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Y&R Recap – July 12 – July 16th

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After Victoria proclaims her love for Billy, Victor makes it clear that he is disappointed in her daughter’s choice before leaving. Billy thinks Victoria was joking and is stunned when it becomes clear that she wasn’t. Meanwhile, Nick tells Nikki that Phyllis left him. Phyllis shows up at her penthouse and tells Sharon that she left Nick and that she wants her place back. Later, Sharon is shocked by Phyllis’s pronouncement and tells Phyllis that she and Faith will be out by tonight. Sharon isn’t ready to face what Phyllis already knows; that Sharon will go straight to Nick. After the commotion Skye made in the courtroom, Owen tells Heather that she is taking over Adam’s case. Skye introduces Adam to his new attorney, Vance Abrams, just as Adam’s arraignment begins and Vance asks the judge to allow Adam bail so that he can go home. Heather and Chance are stunned when the judge actually allows Adam bail. Later, Skye tells Adam that before she posts his bail she wants him to marry her but before Adam can give her an answer Heather arrives, wanting to talk to Adam, alone. Trying to process Victoria’s statement of love, Billy decides to ask Victoria out on a first date. Meanwhile, Victor is venting his frustration to Nikki about Victoria’s declaration of love to Billy and he says that the Newmans have no business associating with the Abbotts, which Abby overhears and takes to heart. Later, Abby confronts her father about his speech as Victor does the same about Abby’s RS cover. Moments later, a reporter from Celebrity Weekly arrives to interview Abby and asks Victor how he feels about her sex tape, which blind sides Victor. While looking for Phyllis at the club, Nick runs into Sharon. Sharon tells him that Phyllis is at the penthouse and is stung by Nick’s vehemence that he and Phyllis will work out their relationship. Meanwhile, Phyllis thinks back on her life and how she and Nick came together to fall in love. Billy brings Victoria to an arcade for their date and Victoria plays it off as though she isn’t pleased with the venue, at first, until she lets her hair down and the two both start acting like big kids, playing games. Later, Billy watches Victoria as she plays and touched to see just how truly happy she really is. Heather tells Adam just how disgusting he truly is but it doesn’t faze him and when she leaves Heather runs into Skye. Heather assures Skye that Adam is using her too but Skye doesn’t seem to mind or care. Later, Skye tells Adam that she bailed his bail and Adam thinks he is free until Skye brings in a Justice of the Peace and asks him if he can live up to his end of the bargain. Meanwhile, Heather is touched by how protective Chance is as they talk about Adam. Victor nearly hits the roof as Abby tells him about the sex tape and plays it off as though she wasn’t involved in leaking. Abby plays the victim in front of the reporter and drags him out of the club just as Victor gets the call about Adam getting out on bail. Meanwhile, the JOP declares Adam and Skye husband and wife and they set off to see some long lost “friends.” As their night is winding down, Billy uses a picture strip to tell Victoria that he loves her too. Meanwhile, Nick shows up at the penthouse to fight for Phyllis but she tells him that she is done, no matter what. Sharon has too much space in Nick’s heart and she can’t and won’t do it anymore. She says goodbye to Nick and closes the door on him and their marriage.

Later, just as Sharon and Nikki tell Victor about Nick and Phyllis’s separation, Adam arrives with Skye and introduces her to the awaiting crowd as his wife. As Adam is toasting to his new bride and sticking it to his family at the same time, Victor, Nikki and Sharon watch on in disgust. Nick arrives, fresh off his break up with Phyllis and sees Adam with Skye. Nick nearly gives Adam a black eye until Sharon steps in to stop it. Adam apologizes to Sharon and tells her that he still loves her, which infuriates Skye. Billy and Victoria arrive to the festivities as Adam and Skye move off to their table and Sharon and Nikki go to theirs. Nikki tells Sharon that she knows what Sharon is doing and it needs to stop. While talking to a new designer about her father, Lauren struggles to reconcile the man she knew with the man he was. Cane and Jill worry that Lily is pushing herself too hard to be with the twins when she should be taking care of herself right now. While at the arcade, Billy calls his mom to check in and ends up talking to Cane, who tells him that Lily isn’t doing so well. Billy comes up with a plan to help Lily, which involves her leaving the hospital. Cane surprises Lily with a little party at the arcade with J.T., Mac, Devon and Roxanne. During the celebration, J.T. notices that Mac isn’t really in the party mood. Mac asks J.T. to take her to see the twins so that she can say goodbye. Later, Jill steps on Lauren’s toes with the designer when she introduces herself as Jill Fenmore.

