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Past Cast Members

MicheleMc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:15:31 CST

Cast Members to Remember	Others We Forgot?
Eileen Davidson Davetta Sherwood Adrianne Leon Kimberlyn Brown Pamela Bach (Mary Joe Mas Jaime Lyn Bauer Shemar Moore Victoria Rowell Tricia Cast Michael Damian Jennifer Gareis Ashley Jones Camryn Grimes Bryant Jones Scott Reeves Shari Shattuck Heather Tom Tonya Lee Williams	Philip Moon Marianne Rees Elizabeth Sung David Hasselhoff Adrianne Leon Ashley Bashioum David Tom David Lago Alexis Thorpe John Enos III Lyndsy Fonseca Eva Longoria Michael Evans Michael Corbett Heath Kizzier Peter Barton Rebecca Street J. Eddie Peck Josh Taylor John Castellanos Quinn Redeker

Y&R Comments & Opinions

puddincs — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:35:31 CDT

i have had Enif of Adam. it is time for him to get wants coming to him.he has took things to far
i don't think Ashley should get to keep the ranch. that ranch has been in the family for ever.
i think it is very heart braking that you'll would allow Adam to take Sharon's baby.i am a mother of two and that would be the end of the world for me.how long are you going to let this madness go on.
II have watched Y&R for many years..I am so bored with the Restless Style magazine stuff..also Jack and Sharon and Phyllis and Nick are in need of a life. Where is Dru?? Brad has become a lump..Nikki so desperate and dumb? I hate that gold-digger Sabrina..and Adam wow what a jack off.

Agreed - I wish Phyllis would just go away; Nikki and Victor are off again for a minute, but you know that will be different about a week from now; Jack is a tool; about the only people good on the show right now are Cane and Lily, and the writers are about to take that away from us too. Oh, yeah, and I do like the track they're taking with Gloria, having her take stock and try to make changes, but they dragged that out so long I almost stopped watching. If the Chloe debacle drags on much longer, I will stop watching -it's become so predictable, it's pointless.

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I am so sick of Nick and Sharon. Sharon needs to get a grip and stand on her own two feet. Yes Phyllis is annoying among other things but I the Nick and Sharon drama that she endures is at this time a big part of why she is that way. Sharon's baby needs to be Jack's, I think they deserve each other and Jack needs to go through a serious "Fatal Attraction" storyline with Mary Jane Benson. I definitely see that coming. I don't think Victor saw that coming when he hired her to get Jack though...this will be interesting.	I am so sick of Neil he acts just like he is the rule of Lily life.He needs to get an grip to himself.Cause if you notice her mind the whole time at dinner her mind was focused on cane.The man is a good guy.He was never behind the Chancellor's fortune.He never mentioned that.He treated all them fine.True enough he did lie about his identity.But Lily did ask him to tell the whole truth and she wouldn't be mad at him.But he chose to lie.That's wasn't good.And this Adam stuff it's sicken me.Cause what is he really trying to do.He like to evil things.I don;t like that role at AL.I know he could be an be actor but who's know the writer's got that going.Its awful.
Face cream needs to be over, so bored and don't even care anymore!!	Thank God this one is done.. Of course now that Gloria has lost all her money, she won't be able to pay Jabot so that is one way to keep it alive. Let's hope not.
I am so glad that jack and Sharon are not together anymore it just does not look right,he is so old being a 40 plus year old man you might think I would say"GO FOR IT STUD!" but no, their characters	Considering Jack was Nick's step dad, it is kind of gross that Sharon is sleeping with him.
are so different and he is so old it's just nasty. Jack is over 50. sorry I just had to add that. most 40 year olds these days look great. Like Neil, Brad, Phyllis, just to name a few	I am already sick of Jill and her assuming attitude to Katherine. The way she acts, I wouldn't want to be related to her either.
I think everyone needs to go to a monastery. No alcohol and no sex. We need a group called "Clean up Genoa City" get rid of the whores, drunks, and cheaters! maybe not, then GC would be a Ghost Town!!	Billy is becoming another Jack, only drunk. Get a life. Wonder how Jack will feel when he finds out that Billy may be the Daddy. Will the "always tell the truth" Sharon get a dose of her own or will Nicolas have to rescue her again.
Sharon may live with Jack & raise this baby as his but we know its Nick's so somewhere down the line they will have cause to try again to be together. But for now Sharon is being the noble one instead of a slut & old Jack is a happy boy on top of the world because he thinks this child is his. Wow Now Nick & Sharon can go around town giving each other those "looks"	Please, please, please let someone put a stop to Adam. Victor is suppose to be so smart and usually no one can get over on him. The writers are really making him seem so "DUMB". What happened to the amazing Victor? Please bring him back and Nikki also because the need to be together.
Looks like Billy is taking over where Jack left off. Restless Style is going to better than the local news from the media. No one has announced anything about his heart transplant other than close family and friends. Deacon is going to be the next subject of "Hot Topic" Keep Watching this is going to be interesting as it ties into Bold and the Beautiful!	Here we go again, Adam the snake has a reached a new low( taking Sharons baby from her and giving him to crazy Ashley.) Now that Victor is leaving the show; I am thinking of Xing this soap off my list. The writing hasn't been all that good since the GREAT STRIKE. Get some better material writers. You're killing me!

Cane and Lily

globalglamour — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:07:13 CDT

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How They Met: They met at Crimson Lights. Daniel was with Amber and Cane and Lily arrived.

First Kiss:Lily's Divorce Party

Obstacles to Their Love:Age Difference, Neil and lying scheming stalker chick Chloe.

Previous Romances (Him):Amber, would hardly call it a romance the nut drugged him and pretended to be married to him An old Australian girlfriend that betrayed him with his best mate. (no names given to protect the shameless)

Previous Romances (Her):married Daniel Romalotti Jr., dated Kevin Fisher(gave her an STD) and dated Billy Abbott

Wedding(s): didn't really happen that nasty Amber manipulated the situation as usual, she has NO class.
Daniel and Lily were married in a cheesy Las Vegas chapel by a bad Elvis impersonator. Lashing out at their parents this was an act of defiance and also a stance of their determination to be together no matter what.
WEll he proposed twice with his grandmother's gorgeous Sapphire diamond ring but she said "NO".

After 4 (YES 4) proposals, Lily finally said yes to Cane and they married in a beautiful church ceremony . Reception in "Paris" and an honeymoon in the Caribbean followed.

Children: miscarriage Drucila Jill or Phillip Neil. Humphrey Ashby ( dog lol)

Best Love Scenes:Valentine's Day their first time; when Lily seduced Cane at the Genoa City Athletic Club. Reserving a suite and filling it with all things that mirrored a Parisian getaway. She truly swept Cane off his feet and in March 2009 after he proposed for the 3rd time he took her back to his house and they made love in the master Bedroom

Betrayals: Was when Cane told Lily that he was only flirting with her. When Cane (tricked by Chloe) was too drunk to remember what happened. Chloe was pregnant after their supposed one night stand.

What They Have Overcome as a Couple: I think the best thing that they can overcome as a couple is to be a couple. The lost of their first child together: little drucilla or baby Drew. Cane's deception, and Lily's cancer diagnosis.

Add photos of the couple! beautiful, whoever posted the picture. They are a gorgeous couple! Fan of Cane and Lily (Lane) check this out: http://z11.invisionfree.com/A_Sweet_Temptation/index.php?

Baby Switch

hutsnjones — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:13:50 CDT

I have watched Y&R for many years. The baby switch story line was a good idea, but for the wrong person.. If you were gonna switch a baby, it shouldn't have been from Sharon to Ashley. All the loyal Y&R fans that I associate with totally agree that Adam and this "Doctor" should have been stopped long ago.. I feel that Y&R should do something immediately in regards to this matter, because I truly think this story line is truly unfair. I would have rather Y&R keep the secret of the baby, rather than the switch of the baby. I hope that "Faith" be returned to Sharon soon, and Adam be found out, and sent away from Genoa City for good..

Is Victor really dead?

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The People of Y&R

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Y&R Polls

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Y&R Music

Deepone — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:10:05 CDT

Collect your favorite tunes that have rocked Genoa City to the core.

Nadia's Theme starts off the show, but there's so much more to the music of the Young and the Restless. Use this page to keep a record of the most memorable tunes you hear on the show.

Have a question about a song you heard? Ask the community for help.

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Date	Song Title	Artist	When it Played
March 26, 1973	Nadia's Theme	Instrumental	Opening theme
May 2005	I am Your Child		Cassie lies in her hospital bed dying, while her loved ones surround her.
December 9, 2005	My One and Only Love	Chris Botti	Michael and Lauren's wedding reception
December 9, 2005	To Love Again	Chris Botti	Michael and Lauren's wedding reception
May 31, 2007	Sunshine	Michael Kisur	Sharon and Noah move into the mansion with Jack.
September 25, 2007	Killing Kind	Michael Kisur	Kevin visits Jana in prison.
October 2, 2007	Untouchable	Michael Kisur	Brad, Colleen, and Adrian have dinner together.
October 5, 2007	Somebody's Me	Enrique Iglesias	Cane listens to a CD that Lily gave to him.
October 25, 2007	Forever	Scott Bennett	JT plays Victoria's favorite song for her, while she lies in bed in a coma.
January 8, 2008	Take Your Time	Shanya Zaid	Sharon and Jack arrive home. Sharon begins kissing Jack and the two eventually find themselves going upstairs to the bedroom.
February 8,2008	All I'm Sure Of Is You	Todd Herzog	JT & Victoria's wedding night song.
February 14, 2008	For All Time	Nia Peoples	Karen singing at Indigo and montage at end of episode
March 26, 2008	Getting So Much Better	Michael Damian (Danny Romalotti)	Danny performed this song at the Restless Style launch party.
May 2, 2008	You're Gonna Miss This	Trace Adkins	Trace performed live for Phyllis for her & Nick's anniversary.
May 26, 2008	Never Ending	Fisher	Played while Nick and Sharon are at Cassie's grave at the end of the Memmorial Day episode.
June 12, 2008	I Kissed a Girl (and I liked it)	Katy Perry	Played during the Restless Style photo shoot with Katy Perry.
June 18, 2008	Beautiful Life	Michael Kisur	Plays at the end of the show with various scenes: Nikki happily greeting her new horse and more....
June 17, 2008	I'll Take Your Love With Me	Michael Kisur	Plays at the very end of the show.

July 21, 2008	Sleepy Time	Jamia Simone Nash	Ana sings this song to baby Reed at Indigo.
August 14, 2008	Hold On	Ged Flood	Played in the background as Daniel talked to Amber while she was sleeping on the couch.
Sept. 12, 2008	HOLD ME	Bill Cinque	Plays at the end of episode.
Sept. 23, 2008	It's Over All Over Again	Bill Cinque	plays at end of episode
October 22, 2008	Dirty Little Secret	Michael Kisur	Played in BG as Jena & Kevin talk
November 19, 2008	You Won't Be There	Todd Herzog
February 6, 2009	"If You Didn't Love Me"	Michael Kisur	played while Tracey, Ashley and Victoria are standing at Bradley Carlton's grave.
April 14, 2009	"Time For Mercy"	Michael Kisur	played while Sharon is being booked for shoplifting
May 4, 2009	"The Ooh-Wee Song"	Jonny Blu	played while Nikki and Paul are dancing before Victor cuts in
May 4, 2009	"Hold Me Tight"	Sara Haze	plays while Billy and Mac dance. He kisses her as Chloe walks up.
May 11, 2009	"Once You Love Somebody"	Michael Kisur	played while Mac and Billy are talking at the bar
May 11, 2009	Precious Love	Amy Ward	Plays when Paul proposes to Nicki
May 18th, 2009	Happy	Secrets in Stereo	plays near end when all couples are in their own space/worlds - lilly/cane, jana/kevin, etc..
May 29, 2009	"The Rest Of My Life"	Michael Kisur	plays as Nick reflects on his life with Phyllis
May 29, 2009	"When I Had The Chance"	Michael Kisur	plays as Nick reflects on his life with Sharon
August 5, 2009	"I Will"	Michael Kisur	plays near end of episode as Nikki recalls her and Paul's engagement
August 4, 2009	"A Little Faith"	Helena Buscema	plays when Amber walks in and tells Jana and Kevin that Daniel kicked her out
August 6, 2009	"Cause I Get To Love You"	Michael Weirmeir	plays at end of episode
October 1, 2009	"I Do"	Scott Bennett	plays as JT goes in to sit by Colleen's bedside

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i do scott bennet

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Joshua Morrow Photos

mammawkay — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:55:00 CDT

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Joshua Morrow and his beautiful wife, Tobe

Joshua, looking amazing	Photo came from the Y&R Fan Club

Cassie Newman

soapwiz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:24:02 CDT

Actress: Camryn Grimes (1997-2005; 2007, 2009 recurring)

Nicknames: "Squirt" (by Nicholas Newman)
"Peanut" (by Tony Viscardi)

Occupation at time of death: Freshman at Walnut Grove Academy

Resided at: Newman Ranch 421 Larkspur Trail Highway B

Spouse: None

Marriages: none

Relatives: Frank Barritt (biological father)
Sharon Abbott (biologicial mother)
Nicholas Newman (father; via adoption)
Alice Johnson (mother; via adoption)
Noah Newman (half-brother)
Doris Collins (grandmother)
Victor Newman (grandfather; via adoption)
Nikki Chow (grandmother; via adoption)
Millie Johnson (grandmother; via adoption)
Albert Miller (great-grandfather; via adoption)
Cora Miller (great-grandmother; via adoption, deceased)
Nick Reed (great-grandfather; via adoption, deceased)
Matt Miller (great-uncle; via adoption)
Dr. Casey Reed (great aunt; via adoption)
Victoria Newman-Hellstrom (aunt; via adoption)
Adam Wilson (uncle; via adoption)
Abby Carlton (aunt; via adoption)
Eve Howard (niece; via adoption, deceased)
Reed Hellstrom (cousin; via adoption)

Children: none

Friends: Lily Winters, Daniel Romalotti, Devon Hamilton, Mackenzie Browning.

Enemies: None

Her reputation in town: Sharon Abbott's daugther, sweet. Everybody loved her.

Most memorable scenes: Her tragic death.

Unforgettable lines:

Defining episodes: lying on her death bed while surrouded by her loved ones.

Young and Restless character history:

Cassie Newman was the daughter of Sharon Abbott and Frank Barritt, and was given up at birth as Sharon was only 16 at the time. When Cassie was six years old, Sharon's friend Grace Turner decided to track Cassie down, as it was believed that Sharon and Nick's newborn son, Noah, was going to die. Cassie had been adopted by a woman named Alice Johnson, who had abandoned Cassie, leaving her with her frail, elderly mother, Millie. Grace pleaded with Millie to let her return Cassie to her birth mother, Sharon. Millie reluctantly agreed, realizing that Sharon could give the child a better life than she ever could.

However, Noah survived, and Grace decided to keep Cassie and raise her indefinitely with her boyfriend Tony. Sharon met Cassie, but was unaware that she was her daughter. After well over a year, Tony pressed Grace to tell Sharon the truth. She did, and Cassie was eventually returned to Sharon and adopted by Nick. Cassie had a relatively normal, happy childhood, with the exception of almost drowning in in frozen pond at age eleven.
In 2005, Cassie turned fourteen, developed a crush on Daniel Romalotti (who was two years her senior) and yearned to be one of the "popular kids" at school, so she began to socialise with the older teens; Daniel, Lily, Colleen, Devon and Sierra. All five of them laughed behind Cassie's back at her attempts to act "mature" (drinking coffee; skipping classes; being rude to her mother).

Cassie sneaked out to a party late at night, under the pretence of going to a movie with her friend Ali. There, she found a drunken Daniel passed out and clearly unable to drive home. She helped Daniel into the back of his car and decided to drive him home herself (despite being under-age and without a license). She crashed the car, injuring herself and, to a lesser extent, Daniel. They two were rushed to hospital with no memory of the crash, and it was believed that Daniel had been driving drunk. A severely injured Cassie remembered that she had been driving and staggered out of the hospital to find him. She found him with Lily at Crimson Lights, but was barely able to speak. She collapsed and was rushed back to hospital, where she later died after whispering the truth about the accident to Nick.

After her death, Cassie appeared on multiple occasions to Nick (and once to Sharon) as a hallucination or spirit. During one of his visits to his son Jack, the late John Abbott relayed a message from Cassie for Sharon as well--confirming that Cassie's spirit was alive and well.

Credit: Wikipedia

Year	Details of What Happened

Cassie, what a sweet precious innocent little girl. Why did they have to kill her off???
Sharon, Cassie & Grace	Sharon, Nick, Alice or Grace & Cassie
Raul, Mrs. C, & Cassie	Cassie & Nate
	Cassie wins the Golden Globe Award. And then they killed her off!!! :-[



	Cassie with teen cast
	Cassie's last days.. :'-{

Sharon Case

soapwiz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:14:40 CDT

Birthday: February 9, 1971 (38)
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Where she grew up: Los Angelos, CA
Where she lives now: Los Angelos, CA
Year she joined Y&R: September 7, 1994

Family/relationships: Married to husband Sandy Corzine (April 2007)

Supercouple: Nicholas & Sharon Newman (The Young and the Restless) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_and_Sharon_Newman

Friends with all of theY&R co-starrs (but close friendships with): Melody Thomas Scott, Heather Tom, Lauralee Bell

Memorable quotes (on/off the set):

Report by Nelson Branco (2009) Sharon Case is performing her little heart out as Sharon learns she “lost” her baby. “This storyline is exciting,” Case tells Suds. But when I informed Case that Morrow endorsed a Phyllis-Nick pairing in a recent Soap Opera Digest story, her fighting words came out! “Oh, he did, did he?” the Emmy winner laughed and joked. “I’m going to get him for that!” Maybe Case will spit on Morrow! As for the recent controversy of actors influencing storyline, Case raises an interesting point. “Writers should have autonomy over scripts unless an actor has a really good idea, but as actors, sometimes we’re too close to the role to be objective,” she opines.

