Reel to Real: Backstage, Twitter, & All Media Dram-ugh

[BoffoDaWonderSheep]

15 hours ago, boes said:

Where's Big Blue Plate?

It's been replaced by Big Blue Chinoiserie Pot, which is now on the mantel. (I've always wanted to use "Chinoiserie" in a sentence, so thanks!)

[lgprimes]

Just read a rumor that Kelly Monaco, who most recently played Sam McCall on GH, may be coming our way as a love interest for Billy.

I’m not a great fan of hers, tbh. Guess we will see how she does.

[Sake614]

31 minutes ago, lgprimes said:

Just read a rumor that Kelly Monaco, who most recently played Sam McCall on GH, may be coming our way as a love interest for Billy.

I’m not a great fan of hers, tbh. Guess we will see how she does.

Yeah I think that was more wishful thinking on he part of a KeMo fan who hasn’t seen JT as Billy. Someone on the GH board suggested it but I pointed out that Billy is awful and the writing for this show is even worse than GH. I just don’t see KeMo coming over but I could Br wrong.

[Kemper]

I am not that familiar with Kelly Monaco but could it be worse that bringing in "long lost" characters a lot of us have never heard of; especially family members.

[Artsda]

I doubt it, Billy has Sally it looks like. 

[Sake614]

So now that Abby and Devon are married, the show has taken Melissa Ordway off contract. Considering there’s been absolutely no story for her in years other than being Devon’s girlfriend now wife, I’m not surprised. 

[Denize]

Melissa also chopped off her hair.  I was just noticing her bad dye-job during the lead up to the wedding.

[Sake614]

28 minutes ago, Denize said:

Melissa also chopped off her hair.  I was just noticing her bad dye-job during the lead up to the wedding.

Yeah I saw her new ‘do. I hope she styles it better herself because it doesn’t look very good in that photo.

[surfgirl]

Oh that makes a ton of sense! Highlight a character and her lavish wedding, then take her off contract? WTAF?

[Artsda]

I thought she was off contact from before. She barely seen much. She's barely written as a Newman. 

[Sake614]

31 minutes ago, Artsda said:

She's barely written as a Newman

She’s never been written as a Newman or sn Abbot. She’s just kind of there when they need her. I like MO. She’s a decent actress but the writers clearly don’t care enough about the character to write any stories for her.

[Artsda]

They didn't even have her at the family meeting for her mom's DID. She found out last after everything handled. 

[ezzylin]

Here's the Soap Opera Digest interview with Josh Griffith.

Warning: contains spoilers and may cause eye rolling.

 

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/young-and-restless-exclusive-josh-griffith-on-sharon-nick-phyllis-ian-and-jordan/

 

 

[ezzylin]

Here's the Soap Opera Digest interview with Josh Griffith.

Contains spoilers and may cause eye rolling.

 

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/young-and-restless-exclusive-josh-griffith-on-sharon-nick-phyllis-ian-and-jordan/

 

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/yr-exclusive-ep-josh-griffith-on-a-new-man-for-lily-a-billy-love-triangle-and-more/

 

[Sake614]

Daniel Goddard (Cane) tweeted about ‘something spectacular’ coming and how much he misses his fans. Please Josh, I’m begging you, do NOT bring him back to YR!

https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/753485/is-daniel-goddard-returning-cane/

[Kemper]

10 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

Daniel Goddard (Cane) tweeted about ‘something spectacular’ coming and how much he misses his fans. Please Josh, I’m begging you, do NOT bring him back to YR!

https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/753485/is-daniel-goddard-returning-cane/

Maybe he is going to be in a new Hallmark movie. Let's go with that. Please.

[Sake614]

27 minutes ago, Kemper said:

Maybe he is going to be in a new Hallmark movie. Let's go with that. Please.

That works. Or a new horror movie. Anything is okay as long as he doesn’t return to the show. 

[Kemper]

It would be just like the writer(s) to marginalize a legacy character like Adam - who basically has turned into a sad sack that has no life - to bring back Cane. It isn't bad enough that we have to suffer through newbies like Claire and Nate's brother/cousin/whatever, etc.  Lily becoming another marginalized person; and dear God, I am so sick of Sharon. Abby has disappeared; as has Devon (not complaining). But hey! Lily needs Cane back to become relevant. Cane! The low talker/border line creepy stalker-y Aussie. Plus Jill has been ruined.

I mean...Cane!

 

[boes]

5 minutes ago, Kemper said:

Cane! The low talker/border line creepy stalker-y Aussie. Plus Jill has been ruined.

At least then Jill will have her favorite son back.

It says a lot when she and Katherine both liked that cow tipper from Down Undah more than they did their own family.  (That's when Katherine still thought Jill was her daughter and thought Billy was her grandson).

[Denize]

11 minutes ago, boes said:

It says a lot when she and Katherine both liked that cow tipper from Down Undah more than they did their own family. 

Wasn't he a cattle rustler, not just a tipper?

[boes]

1 minute ago, Denize said:

Wasn't he a cattle rustler, not just a tipper?

He was!  And now, remembering that's given me the giggles.  Show tried so many ways to build storylines around him and the harder they tried, the more they came off like discarded Carol Burnett Show skits.

Remember Genevieve, the evil identical twin brother and the dead sister?  And the disaster that was Colin?

[Sake614]

25 minutes ago, boes said:

Remember Genevieve, the evil identical twin brother and the dead sister?  And the disaster that was Colin?