Victor makes a pronouncement at the club that Adam is a cold-blooded murder and that every time he enters a restaurant he shouldn’t be served, no one in Genoa City should help him in any way. Adam shrugs it off until he realizes that the “mob” is turning on him. Meanwhile, Sharon asks Nick if he can watch Faith for the evening and when he inquires if she is alright she gets upset with him and leaves. Victoria sees the exchange and tells Nick that she doesn’t blame Phyllis for leaving him. Jill and Lauren face off when Jill tries to tell Lauren how to do business. Lauren loses her temper with Jill and tells her that she doesn’t want her as business partner, a friend or a sister. Later, Jill tells Morgan that she is ready to move forward with her lawsuit and Morgan informs her that she found something about Neil Fenmore that she may find very interesting. Victoria gets Nick to admit that he is still in love with two people and tells him that he needs to find out who he is on his own because that is the only way he will know who he is meant to be with. Meanwhile, as Sharon is at confession a P.I. stands nearby listening. Later, Adam gets a call and tells Skye that he is leaving. Skye runs into Nick after Adam leaves her alone and Nick wonders what could make Adam leave his new bride along on their wedding night. Meanwhile, Sharon walks out of the confessional and comes face to face with Adam. As Mac watches the twins she admits to J.T. that she feels cheated for losing them. J.T. lets Mac breakdown in his arms as she finally feels the loss of the twins. Meanwhile, Cane and Lily are full of hope for their future as they take about bringing the twins back to the arcade one day. Jack is stunned to find Phyllis at the penthouse when he arrives looking for Sharon and learns that she left Nick. Meanwhile, Skye tells Nick that Adam left the club and Skye’s obvious jealous tells Nick everything he needs to know about where Adam went. At the church, Adam tells Sharon that he merely came to pray but Sharon doesn’t believe him for a second and is disappointed that he is yet again lying to her. Later, Nick calls Victoria to ask her to watch Faith and Victoria has to admit that she is upstairs at the club with Billy. Tucker goes to check in with Ashley and tells her that Adam is never going to hurt her ever again. He asks her come stay with him in order to protect her. Daniel tells Abby that she was right about the cover that it helped get him work and made him “cool by association.” He convinces her doing the cover the “tame” way was the right way to go and offers to paint her in the nude again but Abby slips out coyly and decides to start playing hard to get. Later, as Tucker is telling Ashley how much he admires her; Abby walks in and interrupts the moment. Phyllis talks to Jack about leaving Nick and admits that although it was one of the most difficult choices she has ever had to make, she knows it was the right one. Meanwhile, Adam tries to explain to Sharon about his marriage to Skye but she doesn’t want to hear it. She tells him that she will never be able to forgive him. Later, as Phyllis is finding comfort in Jack the two end up in a kiss and just as it is about to break into full fledge passion both Jack and Phyllis breaking into laughter. Billy and Victoria are playful as they baby sit Faith together. Adam tries to reach out to Sharon and get her to admit her feelings just as Nick arrives and the tension rises between the brothers. Adam tries to bait Nick when he tells him that he kissed Sharon in Brazil and she kissed him back but Sharon steps in and tells them both that she doesn’t need either one of them. Later, Sharon leaves the brothers to fight it out and when Nick asks Adam if Sharon called out his name when Sharon was in bed with Adam, Adam suddenly attacks Nick. Tucker asks Ashley about what is happening between them and leaves it up to her to decide whether or not to explore it. Ashley tells him that she is open to seeing where it goes. Meanwhile, Abby shows up at Daniel’s again and allows him to sketch her in the nude, which leads them to passionate kiss and making love. Later, Ashley and Tucker end up making love.