When she's not acting: Spending time with husband Sandy Corzane, and walks her dog, hangs out with friends.

Fascinating facts:

Scouted to be a model at 16 years old by an agent and went to Japan for modeling for a few years, came back to the states, and pursued acting, and became a full-fledge actress.

Acting bio (tv, movies, stage, awards, etc):

"Repressions" (2007)
Carpool Guy (2005)
"Wentworth" (2005)
Breast Men (1997)
The Young and the Restless (1994-present)-Sharon Newman
Valley of the Dolls (1994)
As the World Turns (1992-1993 series)
Diplomatic Immunity (1991)
General Hospital (1989 to 1990 series)

New Hallmark film in 2010 called: "Man of the House" co-starring David James Elliot of television show, "Jag"

Recently starred in web series with Kevin Schmidt (Y&R)

Awards/Recognition:

Daytime Emmys Winner, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1999)
Daytime Emmys Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress (1999, 2000, 2004)
Daytime Emmys Nomination, Outstanding Younger Lead Actress (1996, 1997)
Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress (2006)
Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress (2004)
Soap Opera Award, Hottest Female in a Daytime Drama (1998)

Sharon Case: Portrays Sharon Collins Newman

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Noah Newman

soapwiz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:16:31 CDT

Noah Newman's Photo Scrapbook | Played by Kevin Schmidt

Actor History: Kevin Schmidt (2008-present)

Hunter Allan (2005-2008)
Chase Ellison (2005)
Blake Woodruff (2004-2005)
McKay Giller (2001-2004)

Nicknames:
"Champ" (by Nicholas Newman)
"Sport" (by Nicholas Newman & Jack Abbott)

Occupation:
Student at Genoa City High School
Former Student at Walnut Grove Academy

Resides at:
Newman Ranch with his grandfather, Victor.

Relatives:

Nicholas Newman (father)
Sharon Abbott (mother)
Faith Collins Newman (sister)
Victor Newman (grandfather)
Nikki Newman (grandmother)
Ashley Newman (step-grandmother)
Albert Miller (great-grandfather)
Doris Collins (grandmother)
Matt Miller (great-uncle)
Dr. Casey Reed (great-aunt)
Victoria Newman-Hellstrom (aunt)
J.T Hellstrom (uncle) via marriage to Victoria
Adam Wilson (half-uncle)
Abby Carlton (half-aunt)
Reed Hellstrom (cousin)
Fisher (his dog)

Marriages: None

Children: None

Friends: Daniel Romalotti, Sam, Eden Gerick (girlfriend)

Enemies: Gloria Bardwell, Jeffrey Bardwell

His reputation in town: The son of Nick Newman and Sharon Abbott, and the grandson of the great Victor Newman.

Most memorable scenes: Losing his sister, Cassie, in a car crash, getting into a fight at school defending Jack Abbott, being rebellious after his parents' divorce.
Unforgettable lines:

Defining episodes: Thinking his father had been killed, finding out that his father was alive, finally accepting Jack Abbott as his step-dad, losing his sister, Cassie, in a car crash.

Young and Restless character history:

Sharon Collins married Nick Newman, son of wealthy industrialist Victor Newman. Sharon, being insecure in her marriage, skipped her birth control pills and told Nick she "accidentally" got pregnant. Nick tried to convince Sharon to have an abortion, feeling that they were not ready to become parents. Sharon nearly went through with it, but backed out at the last minute. Months later, Sharon fell on some ice and landed on her stomach. Baby Noah Christian Newman was born prematurely. When it appeared that Noah was going to die, Sharon's best friend Grace Turner and her boyfriend Tony Viscardi tracked down the baby Sharon gave up as a teenager in Madison, to help Sharon ease the pain of her loss. They returned with Cassie, then 5 years old. But Noah lived.

When Cassie was only 14, she was seriously injured in a car accident. She was getting better until she walked out of the hospital in search of Daniel Romalotti who was accused of driving the car, and she was later found and returned to the hospital in bad shape. Anxiously, her family held vigil while Cassie's fever escalated and Newman-financed specialists arrived too late to help. Victor, Nikki, Victoria, Noah, and Cassie's Grandma Doris, who arrived from her home in Eau Claire, sadly said their goodbyes and I love yous, and left her alone with Nick and Sharon. One last whisper in Nick's ear that the accident wasn't Daniel's fault, as he chokingly sang her a lullaby while Sharon hugged her, we saw flashbacks of the adorable child Cassie-the light of their lives-Cassie slipped away.

The memorial service was touching with memorial speeches given by Victor, Nikki, and Sharon. Noah placed Cassie's doll Cindy on her casket with a tear in his eye. During Nick's speech, which was more a threat against Daniel, he spotted Phyllis who had snuck in the back, spoke right at her, then marched to her afterward and demanded she leave. Jack ushered her out in embarrassment.

Life got rough for Noah, losing his sister so young, and with his parents so caught up in the death, he began acting out, throwing tantrums and saying hateful things. Sharon handled her loss, mostly just feeling responsible for letting Cassie go out that night and regretful for all the things Cassie missed out on in her life. Meanwhile Nick was angry, refused to accept any responsibility, and was out for revenge against Daniel. Daniel was charged with vehicular manslaughter, and he ran out on his bail, with Nick and Phyllis in hot pursuit, to California. It was later proven that Cassie was driving, but Noah's parents were torn apart by their loss and Nick's not being there for Sharon when she needed him most.

Months later, Nick began an affair with Phyllis who got pregnant, and Nick and Sharon were divorced. Then Sharon had an affair with Brad Carlton. Noah's new half-sister, Summer, was born, and Noah was thrilled. Then Nick and Phyllis were married, and Jack and Sharon were married with Noah as best man. They got Noah into therapy and gave him a puppy, who he named Fisher, to try to get him to stop acting out. Then Sharon and Nick went on a photo shoot, but their plane went down with everyone thinking they were dead. But Sharon hadn't been on the plane and returned. Nick was presumed dead for a month-further increasing Noah's anguish. Nick returned injured and with a memory loss of the past two years. But Phyllis was going to prison for extortion, and Noah was losing another person in his life. No wonder the kid was acting out and telling everyone he hated them! He even locked Fisher in the closet, "putting him in jail for being bad." Noah began seeing a psychologist, and appeared to be a pretty normal kid. One day everyone in GC seemed to be at Clear Springs when its underground parking structure and casino collapsed, trapping several of them inside. Sharon, Jack, and Nick were there to scout for a photo shoot. Nick was knocked out, and Jack pinned by debris, but Nick awoke and got Jack free. Sharon's leg was sprained, but they managed to find an opening in the rubble. Jack levered it open so that Nick and Sharon could escape, leaving him there still trapped. While waiting for rescue, Jack wrote a note to Sharon confessing how much he loved her. Meanwhile Amber crawled out of her crushed car and made her way to an elevator, finding Kay bruised and dirty inside, having been left there while her grandson Cane and JT crawled up the shaft for help. Also trapped were Adrian Korbel with a very pregnant Victoria, and Lauren and Noah trapped with Paul. Nikki and others stood vigil on the outside, waiting while rescuers cleared rubble and tried to get to the victims. Phyllis, still in prison, heard about it on TV, got no answer on Nick's cell phone, and got the news when she called Victor. Sharon and Nick walked out of the rubble, asking rescuers to go back for Jack. The rescuers said it was too dangerous, that methane was escaping and about to blow up, so our hero Victor, went in and rescued his worst enemy. Cane and JT made it out, but Cane fooled them into believing he'd had rescue training in Australia, and went back to rescue Kay and Amber. Sharon and Nick were relieved when Noah came out on a stretcher. Noah later had his spleen removed as a result of his injuries. Then the dead body of the construction foreman was removed. The reason Cane and Kay were there was to investigate him for shoddy work and kickbacks. Finally, Korbel and Victoria emerged, just as the methane blast occurred. Victoria was hit on the head with a rock, knocked out, and rolled down the pile of debris. In June 2008 Noah went away to summer camp at age ten, and returned in August fifteen years old and getting into trouble with his buddies who are into drinking beer and partying. He convinced his parents to let him attend Genoa City High School instead of Walnut Grove. Noah was rebuffed and called a loser by newcomer Eden, who is Michael Baldwin's half-sister, when he tried to befriend her. One night both were invited to a party in a warehouse. When Noah arrived he realized he was tricked into convincing his parents it was chaperoned and no drinking, then Eden stole his cell phone when he tried to leave. Out past curfew, Nick and Sharon burst in on the party and took Noah home just as the police were showing up and Eden sneaking away. Noah has since taken an interest in Eden, and persuaded her to go on a French Class trip to France. The trip went well and Noah was enjoying Paris, but Eden was bored and wanted to see the real Paris where her mother grew up. Meanwhile Sharon arrived to meet Noah and do some sightseeing with him, but has run into Nick who is there to find Victor. Eden and Noah went to the Père Lachaise Cemetery where Jim Morrison was buried, Eden opened up to Noah about her mother who grew up in Paris, and they ended up in an embrace. But they were interrupted by some young thugs who stole the necklace Eden's mother had left her, and roughed up Noah. Eden got away and called the police. The thugs got away dropping the necklace which Noah retrieved, and Noah and Eden were taken to the police station until Sharon was located and picked them up. Noah and Eden are becoming close and kissing when they can get away with it, since they were forbidden to see each other because of the trouble they got into in Paris. Once Kay Chancellor was supposedly dead, Kevin's temptation to spend the money she had left at Crimson Lights got the best of him, so Jana found out, disapproved, and although they needed it for repairs at Crimson Lights, she gave the remaining $60,000 to Lowell for the Ashram, thinking it would cleanse their karma. Jana and Kevin thought River had taken the money with him when he skipped town, but Kevin overheard Eden and Noah saying that they found it hidden in Eden's old teddybear and hid it in the tack house. Jana has had it with karma and being the June Cleaver of Genoa City, so helped Kevin steal the money back. In late January of 2009, Sharon went up to the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to be alone and think about what to do with her life after divorce papers were served on Jack. Brad showed up and declared his love, but Sharon sent him away. On the drive home, Brad had car trouble, got out, and heard the screams of Noah Newman who had gone skating with Eden and fallen through the ice. Brad died a hero after he pulled Noah from the hole in the ice, when he fell through himself and drowned. Meanwhile back in Genoa City, Abby and Colleen, concerned that Brad never showed for his dinner date with them, got JT and Billy to help search for him. Colleen and JT found Brad’s car about the same time Noah remembered and told Victoria that it was Brad who rescued him. JT and Colleen heard a boy playing on the ice scream as he discovered Brad's body showing through the ice. JT checked out the situation and had to deliver the bad news to Colleen. Colleen and Abby were both devastated by the news, and Victoria and Ashley commiserated over the loss of their former husbands. Noah and Sharon both felt guilty over Brad's death. Phyllis, knowing all to well that forbidding Noah and Eden to see each other would only push them together, talked Nick and Sharon into letting them see each other so long as they followed the rules of curfews and permission. That same evening they were tempted to have sex, but Noah wisely stopped it. Sharon began to experience black outs picking up random objects from other people's houses, then later wondering where they came from. After checking out at the bookstore, Sharon added books not paid for. Eden arrived with Noah, Noah left with Sharon, leaving the bag of books on the counter. Eden grabbed them to take to her, was caught by the security system, detained for shop-lifting, and the police were called. Meanwhile Sharon visited her mom in the hospital, and Doris recognized the same behaviors Sharon had as a teen over the guilt she felt when Doris became paralyzed. She asked Sharon if she wasn’t feeling similar guilt over Brad’s death, but Sharon denied it. Back at the bookstore, after Lauren and Michael had no success getting the owner to reconsider pressing charges, Eden was arrested, and later given into Michael’s custody at Juvenile Detention. When Sharon found out what happened, she had no recollection that she was involved, and attacked Nick for trying to help calm her panic. Once again, Noah and Eden were not allowed to see each other, but when Victor asked Noah to meet him later at the ranch, they showed up together early, thinking they could be alone there together. Instead they walked in on a surprise 16th birthday party for Noah, and Eden made a hasty exit. Victor gave Noah a new car for his birthday, despite the fact that he'd been misbehaving and his parents disapproved. Eden and Noah took off together for the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to be alone and have sex for the first time, but they reconsidered and had left by the time both Sharon and Nick got there to stop them. Once again, Sharon & Nick fell back into the old attraction and had sex there themselves. Nick admitted to Phyllis what had happened and suggested they separate until he could decide who he really wanted. They arrived at home to find Eden and Noah having sex on their couch. Nick spent the night at Victoria's, and Phyllis went crazy in Sharon's hotel room, screaming and cutting up her clothes. She discovered Sharon's stash of stolen items, and notified the police. When Sharon arrived back at her room, she was arrested for theft. Jack bailed her out, Nick accused Phyllis of setting her up, and Victor decided it was time Noah came to live with him. Once Sharon admitted she had been shoplifting, Eden, Noah and Michael were relieved that Eden was not guilty. Noah was so distressed that his father Nick asked Phyllis for a divorce and that his mother Sharon was expecting a baby, not even knowing who the father was, that he decided to consult Rafe about divorcing his parents and becoming emancipated, but Daniel talked him out of it.

Credit: Wikipedia

Year	Details of What Happened
2009	Noah goes skating at the twin lakes with Eden, where he falls through the ice and Brad saves him

Nicholas Newman's Photo Scrapbook

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Nicholas Newman

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Nicholas Newman's Photo Scrapbook | Played By Joshua Morrow

Actor History: Joshua Morrow (1994-present)

Marco and Stefan Flores (1989)
Unknown Actor (December 1989)
Griffin Ledner (1990 to January 1991)
John Nelson-Alden (1991 to 1994)
Joshua Morrow (1994 to present)

Name: Nicholas Christian Newman

Nicknames: "Nick" Newman

Occupation:
COO of Newman Enterprises
Partner with Phyllis in Restless Style magazine/webzine
Former Co-CEO of Newman Enterprises
Newman Enterprises Board Member
Former co-owner with Sharon of the Crimson Lights Coffee House chain
Graduate of GCU, president of his fraternity

Resides at:
The Tack House on the Newman Ranch

Spouse: Phyllis Summers Newman (May 1, 2007-present)

Past Marriages:
1. Sharon Collins (divorced)

Relatives: Victor Newman (father)
Nikki Chow (mother) Victoria Newman-Hellstrom (sister)
Adam Wilson (half-brother)
Abby Carlton (half-sister)
Albert Miller (paternal grandfather)
Cora Miller (paternal grandmother; deceased)
Nick Reed (maternal grandfather; deceased)
Matt Miller (uncle)
Dr. Casey Reed (aunt)
Eve Howard (niece; deceased)
Reed Hellstrom (nephew)

Children:

Cassie Ann Newman (daughter by adoption with Sharon Collins; deceased)
Noah Newman (son with Sharon Colins)
Faith Cassie Newman (new born baby girl with Sharon Collins)
Summer Newman (daughter with Phyllis, paternity still in question)

Friends: Neil Winters, Jack Abbott, Sharon Abbott

His reputation in town: A man who more often than not makes the wrong decisions for the right reasons.

Most memorable scenes:
June 29, 2007, after surviving a plane crash, Nick returned to Genoa City sans his memory of the past two years. He has to re-learn that his daughter Cassie is dead and his son Noah is now 10 years old. Seeing Noah for the first time since his return, Nick breaks down and later begins the grieving process for Cassie all over again as ex-wife, Sharon comforts him, Nick kisses Sharon in the hospital, and shocks Sharon & family.

Unforgettable lines: "My mind knows you moved on with Jack, but my heart is having a hard time playing catch-up" - to Sharon.

Defining episodes:
Cassie's death.
Coming back from the "dead" after a terrible plane crash.

Young and Restless character history

Nicholas was conceived during a night of passion between Victor and Nikki Newman while they were separated and headed toward divorce. Nikki went out of town to have her baby who was born on New Years Eve, 1988.

Nick grew up torn between two father figures he loved, his real father Victor and his stepfather Jack Abbott with whom he lived in early childhood. As a boy, Nick enjoyed soccer and Little League baseball. When he was 10, Nikki sent him to boarding school in Switzerland.

Nick returned as a 16 year old with raging hormones. He was dating Amy Wilson, a girl Nikki liked, who was willing to do anything including sleep with Nick to get him. Then he was introduced to Amy's best friend Sharon Collins, a sweet girl who worked a part time job to help her single paraplegic mother make ends meet. Nick fell for Sharon at first site but since she was dating Matt Clark, he stayed with Amy. Nick ended up winning Sharon from Matt, who hated Nick. Nick and Matt got into a fight, Matt kicked Nick's butt, and Victor swore he would teach his son to box. To get even, Matt raped Sharon. Sharon told no one but a therapist, who tried to help her deal with it.

Nikki objected strongly to Sharon, believing her a gold-digger. Mother and son fought, and Nick moved in with his father. Unlike Nikki, Victor adored Sharon and even paid for an operation for her mother which she could not afford. When Sharon and Nick beat out Amy and Matt as queen and king of the high school senior Polynesian dance, Matt took revenge. He told Nick that his virginal Sharon had given up a baby for adoption when she was 16. Nick didn't believe him and they got into a bad fist fight, and both were injured. Sharon admitted to Nick that it was all true, and Nick understood eventually.

Sharon and Nick were about to get married when Sharon admitted that Matt had raped her. Nick raced to Matt's apartment only to find him on the floor in a pool of blood. The police arrested Nick, who thought Sharon did it. When Matt came to, he said Nick was the one who shot him. Nick was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sharon and the Newman family were devastated. Victor tracked down Amy who was suffering from a serious trauma. He was convinced it was caused by something that happened the night Matt was shot. Upon seeing Matt, Amy remembered she had shot him after he raped her. Matt fled, Nick was released from prison, and Sharon and Nick married in a small ceremony as a disapproving Nikki looked on.

