Y&R Spoilers Speculation: Claire Guns for Audra’s Job

Claire had barely been in her new position for a day before Y&R spoilers made it clear that she wanted Audra’s current job — and who knows what down the line. Are we making too big of an assumption based on a couple of scenes? Why we think we’re on the right track.

Y&R Spoilers Speculation

Exhibit A: What is Claire’s (Hayley Erin) point, otherwise, if not to stir things up? Sure, we’ve speculated that she might be Nick’s (Joshua Morrow) daughter via Sharon’s (Sharon Case) old friend, Grace (Jennifer Gareis, now Donna on Bold and the Beautiful). There has also been speculation that she might be baby Aria’s biological mother, here to get between Mariah (Camryn Grimes) and Tessa (Cait Fairbanks), or that she was one of the victims of Tucker’s (Trevor St. John) sexual assault cover-up.

The point is, she needs to have been added to the canvas for a reason. And since, so far, she’s just been kissing up to Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) while shooting side-eye at Audra, we’re going with the obvious: She’s here to do a Genoa City dinner theater production of All About Eve.

A Long Time Ago, in a Black and White Movie Far, Far Away

In that 1950 classic, Bette Davis hires Anne Baxter as her assistant – and ends up losing her job (for one performance) and nearly her man, as a result. Does Claire want Audra’s position at Newman Media? Does she want Kyle (Michael Mealor)? Who knows! But we do care!

Y&R Spoilers: Settling Down

Since work is the primary place we’ve seen Claire so far, then work is what we have to assume is her ultimate objective. She’s ambitious and ruthless. But why Newman Media? Why Audra? Why Nikki? We realize that, in the real world, the answer to all of those questions might well be: Because they’re there. But, for soap opera purposes, we hope there’s more to this story than just a rousing chorus of, “I want it all, and I want it now.”

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