The Young and the Restless Comings and Goings: You’ll Never Guess Who’s Coming To GC!

By Janet Di Lauro Aug 20, 2017 11:19 a.m. ET

The Young and the Restless

Who’s coming and who’s going from The Young and the Restless (YR)?

Are any favorite performers from yesteryear returning to the daytime drama, this week, or in the near future? Have any new actors or actresses been cast on the show in con-tract, recurring or day player roles?

Are any well remembered or beloved stars from other soaps, past or present, about to join The Young and the Restless fold in surprise new parts?

Here’s the latest casting news from the CBS soap.

The week of August 21, 2017
Wayne Knight, remembered as Newman from Seinfeld, is headed to the soap. Look for the actor to pop up for a two-day guest stint, next month. Word is he’ll be playing Irv West, a music promoter.

Wayne Knight with the cast of The Young and the Restless. (Photo: CBS)

Kane Lieu is set for another appearance as Dr. Lieu. He’ll air on Monday, August 21.

Get ready for another trip down memory lane with the Abbott family on Thursday, August 24. Jonathan Stoddard is back as a young John Abbott. This time around he’s joined by Cathy Marks as a young Dina and Graham Taylor as a teenage Jack.

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Janet Di Lauro

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Janet Di Lauro is a contributing editor at Soap Opera Digest and a writer at Cynopsis.com and Soap Hub.com.
She has been writing about daytime and primetime television for over 30 years.
Prior to her current gigs, Janet ran ThoughtCo.com’s Days of our Lives website. She has built a career in daytime television coverage that has spanned over 30 years and includes a stint as the West Coast editor of Soap Opera Weekly magazine from the publication’s debut in 1989 through 2010. In addition, she was the features editor of Daytime TV magazine and editor of Soap Opera Stars magazine during her publishing years working in New York.
Based in California, Janet has interviewed daytime’s biggest stars, past and present, from Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso (Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives”) to Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children) to Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital) to Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless). In addition to her daytime work, she served as a contributing editor on the tween publication Pixie and was a feature editor on Reality Check magazine.