Not long after they married Sharon "accidentally" got pregnant. Nick wanted to wait and tried to talk her into an abortion - but Sharon couldn't do it.. Months later Sharon fell on the ice and went into early labor. When it appeared that their newborn baby Noah was going to die, Sharon's best friend Grace Turner who was now in Genoa City too and Grace's boyfriend Tony Viscardi tracked down Sharon's first child Cassie to help Sharon ease the pain of her loss. They convinced her adoptive Grandmother Millie to allow them to return Cassie, now 5 years old, to Genoa City to be united with her natural mother. But Noah lived, so Grace decided to keep Cassie until the "time was right" to tell Sharon. Grace fell in love with the engaging child, and kept the child's true identity to herself for over a year.

One night Nick was out partying with friends while Sharon stayed home ill. Grace was helping out by spending the night in the nursery, but actually plotting to steal Nick. Nick came home drunk and made love to a willing Grace, thinking she was his wife. The next morning when he realized his error he panicked and swore Grace to secrecy.

When Cassie's true identity came out, Nick had a hard time accepting her. Sharon moved out, but their love for one another brought them back together and Nick began to love Cassie as his own. Cassie went to live with Sharon, Nick, and Noah.

Grace used their secret to get a job as Nick's assistant at Newman, and renewed her attempts to steal Nick from Sharon. Sharon was going with Nick on a business trip, but when Noah fell sick, Grace went instead. Nick was angry with Sharon and allowed Grace to seduce him. Sharon showed up the next morning to surprise him, but was stunned and to hear outside the door Grace telling Nick that their lovemaking was incredible. Sharon moved out with the kids and would not forgive him for his infidelity.

Then Cassie's adoptive mother, Alice Johnson, re-appeared and hired lawyer Michael Baldwin to fight for the return of "her daughter." Sharon decided to take back the repentant Nick. Although Alice was about to win custody, Sharon and Nick were able to convince the jobless and flighty Alice that Cassie would be better off with them. Alice gave up her parental rights and Sharon was awarded custody of Cassie. After a waiting period, Cassie legally became a Newman when Nick adopted her.

Nick and Sharon bought Crimson Lights Coffee House, the scene of their courtship, to keep it from going out of business and so they would have something to work on together. They later opened a second one in Milwaukee, and have plans for a third. Victor hated the idea because it would take him away from Newman Enterprises. But Nick manages to handle both, as well as being a loving husband and father. So Victor is coming around to accepting it, admiring him for not neglecting his family in the process.

In 2000 the Newman's had a scare when Cassie tested positive for tuberculosis, but it turned out be inactive and was cured by antibiotics.

Matt Clark returned to town as Carter Mills, disguised by plastic surgery, and worked at Crimson Lights. He teamed up with Nick's old cellmate Larry "Wartman" Warton, both bent on revenge, plus Matt wanted Sharon for himself. Carter date rape drugged Tricia McNeil into sleeping with him, and used her to help set up Nick and put him in jail for selling drugs. Carter became a trusted employee whom they even considered as manager of their next franchise, and Sharon's confidant while Nick was in jail. One evening Carter was invited to dinner at their home, so he arranged for Nick to be very late. While waiting for Nick to arrive, Carter put a date rape drug in Sharon's margarita. Nick arrived just in time as Carter was about to rape the semi-conscious Sharon. Thinking she had drunk too much, Nick sent Carter home and helped Sharon to bed. Weeks later Tricia caught Carter attempting to rape Sharon at a cabin in the woods where he lured her, but Victor arrived and sent him running. Tricia picked Carter up and drove off a cliff expecting to kill them both. She survived with cuts and bruises, but the evil Carter/Matt had severe injuries and was expected to die. Carter deliberately pulled out his breathing tube, committing suicide to make Nick look like a murderer. With his dying words, he viciously told Nick that he had raped Sharon on "margarita night." But Nick was exonerated by the testimony of Tricia and Larry Warton.

Nick, finally out of jail and without the threat of Matt, lavishly romanced Sharon to help her get used to normal life again. Months later Sharon realized she was pregnant. Both knew that if Matt had told the truth, the baby could be his. Nick demanded a paternity test, but Sharon decided the risk before birth was too great, so was willing to trust that it was Nick's and have her baby no matter what. During a fight about this, Nick knocked over a chair, slammed out the door in a huff and drove off, creating a loud bang as his tire exploded against the curb at high speed. Fearful for Nick, Sharon ran for the door, tripped over the chair, and landed on her stomach. Her baby girl was delivered prematurely and later died. A paternity test showed the baby was indeed Nick's, so the couple split up when Sharon was unable to forgive him for more or less killing their unborn child due to his attitude.

Diego Guittierez seemed to be in the right place at the right time whenever Sharon needed a friend. Time after time, when Sharon was in crisis, Diego was there for her, but his intentions were always those of a friend. Just as there appeared to be hope that Nick and Sharon would get back together, Sharon caught Nick kissing another woman in the office at the coffee house and turned to Diego, but he rebuffed her several times. But one time too many, and Diego succumbed and made love with a needy Sharon who was jumping to conclusions that Nick was having an affair with Grace who she happened to see passing through town. Instead, Nick whisked her away on a second honeymoon, sure that once they were alone they would reconcile. Reconcile they did, but the guilty Sharon had a hard time enjoying herself.

Victoria, suspicious of the relationship between Diego and Sharon, feigned interest in Diego. But she fell for him in spite of her intentions, and they began an affair. One day, just as they were declaring their love, Sharon was admitting her dalliance with Diego to Nick. Nick took it very badly, beat up Diego, then called up Grace and let her sooth his bruised ego in bed. Victoria found out and broke up with Diego. All the Newmans found out and took sides with Nick or Sharon as they told the kids they were separating once again. Diego explained to all that would listen that it was only one time, it meant nothing, and he was not the aggressor. No one believed him but Victoria, who forgave him. Unfortunately this meant she had to go against her family's wishes to be with the man she loved. She moved out of the ranch, and she and Diego were temporarily living together in a hotel. Nick disowned her, Victor tried to pay off Diego while comforting Sharon, and Nikki tried to get everyone to give them some space when she wasn't berating Sharon for her foolishness. But two thugs beat up Diego, took the $100,000 Victor gave him, and Diego was later found and taken to the hospital as a John Doe. Victoria tracked him down. Although things didn't look good, as Diego was in serious condition, he recovered. Victoria was looking forward to buying a condo together, but Diego was more interested in revenge against the guys who beat him up. He arranged, with the help of Larry, to coerce Victor into setting them up. The plot worked for the most part, and the thugs were arrested. Victoria decided she didn't like the vengeful man Diego had become and broke it off. Diego hit the road again for parts unknown.

After much soul-searching Nick decided to give his marriage another chance. Bringing flowers and a present for Sharon, he paused at the window of their home to see Sharon kissing Nick's father Victor. Furious, Nick called off any idea of reconciliation. When confronted, Victor took the blame, although the mixed up Sharon was once again coming onto any man who was nice to her. Sharon decided her life was a mess and left town. Cassie felt betrayed and angry with her parents after Nick brushed her off, being more interested in berating Victor than comforting his daughter. She wandered off and fell through the ice on the Ranch pond. Nick finally realized she was missing a long time later, jumped into the pond and rescued Cassie. She was Care-flighted to the hospital and was in a coma for days. Meanwhile in the waiting room, Victor confessed to Nikki that he was caught by Nick kissing Sharon. Slap! "How COULD you?" Cassie eventually recovered, Nikki is at war with Sharon, but forgave Victor. Nick has made up with Sharon, though still has not forgiven Victor. Sharon came home with a new resolve to not be trod on by any Newman again. But Cassie has not forgiven Sharon for abandoning her. Suddenly Cassie's father Frank Barritt came to town and began trying to see her. Cassie wanted to know who he was, but her parents wouldn't tell.

Several months later, the Cosmetic Wars began, and tensions were high as nearly everyone's mate was the enemy. Victor was CEO of Newman and wife Nikki worked for Jabot. Jack was CEO of Jabot and wife Phyllis worked for Newman. Neil worked for Newman and then-fiancé Dru worked for Jabot. Not to mention Victoria and Nick whose parents were on opposite sides. Plus Victoria was resentful that Victor passed her over and mentored Nick to take over Newman one day, even though Nick was unable to forgive him for being too close with his wife Sharon. Newman Enterprises outbid Jabot to buy out Satine Cosmetics for Women of Color due to inside information that Dru let slip to Neil. Jabot decided to resurrect a similar shelved project of Ashley's called Tuvia to compete. Payback was had when Dru found out that Newman was trying to woo Satine creator, Damon Porter, as their chemist for the newly named Safra line. Dru stole him away to work for Jabot during Ashley's maternity leave. Jabot was still hurting financially, but saw Tuvia as their savior, depending on their reputation and fine product to put them back in the black. But Victor could not let Jabot win the war, so blackmailed Michael Baldwin into paying off large retailers to give them the prime shelf space normally held by Jabot.

With both product's rollout only a day away, Victor felt the need to find very pregnant Ashley where she was nesting at a resort just days away from delivery, to tell her not to worry - which of course made her worry all the more. The next day Safra was selling like hotcakes and finished a close second to Tuvia. The Abbotts were shocked, the Newmans jubilant. Nick smelled a rat. Ashley knew Victor pulled a fast one. She decided to drive to Genoa City to convince him to stop whatever he was doing to Jabot. Ashley's SUV was broad-sided just outside Genoa City, and Jack and Brad were on the scene as she was cut out of her SUV and rushed to the hospital battered and bruised. As Brad held the hand of the unconscious Ashley, the fetal heart monitor stopped. Ash was rushed into surgery, but the baby, named Robert after John's father, died. Nearly everyone blamed Victor Newman. John Abbott even went out to the ranch and punched Victor in the face. When Ash was told, she blamed herself - especially after Olivia delivered the news that Ash can have no more children. When Victor came to see Ash, she told him to go away! Brad went gunning for Victor to even the score. Meanwhile Ashley had another mental breakdown, as she happily showed people her newborn son which was nothing but a baby blanket, and refused to allow Brad to have a memorial service. Ashley got the help and medication she needed, and returned home.

Nick found out about Victor's dirty tricks, and turned him in to the Feds. Just afterward, Victor's brother Matt came to him with news that there father was still alive. After he'd abandoned his family when they were children, Albert had struck it rich and faked his death. But now Albert was really dying in a hospital in Toronto, and thought Victor should know. Victor was coerced into going, and insisted Nick accompany him. Albert turned out to be a nasty old man who still wanted nothing to do with his son. Victor let him know how he'd devastated him and haunted him his entire life, but that he'd become a success in spite of him, then left in tears.

Michael Baldwin and Victoria were falling for each other when Victor's illegal activities came out. She was so devastated and disappointed in her father, she left town. Victor felt Nick had betrayed him and disowned him. Nikki confronted Victor that his tricks had lost her $35 million investment in Jabot, but Victor claimed he did nothing wrong - this is how business is done. Unlike the rest of the Abbotts, Ashley let Victor know she was ashamed of him, but held no grudges. Victor was arrested and jailed the day before Christmas and refused bail. When Ashley found out, she visited him and convinced him to quit moping, accept bail and go home to his family for Christmas. Although Michael offered to take the rap, Victor insisted he make a deal with the DA's office to hopefully save his legal career. Nikki gave an impassioned speech at Victor's commercial bribery trial and Phyllis dealt the final blow to her marriage by also testifying on Victor's behalf. Phyllis asked Nick for her job back, but he turned her down. Victor was found guilty and in a last ditch attempt to keep from going to prison, offered Jack $75 million to settle. Jack laughed in his face as it was nowhere near what they lost. Victor was sentenced to do some major community service. After sentencing John and Ashley raked Jack over the coals for not consulting them about the settlement offer. They attempted to accept the settlement, but Victor pronounced the offer was now $20 million, and they declined. Victor later gave them an offer they couldn't refuse - the $75 million if they would fire Jack. Victor was told to come up with something spectacular for his Community Service project. He found a derelict former paint factory in a seedy part of town, and financed and supervised it's renovation into the Market Street Recreation Center with the help of neighborhood volunteers and young adult children of the Genoa City wealthy.

In late 2003 Sharon was shocked realize software entrepreneur, Cameron Kirsten, had arrived in town to make a deal with Newman, and Nick was handling it. It was revealed that while she was gone all those months, she met up with Kirsten in a bar in Denver, they went up to her hotel room, and Sharon ended up having sex with him and being beaten to a pulp. Sharon had been afraid to risk her marriage by reporting it to the police, so she stayed away long enough for her bruises to heal. Cameron began taunting and threatening Sharon that he would tell Nick about "their affair" until New Years eve, when he told her to meet her at a fleabag hotel for another round or else. Sharon met him there, but refused to go through with it. When Cameron attempted to rape her, Sharon clobbered him over the head with a champagne bottle. In a panic, she dragged the body down the back stairs and hid it behind a dumpster, and before long it was buried in snow. Cameron was declared missing, and Grace Turner arrived in Genoa City looking for him. It seems they were involved in a long-distance romance, and Grace was fraught with worry over his disappearance. Sharon had confided the events of New Years Eve to Attorney Michael Baldwin who kept advising her to go to the police. Instead, knowing the desk clerk could identify her, and because it was beginning to thaw, she moved the body. Sharon made a wrong turn, ended up at a dead end between buildings in a seedy part of town, and was surrounded by thugs who wanted to rape her. She talked them into opening the trunk for a blanket, but they got scared and fled when they saw the dead body inside. Sharon drove off into the night and ended up at a biker bar out by the lake. On the way out after using the restroom, Sharon ran into Grace who hassled her about her appearance and her panicked state. Sharon finally had enough, and took her to the back of the car to show her why she was panicking, but the trunk was empty. Sharon made it home, but was still jumpy for days. Grace dropped by often, accusing her of killing her boyfriend. Sharon began to be haunted by the rotting body of Cameron. Then old friend Larry Warton paid her a visit bruised and beaten, just released from the hospital, asked Sharon about the body. Sharon, relieved that she wasn't imagining what happened, and gratefully, confessed the whole story. It seemed he had seen her arrive at the bar that night, popped the trunk and taken the body and hid it for her. Sharon was relieved when Larry promised to keep mum. But the haunting kept on, and the police started asking questions. Sharon thought she was going crazy and insisted Larry show her the dead body. Larry took Sharon, accompanied by mother-in-law Nikki, whom Sharon had confided in, down into the wet, stinking, rat-infested sewer, and found the body. Although she could identify the clothes as Cameron's, the face was too decomposed to recognize. Sharon continued to be haunted by Cameron and taunted by Grace until the body was discovered. Much to everyone's shock, the body turned out to be that of Cassie's father Frank Barritt who had stopped trying to see Cassie around New Years, so Sharon became the #1 suspect. At her last haunting prior to her arrest, Cameron finally said, "Gotcha." to her, and sent her running screaming from the house. Later on after Cameron showed up at the Athletic Club, very much alive, Larry, Sharon, Michael Baldwin and Nick figured out that Grace was helping Cameron with his plot for revenge on Sharon and convinced her to help them expose him. The body was found eventually after it washed out of the sewer, and turned out to be Sharon's X-boyfriend and daughter Cassie's father Frank. Cameron had set Sharon up for Frank's murder! Luckily for Larry, when all was said and done, he was not implicated. But Cameron escaped in his private jet with Sharon held hostage. Nick stowed away in the plane and jumped Cameron. They managed to get him into a parachute, and all three bailed out of the plane. Cameron landed in a tree which broke his leg, but Nick and Sharon made him walk to civilization where they called the police and turned him over.

Their harrowing experience made it easier for Nick to forgive her this time, but it didn't take long for Sharon to get back into her life and become bored again. One night she followed Nikki to where she worked as an MC at Marilyn's Cabaret. Finding a secluded spot, Sharon was fascinated watching their best stripper Brittany (A/K/A Marilyn) perform. Sharon began fanaticizing about doing the same, but once Nikki and Nick found out, they tried to point her ambitions in another direction to save her children embarrassment. Nick helped Sharon get a job at Jabot as Spokesperson through Jack, and since Jabot was still in a bad financial situation, Nick was paying her salary under the table. Neil was disappointed when Victor named his son Nick CEO of Newman, and Neil became Chief Operating Officer and Right Hand to the CEO. Victor left town on another quest, leaving Nick in charge. A few weeks later Victor returned to find that Nick let the power go to his head, cancelled Neil's pet projects and refused Neil's advice, causing Neil to quit. Afraid his sister Victoria would return and demand her former position, Nick hired Drucilla Winters as Head of the Cosmetics Division, and Neil was rehired to mentor her. Not long afterward, Victoria returned from Italy. Nick also hired his wife Sharon away from Jabot to be Spokesperson for the Newman Cosmetic Line.