Nikki and Victor are surprised when Meggie shows up at their front door. As Jack and Phyllis wish each other, at the ranch, Meggie faint into Victor’s arms. Sharon stops by to pick up Faith and reminds Victoria that Billy has set out to destroy the Newmans and ends up ruining they playful evening for a moment. After she is gone, Billy manages to get Victoria back in the mood with a few tickles and a good joke. Later, Adam finds Skye waiting for him at their suite at the club and the two explode into a moment of passionate sex. Nick stops by to apologize to Sharon and tells her that he is fearful for her safety now that Adam is out on bail. Meanwhile, Skye tells Adam that she and Vance have a plan to salvage his image but Adam isn’t so sure that it’s possible. Sharon tells Nick that every time he charges in to save the day it only proves to her how little faith he has in her. Nick tells Sharon that was never his intention, that he trusts her, its Adam he doesn’t trust. Later, Skye lays out her plans for Adam but it’s her intentions that Adam is more interested in. As Nina and Paul share a meal, they talk about their mutual worry for their children’s safety. Meanwhile, as Heather and Chance are waiting to get a warrant, Chloe stops by to pick a date for their wedding but before they can settle on a final date, Heather gets the call and they have to take off. Later, Nina teases Paul as they shop at Fenmore’s and playfully flirt. Meanwhile, Chance and Heather tell the warden that he is to comply with the warrant and clear out all the cells immediately. Meggie comes downstairs to Nikki and Victor just as Victor gets a call and leaves the two women to size each other up. Meggie admits to Nikki that she made a pass at Victor in Canada just as Victor comes back and finds himself caught between the woman he has and the woman that wants him. Meggie tells them that Shaw and his friends shot up her bar in order to get pay back and then went to her home which is when she decided to jump on a bus and come to Genoa City. Victor and Nikki welcome their home to Meggie after everything she did to help Victor and Nick, although, Nikki is cautious about it. Jana and Kevin end up working at the coffeehouse during the same shift and when Ryder stops by to drop off Jana’s phone tensions rise. Jana decides it would be best if she and Ryder leave together just as Chloe arrives and wonders what Jana is doing with Ryder in the first place. Later, Ryder continues to lie to Jana about his “job” and instead takes her out on a date. At the coffeehouse, as Chloe and Kevin are talking, Allison stops by to get some coffee. Chloe asks Kevin who she is and encourages Kevin to go out with her again. At the club, Sharon, Nick and Faith are having breakfast as a family as Nick tells Sharon that he will respect her boundaries from now on. Moments later, Adam and Skye arrive and Adam is caught by the scene of the happy family. Sharon loses her appetite after Adam approaches their table and makes a few spiteful comments and Sharon decides to take Faith and leave. Later, Skye tells Adam that they are starting a hedge fund and with her smarts and the Newman name nothing can stop them. Upstairs, Sharon tells Nick that she can’t stay in town and that she is leaving Genoa City. Nick acquiesces to Sharon’s request to let her leave town for awhile just as he gets a call about a new hedge fund called “The Newman Fund” and has no idea what it is but is sure to find out. After the shopping is over, Paul and Nina end up making love. Meanwhile, after coming up empty handed at the prison, Owen shows up at Chance and Heather’s studio furious, demanding to know what they were thinking. Heather and Chance tell him that they didn’t find anything, literally, nothing and that has to mean there is a leak somewhere. Owen tells them that if they find anything to bring it him or Ronan immediately and if they pull another stunt like this they will be out of jobs. Later, Chance tells Heather he completely screwed up and Heather reassures him that he didn’t and that he is the best man she has ever known. Their attraction can no longer be denied and they finally end up in a passionate kiss, which leads them to making love. Nearby, a microphone catches everything. Meanwhile, as Paul and Nina are making love, Christine arrives at Paul’s door. Jana is stunned when the police show up with an arrest warrant for Ryder. Victor tells Nikki that he is having Meggie checked out, just to make sure she is who she says she is.