I try very hard not to. Talk about a complete waste of daytime royalty! I love Tristan Rogers but damn, he really should have taken one look at the script and said ‘yeah no.’ Same for Genie.

[Peppermint]

Who Is this Griffith person, and what does he know about the backstory of the Y&R characters ?? Yeah, Ian is full of angst about Mariah, but that's really ancient history. That could be handled by simply screwing with/killing Sharon. An unrelated family need not be sacrificed for this. Dumb-Stupid-Waste of Film. 

Jordan has beef with the Newmans, of whom Sharon is NOT one [just ask TGVN]. Jordan got out of prison with an identity switch ?? Did Ian just ring up "Doppelgangers R Us" ?? Dumb-Stupid-Waste of Film.

Daisy is really the only logical person to have reason to kill Heather, in order to have access to her daughter again. Oh. Sorry. Logic. Sense. Reasons. Continuity.

Have the writers abandoned any attempt to make this shite make sense ?? Y'know, there are many year's worth of re-runs of Law and Order to watch instead of this....and THEY make sense. 

Used to listen to Soaps when they were 15 minute snippits on radio, then went to TV....now gone to crap...Munch and Ice T are more fun....Bye y'all.

[Js Nana]

17 minutes ago, Peppermint said:

Used to listen to Soaps when they were 15 minute snippits on radio, then went to TV

I have a lasting memory from when I was five seeing Bertha "Bert" Bauer, played by Charita Bauer, standing in the kitchen in a 15-minute, black & white, episode of The Guiding Light.

[MollyB]

2 hours ago, Peppermint said:

Bye y'all

Don’t be a stranger, Peppermint. The forum is still fun.🥹

[Denize]

17 hours ago, MollyB said:

Don’t be a stranger, Peppermint. The forum is still fun.🥹

The forum is more fun than the show!

[MollyB]

2 hours ago, Denize said:

The forum is more fun than the show!

.And a damn sight more intelligent. Happy Turkey Day, Preverts!

[boes]

Eric Braeden and his wife have had to evacuate from  their home due to the fires.  Here's hoping he and everyone else is safe and has a home to return to .

[Sake614]

Stafford posted a video of a woman starting a fire inLA and asked if anyone recognizes her. The whole situation is beyond awful. They could use a good rain storm right now. But without the lightning 

[Joimiaroxeu]

I can understand her being scared and upset, but perhaps MS should let the law enforcement and fire department authorities do their jobs. Social media vigilantism usually leads to mistaken identifications.

[Kimboweena]

Steve Ford, former Y&R actor and son of President Ford, did a really good job today reading his father’s eulogy for President Carter.

Edited January 10 by Kimboweena
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[luv2lurk]

7 hours ago, boes said:

Eric Braeden and his wife have had to evacuate from  their home due to the fires.  Here's hoping he and everyone else is safe and has a home to return to .

He did a very competent interview on CNN. Unfortunately he, like so many others, lost his house of 45 years. He said they will re-build and that it was Joshua Morrow who sent a picture confirming the loss.

I did have to laugh every time he referred to the "orange idiot".

 

3 hours ago, Kimboweena said:

Steve Ford, former Y&R actor and son of President Ford, did a really good job today reading his father’s eulogy for President Carter.

I agree, although I had a hard time recognizing him without hair 😁

[rcc]

What kind of jacket was Eric wearing on CNN? Couldn't tell. Melissa Egan also lost her house.

[Snaporaz]

I thought EB was awesome on CNN.  His comments about the disinformation and who is doing it and why they're doing it need to be said every damn day.

Steven Ford did look so different.  I thought it was one of President Ford's other sons until his name came up on the screen.

[Denize]

On 1/9/2025 at 10:22 PM, Kimboweena said:

Steve Ford, former Y&R actor and son of President Ford, did a really good job today reading his father’s eulogy for President Carter.

Apparently Gerald Ford had made an agreement with Carter during their lifetimes to write and read the other’s eulogy at their funeral. But, given that Ford—who died in 2006—was 11 years older than Carter, he previously tapped his son Steven Ford to read the eulogy on his behalf.

Edited January 11 by Denize

[Js Nana]

On 1/10/2025 at 3:29 AM, luv2lurk said:

I did have to laugh every time he referred to the "orange idiot".

EB knows an "idiot," orange or otherwise, when he sees one; he was born Hans-Jörg Gudegast in a small village in Germany in 1941 where his father was the mayor and a member of the Nazi party, something which led him to devote his life to working to prevent anything like what happened in Germany between 1933 and 1945 to ever happen anywhere ever again.

Very sorry to hear about EB and MCE losing their homes in the fire; we should also keep what's happening conflagration-wise to the behind-the-scenes Y&R folks in our thoughts as well, without whom EB and MCE and the rest of the cast would be standing in an empty studio reciting lines at each other.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

On 1/10/2025 at 11:21 PM, Snaporaz said:

I thought EB was awesome on CNN.  His comments about the disinformation and who is doing it and why they're doing it need to be said every damn day.

Steven Ford did look so different.  I thought it was one of President Ford's other sons until his name came up on the screen.

I recognized his voice first.  Loved him when he was on the show.

[Denize]

Apparently, a day or so earlier, Josh Morrow went around barricades to snap a photo of EB's house.  I guess if any police had questioned him, he could have said he was checking it out for his "father".

[Sake614]

So as of right now, EB, AH and MCE have all lost their homes to the fires. 😢