Their daughter Cassie turned 14 and began to hang out at Crimson Lights with her 16 year old friends Lily Winters and Sierra. It wasn't long before she was trying to act their age, and was caught being secretive, skipping school, and accepting a ride home with an older boy unknown to her parents, so Cassie was grounded. She had a crush on 16 year old Daniel Romalotti, but he and Lily were getting close - much to the distain of their parents who forbade them to see each other. Word was going around school about a secret party to be held in a park. All the older crowd was going, and Cassie just had to go too - especially since Daniel said he would be there. She managed to talk Nick into un-grounding her for the evening so she could "go to a movie" her long time friend Ali. Sharon didn't go for it, but Nick persuaded her to give in. Cassie ended up at the party to find Daniel drunk on beer trying to get over being separated from Lily. The party ended late, and everyone left. Cassie, who had not been drinking, assured her friends she had a way home, then found Daniel passed out in the back seat of his convertible. Deciding he was too drunk to get home, Cassie took his keys and started the car even though she hadn't a lesson or learner's permit. CRASH! Since both were thrown from the car, and neither remembered a thing, no one realized that Cassie had been driving. As soon as a bruised Daniel was able to leave the hospital, he was arrested and spent the night in jail. His mother Phyllis bailed him out, beside herself with the thought that the son she had lost for so many years could be taken from her again and imprisoned. Back in ICU after brain surgery, Cassie was fighting for her life. There was hope, so long as infection didn't set in. Suddenly, Cassie sits bolt upright - she remembers - SHE was driving! Daniel is in so much trouble, but she caused the accident. After attempts to tell her mother Sharon or to use the phone failed, she got out of bed, pulls out her IV, and donning her mother's trench coat, staggered out of the hospital intent on finding and telling Daniel! After several hours of worry by her family and friends, and searching by the police and detective Paul Williams, she somehow found her way to Crimson Lights. Lily and Daniel rushed to her as she was near collapse. As the exhausted Cassie attempted to tell Daniel the truth, but all she could get out was "crash." Someone called 911, Nick arrived shortly before the paramedics, and he accompanied her back to the hospital in the ambulance. Anxiously, her family held vigil while Cassie's fever heightened and Newman financed specialists arrived too late to help. Victor, Nikki, Victoria, brother Noah, and Grandma Doris who arrived from her home in Eau Claire, sadly said their goodbye's and I love you's, and left her alone with Nick and Sharon. One last whisper in Nick's ear that it wasn't Daniel's fault, as he chokingly sang her a lullaby while Sharon hugged her, we saw flashbacks of the adorable child Cassie - the light of their (and our) lives - Cassie slipped away.

The memorial service was touching with Grace, Millie and Alice conspicuously absent. Larry was said to be out of town, and messages were left for him. Memorial speeches were given by Victor, Nikki, and Sharon. Noah placed Cassie's doll Cindy on her casket with a tear in his eye. During Nick's speech, which was more a threat against Daniel, he spotted Phyllis who had snuck in the back, spoke right at her, then marched to her afterward and demanded she leave. Jack ushered her out in embarrassment.

Sharon handed her loss, mostly just feeling responsible for letting Cassie go out that night and regretful for all the things Cassie missed out on in her life. Meanwhile Nick was angry, refused to accept any responsibility, and was out for revenge against Daniel. Nick took a leave of absence from Newman, putting Victor back in charge. Daniel was charged with vehicular manslaughter. Out on bail, he went into hiding in the Abbott playhouse with the help of Lily Winters. When he didn't show up for his arraignment, a warrant was issued for his arrest. Lily decided to drive Daniel out of town to help him escape. The day after the funeral, Larry showed up at Sharon's door with comforting words about how lucky they were to have Cassie in their lives, and reminded Sharon that he holds Cassie responsible for changing his life. He took Sharon on an exhilarating motorcycle ride to help cheer her up.

Victoria accepted the position of Acting CEO at Newman, and Nick took it amazingly well when he returned from tracking down Daniel Romalotti, the young man he held responsible for his daughter's death. He insisted on firing Phyllis, but after telling Nick off, she retorted, "You can't fire me. I quit." Altho Sharon was comforted by Brad Carlton in Nick's absence, she was thrilled to welcome Nick home. Then Christine came to them asking for the clothes Cassie was wearing the night of the car accident, but Nick withheld the evidence. Nick was too caught up in rage and vengeance to worry about Newman Enterprises, his family, or the defendant's right to a fair trial, only intent on seeing Daniel PAY! Lily was out on bail, and Daniel went on trial for vehicular manslaughter where Christine and Paul failed to prove that Cassie was driving the car. But in a last minute save, Nick turned over the clothes Cassie was wearing that fateful night. The boot she was wearing matched a piece of a heel found under the accelerator, the judge determined that Cassie was driving and let Daniel go free. Lily's parents made a deal to send her away to boarding school in New Hampshire to get the DA to drop the charges against her.

While Nick was still angry over his daughter Cassie's death, Brad made plans with Sharon for her return to Newman working with him on the Beauty of Nature project. Nick and Sharon grew further apart while both were haunted by apparitions of Cassie. When Nick decided to return to Newman, Victor made him and Victoria Co-CEO's. Sharon grew closer to Brad and his daughter Abby, and was named Spokesperson for the line. They had a close call with intimacy when in Denver on a business trip, but Sharon was dedicated to working on her marriage. After his declaration of love for Sharon was rebuffed, Brad instead asked Victoria Newman to marry him and she accepted, although Brad and Ashley were not yet legally divorced. On Brad and Victoria's wedding day Sharon let Brad know she was about to be available for him, but was rebuffed and Brad married Victoria, much to her father Victor's dismay. Weeks later, Brad and Sharon had a one-night-stand but have not been found out. Brad has rebuffed Sharon's advances ever since but are still confidants.

Meanwhile, Nick and Phyllis Summers became attracted to each other, and began a steamy affair. Sharon found out, she and Nick separated. Sharon went to Brad for comfort, and they ended up having sex on a business trip to NYC. But after Daniel walked in finding his mother and Nick half-naked on the couch, the couple decided to call off their affair. After Nick had a vision where Cassie showed him how he imagined life would be had she not died (including a new baby girl named Faith), Nick showed up at home, and Sharon took him back. Nick and Phyllis continued to be thrown together by business, and they ended up stranded in New Mexico. They stopped at a Pepe's Roadhouse, danced and had a great time. The attraction was so great but they resisted and spent the night separately. Then Phyllis turned up pregnant, and broke it to Nick that it might also be Jack's, so Nick took a paternity test. When he received the test results he disappeared to think about his options. He returned a few days later, informed Phyllis that he was the father, but that he intended to stay with his family. Phyllis was disappointed, but insisted she could raise their child alone. Jack was disappointed too since he'd always hoped for a reconciliation with Phyllis. Jack began an affair with Carmen Mesta. Nick told Sharon the pregnancy news. She decided she didn't want Nick to stay out of obligation, ran out of the office screaming divorce and ended up in the parking garage pounding the steering wheel of her SUV. Brad discovered her there, and his consoling turned to heavy making out. Sharon saw Nick watching them, but continued on with Brad. Nick decided to tell Victoria that he caught her husband making out with Sharon, but Brad beat him to the punch and confessed that they'd shared a kiss - but that his heart belonged to Victoria. Victoria seemed to accept that, but secretly consulted a lawyer about how to get Brad's Newman stock if the marriage should end. Nick and Sharon told Noah about the divorce and Nick left to move into the Newman Executive Suite at the Genoa City Athletic Club, but turned up at Phyllis' door instead, and they made love. The next morning Phyllis and Nick showed up at Newman together and told Victor and Nikki about the divorce and pregnancy. Nikki was appalled, but Victor congratulated them.

Victoria confronted Sharon about kissing Brad, then fired her from Newman. Sharon went running to Brad who sent her on a mysterious errand to deliver a red tote bag to a car downtown for him. Brad's daughter Colleen confronted him with what she knew about his mysterious past, and accused him of kidnapping JT. Brad explained his past to Colleen, then hustled her and Abby off to the private jet where they met his mother Rebecca, and were jetted to safety in Hawaii. Meanwhile Sharon arrived at Brad's to find the door ajar, and being mistaken for Brad's wife, was kidnapped and held captive with JT in Cleveland. Brad received a call from the kidnapper telling him they had Sharon. Victoria and Brad went back to Newman, and brought Nick and Paul in on the case. Nikki volunteered to take Noah away on a mini-vacation to see her sister Casey to keep him safe and oblivious to the fact that his mother was missing. Brad had to explain to all his past as George Kaplan and that the kidnappers wanted an artifact called the Grudgeon Reliquary. Then JT was dumped on Brad's doorstep as a warning. After they wasted days trying to track down the Reliquary on the Internet and through art dealers, Victoria decided to create a fake using two other similar Grudgeon pieces. They took the fake to Cleveland and Nick met the kidnapper and his henchman for the exchange at a church. Meanwhile, misled by the kidnappers, Brad, Paul and JT were converging on the shipping crate where Sharon had been held which was booby-trapped with explosives. They disarmed it in time, then arrived just in time to rescue Nick & Sharon as explosives attached to Sharon were about to detonate. Brad ended up fighting with the bad guys, and killed them both after the head guy admitted he was the Oscar Volkmann, son of the Commandant who was executed after Brad's mother's testimony. All arrived safely back in GC and vowed to never tell what went on for everyone's safety.

Nick and Sharon divorced with joint custody of Noah, and Sharon received their house in the settlement. Nick and Phyllis moved into the Tack House on the Newman Ranch so Nick could be close to his son. Nick and Phyllis became engaged, and Nick threw Phyllis a fun engagement party hoedown style modeled after "their place "Pepe's" in New Mexico which included a visit from Rocky the dancing cowboy from there and a ruby engagement ring. Sharon and Jack Abbott began having an affair. After an attempt to get married prior to the 6 month waiting period was turned down by the judge, Nick and Phyllis eloped back to New Mexico at Pepe's, and returned to Genoa City married, and looking forward to the birth of their daughter.

Paul Williams managed to track Sheila to Argentina in October 2006 and discovered that she had undergone plastic surgery to look like Phyllis Summers, then had killed the plastic surgeon. Paul, later in October, discovered her buying baby things in Genoa City, and followed her to a warehouse where he trapped her in the cell she had constructed with the intention of imprisoning Lauren and stealing her baby Fen. He made her pose for a death photo at gunpoint and made up DNA samples to convince Lauren and Michael that she was killed when struck by a car in Argentina. Paul also let Phyllis and Nick know. Paul kept her imprisoned there undetected until December when Michael put a tracking bug on Paul's car and caught Paul bringing her food. Michael picked the lock and was shocked to discover "Phyllis" behind the bars. Paul appeared and tried to convince Michael that it was really Sheila, but it took a cell phone call to the real Phyllis to convince him. Knowing the authorities can never keep her contained, Paul and Michael shared a secret and the dilemma of what to do with her. Meanwhile Lauren and the real Phyllis were bonding through their pregnancies as she helped Lauren get through her post partum depression and anxiety attacks.

As a winter ice storm took out the power, Phyllis and Jack became trapped in the Newman elevator. Phyllis had been on her way to the hospital for a caesarean because her baby was in the breech position, but went into labor in the elevator instead. Fearful that the baby would not deliver normally and die, Phyllis implored Jack to cut the baby out of her using a nail scissors. But Jack ended up turning and delivering the baby, who was later named Summer Ann. Meanwhile, Nick was out in the storm rescuing Phyllis's son Daniel from a car wreck. Lily had to do CPR on Daniel while Nick sped them to the hospital. All were united later, Phyllis and baby were fine, and Daniel recovered with only broken ribs. Jack developed a close bond with Summer, and later set up a nursery for her at Newman. As like-injured parties by Phyllis and Nick's affair and marriage, Jack and Sharon began an affair and since were married. And an April remarriage in Genoa City was planned for Nick and Phyllis to make them legal, was postponed due to the disappearance and presumed death of Dru.

Detective Maggie Sullivan and Paul Williams began dating, and in her curiosity about Paul's frequent absence "on a stakeout" she tracked him by his cell phone to the warehouse. Sheila conned her into believing she was Phyllis, Maggie let her loose, then Sheila shot her with her own gun. Paul arrived later and was trapped in the cell too by Sheila when he came to Maggie's aid. Sheila then went to Phyllis's, tied her up and waiting for Lauren and baby Fen to arrive, taunting Phyllis about how great it would be to take over her life with her hot husband and new baby. After Lauren arrived she was tied up, and Sheila took Phyllis and babies Fen and Summer to a retirement home where she had an apartment. Michael eventually rescued Paul and a near-death Maggie from the warehouse cell, and they rescued Lauren. While Michael and Paul followed Sheila's walkie talkie signal which she planted to lure them elsewhere, Nick and Lauren with the aid of Kevin enhanced the background noise from her latest taunting call. Nick realized where they were and while they tried to find Paul, Lauren snuck out with the gun Paul had given her for security. Lauren found the apartment, broke in, and confronted the two Phyllises. Phyllis managed to convince Lauren she was the real one, and Lauren shot Sheila dead! Her dying words still taunting Lauren that she would never be rid of her and she had shot the wrong one, lead us to believe that this may have yet been another pawn of Sheila and she may still be out there and a threat. Phyllis is now livid with Michael and Lauren for endangering her and her baby Summer, and refuses to reconcile. Maggie recovered from her gunshot wound and did not tell the police about Paul or Michael holding Sheila in that cell, so they were not charged.

The controversial NVP spa project known as Clear Springs had everyone at Newman taking sides. Jack, Victor, Phyllis and Nick felt a large development would revitalize a dying town, and Nikki, Brad, and Victoria were opposed because it would wipe out historic structures in the town. Nikki and Neil ran for the vacant Newman board seat to boost the votes for their side, and thanks to Phyllis's blackmail of Brad over his affair with Sharon, Victor's yes-man Neil won, so they appeared to have the upper hand on Clear Springs. But Brad got Phyllis arrested for extortion, she was found guilty, and later went to prison.

As part of a plot to bring down Jack, Victor convinced Jack to run for the Wisconsin State Senate. Nikki was in on it, but in her anger at being passed over as a board member of Newman in favor of Neil, she decided to run against Jack. Victor was livid and reminded Nikki where she came from and where she would be if not for him! Meanwhile Jack continues to be visited by his conscience in the form of his dead father John, and appeared to be having second thoughts about the things he has done to control Victor during his epilepsy when he was vulnerable. Jack's campaign manager David Chow pulled a dirty trick by exposing Nikki's porn film 'Hot Hips' on the Internet to discredit her, so Jack fired him. Then Nikki hired him to pull the same sort of tricks on Jack. In what appeared to be a political move at the time, Jack and Sharon were married at the ranch with Noah as best man.

Victor and Sharon were scheduled to fly to Clear Springs, then Jack was going in Victor's place, but had to cancel. So Sharon and Nick ended taking the trip instead. On the return trip the Newman jet went down in Lake Michigan with no survivors. Sharon surprised everyone when she walked in on the Newmans and Jack just after they'd gotten the news. She was just as shocked to hear that her taking another flight had saved her life, and that Nick was missing and presumed dead. (It has since been suggested that the jet may have been sabotaged.) Noah and Nikki were devastated, but Nikki carried on with her State Senatorial campaign with the help of her campaign manager, David Chow. Victor abandoned them in their grief after Hope called, by taking off for Sri Lanka to search for their missing son Victor Jr. While Victor was away, David fell for Nikki, they got caught kissing by Phyllis and Sharon, and were exposed on videotape. Gloria got Kevin to monitor the security cameras at Jabot, which proved that Jack owned Jabot. So Jack quickly sold Jabot at a loss to Katherine Chancellor. In the end, Jack won the election and became State Senator, but later left in disgrace when his former step-other Gloria exposed him for falsifying his father's will that cut her out. Nick turned up lost in the woods, found by Internist Logan Armstrong and brought back to GC and his family. But Nick lost his memory of the past two years of his life, including his marriage to Phyllis and their baby Summer. Remembering only his love for Sharon, Nick tried to win her back even though she was married to Jack, but Sharon though tempted, wasn't interested. Nick began seeing Phyllis, curious as to why he ever hooked up with this person he remembers not even liking very much. When Noah started acting out for Sharon, Nick agreed to move back in with Phyllis so Noah could come live with them. Nick did not regain his memory, but it didn't take long for him to fall in love with Phyllis all over again. Then Phyllis was tried, found guilty of extortion, and went to prison. But Michael got her off after serving only a few months.

Victor returned as arrogant and controlling as ever, still intent on somehow bringing Jack down. It wasn't until weeks later, and after he'd agreed to sell NVP to Nikki, that Victor discovered Jack had sold Jabot to Katherine, so he had lost his leverage over Jack. Livid with Jack, Kay, and Ji Min for outwitting him, Victor lit into Nikki for not warning him, telling her he only sold her NVP so she would have to sell her Jabot stock, then he could go after Jack, not to please her! Nikki had enough of his pompous behavior, moved out, and have divorced again. Nikki asked David Chow to work for her running NVP, and they became lovers. Meanwhile Ji Min Kim turned up dead in his room at the GC Athletic Club. Victor and Jack were prime suspects

One day everyone in GC seemed to be at Clear Springs when its underground parking structure and casino collapsed, trapping several of them inside. Sharon, Jack, and Nick were there to scout for a photo shoot. Nick was knocked out, and Jack pinned by debris, but Nick awoke and got Jack free. Sharon's leg was sprained, but they managed to find an opening in the rubble. Jack levered it open so that Nick and Sharon could escape, leaving him there still trapped. While waiting for rescue, Jack wrote a note to Sharon confessing how much he loved her. Meanwhile Amber crawled out of her crushed car and made her way to an elevator, finding Kay bruised and dirty inside, having been left there while her grandson Cane and JT crawled up the shaft for help. Also trapped were Adrian Korbel with a very pregnant Victoria, and Lauren and Noah trapped with Paul. Nikki and others stood vigil on the outside, waiting while rescuers cleared rubble and tried to get to the victims. Phyllis, still in prison, heard about it on TV, got no answer on Nick's cell phone, and got the news when she called Victor. Sharon and Nick walked out of the rubble, asking rescuers to go back for Jack. The rescuers said it was too dangerous, that methane was escaping and about to blow up, so our hero Victor, went in and rescued his worst enemy. Cane and JT made it out, but Cane fooled them into believing he'd had rescue training in Australia, and went back to rescue Kay and Amber. Sharon and Nick were relieved when Noah came out on a stretcher. Noah later had his spleen removed as a result of his injuries. Then the dead body of the construction foreman was removed. The reason Cane and Kay were there was to investigate him for shoddy work and kickbacks. Finally, Korbel and Victoria emerged, just as the methane blast occurred. Victoria was hit on the head with a rock, knocked out, and rolled down the pile of debris.

Still pregnant, Victoria spent months in a coma while her family and fiancé JT held vigil at her bedside. They finally had to decide if the baby should be delivered prematurely to save Victoria. JT and Victor chose to deliver, but Nikki insisted that Victoria would rather her baby live, so it was taken to court. They ended up waiting a couple more weeks until the baby had a better chance, then baby boy Reed was delivered. A DNA test was run and JT was pronounced the father. Reed thrived in the hospital while still comatose Victoria was taken back to the ranch. Nikki and Victor were separated, so Victor lived in the ranch house while Nikki took residence in Sharon's cottage with David Chow forever there in Victor's face. Not long after JT brought Reed home, Victoria woke up. Victoria and JT were married, and they moved back to the loft apartment with Reed. Victor made his new son-in-law JT head of Newman Security by Victor, and Victoria went back at work.

