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The Young and the Restless Comings and Goings: Familiar Faces BACK In GC!

By Janet Di Lauro
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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 contract, 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 December 31, 2018
Another week, another comeback. Jess Walton is set to resurface as Jill Atkinson. Look for the actress to make her first appearance on Thursday, January 3.

She’s also slated to air on Friday, January 4. Walton made her last return to the soap back in September for prominent scenes involving her TV son Billy’s (Jason Thompson) intervention.

Kelly Kruger will be back on the scene as Mackenzie Browning Hellstrom, this January. The actress shared a picture of herself on the show’s CBS studio lot on Instagram along with the message, “Any day in Genoa city is a great day!!! Get ready for some more Mac!!”

The Young and the Restless (YR) airs weekdays on CBS. Check your local listings for air times.

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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.

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