I bet EB sighed in relief when MM left. EB should have left the show a long time ago. He obviously couldn’t even remember his lines and improvised his own. This irked MM BECAUSE IT COULD BE V. FRUSTRATING.
Jealousy is the only reason why he was fired. HK is only a catalyst. Who can believe this nonsense? She doesn’t even have anything to grope!! There are more better endowed actresses in the show!
” If people want to bring you DOWN…it is because you are far ABOVE them”

My thoughts on this now when ever anyone brings it up we call it Boob-Gate! No disrespect but it is over and done with and quite honestly when you think about it you can’t blame the actors for defending JFP a lot of them are to old or too weak of actors to find jobs anywhere else. I find the show very dull and repeating the same old same old how many times is Sharon going to roll her eyes and almost tell the truth. And as for everybody wanting MS/Phyllis to come back if she does then she is not as smart as I think she is. She seems to have a hit on her hands and having fun doing it with The Stafford Project why move backwards instead of forward.

Exactly!! MM screwed up and some of his nut job fans want to blame everyone but him. Yes, it is all a great big conspiracy against him. If people really thought about it they would realize how ridiculous they sound.

Kat…I know how you feel. After JFP killed off Frankie Frame (my ALL-TIME FAVORITE AW character), I had a very hard time watching AW after that. Emotionally brutal.

It broke my heart when GL was cancelled. I still have the taping of the last episode…Reva and Josh riding off into the sunset. Very sad.

Terie I so so so agree with you!!!!!

I think you meant Y&R, not B&B.

Justified? Ummm, no, I don’t think so. How can any business possibly justify killing their goose that lays the golden eggs? Just because MM was connected to the fans, cared about the integrity of his work and the integrity of the show and took his job SERIOUSLY does NOT justify firing him! He challenged his coworkers to bring more power to the scenes, but apparently some of the veterans didn’t appreciate that. Not only did the PTB disregard the fans who were growing weary of the awful, awful writing, but then they tried to vilify MM with vicious, unfounded rumors. Y&R has a huge fan base and it was very clear that the fans were incredibly unhappy with the direction of the show and it was also very clear that Adam was carrying it through a dark and depressing time. Fans have been complaining and begging for better writing for at least two years. At the same time they were praising MM for his phenomenal portrayal of Adam Newman. He stole virtually every scene he was in. His love scenes with both Sharon and Chelsea were as powerful as his snarky and witty remarks were to the Mustache. It appears very obvious to loyal fans that JFP came in with an agenda. She had to make room for Dylan and in the process she completely re-wrote the history of the show and let beloved characters fall by the wayside. Aside from the passing of matriarch, Jeanne Cooper, which by itself was a devastating blow to the show…. we were just not ready to lose any of these characters. First Abby Newman (Marcy Rylan), an absolute perfect fit for the show, then Phyllis (Michelle Stafford), another scene stealer and long time fan favorite, then Billy Abbott (Billy Miller) a tremendous asset to the show with the hottest love story/co-star on daytime… Chemistry is chemistry, you can’t create it or duplicate it. He and Amelia Heinle were magical together, even more so when the writing was good. Then the final straw…firing the best actor to come onto the daytime scene in decades… Michael Muhney. Then they bring in all these new actors that we have NO connection with. None. Zip. Nada. They were thrown into stories that had no point, made no sense and had no ending. Then the truly great actors like Peter Bergman, Christian LeBlanc, Judith Chapman and Jess Walton were reduced to “appearances”. Or characters were completely destroyed as with Sharon Case and Kristoff St. John. Suddenly the whole show revolved around Dylan!! What??? Then the worst story line in the history of day time sends fans into a real tizzy. They take the two best characters on the show and reduce them to stupid and careless. Billy becomes the most irresponsible parent in the world by leaving his young daughter ALONE IN A CAR, AT NIGHT! Then Adam drives by, sees a puppy in the road, stops, gets out, looks around and has no clue he just hit… Read more »