The investigation into the Clear Springs disaster disclosed the cause was Victor Newman's mining the methane underneath it. It didn't take long for Victor to alienate everyone around him, including Nikki. Victor called in her loans for NVP, fired and bankrupted her, giving him full control of NVP. He also fired Nick as CoCEO of Newman and replaced him with Neil.

After jack lost his senate seat and Nick was fired from Newman, they got together and decided to start a new Internet & Print Magazine. They asked Phyllis to join them, and Sharon requested to work with them later. They named it Restless Style. Nick bought a dilapidated warehouse which is turning into a money pit, and is financing it and his share of the venture on money borrowed from his trust fund, which he cannot receive until he's 40. They have hired Daniel as a photographer assistant and general go-for, and Amber begged to be hired as receptionist. Victor labeled it foolhardy, and is sure it's going to fail.

Victor's son with Hope, Victor Jr., suddenly showed up in Victor's office, accepted a job, and asked to be called Adam so there will be less confusion and that the wrong message wasn't sent. His first assignment was to work with Victoria on the Beauty of Nature project. He is flaunting his Harvard education and superior work ethic in Victoria, Nick and Neil's faces, going over Victoria's head with decisions, and hitting on Nick's wife Phyllis, leaving everyone guessing at Adam's agenda. Victoria eventually quit Newman due to the friction with her father and with Adam usurping her position, and went to work for her mother at Jabot. The day after Sabrina accepted Victor's marriage proposal, Adam accepted Victor's offer to move to the ranch to get to know him better, and moved in. Sabrina is not thrilled with this idea, as she and Adam do not get along since each thinks the other is just an opportunist. Nikki reacted to the news of their engagement by eloping with David Chow to Mexico.

After many discarded ideas, Victor and Sabrina decided to get married in an old barn near the ranch, and Victor had it cleaned up and decorated beautifully for the occasion. Since Victoria and Nick were still on the outs with them, Victoria turned down Sabrina's offer to be her matron of honor, and Adam was asked to be best man without Victor even consulting Nick. Sabrina, unable to get any of her other friends abroad to come, chose her new assistant Jana Hawkes as her maid of honor. Victor's daughter Abby and Nick's daughter Summer were adorable as flower girls. The day before the wedding, much to her displeasure, Sabrina's estranged mother Zara showed up. Nick attended the wedding, and although she tried not to go, Victoria, JT, and baby Reed showed up just as the bride was walking down the aisle. Victoria caught Zara taking photos of the wedding to sell to the media, and she managed to get the memory card out of the camera to foil her plans. Victor and Sabrina left for Paris on their honeymoon where Victor bought her a chateau. Back in GC, Adam caught Zara taking a video tour of the ranch to sell, stopped her and later kindly ushered into a limo and onto a plane with a one way ticket back home. During the wedding, at the stables with her new horse Athena, Nikki received a devastating phone call from David telling her that he could no longer deceive her about his gambling and that he wanted a divorce. But the next day David appeared begging Nikki to give him another chance, and Nikki is trying. On returning from their honeymoon, Victor ran into Nikki and saw her upset, but Victor left when Paul interrupted saying he was meeting her. Meanwhile David, on a business trip to Hollywood, cut it short to gamble in Vegas - where he was spotted by Gloria losing big at the roulette table.

As the launch date for Restless Style approached, the foursome began having problems getting along and determining who was to make the needed decisions. Then, last minute, Jack hired Jamie Whitfield as a consultant who hated everything and convinced them to change it a lot - most notably the cover, and Lily's cover was axed. Jamie brought in professional model, Samantha Cresswell and Kathy Hilton for a last minute revamp. The printer couldn't handle the last minute changes and still get it out on time, but other printers were found to take up the slack. The magazine was launched in time, just as the website crashed due to a virus that Amber had unknowingly allowed to infect the server. Will Victor be proven right? At the rate the partners are bickering over who is in charge, will Restless Style ever succeed? As Victor predicted, the first edition of his son Nick's Restless Style magazine/webzine did not do as well as expected, so the second had a hipper cover featuring hot singer Katy Perry. Then Adrian Korbel was hired to do an article on Sabrina and the Newman Gallery for the 3rd issue, to which she and Victor approved, and Victoria stepped up as a last minute replacement for the cover which was done in a Hollywood retro style. Though Adrian stumbled upon a rumor that Sabrina had wrangled an exhibition for her lover Phillipe when she was Art Curator at the Pompidou Museum in Paris which could shed new light on the latest Mrs. Victor Newman, he decided not to make a big deal about it. But Jack did some further research and turned Adrian’s article into a scandalous one that upset everyone, but the magazines sold into a fourth printing. Jack had sent Adrian off to Australia to do another article, so he was furious when he returned. Assuming Nick was in on the scandalous article and for Victoria’s turning against Sabrina for marrying her father, Victor cut them both out of his will as he added Adam and Sabrina.

Victor left guests waiting at Sabrina's funeral only to have the minister tell them that the funeral a private funeral had been held earlier and her body was already interred. Victor disappeared, leaving his cell phone, wallet and epilepsy medication buried on Sabrina's grave. Adam in his concern, decided to change his name to Victor Newman Jr. Meanwhile in Victor’s absence, the stockholders at Newman voted Victoria back in as CoCEO, and because the ranch was part of Newman Enterprises, she took it upon herself to kick Adam out.

Paul traced Victor to Bucerias, Mexico, where he had been hanging out in a cantina awaiting the arrival of Walter Palin, AKA mobster Tony Amato, the man he held responsible for Sabrina's death. Paul and Nikki went there to find Victor, but Paul had to return when his daughter Heather had a medical emergency. Nikki went off the wagon in her grief after the authorities told her that Victor had been declared dead when his fishing boat broke up in a storm. Later a body washed up onshore, but Nikki did not let on that she recognized him as Walter.

A drunken Nikki called Katherine and told her that Victor was dead. Kay tried to keep her on the line while she called Nick on another phone. Adam reacted to the news by requesting the Mexican government FAX him a death certificate. Michael took charge and read the will which gave Newman Enterprises and the ranch to Adam. Nick was given the Restless Style building free and clear, and Victoria the Newman art collection. Abby and grandchildren Noah and Summer and any future grandchildren were given a percentage of the estate. Letters written to his children were later read in private. Victor wrote to Nick that he was a disappointment, but that he was hard on him to make him tough. Victor apologized for not being a good father, saying he was proud of Nick, the best father his kids could hope for. Victor wrote to Adam that he was most like himself and encouraged him to make him proud but to be generous to his brother and sister. To Victoria he wrote of love and adoration, that she was best parts of him and the very soul of Newman. Adam threw away his letter, had Heather move in with him at the ranch, declared himself Victor Newman Jr., took charge at Newman by firing Neil and hiring Brad.

Nikki, still in Mexico, walked the beach pitifully wailing for Victor, and collapsing in the sand. When she looked up, there he was, alive and very upset with her for being there. He told her to go home, that he wanted the world to think he was dead. In response to her declaration that she still loved him, he replied that he wished one of them had the guts to kill the other to put them out or their misery. Nikki returned to Genoa City. Not long afterward Victor returned and Michael filled him in on what had happened in his absence. Victor summoned his children and Neil to the ranch. First he fired Adam and made Neil CEO of Newman, then told Adam to live elsewhere and his things would be sent to him. Neil later asked Victoria to return to Newman at her father’s suggestion. Nick and Victoria were thrilled to see their father alive, but although he forgave them for their treatment of Sabrina and thanked them for their actions when they thought he was dead, he was still cold to them and asked them to leave him in his seclusion to heal. Then Victor got Zapato from the kennel where Adam had banished him, fired all the help, made a nation-wide statement to leave him alone, and hired security guards to keep everyone away. Even Nikki had to smash a window to try to talk to him. Adam was roughed up by the guards and taken off to jail trying to see him. Jack had no luck even threatening to publish the photos of Sabrina unconscious and bloody at the accident scene. Victor did allow in his old friend Katherine, heard her out, then asked her to leave. After weeks of Victor being a recluse at the ranch, Nick heard music coming from Sabrina’s art gallery and found Victor there passed out due dehydration. The family was turned away at the hospital by a surly Victor, and they were about to have him committed for his own safety, but he managed to disappear, and was last seen flying away on the Newman jet. To revive confidence in Newman, Neil hired Nick back part time as an advisor.

Jack's success-by-any-means business style with Sharon's undying support was making it impossible for the two couples to co-exist at Restless Style, so they let a coin flip decide who would buy out the other. Jack and Sharon won, giving Nick and Phyllis a price to buy them out or take the same price to leave. Knowing Nick didn't have the funds, Sharon visited Victor asking him to give Nick his job back at Newman. But Victor surprised them all by giving Nick a line of credit for the buyout instead. Knowing they needed someone with contacts in fashion, and with Nikki now out of a job and full of great ideas, they took her on as interim Editor in Chief. Nikki got Ruby Aldridge for the cover of their first magazine on their own and Phyllis was in charge of the farewell Letter from the Editor. She avoided the urge to trash them and wrote something nice. But after Nick spent a little too much time with Sharon resolving a problem with Noah, she changed it back to trash. But after a little loving, Nick forgave her of course. But neither Phyllis or Jack were none too pleased when Nick's first act as Advisor to Newman was to rehire Sharon as their Beauty of Nature Spokesperson.

Victor was hiding out in France at the chateau he bought for Sabrina, but in his raging anger and depression, burned it to the ground with tears in his eyes. Meanwhile, Nikki, Nick, Victoria, and JT were trying to lead the authorities on a wild goose chase by appearing to meet Victor in Rio. During Nikki’s interrogation by Heather and the authorities, Victor made a call to Michael who was acting as her lawyer. He ended up speaking to Heather, telling her he was innocent in the death of Walter Palin, and to leave his family and him alone. He fired Michael as his lawyer, and told everyone this was the last they would ever hear from him. So Nikki called Ashley as the one person Victor may listen to. Meanwhile Nick received a call from a Priest in Paris concerned about Victor who was hiding out at a monastery there. Ashley left her job in London for Paris, but by then Victor had disappeared again. After finding a prayer card for Saint Raymond in his room, Ashley ended up in front of the Saint's statue, and Victor walked up behind her. They had a tearful reunion that ended up between the sheets.

Ashley and Victor returned to Genoa City in time for Katherine Chancellor's funeral (who was not really dead, it was her doppelganger, Marge). They sat in the front row and shunned everyone, then afterward quickly left in a waiting limo. Once Heather found out, Victor was arrested for the murder of Walter Palin and confronted with the diary he supposedly wrote about the murder. Victor finally allowed Nikki to visit him in jail, only to accuse her of setting him up by being involved in the bogus diary of how he killed Walter. Nikki FINALLY had enough and told Victor to go to hell! She went to Paul's for solace and they ended up between the sheets too. Jack has been questioned by the FBI about his involvement with the diary, and only admits that he hooked Adam up with the publisher.

Nick arrived in Paris too, and ran into Sharon who was there to meet Noah on his class trip, so he showed her around Paris. Eden and Noah went to the Père Lachaise Cemetery where Jim Morrison was buried, Eden opened up to Noah about her mother who grew up in Paris, and they ended up in an embrace. But they were interrupted by some young thugs who stole the necklace Eden's mother had left her, and roughed up Noah. Eden got away and called the police. The thugs got away dropping the necklace which Noah retrieved, and Noah and Eden were taken to the police station until Sharon was located and picked them up. Noah and Eden are becoming close and kissing when they can get away with it, since they are now forbidden to see each other because of the trouble they got into in Paris.

Nick arrived in Paris too, and ran into Sharon who was there to meet Noah on his class trip, so Nick showed her around Paris. Phyllis arrived in Paris later to surprise Nick after putting the latest issue of Restless Style to bed, but he was off with Sharon. So Phyllis supervised a Paris photo-shoot for the magazine, then went sightseeing - one of the sights being Nick and Sharon kissing on a bridge. They had gotten caught up in the moment, and that was as far as it went. Phyllis took the next flight home and did not mention to Nick that she was even there. After witnessing the kiss in Paris, convinced that Jack and Sharon's marriage was on the skids, Phyllis did all she can to keep Sharon from falling back to Nick. Phyllis approached Brad to let him know the field is open for him again, and if he needed any help, she was willing. Brad found Sharon at the GCAC bar, and worked on getting her back himself. Phyllis then arranged for Sharon to find out some more of Jack's lies causing a further split between them. Phyllis was forced to admit she'd been in Paris when the Paris photo-shoot came out in print, and she told Nick what she saw there. Nick apologized and assured Phyllis that it was just a moment between them, and that Phyllis was still the only woman for him.

In late January of 2009, Sharon went up to the Abbott lake house to be alone and think about what to do with her life after divorce papers were served on Jack. Brad showed up and declared his love, but Sharon sent him away. On the drive home, Brad had car trouble, got out, and heard the screams of Noah Newman who had gone skating with Eden and fallen through the ice. Brad died a hero after he pulled Noah from the hole in the ice, when he fell through himself and drowned. Colleen and JT found Brad’s car about the same time Noah remembered and told Victoria that it was Brad who rescued him. JT and Colleen heard a boy playing on the ice scream as he discovered Brad's body showing through the ice. JT checked out the situation and had to deliver the bad news to Colleen. Colleen and Abby were both devastated by the news, and Victoria and Ashley commiserated over the loss of their former husbands.

Meanwhile Nick made it through the snowstorm to the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to let Sharon know what had happened to Noah. Just as Phyllis had suspected when she begged him not to go, Nick and Sharon ended up stranded there together, reminiscences got the best of them, and they made love in front of the fireplace. Nick admitted it when Phyllis guessed. He thought about his options for a few days, but decided that Sharon was his past, and Phyllis was his future. Days later when Nick apparently didn't remember or care, Sharon decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary getting drunk on shots at a bar. Billy Abbott was there, also drunk, so the two of them hooked up and spent the night together in her hotel room. Weeks later, Phyllis caught Sharon and Billy together and threatened to tell Jack and Nick about their affair. Sharon broke down, phoned Billy, and called things off. Jack arrived and she fell into his arms, ashamed and troubled. Jack asked her to come back to him, and would forgive her anything. Sharon asked him to just keep her safe from the rest of the world, and Jack promised he would. They made love and Sharon moved back in with Jack. But Nick and Noah were both perplexed with her flakiness when only days later Sharon inexplicably decided to move back to the club.

Eden and Noah took off together for the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to be alone and have sex for the first time, but they reconsidered and had left by the time both Sharon and Nick got there to stop them. Once again, Sharon & Nick fell back into the old attraction and had sex there themselves. Nick admitted to Phyllis what had happened and suggested they separate until he could decide who he really wanted. They arrived at home to find Eden and Noah having sex on their couch. Nick spent the night at Victoria's, and Phyllis went crazy in Sharon's hotel room, screaming and cutting up her clothes. She discovered Sharon's stash of stolen items, and notified the police. When Sharon arrived back at her room, she was arrested for theft. Jack bailed her out, Nick accused Phyllis of setting her up, and Victor decided it was time Noah came to live with him. Nick and Phyllis split up for a time from the fallout, then just as they got back together in time for their anniversary, Phyllis was caught on hotel video tape and arrested for trashing Sharon’s room. Sharon had a confession written up ready to give to Assistant DA Heather, but thanks to Phyllis’s plea for Noah’s sake, Lauren dropped shoplifting charges against Sharon, so Sharon dropped charges against Phyllis.

Sharon told Doris she was pregnant and there were three possible fathers. Later Cassie appeared to Sharon in dream saying the baby girl she foresaw on her deathbed was Summer. Sharon tried to tell Nick that she was pregnant but was interrupted, then told Jack, who confided in Billy not realizing that Billy was the third. Jack told Sharon he wanted her back and the baby, whosever it was, so they have reconciled. Jack had to dump Mary Jane, but she is conniving to get him back by getting Sharon involved with Nick again.

Adam was further angered overhearing Victor talk Nick into coming back to Newman as full time COO, and that he wants to leave Newman to his kids – Victoria and Nick. This leaves Phyllis alone running Restless Style.

Memorial Day 2009, the anniversary of Cassie's death, found Sharon and Nick still grieving, and Nick finally feeling remorse for not being there for her back then. Sharon tried to avoid Nick, but they ended up running into each other at Cassie's grave where emotions ran high. Nick referred to Cassie's prophecy of another baby girl, causing Sharon to admit that she was pregnant and it may be his, which was overheard by Phyllis. Phyllis lambasted Jack for letting this happen, and because she overheard Sharon say that Jack knew everything and he forgave her, she asked Jack how he could forgive Billy being the third possibility. Jack was shocked and later attacked Billy for it. Sharon admitted to Jack that Billy may be the third possibility of father of her baby, while Nick admitted to Phyllis that Sharon was pregnant and it may be his. Jack was understanding and loving even though it ruined his relationship with his brother, and he still wants her and the baby no matter whose baby it is. Phyllis reacted calm and accepting, and gave Nick an ultimatum to choose between her and Sharon. Sharon made an appointment for a paternity test. Nick remembered the wonderful parts of his life with Phyllis, comparing them with memories with Sharon. Sharon walked in and they kissed passionately, with Nick saying he was leaving Phyllis, wanting to be with Sharon. But Sharon turned him down, saying she and Jack were back together and raising the child, and could not break up their family. Despite this, Nick went home and told Phyllis that it was over. Later at the Athletic Club Nick came out of his room, caught Sharon coming down the hall, convinced her that they were meant to be, and they again made love. Meanwhile Phyllis was pouring her heart out to Jack, and they ended up making love as well, with Mary Jane scowling through the window. But after Jack left Phyllis's, he went to Mary Jane and they made love too. Now that Nick and Sharon seem to be getting back together, Mary Jane appears to be working on getting Phyllis out of Jack's life so she can have Jack to herself. Nick told Phyllis to go ahead and file for divorce, that he would not fight her on anything, and Phyllis replied, “You want it so bad, get it yourself!” After Nick left, Phyllis told Summer that her daddy was not going to be living with them anymore.