As Nina and Paul scramble to get dressed, they are surprised to hear Cricket’s voice coming from the next room and Cricket is even more surprised when they come out of the bedroom together and it’s clear what she interrupted. Later, Paul gets a call and has to take off leaving to the two women alone and Nina has to ask Cricket if she is okay with her being with Paul. Cricket assures Nina that everything is fine and they immediately launch into a casual conversation about Nina’s life and Chance’s engagement. Victor tells Nikki that Michael called the authorities in Ottawa but didn’t get very far and it seems they believe Meggie set up the shooting of her bar so they need to be wary of her for now. As Nikki and Victor are discussing Meggie’s intentions, Meggie walks into the room wearing only a man’s button down shirt because her clothes are in the laundry. Victor tells Meggie that she can stay at the ranch until they get things sorted out but asks her to put on something more suitable. The police tell Jana that Ryder is wanted to breaking and entering and burglary as she lets them into their room at the club. When they find Ryder isn’t there, Jana refuses to let them search the room and when she is along, Jana immediately starts searching herself. She is disappointed when she finds an expensive piece hidden away. Meanwhile, Chloe tries to push Kevin to go out with Allison as she consider going to visit Chance, who is in the middle of making love to Heather. Later, Kevin makes Chloe see that she’s being clingy so she calls Chance instead and comes up with a story to get him to come over, unaware of what is going on next door. As Chance sees Chloe’s message the guilt is evident on his face and he apologizes to Heather just as Ronan arrives and confronts them about their actions at the jail. After Ronan and Chance have it out and Ronan leaves, Heather wonders if Ronan could be the dirty cop. Victor asks Paul to run a background check on Meggie and found out what he can on the woman who is sharing a home with Nikki. Paul tells Victor that Nikki always put Victor first and Victor probably didn’t even consider Nikki’s feelings before allowing Meggie to stay with them and Victor is affected by Paul’s words and Nikki’s love for Victor. Meanwhile, Nikki makes it clear to Meggie that Victor is off limits. When Chance runs into Chloe in the hallway, Chance can’t reciprocate her need for romance because his guilt over what happened with Heather. Meanwhile, Ronan listens to Heather’s conversation with Owen about him from a bug he planted in her apartment. Later, Chance tries to tell Chloe the truth as she is trying to seduce him but he is unable to come up with an explanation or break her heart. In their apartment, Heather tells Chance that Owen wouldn’t take Ronan off the case just as Chance tells Heather that he couldn’t tell Chloe the truth. Jana calls Kevin for help finding Ryder and when Kevin realizes that Ryder bolted because the cops are looking for him, Kevin tells Jana he is going to hack into Ryder’s service provider and try to get the GPS on his phone. Kevin tells Jana he isn’t going to lose his business because of his no good brother. Later, Jana finds Ryder in their room and Ryder asks Jana to run with him and after a moments consideration Jana decides to go. Outside their room, the security cameras catch them leaving. Paul arrives back at his apartment just as Nina decides to take off and give him time to catch up with Cricket. Things are a little awkward between them as they try to be casual about what she walked in on earlier. Later, as Christine is leaving Paul asks if things are okay between them and Chris assures him that they are but outside she lets her raw emotions show for a moment. Meanwhile, Heather and Chance wonder is Ronan has been spying on them and Ronan realizes that he is busted. Chance and Heather search the room and find the bug and realize that Ronan has heard more than they want him to. Ronan makes a mysterious call and says that they need to get rid of Chance. Nikki is shocked when Victor presents her with an engagement ring. Victor asks Nikki to marry him. Nina returns to Paul’s and Paul tells Nina that they need to take Chris’s word that she is happy for them. Meanwhile, Chris reveals that she is in G.C. to help warn someone they are in danger and she is there to help.

