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What was Old Is New Again
Dr. Pee out of Jack Abbott's life, it must be time for the return of an all-new Diane Jenkins in September.

New Noah Newman
What a wonder a few months in Paris will do a body. Noah Newman returns from French Fryland on or about Sep 21.

Compellingly Redundant
"You can't just switch off the love you have for someone, as much as you may want to," so says Sharon [Newman] Case, who believes the Nick/Phyllis Newman "love story" will go on, but with a "new twist".

"We had the Phyllis, Nick and Sharon love triangle, which was compelling. We saw Nick move on with his life. Years later, it's shifting to a Nick, Sharon and Adam triangle, and we're seeing Sharon moving on with her life. But really, we're still watching these two characters and what's been happening to them since their daughter died. Will they get back together? I don't know what the storyline is, but I know it will be compelling," a redundant Case said.

Mail Order Bride?
Not enough women in Genoa City for Neil Winters to pick from, Julia Pace Mitchell (photo) has been cast as Sofia, Tucker McCall's CFO, who could become Neil's new squeeze.

Gone For Good
Chance Chancellor (John Driscoll) and Ryder Callahan (Wilson Bethel) are toast; burned and tossed out of Genoa City. No word on any recast.

The Other Soap Opera
In a published interview with Jess Walton it was said that Walton's performance during the Liz Foster dies days was "phenomenal" and that such sudden revelations concerning paternity happen like they did "in real life". Walton did not say on what planet and must have been performing for another soap because that's not what others saw.

KISS ASS INTERVIEWER
Your performances last week when Liz was dying were phenomenal. Now we learn, Jill is apparently part Fenmore. How did you feel when your character gets thrown around so many times, in so many directions, with mothers, jobs, men, etc? I think she is one of the soap characters who has changed course so many times, it's hard to keep up with her!

JESS:
It is, isn't it? I agree with you, and it used to bother me. I would try and keep a steady course with it, and now I can't. Now I just roll with the punches. It's impossible! For awhile there you just kind of say things like, "My character wouldn't do this, and who is this?" But now, I just kind of go, "Oh, my God. This is going to be fun", because it's something new, and it's something different.

KAI:
The episodes that just aired were very well written. It really made the audience aware of Jill's emptiness and issue of abandonment, and where it all stems from. Therefore, the viewers felt really bad for her.

JESS:
They were well written, and that is what you have to do, because when Jill goes off on her crazy tangents, I have got to balance it with some sympathy. Because, if the audience can a see a bit inside of her and understand her, and not just hate her, then it affects them. I thought the scenes with her brothers, Snapper and Greg, were just so good!

KAI:
It was sad to say goodbye to Julianna McCarthy as Liz, and then at the Friday tag you end up at Lauren's door. And this past Monday you explain to Lauren what you were told by Snapper via Liz, of Jill's biological background. What do you think of the Fenmore twist, it sort of came out of nowhere? However, the big question as to who is Jill's real mother is still a mystery.

JESS:
It all happened so fast. We had David Hasselhoff for a week, and Julianna as Liz, dies within a week and all of a sudden it's, "I am a Fenmore". And we really didn't have a chance to explore it much, but in real life that happens. My first thought as Jill is, "I actually know who my blood is, and I have a sister." And, Jill was very moved and touched and shocked from the death of Liz, but full of love for her sister. Lauren would actually be Jill's half-sister.

A Short Story
by Brent Kellogg

In a published report, Y&R's Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman) says she's planning a tell-all book about her troubled upbringing, admitting she thinks she'd be dead if it wasn't for the soap. Said to be usually a "private" person, Scott says the time is right to reveal details about her life in an autobiography. It helps to be on recurring status too.

"It's going to be very cathartic for me. Because I'm going to be talking about things that no one knows about me," Scott said. "Things about my childhood that no one has known about. I had a lot of adversity in my life when I was child."

No, really? Who among us hasn't had adversity in our lives?

Now 53, Scott was raised by her grandmother, a hoarder, and says she has not spoken to her mother in 25 years. Scott says her life would have ended up very differently if it hadn't been for Y&R.

"I have no idea where I would've been. Probably dead. I would probably be dead right now," Scott says.

Scott decided six months ago to write the book, and already has - 45 pages!

She says her story is one that "needs to be told".

Well shit, if Scott is already getting PR with only 45 pages written, I best get to work on my book: How Writing About Y&R Almost Killed Me

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