Sharon and Nick went house-hunting and found the perfect one on Rampart Lane. Sharon got the paternity test results back and was ecstatic that she and Nick are expecting Faith, the daughter that Cassie predicted on her death bed and in Nick's dream. Mary Jane befriended Phyllis, and once she had her trust, she made her daughter Summer have an allergic reaction and go into a coma by kissing her with peanut butter on her lips. Mary Jane then led Heather to believe that Phyllis did it intentionally. After seeing Nick so distraught over his daughter Summer being in a coma, Sharon realized that he needed to be there for Summer and Phyllis, and not run off with her like he did over Cassie, so she told everyone her baby was Jack's. Phyllis was later exonerated when it started looking as though Mary Jane had something to do with it, and had disappeared. Summer came out of the coma, but with brain damage affecting her speech. Summer’s obsession with watching the video of their wedding made Nick realize how much he really loved Phyllis and wanted to stay together, even marry her all over again. Meanwhile Sharon admitted to Jack that Nick was really the father of her unborn baby, and Jack refused to forgive her for lying to him. Sharon watched from the bushes as Nick and Phyllis renewed their vows. Later Sharon walked out of the Jewelers in a daze with a duplicate of Phyllis's new wedding ring, was arrested. and institutionalized for 30 days for mental observation. Her mother Doris visited her and questioned why Jack, the father of her baby, had not been by to see her, causing Sharon to admit that Nick was the real father. Later as Doris left, Sharon opened her door and cautioned Doris not to tell anyone, but Nick was outside and overheard. After Doris was out of sight, he returned, confronted Sharon with truth, and she admitted it. Nick told Sharon he cannot walk away from his child. Jack told Phyllis the truth about Mary Jane, and she confronted Victor, asking if he brought Patty in and set her up to get back at Jack, causing Patty/Mary Jane to hurt Summer. Victor avoided the question, claiming he would never intentionally hurt a member of his family. Then Phyllis left to take Summer to Switzerland for expert help with her recovery from her disability.

Once Ashley was finally convinced that Victor was behind Patty's reign of terror, resulting in his own granddaughter Summer being hurt, his dog Zapato being killed, Patty’s fragile mental state being worsened, and her own torment by Patty, she packed to leave and wrote Victor a goodbye note. Then Billy showed up telling her that Victor had been shot by Patty, and they left for the hospital together. Victor arrived by ambulance in critical condition, and had surgery to remove a bullet from his heart. Ashley confronted Victor about all that he had caused and sent him into heart arrhythmia. Paul traced Nikki to a Colorado spa and brought her back to be with Victor. But his heart was too far gone, only a heart transplant would save him now. Tests confirmed Colleen was brain dead, and Traci finally made the heart-breaking decision to take her off life-support. All of Colleen’s friends came to say goodbye including her best friend Lily. Kevin and Jana told Traci and Steve what a wonderful person she was, that she had turned their lives around by forgiving them for trying to kill her. A broken-hearted JT whispered, "Goodbye Sweetheart" into Colleen's ear and went off to be with his wife. Her Uncles Jack and Billy and half sister Abby had a hard time comprehending it all. Then Traci and Steve were told that Colleen was an organ-donor, and Nikki had the nerve to intrude to request Colleen’s heart to save Victor.

Credit: Soap Central link: http://www.soapcentral.com/yr/whoswho/nick.php

Joshua Morrow

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Birthday: --- February 8, 1974 (35)
Birthplace: Juneau, Alaska
Where he grew up: Oklahoma
Where he lives now: Close to Los Angeles, California
Nickname: --- JJ when he was younger.
Year he joined Y&R: 1994

Family/relationships: Married Tobe Keeney, August 4, 2001. They have three beautiful sons; Cooper Jacob, Crew James and Cash Joshua.

Memorable quotes (on/off the set): --- "My philosophy is either you're in or you're out. There's no halfway. It doesn't matter what it is. I live by that credo. I don't do anything halfway. I speak my mind and I am what I am. I don't pull any punches."

"I was raised to respect my family and refer to my elders as sir and ma'am. I still do that, and it offends a lot of people out here."

"I can't wait for the weekend to be over so I can get back to work. This is my dream, to be working as an actor. My absolute passion in life."

When he's not acting: --- He enjoys playing many different sports and also enjoys spending time with his children and his wife. He also enjoys reading when he's not at work.

Fascinating facts: --- Was a member of the pop group 3 Deep with co-star and friend Eddie Cibrian (ex-Matt Clark, Y&R) and CJ Huyer. As a child he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player.

Acting bio (tv, movies, stage, awards, etc):

Television:
Role of Nicholas Newman (1994) on The Young and the Restless
Guest starred a role as himself on the TV sitcom, The Nanny, in 1997
Role as himself in an episode of Beauty and the Geek (4/8/2008)
Guest starred on the Price is Right in June 20, 2009 (as himself)

Movies:
My Stepson, My Lover with Rachel Ward and Terry O'Quinn, 1997. Played the role of Eric Cory

Awards:
1995: Nominated for Best Performance by a Youth Actor in a Daytime Drama Series at the Young Artist Awards
1996: Won Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actor
1997: Nominated for Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Younger Leading Actor Award
2001: Won Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Hero Award
1996 - 2000: Nominated for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for The Daytime Emmy Awards.

Sharon Collins Newman

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Actress History: Sharon Case (September 7, 1994-present)

Heidi Mark (1994)
Monica Potter (1994)
Sharon Case (September 7, 1994 to early 1995 [recurring]; 1995 to present [contract])

Occupation:
Spokesperson for Newman's Beauty of Nature product line
Formerly worked at Restless Style magazine/webzine
Former Spokesperson for NVP Retreats
Former Spokesperson for Newman Enterprises Cosmetics Division
Former Spokeperson for Jabot Cosmetics
Former co-owner with Nick of the Crimson Lights Coffee House chain
Recently this year resigned from NE as Spokesmodel, by assistance from Nick Newman

Resides at: divorce from Jack Abbott, now lives at the Genoa City 5 star hotel

Past Marriages:

Nicholas Newman (divorced 2007)
Jack Abbott (divorced 2009)

Relatives: Doris Collins (mother)

Children:
Cassie Newman (daughter with Frank Barritt ; deceased)
Noah Newman (son with Nicholas Newman)
Unborn baby girl, died prematurely (with Nicholas)
Newborn baby girl Faith Cassie Newman (with Nicholas Newman) 2009

Friends: Drucilla Winters (presumed dead), Amy Wilson, Neil Winters, Brad Carlton (Deceased)

The Young and the Restless Supercouple Nicholas and Sharon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_and_Sharon_Newman

Most memorable scenes:

Her wedding to Nick
Her reaction to Cassie's death in 2005
Sharon's reactions to Jack Abbott secretely running Jabot Cosemetics without informing her, and leading to their eventual divorce
Busted on Nick's affair with Grace
Busting Nick on his affair with Phyllis Summers Abbott
Sharon's mental breakdown this year (2009) landing her in the psych ward for treatment therapy
Her breakdown of losing her little girl Faith Newman this year (2009)
Reconciliation with her ex-husband Nick Newman this year (2009)

Unforgettable lines: Sharon to Phyllis (after Sharon discovers her affair with her husband after the death of their daughter Cassie): "you're a dog in heat".

Defining episodes: The death of her daughter Cassie Newman.

Young and Restless character history:

Sixteen-year-old Sharon Collins and her single, paraplegic mother, Doris, lived in Madison, Wisconsin, after being abandoned by her father. Sharon was somewhat responsible for her mother's accident when Doris went out looking for Sharon in a snowstorm, which crippled Doris. Sharon's best friend in high school was Grace Turner. When Sharon told her high school boyfriend, Frank Barritt, that she was pregnant after he had pressured her to have sex, he wanted nothing to do with her or his child. Sharon and her mother decided to give the baby up for adoption because they felt they were unable to raise a baby properly. The baby girl was adopted by Alice Johnson and named Cassidy.

Sharon and her mother moved to Genoa City when Sharon was 18. Alice later abandoned Cassie to pursue a man, and left the child in the care of her elderly mother, Millie. Cassie loved Millie, but it was very difficult for a woman of her age to keep up with a young child, and Cassie had no friends but her dolls.

Sharon was a sweet girl who worked a part-time job to help her mother make ends meet. Nick fell for Sharon at first sight, but since she was dating Matt Clark, he stayed with Amy. Nick ended up winning Sharon from Matt, who hated Nick. Nick and Matt got into a fight. Matt kicked Nick's butt, and Victor swore he would teach his son to box. To get even, Matt raped Sharon. Sharon told no one but a therapist, who tried to help her deal with it.

Nick's mother, Nikki, objected strongly to Sharon, and believed her to be a gold-digger. Mother and son fought, and Nick moved in with his father. Unlike Nikki, Victor adored Sharon, and even paid for an operation for her mother, which Doris could not afford. When Sharon and Nick beat out Amy and Matt as queen and king of the high school senior Polynesian dance, Matt took revenge. He told Nick that his virginal Sharon had given up a baby for adoption when she was 16. Nick didn't believe him, and they got into a bad fistfight, and both were injured. Sharon admitted to Nick that it was all true, and Nick understood eventually.

Sharon and Nick were about to get married when Sharon admitted that Matt had raped her. Nick raced to Matt's apartment, only to find him on the floor in a pool of blood. The police arrested Nick, who thought Sharon did it. When Matt came to, he said Nick was the one who shot him. Nick was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sharon and the Newman family were devastated.

Victor tracked down Amy who was suffering from a serious trauma. He was convinced it was caused by something that happened the night Matt was shot. Upon seeing Matt, Amy remembered she had shot him after he raped her. Matt fled, Nick was released from prison, and Sharon and Nick married in a small ceremony as a disapproving Nikki looked on.

Not long after they married Sharon "accidentally" got pregnant. Nick wanted to wait and tried to talk her into an abortion, but Sharon couldn't do it. Months later, Sharon fell on the ice and went into early labor. When it appeared that their newborn baby, Noah, was going to die, Sharon's best friend, Grace Turner, who was in Genoa City, too, and Grace's boyfriend, Tony Viscardi, tracked down Sharon's first child, Cassie, to help Sharon ease the pain of her loss. They convinced her adoptive Grandmother Millie to allow them to return Cassie, who was five years old, to Genoa City to be united with her natural mother. But Noah lived, so Grace decided to keep Cassie until the "time was right" to tell Sharon. Grace fell in love with the engaging child, and kept the child's true identity to herself for over a year.

One night Nick was out partying with friends while Sharon stayed home ill. Grace was helping out by spending the night in the nursery, but actually plotting to steal Nick. Nick arrived home drunk and made love to a willing Grace, thinking she was his wife. The next morning, when he realized his error, he panicked and swore Grace to secrecy.

When Cassie's true identity was revealed, Nick had a hard time accepting her. Sharon moved out, but their love for one another reunited them, and Nick began to love Cassie as his own. Cassie went to live with Sharon, Nick, and Noah.

Grace used her secret with Nick to get a job as Nick's assistant at Newman, and renewed her attempts to steal Nick from Sharon. Sharon was going with Nick on a business trip, but when Noah fell sick, Grace went instead. Nick was angry with Sharon, and allowed Grace to seduce him. Sharon showed up the next morning to surprise him, but was stunned to hear, outside the door, Grace telling Nick that their lovemaking was incredible. Sharon moved out with the kids and would not forgive him for his infidelity.

Then Cassie's adoptive mother, Alice Johnson, re-appeared and hired lawyer Michael Baldwin to fight for the return of her "daughter." Sharon decided to take back the repentant Nick. Although Alice was about to win custody, Sharon and Nick were able to convince the jobless and flighty Alice that Cassie would be better off with them. Alice gave up her parental rights, and Sharon was awarded custody of Cassie. After a waiting period, Cassie legally became a Newman when Nick adopted her.

Nick and Sharon bought Crimson Lights Coffee House, the scene of their courtship, to keep it from going out of business and so they would have something to work on together. They later opened a second one in Milwaukee, and had plans for a third. The Nick Newmans were a happy loving family.

In 2000 the Newmans had a scare when Cassie tested positive for tuberculosis, but it turned out be inactive and was cured by antibiotics.

Matt Clark returned to town as Carter Mills, disguised by plastic surgery, and worked at Crimson Lights. He teamed up with Nick's old cellmate, Larry "Wartman" Warton, both bent on revenge, plus Matt wanted Sharon for himself. Carter date rape drugged Tricia McNeil into sleeping with him, and used her to help set up Nick and put him in jail for selling drugs. Carter became a trusted employee whom they even considered as manager of their next franchise, and Sharon's confidant while Nick was in jail.

One evening Carter was invited to dinner at their home, so he arranged for Nick to be very late. While waiting for Nick to arrive, Carter put a date rape drug in Sharon's margarita. Nick arrived just in time as Carter was about to rape the semi-conscious Sharon. Thinking she had drunk too much, Nick sent Carter home and helped Sharon to bed. Weeks later Tricia caught Carter attempting to rape Sharon at a cabin in the woods where he had lured her, but Victor arrived and sent him running.

Tricia picked Carter up and drove off a cliff expecting to kill them both. She survived with cuts and bruises, but the evil Carter/Matt had severe injuries and was expected to die. Carter deliberately pulled out his breathing tube, committing suicide to make Nick look like a murderer. With his dying words, he viciously told Nick that he had raped Sharon on "margarita night." But Nick was exonerated by the testimony of Tricia and Larry Warton.

Nick, finally out of jail and without the threat of Matt, lavishly romanced Sharon to help her get used to normal life again. Months later, Sharon realized she was pregnant. Both knew that if Matt had told the truth, the baby could be his. Nick demanded a paternity test, but Sharon decided the risk before birth was too great, so was willing to trust that it was Nick's and have her baby no matter what. During a fight about this, Nick knocked over a chair, slammed out the door in a huff, and drove off, creating a loud bang as his tire exploded against the curb at high speed. Fearful for Nick, Sharon ran for the door, tripped over the chair, and landed on her stomach. Her baby girl was delivered prematurely and later died. A paternity test showed the baby was indeed Nick's, so Sharon was unable to forgive him for killing their unborn child due to his attitude.

Diego Guittierez seemed to be in the right place at the right time whenever Sharon needed a friend. Time after time, when Sharon was in crisis, Diego was there for her, but his intentions were always those of a friend. Just as there appeared to be hope that Nick and Sharon would get back together, Sharon caught Nick kissing another woman in the office at the coffee house and turned to Diego, but he rebuffed her several times. But after one advance too many, Diego succumbed and made love with a needy Sharon, who was jumping to conclusions that Nick was having an affair with Grace, who she happened to see passing through town. Instead, Nick whisked her away on a second honeymoon, sure that once they were alone, they would reconcile. Reconcile they did, but the guilty Sharon had a hard time enjoying herself. Once they returned home, Sharon felt she needed to tell Nick the truth, but Diego gave his notice with the intent to leave town, and talked her out of it. Victoria and Diego began seeing each other, much to Sharon's distaste, with all thoughts of leaving town apparently forgotten by Diego.

Victoria, suspicious of the relationship between Diego and Sharon, feigned interest in Diego. But she fell for him in spite of her intentions, and they began an affair. One day, just as they were declaring their love, Sharon was admitting her dalliance with Diego to Nick. Nick took it very badly, beat up Diego, then called up Grace and let her sooth his bruised ego in bed. Victoria found out and broke up with Diego. All the Newmans found out and took sides with Nick or Sharon as they told the kids they were separating once again.

Diego explained to all that would listen that it was only one time, it meant nothing, and he was not the aggressor. No one believed him but Victoria, who forgave him. Unfortunately that meant she had to go against her family's wishes to be with the man she loved. She moved out of the ranch, and she and Diego were temporarily living together in a hotel. Nick disowned her, Victor tried to pay off Diego while comforting Sharon, and Nikki tried to get everyone to give them some space when she wasn't berating Sharon for her foolishness.

But two thugs beat up Diego, took the $100,000 Victor gave him, and Diego was later found and taken to the hospital as a John Doe. Victoria tracked him down. Although things didn't look good because Diego was in serious condition, he recovered. Victoria was looking forward to buying a condo together, but Diego was more interested in revenge against the guys who beat him up. He arranged, with the help of Larry, to coerce Victor into setting them up. The plot worked for the most part, and the thugs were arrested. Victoria decided she didn't like the vengeful man Diego had become and broke it off. Diego hit the road again for parts unknown.

After much soul-searching, Nick decided to give his marriage another chance. Delivering flowers and a present for Sharon, he paused at the window of their home to see Sharon kissing Nick's father, Victor. Furious, Nick called off any idea of reconciliation. When confronted, Victor took the blame, as a result of being on pain pills, although the mixed-up Sharon was once again coming onto any man who was nice to her. Sharon decided her life was a mess and she left town.

Cassie felt betrayed and angry with her parents after Nick brushed her off, being more interested in berating Victor than comforting his daughter. She wandered off and fell through the ice on the ranch pond. Nick finally realized she was missing a long time later, jumped into the pond and rescued Cassie. She was CareFighted to the hospital and was in a coma for days.

Meanwhile in the waiting room, Victor confessed to Nikki that Nick had caught him kissing Sharon. Nikki slapped Victor, and shouted, "How could you?" Cassie eventually recovered, Nikki blamed it all on Sharon, but forgave Victor. Sharon returned months later with a new resolve to not be trod on by any Newman again. Nick made up with her, though never forgave Victor. Cassie did not forgive Sharon for abandoning her. Suddenly Cassie's father, Frank Barritt, showed up in town and began trying to see her. Cassie wanted to know who he was, but her parents wouldn't tell.