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Y&R’s Eileen Davidson Delivers the ‘Power Performance of the Week’

Taking on a DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) storyline on the soaps can be extraordinarily challenging for the performer who is tasked with making a clear distinction and delineation between the various alters of their character.

However, the other trick to playing this kind of story, is often having the various alters trying to hide the fact from those they know and love of what is truly going on with them, so as not to tip them off, as to what is happening to them as they battle for control of a person’s psyche.

The gold standard is One Life to Live icon Erika Slezak’s (ex-Viki) Emmy-winning and gut-wrenching and riveting DID storyline where we met Tori, Niki (although we met her earlier in the life of the show), Tommy, Princess, Jean and even her father, Victor.

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Now in 2024, The Young and the Restless’ Eileen Davidson is playing out a new DID storyline for the first time as Ashley Abbott. We knew decades ago that Ashley had a breakdown and has suffered psychological issues, but this has taken it to a new level. And, let’s be real, if you are going to give someone currently on a soap a DID story, who better than Davidson, who is used to playing multiple characters at one time as she did on Days of our Lives. Although on DAYS, each of the characters were their own distinct person, while now on Y&R, Ashley’s alters are fighting for control of her being,

Last week, on the Thursday, April 12th episode of the CBS soap opera, Davidson truly got to shine, as in front of the Abbott family and through what was supposed to be an intervention (they hadn’t figure out what the hell was happening to her), Ashley was flipping from alter to alter. We know there is Ms. Abbott, and Ash thus far, but there is said to be one more alter a-coming.

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In the key scenes, Davidson’s internal struggle was played pretty masterfully in a scene where she literally is in a tug of war with her alters and flings herself on the couch, while Jack (Peter Bergman), Diane (Susan Walters), Billy (Jason Thompson) and Traci (Beth Maitland) look on. Of course, there are the soap trope scenes of alters in handcuffs while the other is on the loose. And leave it to Billy to figure out Ashley is suffering from DID from his past experience.

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While this all seemed to spring from Ashley’s messy relationship with Tucker (Trevor St. John) and a throw back to an old car accident where she lost her unborn baby, is there some other underlying issue in Ashley’s past that was even more traumatizing that will be revealed as another trigger for this massive personality split? We shall see.

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In the meantime, Michael Fairman TV names Eileen Davidson’s work the Power Performance of the Week, and rest assured, come 2025, Davidson will find herself going for the third Daytime Emmy win as Lead Actress for this storyline.

So, let us know, what did you think of Eileen’s performance? Are you enjoying Ashley’s DID storyline? What do you think will happen to her next? Comment below.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: “Sugar Sugar! Oh, Honey Honey”

The Bold and the Beautiful revealed at the end of the Friday April 13th episode what many viewers had guessed, that it wasn’t Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) who died when Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) stabbed her, but it had to her doppelgänger, Sugar, or at least it seems that way.

Deacon (Sean Kanan) has been beside himself since seeing what was supposed to be Sheila’s body being cremated, but revealing the body had ten toes and not nine, and we all know Sheila had cut off her toe, so she only had nine.

While explaining his thoughts that she is alive to Finn (Tanner Novlan) and then trying later to explain to Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), Deacon is more convinced that something is wrong here. Meanwhile, Finn went to talk to Steffy about Deacon’s theory, which stuns her, as she believed she killed Sheila in self-defense.

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At Il Giardino, Deacon looks at his phone then slams it down. He flashes back to the body going into the crematorium oven saying to himself, “Maybe I’m not going crazy. Maybe that wasn’t you. And if that wasn’t you, maybe you’re out there. Maybe you need my help.”

