The drama behind the scenes of CBS’s daytime drama The Young and the Restless is more entertaining than what is currently going down on screen, which would probably explain why the sinking soap opera has lost over one million viewers in the last six months.
The Young and the Restless fans have been in an uproar since Jill Farren Phelps took over the popular soap opera, and began her reign of terror. Aside from the scandalous firing of fan favorite Michael Muhney, who played the popular character Adam Newman, Jill also let go Billy Miller and Michelle Stafford resigned and headed over to General Hospital. Although Michelle claims she was just not happy with playing her character Phyllis anymore, multiple media sources reported that there was bad blood between Stafford and Phelps.
It has been over five months since Muhney was accused of allegedly groping his co-star Hunter King, and Jill Farren Phelps fired him. And, we know from industry sources the Jill, executive producer, still hasn’t brought on a new actor to replace Muhney as Adam Newman. So many fans have protested Muhney’s firing and caused such an uproar, it is no secret that whoever takes on the role will likely be ridiculed and rejected by fans. No decent actor will touch the role of Adam Newman with a five foot pole right now.
According to Highlight Hollywood, Jill Farren Phelps’ job is on the line, and the fans aren’t the only ones who are disgusted and fed up with her butchering The Young and the Restless, TPTB are starting to take notice. Phelps is desperately trying to clean up the mess that she has made, and recently begged an actor she’d let go to return to Y&R. The implication in the article is that actor is Billy Miller or Michael Muhney as both former Y&R stars’ pictures adorn the post at that point.
Highlight Hollywood reports:
“Just last week, Firing Phelps realized that she made a massive mistake in letting go one of the show’s popular and talented actors. She approached this actor to return. However, she made a colossal error of judgment. Her arrogance is the size of the Grand Canyon, and she made a terrible offer, and not only was she quickly rebuffed, but she was told that it is her incompetence in producing the show and bad writing and bad treatment of the show’s actor, for the reason the show is now losing millions of viewers. Jill Farren Phelps is in real danger now of losing her job.”
There is so much politics at play behind the scenes of The Young and the Restless, it’s impossible to know exactly what is going on between JFP, the cast, and SONY. Do we believe that Jill Farren Phelps’ job is on the line? Absolutely. Is there any truth to the rumor that she begged Billy Miller and/or Michael Muhney to return to Y&R? Well, that’s up to you to decide. Personally I think it’s more likely JFP went after Billy Miller than Michael Muhney, given that Billy left the show with far less bad blood between him and CBS than did MM. Let us know what you think in the comment section below!
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