In late 2003 Sharon was shocked to realize that software entrepreneur, Cameron Kirsten, had arrived in town to make a deal with Newman, and Nick was handling it. It was revealed that while she was gone all those months, she had met up with Kirsten in a bar in Denver, they went up to her hotel room, and Sharon ended up having sex with him and being beaten to a pulp. Sharon had been afraid to risk her marriage by reporting it to the police, so she stayed away long enough for her bruises to heal. Cameron began taunting and threatening Sharon that he would tell Nick about "their affair" until New Year's Eve, when he told her to meet her at a fleabag hotel for another round, or else. Sharon met him there, but refused to go through with it.

When Cameron attempted to rape her, Sharon clobbered him over the head with a champagne bottle. In a panic, she dragged the body down the back stairs and hid it behind a dumpster, and before long it was buried in snow. Cameron was declared missing, and Grace Turner arrived in Genoa City looking for him. It seems they were involved in a long-distance romance, and Grace was fraught with worry over his disappearance. Sharon had confided the events of New Year's Eve to Attorney Michael Baldwin, who kept advising her to go to the police. Instead, knowing the desk clerk could identify her, and because it was beginning to thaw, she moved the body. Sharon made a wrong turn, ended up at a dead end between buildings in a seedy part of town, and was surrounded by thugs who wanted to rape her. She talked them into opening the trunk for a blanket, but they got scared and fled when they saw the dead body inside.

Sharon drove off into the night and ended up at a biker bar out by the lake. On the way out after using the restroom, Sharon ran into Grace, who hassled her about her appearance and her panicked state. Sharon finally had enough, and took her to the back of the car to show her why she was panicking, but the trunk was empty. Sharon made it home, but was still jumpy for days. Grace dropped by often, accusing Sharon of killing Grace's boyfriend. Sharon began to be haunted by the rotting body of Cameron. Then old friend Larry Warton, bruised, beaten, and just released from the hospital, paid her a visit and asked Sharon about the body. Sharon, relieved that she wasn't imagining what happened, and gratefully confessed the whole story. It seemed he had seen her arrive at the bar that night, popped the trunk, and taken the body and hid it for her.

Sharon was relieved when Larry promised to keep mum. But the haunting kept on, and the police started asking questions. Sharon thought she was going crazy and insisted Larry show her the dead body. Larry took Sharon, accompanied by mother-in-law Nikki, whom Sharon had confided in, down into the wet, stinking, rat-infested sewer, and found the body. Although she could identify the clothes as Cameron's, the face was too decomposed to recognize. Sharon continued to be haunted by Cameron and taunted by Grace until the body was discovered. Much to everyone's shock, the body turned out to be that of Cassie's father, Frank Barritt, who had stopped trying to see Cassie around New Year's Eve, so Sharon became the number one suspect.

At her last haunting prior to her arrest, Cameron finally said, "Gotcha," to her, and sent her running screaming from the house. Later on, after Cameron showed up at the Athletic Club, very much alive, Larry, Sharon, Michael Baldwin, and Nick figured out that Grace was helping Cameron with his plot for revenge on Sharon and convinced her to help them expose him. The body was found eventually after it washed out of the sewer, and turned out to be Sharon's ex-boyfriend and daughter Cassie's father, Frank. Cameron had set Sharon up for Frank's murder.

Luckily for Larry, when all was said and done, he was not implicated. But Cameron escaped in his private jet with Sharon held hostage. Nick stowed away in the plane and jumped Cameron. They managed to get him into a parachute, and all three bailed out of the plane. Cameron landed in a tree, which broke his leg, but Nick and Sharon made him walk to civilization where they called the police and turned him over.

Their harrowing experience made it easier for Nick to forgive Sharon that time, but it didn't take long for Sharon to get back into her life and become bored again. One night, she followed Nikki to where she worked as an emcee at Marilyn's Cabaret. Finding a secluded spot, Sharon was fascinated watching their best stripper, Brittany (a.k.a., Marilyn) perform. Sharon began fanaticizing about doing the same, but once Nikki and Nick found out, they tried to point her ambitions in another direction to save her children embarrassment. Through Jack, Nick helped Sharon get a job at Jabot as spokesperson, and since Jabot was still in a bad financial situation, Nick was paying her salary under the table. Sharon later found out and quit, but Nick hired his wife away from Jabot to be spokesperson for the Newman Cosmetic Line.

Their daughter Cassie turned 14 and began to hang out at Crimson Lights with her 16-year-old friends, Lily Winters and Sierra. It wasn't long before she was trying to act their age, and was caught being secretive, skipping school, and accepting a ride home with an older boy unknown to her parents, so Cassie was grounded. She had a crush on 16-year-old Daniel Romalotti, but he and Lily were getting close -- much to the disdain of their parents, who forbade them to see each other. Word was going around school about a secret party to be held in a park. All the older crowd was going, and Cassie just had to go, too -- especially since Daniel said he would be there. She managed to talk Nick into un-grounding her for the evening so she could "go to a movie" with her long-time friend Ali. Sharon didn't go for it, but Nick persuaded her to give in.

Cassie ended up at the party to find Daniel drunk on beer trying to get over being separated from Lily. The party ended late, and everyone left. Cassie, who had not been drinking, assured her friends she had a way home, then found Daniel passed out in the back seat of his convertible. Deciding he was too drunk to get home, Cassie took his keys and started the car, even though she had neither a lesson nor learner's permit. She crashed the car. Because both were thrown from the car, and neither remembered a thing, no one realized that Cassie had been driving. As soon as a bruised Daniel was able to leave the hospital, he was arrested and spent the night in jail. His mother, Phyllis, bailed him out, beside herself with the thought that the son she had lost for so many years could be taken from her again and imprisoned.

Back in ICU after brain surgery, Cassie was fighting for her life. There was hope, so long as infection didn't set in. Suddenly, Cassie sat bolt upright -- she remembered -- she was driving! Daniel was in a lot trouble, but she caused the accident. After attempts to tell her mother to use the phone failed, she got out of bed, pulled out her IV, and donned her mother's trench coat, staggered out of the hospital, intent on finding and telling Daniel. After several hours of worry by her family and friends, and searching by the police and detective, Paul Williams, she somehow found her way to Crimson Lights. Lily and Daniel rushed to her as she was near collapse.

The exhausted Cassie attempted to tell Daniel the truth, but all she could get out was "crash." Someone called 9-1-1, Nick arrived shortly before the paramedics, and he accompanied her back to the hospital in the ambulance. Anxiously, her family held vigil while Cassie's fever heightened and Newman-financed specialists arrived too late to help. Victor, Nikki, Victoria, brother Noah, and Grandma Doris, who had arrived from her home in Eau Claire, sadly said their goodbyes and I love yous, and left her alone with Nick and Sharon. There was one last whisper in Nick's ear that it wasn't Daniel's fault, as he chokingly sang her a lullaby while Sharon hugged her. Viewers saw flashbacks of the adorable child Cassie -- the light of their (and viewers') lives -- and Cassie slipped away.

The memorial service was touching, with Grace, Millie, and Alice conspicuously absent. Larry was said to be out of town, and messages were left for him. Victor, Nikki, and Sharon gave memorial speeches. Noah placed Cassie's doll, Cindy, on her casket with a tear in his eye. During Nick's speech, which was more a threat against Daniel, he spotted Phyllis, who had snuck in the back, spoke right at her, then marched to her afterward and demanded she leave. Jack ushered her out in embarrassment.

Sharon handled her loss, mostly just feeling responsible for letting Cassie go out that night and regretful for all the things Cassie missed out on in her life. Meanwhile, Nick was angry, refused to accept any responsibility, and was out for revenge against Daniel. Nick took a leave of absence from Newman, putting Victor back in charge. Daniel was charged with vehicular manslaughter. Out on bail, he went into hiding in the Abbott playhouse with the help of Lily Winters.

When Daniel didn't show up for his arraignment, a warrant was issued for his arrest. Lily decided to drive Daniel out of town to help him escape. The day after the funeral, Larry showed up at Sharon's door with comforting words about how lucky they were to have Cassie in their lives, and reminded Sharon that he held Cassie responsible for changing his life. He took Sharon on an exhilarating motorcycle ride to help cheer her up.

Victoria accepted the position of acting CEO at Newman, and Nick took it amazingly well when he returned from tracking down Daniel Romalotti, the young man he held responsible for his daughter's death. He insisted on firing Phyllis, but after telling Nick off, she retorted, "You can't fire me. I quit." Although Brad Carlton had comforted Sharon in Nick's absence, Shaon was thrilled to welcome Nick home. Then Christine approached them and asked for the clothes Cassie was wearing the night of the car accident. Nick withheld the evidence. Nick was too caught up in rage and vengeance to worry about Newman Enterprises, his family, or the defendant's right to a fair trial. He was only intent on seeing Daniel pay.

Lily was out on bail, and Daniel went on trial for vehicular manslaughter, where Christine and Paul failed to prove that Cassie was driving the car. But in a last-minute save, Nick turned over the clothes Cassie was wearing that fateful night. The boot she was wearing matched a piece of a heel found under the accelerator. The judge determined that Cassie was driving and let Daniel go free. Lily's parents made a deal to send her away to boarding school in New Hampshire to get the D.A. to drop the charges against her.

While Nick was still angry over his daughter Cassie's death, Brad made plans with Sharon for her return to Newman working with him on the Beauty of Nature project. Nick and Sharon grew further apart while apparitions of Cassie haunted them both. When Nick decided to return to Newman, Victor made him and Victoria co-CEOs. Sharon grew closer to Brad and his daughter, Abby, and was named spokesperson for the "Touch of Nature" line. They had a close call with intimacy when in Denver on a business trip, but Sharon was dedicated to working on her marriage.

After his declaration of love for Sharon was rebuffed, Brad instead asked Victoria Newman to marry him and she accepted, although Brad and Ashley were not yet legally divorced. Meanwhile, Nick and Phyllis Summers became attracted to each other, and had an affair. Sharon found out and they were separated. Nick went to live at the Newman Executive Suite at the Genoa City Athletic Club. Unfortunately for Sharon, Brad went ahead and married Victoria.

Phyllis came up with an idea to create wellness spas under the Jabot umbrella. She asked Nikki to join her with her anti-aging product, and took it to Jack, who promptly shot it down as not feasible considering Jabot's instability. Phyllis and Jack had it out, and she quit her new job as Jabot Executive of Internet Affairs. So Nikki and Phyllis presented the idea to Victor instead, and he agreed to fund the project, joined the partnership, gave them an office in Newman Towers, and they called it NVP after Nikki, Victor, and Phyllis. Jack filed a lawsuit against them, which was the final split in his on-again/off-again relationship with Phyllis. Sharon signed on as spokesperson for NVP. Not long afterward, Victor became afflicted with temporal lobe epilepsy and was duped by Jack into selling him NVP, with a stipulation that Victor would have final say on all decisions, and Nikki was made CEO.

Meanwhile, Nick and Phyllis Summers became attracted to each other, and began a steamy affair. Sharon found out, and she and Nick separated. Sharon went to Brad for comfort, and they ended up having sex on a business trip to NYC. But after Daniel walked in to find his mother and Nick half-naked on the couch, the couple decided to call off their affair. After Nick had a vision where Cassie showed him how he imagined life would be had she not died, including a new baby girl named Faith, Nick showed up at home, and Sharon took him back. Nick and Phyllis continued to be thrown together by business, and they ended up stranded in New Mexico. They stopped at a Pepe's Roadhouse, danced, and had a great time. The attraction was great but they resisted and spent the night separately.

Then Phyllis turned up pregnant, and broke it to Nick that it might also be Jack's, so Nick took a paternity test. When he received the test results he disappeared to think about his options. He returned a few days later, and informed Phyllis that he was the father, but that he intended to stay with his family. Phyllis was disappointed, but insisted she could raise their child alone. Jack was disappointed, too, since he'd always hoped for a reconciliation with Phyllis. Jack began an affair with Carmen Mesta. Nick told Sharon the pregnancy news. She decided she didn't want Nick to stay out of obligation, ran out of the office screaming divorce, and ended up in the parking garage pounding the steering wheel of her SUV. Brad discovered her there, and his consoling turned to heavy making out. Sharon saw Nick watching them, but continued on with Brad.

Nick decided to tell Victoria that he caught her husband making out with Sharon, but Brad beat him to the punch and confessed that they'd shared a kiss -- but that his heart belonged to Victoria. Victoria seemed to accept that, but secretly consulted a lawyer about how to get Brad's Newman stock if the marriage should end. Nick and Sharon told Noah about the divorce, and Nick left to move into the Newman Executive Suite at the Genoa City Athletic Club, but turned up at Phyllis' door instead, and they made love. The next morning, Phyllis and Nick showed up at Newman together and told Victor and Nikki about the divorce and pregnancy. Nikki was appalled, but Victor congratulated them.

Victoria confronted Sharon about kissing Brad, then fired her from Newman. Sharon went running to Brad, who sent her on a mysterious errand to deliver a red tote bag to a car downtown for him. Brad's daughter, Colleen, confronted him with what she knew about his mysterious past, and accused him of kidnapping J.T. Brad explained his past to Colleen, then hustled her and Abby off to the private jet, where they met his mother, Rebecca, and were jetted to safety in Hawaii. Meanwhile Sharon arrived at Brad's to find the door ajar, and, being mistaken for Brad's wife, was kidnapped and held captive with J.T. in Cleveland.

Brad received a call from the kidnapper telling him they had Sharon. Victoria and Brad went back to Newman, and brought Nick and Paul in on the case. Nikki volunteered to take Noah away on a mini-vacation to see her sister, Casey, to keep him safe and oblivious to the fact that his mother was missing. Brad had to explain his past as George Kaplan to everyone, and also explained that the kidnappers wanted an artifact called the Grudgeon Reliquary. Then J.T. was dumped on Brad's doorstep as a warning. After they wasted days trying to track down the Reliquary on the Internet and through art dealers, Victoria decided to create a fake using two other similar Grudgeon pieces. They took the fake to Cleveland, and Nick met the kidnapper and his henchman for the exchange at a church.

Meanwhile, misled by the kidnappers, Brad, Paul, and J.T. were converging on the shipping crate where Sharon had been held-which was booby-trapped with explosives. They disarmed it in time, then arrived just in time to rescue Nick and Sharon as explosives attached to Sharon were about to detonate. Brad ended up fighting with the bad guys, and killed them both after the head guy admitted he was Oscar Volkmann, son of the commandant who was executed after Brad's mother's testimony. All arrived safely back in Genoa City and vowed, for everyone's safety, to never tell what went on.

Nick and Sharon divorced with joint custody of Noah, and Sharon received their house in the settlement. Nick and Phyllis moved into the Tack House on the Newman Ranch so Nick could be close to his son. Nick and Phyllis became engaged, and Nick threw Phyllis a fun engagement party, hoedown style, modeled after their "place "Pepe's" in New Mexico, which included a visit from Rocky the dancing cowboy from there and a ruby engagement ring. Sharon and Jack Abbott began having an affair. After an attempt to get married prior to the six-month waiting period was turned down by the judge, Nick and Phyllis eloped back to New Mexico at Pepe's, and returned to Genoa City married, and looking forward to the birth of their daughter.

Phyllis overheard Sharon and Brad discussing their New York City affair, and saw an opportunity for future use of the information. The controversial NVP spa project known as Clear Springs had everyone at Newman taking sides. Jack, Victor, Phyllis, and Nick felt a large development would revitalize a dying town, and Nikki, Brad, and Victoria were opposed because it would wipe out historic structures in the town. Nikki and Neil ran for the vacant Newman board seat to boost the votes for their side, and thanks to Phyllis' blackmail of Brad over his affair with Sharon, Victor's yes-man, Neil. won, so they appeared to have the upper hand on Clear Springs. But Brad got Phyllis arrested for extortion; she was found guilty, and later went to prison.

In April of 2007, Sharon told Drucilla that Phyllis was blackmailing Sharon over her affair with Brad Carlton. When Sharon and Phyllis began fighting on the edge of a cliff during an NVP photo shoot, Dru intervened. When all lost hold of the cell phone they were fighting over, they lost their balance and fell backward. Dru sailed off the cliff into the river below, and Sharon was left hanging onto the edge for her life. Phyllis tried to save her, but she lost her grip and also fell to the river below. Rescuers combed the area and found Sharon's lifeless body, but she was revived and lived. Dru was never found. Only the jacket she wore was found below the falls, so she was presumed dead.

A prayer vigil was held at Indigo, where family and friends shared memories. Olivia remembered what a precocious child Dru had been, and how she had showed her love for Liv when she donated needed bone marrow when Liv was once on her deathbed. Sharon remembered her brutal honesty and her one-of-a-kind hats. Devon recalled that before Dru came into his life, no one had ever believed in him, and how she forced him, through her love, to believe in himself. Lily said Dru was the kind of woman who did it all -- career and family, and was her role model. Neil believed Dru was still alive and was not going to give up looking for her; he called her loyal and passionate about life. For a while, Neil was turning back to the bottle in his despair over losing Dru, but his children seemed to have gotten through to him.

As part of a plot to bring down Jack, Victor convinced Jack to run for the Wisconsin State Senate. Nikki was in on it, but in her anger at being passed over as a board member of Newman in favor of Neil, she decided to run against Jack. Victor was livid and reminded Nikki where she came from and where she would be if not for him. Meanwhile, Jack continued to be visited by his conscience in the form of his dead father, John, and appeared to be having second thoughts about the things he had done to control Victor during Victor's epilepsy when he was vulnerable. Jack's campaign manager, David Chow, pulled a dirty trick by exposing Nikki's porn film, Hot Hips, on the Internet to discredit her, so Jack fired him. Then Nikki hired him to pull the same sort of tricks on Jack. In what appeared to be a political move at the time, Jack and Sharon were married at the ranch, with Noah as best man.