Deacon gets on Sheila’s laptop and tries to find something that might help him figure out where Sheila has gone. He looks at her text message communications and sees a section from an unknown number. He opens the messages, and Deacon reads that they’re from someone named “Sugar.”  That person said she was going to find Sheila. In the messages, Sheila made it clear she wanted no part of her. But it could be that Sheila met up with Sugar, or was forced too?

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In a quick history lesson about the character of Sugar: she was originally played by Robin Mattson on B&B, and was a former prison warden who helped Sheila escape and then joined her in kidnapping Ridge Forrester to hold him for ransom. A twisted plot ensued, where flames engulfed the foundry they were at and Ridge was presumed dead. Meanwhile, Sheila and Sugar disappeared with Massimo and Sheila’s baby, Diana.

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Fast forward to 2006, Sheila returned to Genoa City to go after Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman) again and was arrested for attacking Scott Grainger (Peter Barton). In a shocker, when Lauren went to visit Sheila in the slammer, she learned that the woman behind bars was actually Sugar, who had been given plastic surgery and now looks exactly like Sheila.

Now the questions become, did Sheila know that Sugar was going to attack Steffy? Did they have a plan and it went awry, or was Sheila hoping she could get rid of both Sugar and Steffy, by having her daughter-in-law sent to prison for her “murder”? Or, is Sheila out there somewhere in trouble?

Share your theories via the comment section below, and if you knew all along that it would be revealed that Sugar is the person who actually died and not Sheila. But first, check out next week on B&B where Deacon gets a visit from Lauren.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Drew and Nina Get Physical; Were You Surprised or Did You Expect it to Happen?

On the Tuesday, April 9th episode of General Hospital, Drew (Cameron Mathison) and Nina’s (Cynthia Watros) explosive relationship just turned up the heat another notch.

In story, Nina who was responsible (although she doesn’t see it that way) for Drew being sent to prison for insider trading when she tipped off the SEC, let out her feelings to him about how to get back in the good graces of her daughter, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and Michael (Chad Duell). In doing so, she asks him for his help with it.

For months, the two have had nothing short of contentious moments, where Drew has not let Nina off the hook for what he did to him, or to his ex Carly (Laura Wright). Fast-forward and when alone in the Crimson office, Nina brings up wanting to stick it to Carly again.

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As they banter back and forth, Drew can’t figure out why he should help Nina at all with any of her manipulations. Suddenly, as he tried to exit, his shirt rips and exposes his bare chest and abs, and Nina get quite an eyeful. From there, things become physical and before you know it, Drew and Nina are making out and having their version of hate-sex.

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Cameron Mathison spoke to Soap Opera Digest on the shocking turn events, sharing, “I didn’t see it coming at all. I really didn’t. I think the audience did. Cynthia did some appearances and I guess the audience was ‘You and Drew, there’s some sexy chemistry there.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? Really?’ I didn’t even get it. So I love it that it was very unexpected. The writers saw it, too. And, I love that it’s not a typical way for two people to be … physical. I was gonna say intimate, but there’s not a lot of intimacy there. And then as soon as it’s over, it’s back to arguing and giving each other crap again. It was really cute and really well done.”

As the fallout for their office room romp will air on the Wednesday April 10th episode, just how will the two deal with the fact that they had this fiery passionate moment in the weeks and months ahead? Will this be Nina’s new plot to get at Carly to be seen with her ex? Will Drew and Nina never speak of this again? (Well, this is a soap opera, after all, that’s pretty doubtful), or is this part of a major reset for some of the characters on the canvas now that Patrick Mulcahey and Elizabeth Korte are co-head writing the show?

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Speaking on the aftermath of the tryst, Mathison added, “The two of them are both like, all right, let’s forget about that and move on. It’s like a weird kind of aggression attraction. There’s obviously attraction there, but I don’t think either of them expected it, and I think they’re both totally shocked and surprised by it. I think Drew gets a kick out of it whereas Nina is a little embarrassed by it.”

Now let us know, did you see this coming? Did you think Drew and Nina would have sex? What do you think of the story turn? Comment below.

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