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The Young and the Restless Comings and Goings: THIS Newcomer WILL Shake Things Up!

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from The Young and the Restless? 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 February 18, 201
Brytni Sarpy is joining the YR cast in the contract role of Elena Dawson. The actress has already begun filming scenes and is slated to begin airing this spring.

Sarpy made her daytime debut as Valerie Spencer on General Hospital back in 2015. She announced that her gig with the ABC soap had switched from contract to recurring in January 2016.

Lauren Woodland returns as attorney Brittany Hodges on Monday, February 18. The character will be back for an extended run as JT’s (Thad Luckinbill) murder case gets underway. Woodland was last on the canvas in September 2018

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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