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The Young and the Restless Coming and Goings: Soap Vet Joins, Others Return

See who’s coming and who’s leaving your favorite soaps for the week of November 20, 2023.

By Janet Di Lauro
judith chapman and colleen zenk on young and the restless.Judith Chapman and Colleen Zenk on Y&R.
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Who’s coming and who’s going from The Young and the Restless? Are any of your favorite performers from yesteryear returning to the daytime drama, this week, or in the not-too-far-off future?

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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 November 20, 2023

Daytime veteran Colleen Zenk is playing Claire’s (Hayley Erin) much-talked-about Aunt Jordan, the mastermind behind Nikki’s (Melody Thomas Scott) kidnapping. Zenk is best remembered for her role as Barbara Ryan on As the World Turns, a character she played from 1978 until the show was canceled in 2010. 

Some long-missing members of the Baldwin-Fisher family are finally resurfacing this week, just in time to celebrate Thanksgiving. Judith Chapman reprises her role as Gloria Abbott Bardwell, Greg Rikaart is back as Kevin Fisher, and Christian LeBlanc returns as Michael Baldwin. LeBlanc, who is making his first appearance since taking a medical leave to battle cancer, Chapman and Rikaart first appear on Wednesday, November 22.
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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