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The Young and the Restless’ Michael Mealor Says of Summer/Kyle/Claire Storyline, “It’s Going to Get Nasty”
On CBS Daytime’s The Young and the Restless, Kyle (Michael Mealor) seems to be spending more time with Claire (Hayley Erin) much to the chagrin of Summer (Allison Lanier). All this has gone down since little Harrison was held captive along with Claire by Jordan (Colleen Zenk) and rhe
While Summer has told her concerns over and over to Kyle, that she doesn’t like Claire getting so close to the little boy, Kyle seems to be somewhat smitten with Claire, or is he?
Michael Fairman TV caught up with Michael Mealor on the red carpet at last week’s 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards to get his thoughts on this possible love triangle, where in reality, everybody might be running a con on the other.
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Mealor revealed that coming up on Y&R between Summer, Claire and Kyle that, “It’s going to get nasty. I gotta say that. No one trusts anyone, which makes good TV.”
To that end, it looks like no one in the Abbott family trusts Kyle either, to which Mealor replied, “Jack (Peter Bergman) doesn’t trust Kyle. Summer doesn’t trust Kyle. Diane (Susan Walters) doesn’t trust Kyle. Claire may be the only one, and I (may) have her fooled.”
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Fans have been speculating that Claire isn’t the now “good’ girl she seems to be and that her psychotic tendencies may take over. Mealor says, “That’s a testament to Hayley (Erin) and how amazing she is because she plays this lovable character, but you just kind of go, something may be off here.”
Recently, Y&R aired the two-person episode featuring Kyle’s on-screen dad, Peter Bergman and Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki) where Jack tries to get Nikki to stop her bender and sober up, but ultimately loses his own sobriety and almost loses his life. Mealor shared he saw the unbelievable performances when it was being filmed.
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Michael expressed, “God, that’s such a fantastic episode. They showed up for that and they filmed that over two days – split the episode in half. I was there on set shooting other scenes, but just watching them pour it out on the monitor. It was incredible.”
Watch our red carpet conversation with Michael Mealor below.
Now weigh-in; Do you think Claire will ultimately take to underhanded tactics to get Kyle and Harrison in her clutches and away from Summer? Let us know your theories via the comment section.
I still think Claire is a psychopath. Y and R due a new young one lol
Are Y&R reading the comments on people. It’s the same characters with the most airtime and screen time. It’s how I feel with Summer and Kyle last year by the drama with Phyllis & Diane. That were boring as a couple, and not as a couple. Now with the kidnapping storyline, and then a storyline with Claire that people aren’t thrilled with. More airtime,
more pushes. No no no triangles with them. Summer should focus on Chance completely, instead of sidelining him without a story. I see they have huge fans! Love Lauren and Michael. Put Kyle in a different road of story with other characters. Why drag Summer all the time. I’m sorry, so irritated. Many characters like Noah, Allie, Jeremy, and Ashland were wasted already. Sharon, Tessa, Abby, Mariah, Lauren, Michael are left with no stories to tell. Elena is gone. Only seeing Connor and Harrison as the focus on main. Soon we see Johnny, Faith, and Katie but for how long? What about more with them, Reed and the children of Lily back.
Oh, I read that Vicki’s kids are returning and will not like Claire, the jealousy thing I guess. Just what we need, more kids.
Yeah I read it too agreed, more kids, but I have doubts knowing Griffith about staying. Hopefully, they keep them.
About Claire: I don’t like what she did, but she doesn’t know her family history based on crimes, too. We all shouldn’t forget the Newman’s weren’t sweet and sugar. Always bad happens and something need to be done to cover up. Like Harrison after kidnapping, Claire was a victim under Jordan’s claws too. With Jordan’s case, it’s linked to the family. What Kyle needs is growth, and raising his son on his own without having Harrison many mothers, Newman involvements, love interests, nanny, custody paper and battles with discussions. I just came to the conclusion with that I like it that way. A good emmy material for Michael Mealor with that.
Here is a young woman who grow up unloved and raised ɓy a psychopath. She has no self esteem or social skills and should be in intense therapy. She is a prime candidate for exploitation by a friend. The show needs a male villain to sweep Claire off her feet for her family’s money.
Sorry, don’t agree. She’s had enough crap in her life and enough done to her, just by her crazy aunt alone. I say, let her enjoy her new found life, certainly not what you are describing.
It can get nasty all it wants but I’m sorry Kyle and Claire have no chemistry whatsoever so what are we getting The hand that rocks the cradle no thanks
I’m not saying that Claire should be with Kyle,I’ve never liked his cocky, self-centeredness and now maybe he’ll get put in his place by Victor.
Wow, that EP sure has the actors out their selling his schlock. The proof was in the Emmy Awards…how many did Y&R walk away with??? Two? Both for acting. Nothing for the behind the scenes work, nothing for production. And in some categories they didn’t even pick up a nomination in a 4 horse field. Y&R has hit rock bottom where it counts. Heck, even on this website, there are no stories about Y&R, while news at GH, B&B and Days still dominates. The show is on neutral. There needs to be a big change while they can still afford it. Love to see Y&R dominate again.
Kyle is apparently falling right into Victor’s clutches with his not so subtle way of getting him away from Jabot and over to Newman. Maybe Kyle and Diane will appreciate each other more when he’s gone.