You have said my thoughts PERFECTLY Marie!!!! This show is ruined! I have watched my ENTIRE LIFE… Completely heartbroken!!! 🙁

Marie, you have voiced our thoughts beautifully! What is there to watch anymore? Victor Newman’s vile character , Sharon reduced to a psycho, Nikki’s whining , Avery jumping ship at the drop of a hat, and filler actors just marking time..in la-la-land.etc; etc?
This is not what we bargained for. Look at all the stupid story lines. Soap Operas are not Fairy tales. They don’t have to take us for fools.
1. In which Hospital in the whole of USA can a ding bat go and change DNA results?? The writers didn’t have the intelligence to make her bribe a nurse or someone who worked there, but just thought that the viewers were stupid enough to swallow it hook, line and sinker.
2. No father will leave a child alone at night in a car. The child even pleads “”Are you going to leave me here?”
3. The “normal” reaction for a hit and run driver WHEN HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF HAVING HIT ANYTHING would be to come forward when he hears about it the next day, but they dragged this out for days and tried to make it a MURDER story!
4. Billy wanting to shoot the “murderer” when he should shoot himself. Isn’t there something wrong here?
I could go on and on…….but it doesn’t matter anymore, because I, for one, AM OUT OF HERE!

Marie…that was quite an emotional rampage you went on there…VERY BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! VERY WELL SAID!!!!! Let’s face it…Y&R is sinking faster and faster than quicksand…YIKES!!!!! Marie, here are a few thoughts of my own:
1. Of course that Jill Farren Phelps is killing Y&R!!!!! And, look at all of the other soaps that she has ruined over the years…AW, GH, GL, OLTL, SB and now Y&R. That woman is a MONSTER!!!!!
2. A frickin’ INSULT…VERY TRUE!!!!! I don’t know ANYONE who would leave their young children ALONE in a vehicle…daytime or nighttime!!!!! DUMB AS HELL!!!!!
3. Storyline-wise, I wish that Y&R would FINALLY put that self-righteous and insufferable Victor Newman out to PASTURE…FOR GOOD!!!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!
4. It’s sad (and annoying as hell!!!!!) that Y&R is currently revolving around that DULL AS DIRT Dylan. But, remember…that bland and one-dimensional Steve Burton is a close friend of Jill Farren Phelps. It is what it is. Very sadly.
5. All of these new Y&R cast members (and the ANNOYING and UNWATCHABLE newbie characters that they portray) each need to be shown the door. And Jill Farren Phelps, too. ASAP!!!!!

Marie, take care and have a good one.

Marie, I totally agree with you. Michael Muhney was demonizes because he’s a classically trained actor who cares about the quality of his craft and spoke out to try and improve the scenes that he was in. Apparently a lot of the other actors were not as brave and settled for just delivering their lines and cashing a check, and that’s why we are left with dribble. I look forward to following Michael Muhney and Michelle Stafford in their future endeavors. They are both far too good for that crappy show. Here’s hoping Y&R a rapid death and a much needed cancellation.

Mary I give you a standing ovation!!! It’s not just the firing of MM that will have me tuning out its really the fact that all the quality actors will no longer be gracing the screen on Y&R on top of the terrible writing. Don’t they realize that its these fantastic actors who make these dumb storylines watchable??? The H&R storyline is a total flop. None of the evidence they have written in gives any definitive indication that Adam is the culprit! Very BAD writing.

Wanna bet that MM’s replacement will be some cheap FOJ that can’t act out of cardboard box? God forbid if any actor should steal the spotlight from SBu. Wouldn’t be hard to do anyways. He only has that one expression in every scene. None of the newbies do anything for me either. All of them flat and bland.

by the way, has anyone seen Jill Abbott? seems she was kidnapped almost a month ago…yea, just what I thought…more BAD writing.

Marie, Julz, Verna, Jaybird369, studio33128, and Kaleesi I give all of you standing ovations for every word you have all said. I feel exactly the same way and after watching for over 30 years my DVR will stop recording the Y&R after I watch the final performances of the only two actors who have made me continue watching as long as I have. Especially MM.

