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Signy Coleman (Hope Adams Wilson), will be returning to The Young & the Restless on February 11th. She will be part of the Victor Jr. returns story. Coleman in the original Hope and it will be good to see her back on Y&R. This is suppose to be a brief return to the soap.

This year The Young & the Restless will be celebrating their 35th Anniversary on the air. There is now a website up that has some classic clips from the show and information on the history of this long running soap. If you are a fan of The Young & the Restless than you should check this site out. The web address for this site is http://www.theyoungandtherestless.com/35th/.

Hunter Tylo has filed a wrongful death suit against the therapist who was counseling her son Michael, who last year died when he drown in a pool as a result of having a seizure. Tylo feels that the therapist gave her son the wrong diagnosis and this may have contributed to his death.

In an earlier blog I mention that The Young & the Restless has cast Chris Engen to play the role of Victor Jr. Victor Jr. is the son of Victor Newman and Hope. Engen had a role in the TV series Saints and Sinners. We should start seeing Victor Jr. starting February 12th. I have attach Engen picture along with this blog so you all can see what Victor Jr. will look like.

I thought that I would start to add classic CBS soap clips that I have found on Youtube to my blog. I think I may do a classic clip once a week. And thanks to all the people on Youtube who post some really good clips of the soaps. You make me remember why I became interested in this genre to begin with.

This week I will show a classic clip from Guiding Light.

This clip is when Roger Thorpe raped Holly. This air back in 1979 and was pretty taboo subject back then.

TV Guide is reporting that Elizabeth Hendrickson will be joining the cast of The Young & the Restless as someone from the fashion world who will be interacting with Lily. Hendrickson use to play Maggie on All My Children.

Singer Pat Benatar is said to have a guest role on The Young & the Restless. She is schedule to guest star sometime in February. She is suppose to help Karen (Nia Peebles) with her stage fright.

There are rumors going on in the different soap publications that Jennifer Landon (Gwen) and Jesse Soffer may be leaving As the World Turns before spring. Right now nothing has been confirm, but stay tuned.

Christopher Goutman, who is a director for As the World Turns was recently nominated for a Director’s Guild Award. This is Goutman third nomination in this category. He also has won several Daytime Emmy Awards for directing.

There have been rumors for months that The Young & the Restless were looking to cast the role of Victor Jr., who is Victor’s son by Hope. Soap Opera Digest is reporting that Chris Engen has been cast as Victor Jr. This would be a great time to bring in the character of Victor Jr., since Victor has pretty much alienated everyone else from his family. Here is hoping that this is not just another rumor and we will finally get to see what Victor’s youngest son is all about.

Stephanie Gatschet will be making a return appearance as Tammy on Guiding Light this month. She is schedule to appear January 22, 23, and the 25th. I am assuming she will most likely be returning as a ghost like she has done in past episodes since Tammy’s death last year. This will also coincide with the return Tom Pelphrey’s character Jonathan who will also be returning this month.

The NAACP announced their nominations for the 39th annual Image Award. Some of our favorite CBS soap stars received nominations. Bryton McClure (Devon) and Kristoff St.John (Neil) of The Young & the Restless received nominations for outstanding actor in a daytime drama. The Bold & the Beautiful’s Mykel Shannon Jenkins (Charlie) also received a nomination. The other actors in this category are Kamar de los Reyes and Tobias Truvillion from One Life to Live.

Only one actress on CBS received a nomination for outstanding actress in a daytime drama and that was Christel Khalil (Lily) from The Young & the Restless. The other actresses in this category are Brook Kerr from Passions, Nazanin Boniadi from General Hospital, Tika Sumpter from One Life to Live, and Tracey Ross also from Passions.

The award show will air February 14 on Fox. Congratulations to all the nominees.

Guiding Light has announce the date that Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan) will return to the soap. His return date will be on January 22, 2008. There is still no word on how long Pelphrey will be staying with the show.

The Young & the Restless are looking for someone to the play the roles of Sabrina who is suppose to be a friend of Victoria’s from Italy and Joseph who is suppose to have ties to the Newman family. Some are speculating that Joseph may actually end up being Victor Jr. Though with the ongoing writer’s strike I am not sure when these characters will actually be cast.

On today’s show look for the return of April Stevens. She will be on for a few episodes. She is Heather’s mom and Paul’s ex. April is now being played by Rebecca Staab, who had soap roles in Port Charles and Guiding Light.

It is being reported that Patrick Duffy (Stephen Logan) is out at The Bold & the Beautiful. If you have been watching the show in the last few weeks, Duffy’s story has basically wrap up. Since Stephen Logan is more of a recurring character, there is probably a good chance that we will see Duffy again sometime in the future on The Bold & the Beautiful.