The Young and the Restless celebrated the milestone of the 12000th episode in late November this year.
During this long tenure, Y&R has had an array of characters whose interesting storylines
have kept the viewers engaged and entertained.
Y&R’s sister soap, The Bold and the Beautiful, is another long-running soap opera on CBS
which aired its 8000th episode back in January 2019.
Over the years, some of the mainstays from Y&R have appeared in B&B and vice versa either
for special crossover episodes or because they left one show to join the other.
In this video, we will be talking about 14 such times when Y&R and B&B exchanged their cast members.
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Kimberlin Brown debuted on Y&R in 1990 playing a villainous role as Sheila Carter.
Ever since, she has been making recurring appearances on the show, making her final
appearance in 2018.
Over the years, on Y&R, she has been famous for her run-ins with Tracey E. Bregman’s
character, Lauren Fenmore.
Besides, she has appeared on B&B on numerous occasions and has nailed her diabolical role
by tangling with the Forresters, Brooke, Taylor, and so on.
Her final appearance on B&B was also in 2018.
Tracey Bregman has been playing the role of Lauren Fenmore on Y&R since 1983.
Once when her on-screen arch-enemy, Sheila, flew to L.A. after having a showdown with
her, Tracey also had a chance to appear on B&B.
While in L.A., her character also romanced Eric Forrester for a brief time.
On their way back to Genoa City, both Sheila and Lauren faced death after a plane almost
froze them to death.
In the late 90s, Eric Braeden had a guest appearance on B&B.
In the crossover storyline, Victor Newman was involved with B&B’s frontline characters
like Brooke, Ridge, and Taylor.
After making his television debut on Days of Our Lives in 1984, Don Diamont landed the
role of Brad Carlton in Y&R in 1985.
The character was killed off in 2009 in a drowning accident which saddened a lot of Y&R viewers.
Luckily, Diamont’s fans did not need to wait longer to see their favorite actor as
he was immediately cast in Bold and the Beautiful in a leading role as Bill Spencer, Jr.
Fans may remember, Diamont once appeared in B&B in 1993 as well playing the role of Brad Carlton.
Heather Tom made her daytime debut playing the role of Victoria Newman, the daughter
of Victor and Nikki on Y&R.
She exited the role in 2003 and landed a key role in B&B in 2007.
Ever since she has been playing the role of Katie Logan on B&B.
Peter Bergman, who plays the role of Jack Abbott in Y&R, has appeared in limited TV shows.
One of them is Bold and the Beautiful itself where he made a crossover appearance in a
couple of episodes in 1998 while representing Jabot Cosmetics to Forrester Creations.
Eileen has been playing the role of Ashley Abbott in Y&R since 1982.
She was a series regular until 2019, following which she has been making recurring appearances.
Back in 2007, she joined B&B and appeared as a series regular in the role of Ashley
Abbott for a year.
During her time at B&B, she was involved with Ridge Forrester and his brother Storm, and
was even engaged to Ridge.
She worked at Forrester Creations for about a year before finally returning to GC to look after Jabot.
Adrienne Frantz started out as Amber Moore in The Bold and the Beautiful in 1997.
She was a series regular on B&B until 2005, following which she joined Y&R reprising the
role of Amber Moore.
On both the shows, Adrienne played a feisty role tangling with Forresters on B&B and with
several characters on Y&R.
Adrienne has appeared in over 1200 episodes of B&B and about 400 episodes of Y&R.
Sean Kanan also started out from The Bold and the Beautiful.
He debuted on B&B in November 2000 playing the role of Deacon Sharpe and was last seen
on the show in 2017.
From 2009 to 2012 he made recurring appearances on Y&R playing the same role during which
he romanced Phyllis Summers and Nikki Newman as well.
In 1981, Katherine had a brief tenure at Y&R as Gretchen.
Then in 1987, she joined The Bold and the Beautiful and made her character Brooke Logan
a fixture on the show.
Meanwhile, she made guest appearances on crossover episodes in Y&R once in 1999 and once in 2007
playing the role of Brooke.
John portrayed the role of Lance Prentiss on The Young and the Restless from the mid-70s
to the early-80s.
Later when The Bold and the Beautiful premiered in 1987, he landed a major role on the show
as Eric Forrester.
Since then he has remained on the frontline of B&B while making crossover appearances
on Y&R to meet Lauren Fenmore.
Jeanne Cooper played the iconic role of Katherine Chancellor on Y&R.
The late actress had guested on B&B a couple of times to help Susan Flannery’s character, Stephanie Forrester.
Susan’s B&B character Stephanie Forrester appeared on Y&R in 1993 to inform Lauren Fenmore
about Sheila’s marriage to Eric.
Lauralee Bell has been an integral part of Y&R since 1983.
Once in 2007, her Y&R character Christine Blair flew to L.A. to help the Forresters with a legal matter.