All of you have covered all the reasons why the Y&R is not the great, must watch show that it once was. I can’t add anything more except that I am sad. What is even worse is that both Billy and Adam have been ruined. Billy and Victoria had a great love story that has survived a lot and now the character has had an affair. What a sad note for Billy Miller to go out on. Adam will be labeled a murderer by everyone left and he never was. I will never believe that he hit that precious little girl. He did everything he could do avoid her dog, and stopped to see that the dog was okay. I can’t believe that they think fans are so stupid to believe you would hit something and not be aware of it. I have hit a squirrel and felt it. Right away everyone talked about the murderer and always used the word “he”. He knew there was no way anyone would ever believe Adam Newman. Except for Chelsea the whole town never accepted him. I am going to miss MM and his great acting because he played that character like no one else. My hope is that he at least gets to talk to Chelsea and she believes in him. I just know that I will be looking for wherever MM goes next. I have no interest in anything that Y&R has. I am tired of FF everyone else’s scenes. I have been watching GH and enjoying it.

Kaleesi your comment about has anyone seen Jill Abbott? Great example of the bad writing of this soap. We could go on and on giving examples. I also agree with you about Dylan and his one expression. None of the newbies are of any interest to me. So goodbye Y&R. With what has been done to this once loved soap you have made it easy to leave.

Marie, excellent, excellent excellent, excellent, analysis, my family so agrees with you!!!! Don’t forget Mrs. C left her billions to a grandson she just barely knew, with all those other family and friends around, STUPID STORYLINE! She would never have done that, like ever! Sharleen, your added comments fit how I feel and are part of why I quit watching myself. Blaming Adam for the death of a child who was part of everyones life on this show, ruined it for me. BYE YR, BYE BYE

So sexual harassment is ok as long as an actor is good? Nice way of thinking there, Timmy! I hope you never have a daughter.

Buh bye! Me and the rest of the loyal show viewers will continue to enjoy it! And there are many more of us than you people pretend there are.

They would have needed to make a change because Michael Muhney had signed a two year contract with CBS/Sony to be on Y&R for another two years (through March of 2015) in March of 2013. The only way to get rid of him was to fire him by saying they were going to “give Adam a break for 3-6 months then bring him back as another actor,” which is what Muhney stated Jill Farren Phelps had told him was the reasoning behind his being let go.

Sounds like CBS/Sony/Y&R wanted to get rid of Muhney (a very popular actor) for some reason (Steve Burton not going over with fans well with either Billy Miller or Michael Muhney around is my personal guess, as that was such a heralded entrance that went majorly flat with fans), so they found one: We need a new Adam.

All this BS about a supposed groping is just that … allegations, rumors and so forth that came about via an anonymous post on a soap web site.

I think, seriously, since Miller and Muhney were so beloved by fans and Burton (Phelp’s golden boy and whom she’d pinned so much on when she hired him — gads, the hoopla when he was hired!) majorly flopped, Y&R decided to get rid of both Miller and Muhney to give Burton a better chance to win fans over as Dylan. I doubt it’s going to work, as Muhney and Miller had a LOT of loyal fans, but you watch … Dylan/Burton will be shoved even harder to the front burner on Y&R now.

Just my opinion on this whole thing.
wolfy

PS — I find it kind of strange that Burton got “outs” in his contract to do other work, including some that is backed by Sony/CBS itself, and yet the one thing they refused Billy Miller that was the only sticking point for him renewing his contract was getting “outs.” Weird, right? Hmmm…

wolfsmistress, Burton is the reason I could no longer watch GH!!! He was in every storyline, relentlessly shoved down our throats and I couldn’t take it anymore. I suspect this is about to happen on Y&R and I say NO THANKS. I agree with your theory. With Miller and Muhney around, there was no room for Burton to be accepted on the front burner. They knew that outs was the deal breaker for Miller and I agree they purposely denied him so he wouldn’t renew. That way it looks like they tried but its Miller’s decision to leave. Low and behold they fire Muhney and pin an accusation on him. Not to mention, it was so obvious they drove Stafford away by back burning her character. There is a pattern with these people!!

