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The Young and the Restless Comings and Goings: New Doc to Help Heroine

A soap vet joins Y&R cast as a new doctor to help a heroine.

By Janet Di Lauro
The Young and the Restless comings and goings April 22-26 with the Soap Hub logo across the bottom.There's a lot happening this week.
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Check out the latest casting moves from The Young and the Restless. Find out if any newcomers or popular veteran stars from yesteryear are joining the show this week or in the near future. Or if any of your favorite actors or actresses are leaving the CBS soap. 

The Week of April 22, 2024

Soap veteran Christopher Cousins is boarding the Genoa City soap. The actor has been cast as Alan Laurent, a psychiatrist and friend of Ashley’s (Eileen Davidson). He’ll make his first appearance on Tuesday, April 30.

Cousins got his daytime start as Greg Houston on Another World. He also played Colin Crowley on As the World Turns, Cain Rogan on One Life to Live, and, most recently, Dr. Kirk on General Hospital.

Colleen Zenk’s Jordan Howard rears her diabolical head yet again. Look for the character to meet with Melody Thomas Scott’s Nikki on Thursday, April 24.  

Jess Walton pops back in as Jill Abbott. She’ll interact with her team at Chancellor-Winters on Tuesday, April 23. 

Meanwhile, Veronica Redd is on the scene as Mamie Johnson, too. She’ll reconnect with Christel Khalil’s Lily on Tuesday, April 23.

Andre Hotchko appears as a truck driver on Tuesday, April 23. Look for Peter Bergman’s Jack to question him regarding Harrison’s abduction.
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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