Someone needs to lock Victor in a cell! Maybe Claire’s Aunt will escape and give him a taste of his own medicine.
Lew, Trust me!
They need to cool down with Summer and Kyle’s airtime/scenes. Both are boring, but Kyle need to stand up more with spine, instead letting Summer control demands on Harrison because she doesn’t like Claire. It’s annoying when you try to enjoy other characters. I hope it comes out what Victor did. What are your imput on Connor’s storyline?
Hi Stella, I don’t really know about the Connor storyline. He is rarely on, and I am not sure if this is a story for him or to push Adam and Chelsea together again. Which may push Sally to.Nick (UGH!)
Hi Lew,
Agreed on Connor’s screen time, and I don’t want Sally & Nick to reunite either. That was horrible. I’m not too impressed with Connor’s SL.
Happy Michael Mealor is getting a love story!
He’s wasted on all these forced workplace plots.
Not sure about him and Claire but atleast it will bring him and Summer maybe back together by the end. I hope Chance also gets some airtime with Summer on this one too. He’s been m.i.a it seems recently
Kyle needs a good woman, not Summer who is such a conceited, spoiled brat.
Damian,
What bothers now that it’s the same stuff over and over again with Summer and Kyle. Alison Lanier nor Michael Mealor were never given other heavy materials with other actress and actors that they both can act with. Summer with Chance, her carrying a baby of his with difficult complications the baby survives on the end, fighting for Chancellors business and more SL with her family. Kyle with someone else, SL with his family, or determined to raise Harrison on his own. That are potential Emmy to summit, and if they’re going to summit an Emmy Awards based on the same where AL And MM didn’t stand out enough for me because this is the only performance they have. That really will disappoint me as a huge fan, and viewer. I want to see more than this.
I wonder why no one in the community hit the pain point because this is the storyline they came up with.
Nothing wrong with trying to get characters on front but problem is Claire was born in the nineties and summer and Kyle 2,000 if you are going to go back in history you need to get it straight . Peck was great back then but he has aged just like we all do . Absolutely no chemistry at all between he and AH . And let’s just put Victor and Jack on hold neither one has chemistry anymore with anyone if you want to write case out so do it I dare you.
Tell’em Kay!
Guess they will be giving Sharon Case some new/old material, with her, going off the deep end again. Was hoping they would write some new material for her, meeting someone new, thriving in her new business and family, not going back down the Rabbit Hole, maybe out to make Daniel pay for what she thinks was his fault for Kassie’s death. Those of us that watched that horrible SL, know it wasn’t Daniel’s fault for the accident, it was Kassie herself, who insisted on driving when she’d been drinking herself. Not looking forward to being put through all that again.
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a second high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 ratings share for the demo. Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers and had the largest gains year-to-year in daytime TV, with +267,000 from this same time last year. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week down 22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion. However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will they overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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Days of our Lives long-running cast member James Reynolds revealed on the November 10 edition of Entertainment Tonight that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and his character of Abe Carver will now be going through an on-screen Parkinson’s battle as well.
Speaking with ET’s Nischelle Turner, the 80-year-old actor and Daytime Emmy winner shared how he attempted to hide the warning signs dating back to 15-20 years ago when he would have, “What they call the hallucinations. My wife (Lissa) would say, ‘You were hitting me last night in bed,’ and I would say, ‘What?!’ I was having these really horrible dreams.” Reynolds also added that he realized falling out of bed was an early symptom of Parkinson’s too.
Discussing the on-going tremors that have become more noticeable over time especially in hands, James shared that when he finally told the Days of our Lives cast they were nothing but “extraordinarily helpful and supportive.”
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SCREEN LIFE TO MIRROR REAL LIFE
Now with DAYS about to launch into Abe’s Parkinson’s storyline, Reynolds hopes that he can turn his experience into something positive by encouraging others facing the disease to keep fighting. During the sit-down, Reynolds co-star Jackée Harry (Paulina Price) recalls her reaction to learning of Reynolds’ real-life diagnosis and how she has continued to search for new treatments to inform James about.
Although Parkinson’s disease currently has no cure, there are medications and treatments can help those manage symptoms and improve quality of life. The condition progresses at a different pace from individual to individual.
As discussed in his conversation with ET, Reynolds cited Michael J. Fox and Alan Alda as two high-profile celebrities who have brought awareness to the disease.
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In story on DAYS, Abe in recent weeks had been experiencing tremors which led to seek help and a diagnosis Dr. Kayla Johnson (Mary Beth Evans). Soon Abe and others will find out of his battle with Parkinson’s. Although on the promo for this week’s DAYS, Abe is seen telling Kayla, that he will do something, “when the time is right.”
James Reynolds is one of the most prolific performers, being the longest-running Black Actor in a role on a television series, not to mention his aforementioned Lead Actor Daytime Emmy win in 2018, and being inducted in 2025 into the Daytime Emmy Gold and Silver Society of honorees.
You can check out James’ in-depth conversation on his Parkinson’s diagnosis below.
Share your thoughts for James after learning of his health battle, and what do you think of Days of our Lives incorporating the disease into Abe Carver’s Salem storyline? Let us know in the comment section.
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