Kaleesi…I feel the same way. I did not care for Steve Burton when he was on GH. No. His (now former) character of Jason Morgan was a real downer…one-note, one-dimensional, bland, boring, humorless, ZERO sex appeal and way too self-righteous. No Thank You. And, with BOTH SB and that WRETCHED Jill Farren Phelps running amok (YIKES!!!!!) on the Y&R set, it’s like DOUBLE the nausea…BLECH!!!!! And, Kaleesi…I especially agree with the last sentence in your posting. There is a PATTERN with those people on the Y&R set…and it’s only gonna get WORSER AND WORSER as time goes on. Beyond sad.

No, I believe in the adage of “Innocent until proven guilty.” So far, there’s absolutely no proof of any kind toward Michael Muhney that shows he’s guilty of anything other than being an outspoken person.

If, and when, proof comes about, then we will see what is real and what is not. Perhaps you have met your French boyfriend on the Internet, and get your information from there, but I still believe in people and the law … and “innocent until PROVEN guilty,” not “guilty just become some dumbo says so on the Internet,” which some tend to believe, hmm?

Such denial from you people. How many of you have been to law school or taken even one law class? Also someone keeps saying it was leaked on Soaps.com. That’s not even true. It was leaked by TMZ. Such little knowledge from such big mouths.

Janet, since there’s nothing in my reply regarding leaking a story, Soaps.com or TMZ, I would suggest you forget about law, and take a class in basic comprehension. Comprehension, Janet, is possessing the ability to understand and retain what you have read. And , Janet, I don’t know who “you people” are, since “I” (singular pronoun) am the only one who wrote the reply. Little knowledge? Big mouths? The big mouths, Janet, are in your head. Silence the voices, Janet. silence the voices.

Exactly. How much can the cast be expected to take? I too have seen horrible things said to them. Why should they have to take it without eventually fighting back? If we (any of us) want to talk trash to anyone we should expect it back, no matter who it is. People are simply not thinking. The show would not have fired such a popular actor had he not done what he was accused of doing. Why bite the hand that feeds you with no reason at all? The fact is he is gone and never coming back. And I would think he would not go back, since the threat was made to call the police.

Yes, Janet, there is a reason why Mr. Muhney has not spoken about the subject, it’s called tact. Tact, Janet, Tact.

I remember Chris Engen. And, if I remember correctly, CBS ended up suing CE for breach of contract.

@jaybird — while it was reported in several places online that CBS MAY sue Engen for breach of contract, (in online tabloids, mostly, once again showing they’re usually the ones who jump on these stories or try to take them further than they really are to go), I have found no record, nor was there ever, that I know of, any breach of contract suit brought by CBS against Engen.

Also, I do know that he didn’t quit … he was fired. This is yet another case of “believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.” Benjamin Franklin

Hi quit! I remember it very well. He did not like the storyline and quit. You can say he was fired all you want but it won’t change the facts.

No, I can say with all honesty that he was fired. I can’t say HOW I know, but that I DO know. I was asked not to reveal my source and I won’t, but trust me, he WAS fired. He did NOT quit. And as Muhney quoted Benjamin Franklin, I will repeat that quote for Mr. Engen. “Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.”
wolfy

Check out carrie fisher’s character in the movie Soap Dish. Similar ?

Be careful what you say on this board it is totally against Muhney though nothing has been proven he is guilty in the eyes of all soap blogs. It will be quite amusing when the truth does ever surface like a relationship gone bad???

Timmy boy I have been watching for 37 years, so I am hardly a newbie. And I know many people who are not newbie’s who are not going anywhere.

Janet, why am I not surprised to learn that you associate with people who aren’t going anywhere? That was for Timmy.

current help – *helm (JFP)