Victor and Sharon were scheduled to fly to Clear Springs, then Jack was going in Victor's place, but had to cancel. So Sharon and Nick ended taking the trip instead. On the return trip, the Newman jet went down in Lake Michigan with no survivors. Sharon surprised everyone when she walked in on the Newmans and Jack just after they'd gotten the news. She was just as shocked to hear that her taking another flight had saved her life, and that Nick was missing and presumed dead. It was later suggested that the jet might have been sabotaged. Noah and Nikki were devastated, but Nikki carried on with her state senatorial campaign, with the help of her campaign manager, David Chow.

Victor abandoned his family in their grief after Hope called. He took off for Sri Lanka to search for their missing son, Victor, Jr. While Victor was away, David fell for Nikki, tPhyllis and Sharon caught them kissing, and there were exposed on videotape. Gloria got Kevin to monitor the security cameras at Jabot, which proved that Jack owned Jabot. So Jack quickly sold Jabot at a loss to Katherine Chancellor. In the end, Jack won the election and became State Senator, but later left in disgrace when his former stepmother, Gloria, exposed him for falsifying his father's will that cut her out.

Nick turned up lost in the woods, found by internist, Logan Anderson, and was taken back to Genoa City and his family. But Nick lost his memory of the previous two years of his life, including his marriage to Phyllis and their baby, Summer. Remembering only his love for Sharon, Nick tried to win her back, even though she was married to Jack, but Sharon, though tempted, wasn't interested. Nick began seeing Phyllis, curious as to why he ever hooked up with this person he remembered not even liking very much. When Noah started acting out for Sharon, Nick agreed to move back in with Phyllis so Noah could live with them. Nick did not regain his memory, but it didn't take long for him to fall in love with Phyllis all over again. Then Phyllis was tried, found guilty of extortion, and sent to prison. But Michael got her off after serving only a few months.

One day everyone in Genoa City seemed to be at Clear Springs when its underground parking structure and casino collapsed, trapping several of them inside. Sharon, Jack, and Nick were there to scout for a photo shoot. Nick was knocked out, and Jack pinned by debris, but Nick awoke and got Jack free. Sharon's leg was sprained, but they managed to find an opening in the rubble. Jack levered it open so that Nick and Sharon could escape, leaving him there still trapped. While waiting for rescue, Jack wrote a note to Sharon, confessing how much he loved her.

Meanwhile, Amber crawled out of her crushed car and made her way to an elevator, where she found Kay bruised and dirty inside, where she had been left while her grandson, Cane, and J.T. crawled up the shaft for help. Also trapped were Adrian Korbel with a very pregnant Victoria, and Lauren and Noah, who were trapped with Paul. Nikki and others stood vigil on the outside, waiting while rescuers cleared rubble and tried to get to the victims. Phyllis, still in prison, heard about it on television, got no answer on Nick's cell phone, and got the news when she called Victor.

Sharon and Nick walked out of the rubble, asking rescuers to go back for Jack. The rescuers said it was too dangerous, that methane was escaping and about to blow up, so Victor, acting as a hero, went in and rescued his worst enemy. Cane and J.T. made it out, but Cane fooled them into believing he'd had rescue training in Australia, and went back to rescue Kay and Amber. Sharon and Nick were relieved when Noah emerged on a stretcher. Noah later had his spleen removed as a result of his injuries. Then the dead body of the construction foreman was removed. The reason Cane and Kay were there was to investigate him for shoddy work and kickbacks. Finally, Korbel and Victoria emerged, just as the methane blast occurred. Victoria was hit on the head with a rock and knocked out. She rolled down the pile of debris.

Still pregnant, Victoria spent months in a coma while her family and fiancé, J.T., held vigil at her bedside. They finally had to decide if the baby should be delivered prematurely to save Victoria. J.T. and Victor chose to deliver, but Nikki insisted that Victoria would rather her baby live, so it went to court. They ended up waiting a couple more weeks until the baby had a better chance, then a baby boy, Reed, was delivered. A DNA test was run and J.T. was pronounced the father.

Reed thrived in the hospital while Victoria, still comatose, was taken back to the ranch. Nikki and Victor were separated, so Victor lived in the ranch house while Nikki took residence in Sharon's cottage with David Chow forever there in Victor's face. Not long after J.T. took Reed home, Victoria woke up. Victoria and J.T. were married, and they moved back to the loft apartment with Reed. Victor made his new son-in-law, J.T., head of Newman security, and Victoria went back to work.

The investigation into the Clear Springs disaster disclosed the cause was Victor Newman's mining the methane underneath it. It didn't take long for Victor to alienate everyone around him, including Nikki. Victor called in her loans for NVP, fired and bankrupted her, and gained full control of NVP. He also fired Nick as co-CEO of Newman and replaced him with Neil.

After Jack lost his senate seat and Nick was fired from Newman, they got together and decided to start a new Internet and print magazine. They asked Phyllis to join them, and Sharon requested to work with them later. They named it Restless Style. Nick bought a dilapidated warehouse, which was rapidly turning into a money pit. He was financing it and his share of the venture on money borrowed from his trust fund, which he could not receive until he turned 40. They hired Daniel as a photographer assistant and general go-for, and Amber begged to be hired as receptionist. Victor labeled it foolhardy, and was sure it would fail.

Due to Jack's falsifying his father's will, the judge reversed his decision on Gloria's inheritance from John, and she was awarded half of Abbott Manor. Since Gloria and Jeffrey moved in, and Jack and Sharon refused to move out, they were time-sharing by area. Meanwhile, Jeff claimed he'd actually fallen for Gloria, and continued to blackmail her to force her to become his wife in every way. So Kevin and Gloria cooked up a plot to make it look like Jeff was slowly poisoning her to inherit, but Jeff one-upped her again, substituting something else for the poison, which she was taking daily. Both couples were doing everything they could to make the other leave.

Gloria redecorated in outlandish style, and Sharon and Jack, with Jeff's help, hired an actor, Alistair Wallingford, to play John's ghost to scare Gloria into selling her share of the mansion and leaving. Gloria figured it out and threatened lawsuit, but Jack, influenced by his conscience in the form of his dead father, John, gave up and gave her the house, and he and Sharon moved out. Then Gloria, influenced by Jana and her beliefs in karma, decided to turn her life around and gave the mansion back to Jack.

Gloria and Jeff began to realize they were actually attracted to each other, even after all their feuding and blackmailing. They had one hot night together, but misunderstandings and refusal to admit they cared led to Jeffrey filing for divorce and asking for half her net worth as a settlement. Meanwhile Gloria was still trying to offset her karma and had made legal arrangements to donate half her assets to charity. So when Jeff won the divorce settlement, Gloria would be left penniless. But, thanks to the influence of his conscience in the form of his dead father, Jack relented and let her move into the Abbott pool house.

As Victor predicted, the first edition of his son Nick's Restless Style magazine/webzine did not do as well as expected, so the second had a hipper cover, featuring hot singer, Katy Perry. Then Adrian Korbel was hired to do an article on Sabrina and the Newman Gallery for the third issue, which Sabrina and Victor approved. Victoria stepped up as a last-minute replacement for the cover, which was done in a Hollywood retro style.

Though Adrian stumbled upon a rumor that Sabrina had wrangled an exhibition for her lover, Phillipe, when she was Art Curator at the Pompidou Museum in Paris, which could shed new light on the latest Mrs. Victor Newman, he decided not to make a big deal about it. But Jack did some further research and turned Adrian's article into a scandalous one that upset everyone, but the magazines sold into a fourth printing. Jack had sent Adrian off to Australia to do another article, so Adrian was furious when he returned and found out what Jack had done to his article. Assuming Nick was in on the scandalous article, and for Victoria's turning against Sabrina for marrying her father, Victor cut them both out of his will as he added Adam and Sabrina.

Jack's success-by-any-means business style with Sharon's undying support was making it impossible for the two couples to co-exist at Restless Style, so they let a coin flip decide who would buy out the other. Jack and Sharon won, giving Nick and Phyllis a price to buy them out or take the same price to leave. Knowing Nick didn't have the funds, Sharon visited Victor and asked him to give Nick his job back at Newman. But Victor surprised them all by giving Nick a line of credit for the buyout instead. Knowing they needed someone with contacts in fashion, and with Nikki out of a job and full of great ideas, they took her on as interim Editor in Chief. Nikki got Ruby Aldridge for the cover of their first magazine on their own, and Phyllis was in charge of the farewell Letter from the Editor. She avoided the urge to trash them and wrote something nice. But after Nick spent a little too much time with Sharon resolving a problem with Noah, she changed it back to trash. But after a little loving, Nick forgave her, of course. However, neither Phyllis nor Jack was pleased when Nick's first act as advisor to Newman was to rehire Sharon as their Beauty of Nature spokesperson.

In June 2008, Noah went away to summer camp at age ten, and returned in August fifteen years old and getting into trouble with his buddies who were into drinking beer and partying. He convinced his parents to let him attend Genoa City High School instead of Walnut Grove. When Noah tried to befriend newcomer Eden, who was Michael Baldwin's half-sister, she rebuffed him and called him a loser. One night, both were invited to a party in a warehouse. When Noah arrived, he realized he had been tricked into convincing his parents it was chaperoned with no drinking, then Eden stole his cell phone when he tried to leave. Because Noah was out past curfew, Nick and Sharon burst in on the party and took Noah home just as the police were showing up and Eden was sneaking away.

Noah later took an interest in Eden, and persuaded her to go on a French class trip to France. Sharon arranged to meet Noah in Paris at the end of the class trip so they could spend some time together there. Nick happened to arrive in Paris too to help find his missing father, and ran into Sharon, so he showed her around Paris. The class trip went well and Noah was enjoying Paris, but Eden was bored and wanted to see the real Paris where her mother grew up.

Eden and Noah went to the Père Lachaise Cemetery where Jim Morrison was buried. Eden opened up to Noah about her life on the run without a mother, and they ended up in an embrace. But some young thugs interrupted them and stole the necklace Eden's mother had left her, and they roughed up Noah. Eden got away and called the police. The thugs got away, but dropped the necklace, which Noah retrieved, and Noah and Eden were taken to the police station until Sharon was located and picked them up. Noah and Eden were becoming close and kissing when they could get away with it, since they were forbidden to see each other because of the trouble they got into in Paris.

Phyllis arrived in Paris later to surprise Nick after putting the latest issue of Restless Style to bed, but he was off with Sharon. So Phyllis supervised a Paris photo-shoot for the magazine, then went sightseeing -- one of the sights being Nick and Sharon kissing on a bridge. They had gotten caught up in the moment, and that was as far as it went. Phyllis took the next flight home and did not mention to Nick that she was even there. After witnessing the kiss in Paris, convinced that Jack and Phyllis' marriage was on the skids, Phyllis did all she could to keep Sharon from falling back together with Nick.

Phyllis approached Brad to let him know the field was open for him again, and if he needed any help, she was willing. Brad found Sharon at the Genoa City Athletic Club bar, and worked on getting her back himself. Phyllis then arranged for Sharon to find out some more of Jack's lies, causing a further split between them. Phyllis was forced to admit she'd been in Paris when the Paris photo-shoot came out in print, and she told Nick what she saw there. Nick apologized and assured Phyllis that it was just a moment between him and Sharon, and that Phyllis was still the only woman for him.

Jack and Sharon were having marital problems, the same ones that broke up Jack and Phyllis, as Jack was always more interested in "getting Victor" than in his wives. Sharon had caught him in so many lies that he was on his final chance at saving their marriage before the truth about the diary came out. That was the last straw, and she and Noah moved out of his home and into the Genoa City Athletic Club. Nick and Phyllis celebrated New Year's Eve 2008 there, and, seeing Sharon alone, Phyllis called Brad to go be with her. Jack saw them going into her room together, and went home to bed alone, his world fallen apart thanks to his own lies. Jack was served with divorce papers.

In late January of 2009, Sharon went up to the Abbott lake house to be alone and think about what to do with her life after divorce papers were served on Jack. Brad showed up and declared his love, but Sharon sent him away. On the drive home, Brad had car trouble, got out, and heard the screams of Noah Newman who had gone skating with Eden and fallen through the ice. Brad died a hero after he pulled Noah from the hole in the ice, when he fell through himself and drowned.

Colleen and J.T. found Brad's car about the same time that Noah remembered and told Victoria that it was Brad who rescued him. J.T. and Colleen heard a boy playing on the ice scream as he discovered Brad's body showing through the ice. J.T. checked out the situation and had to deliver the bad news to Colleen. Colleen and Abby were both devastated by the news, and Victoria and Ashley commiserated over the loss of their former husband.

Meanwhile Nick made it through the snowstorm to the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to let Sharon know what had happened to Noah. Just as Phyllis had suspected when she begged him not to go, Nick and Sharon ended up stranded there together, reminiscences got the best of them, and they made love in front of the fireplace.

A Jewish service was held with the immediate family, his daughters Colleen and Abby, and his ex-wives Traci, Victoria, and Ashley. Brad's mother was unable to attend, and former lover, Nikki, was out of town. Sharon visited the grave alone, told Brad she always loved him, and thanked him for saving Noah's life. In the Jewish tradition, a headstone was not laid until a week later.

Nick admitted it when Phyllis guessed about his night with Sharon. He thought about his options for a few days, but decided that Sharon was his past, and Phyllis was his future. Days later when Nick apparently didn't remember or care, Sharon decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary getting drunk on shots at a bar. Billy Abbott was there, also drunk, so the two of them hooked up and spent the night together in her hotel room. Sharon began to experience blackouts where she picked up random objects from other people's houses, then later wondered where they came from. After checking out at the bookstore, Sharon added books not paid for to her bag. Eden arrived with Noah, Noah left with Sharon, leaving the bag of books on the counter. Eden grabbed them to take to Sharon,. Eden was caught by the security system and detained for shoplifting, then the police were called.

Meanwhile Sharon visited her mom in the hospital, and Doris recognized the same behaviors Sharon had as a teen over the guilt she felt when Doris became paralyzed. She asked Sharon if she wasn't feeling similar guilt over Brad's death, but Sharon denied it. Back at the bookstore, after Lauren and Michael had no success getting the owner to reconsider pressing charges, Eden was arrested, and later given into Michael's custody at Juvenile Detention. When Sharon found out what happened, she had no recollection that she was involved, and attacked Nick for trying to help calm her panic. Sharon was continuing her affair with Billy Abbott to try to ease the pain of her guilt, while Billy was supposed to be playing the doting father and living with Chloe and their daughter, Cordelia, to help her maintain custody.

After Chloe realized Billy was with another woman when she needed him, she moved back into the Chancellor estate with her mother. Phyllis caught Sharon and Billy together and threatened to tell Jack and Nick about their affair. Sharon broke down, phoned Billy, and called things off. Jack arrived and she fell into his arms, ashamed and troubled. Jack asked her to return to him, and said he would forgive her anything. Sharon asked him to just keep her safe from the rest of the world, and Jack promised he would. They made love and Sharon moved back in with Jack. Meanwhile, Billy showed up with flowers for Chloe and smooth-talked her into giving him another chance. Nick and Noah were both perplexed with her flakiness when, only days later, Sharon inexplicably decided to move back to the club.

Eden and Noah took off together for the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to be alone and have sex for the first time, but they reconsidered and had left by the time both Sharon and Nick got there to stop them. Once again, Sharon and Nick fell back into the old attraction and had sex there themselves. Nick admitted to Phyllis what had happened, and suggested they separate until he could decide whom he really wanted. They arrived at home to find Eden and Noah having sex on their couch. Nick spent the night at Victoria's, and Phyllis went crazy in Sharon's hotel room, screaming and cutting up Sharon's clothes.

Phyllis discovered Sharon's stash of stolen items, and notified the police. When Sharon arrived back at her room, she was arrested for theft. Jack bailed her out, Nick accused Phyllis of setting her up, and Victor decided it was time Noah went to live with him. Nick and Phyllis split up for a time from the fallout, then just as they got back together in time for their anniversary, Phyllis was caught on hotel videotape and arrested for trashing Sharon's room. Sharon had a confession written up ready to give to Assistant D.A. Heather, but thanks to Phyllis' plea for Noah's sake, Lauren dropped shoplifting charges against Sharon, so Sharon dropped charges against Phyllis.

Sharon told Doris that she was pregnant and there were three possible fathers. Later, Cassie appeared to Sharon in a dream saying the baby girl she foresaw on her deathbed was Summer. Sharon tried to tell Nick that she was pregnant, but was interrupted, then told Jack, who confided in Billy, not realizing that Billy was the third potential father. Jack told Sharon he wanted her back and the baby, whoever the father was, so they reconciled. Jack had to dump Mary Jane, but she was conniving to get him back by getting Sharon involved with Nick again.

Memorial Day 2009, the anniversary of Cassie's death, found Sharon and Nick still grieving, and Nick finally feeling remorse for not being there for her back then. Sharon tried to avoid Nick, but they ended up running into each other at Cassie's grave, where emotions ran high. Nick referred to Cassie's prophecy of another baby girl, causing Sharon to admit that she was pregnant and it might be his, which Phyllis overheard. Phyllis lambasted Jack for letting that happen, and, because she overheard Sharon say that Jack knew everything and he forgave her, she asked Jack how he could forgive Billy for being the third possibility. Jack was shocked and later attacked Billy for it. Sharon admitted to Jack that Billy might be the father of her baby, while Nick admitted to Phyllis that Sharon was pregnant and it might be his. Jack was understanding and loving, even though it ruined his relationship with his brother, and he still wanted Sharon and the baby, no matter whose baby it was.

Phyllis reacted calm and accepting, and gave Nick an ultimatum to choose between her and Sharon. Sharon made an appointment for a paternity test. Nick remembered the wonderful parts of his life with Phyllis, comparing them with memories with Sharon. Sharon walked in and they kissed passionately, with Nick saying he was leaving Phyllis, wanting to be with Sharon. But Sharon turned him down, saying she and Jack were back together and raising the child, and could not break up their family. Despite that, Nick went home and told Phyllis that it was over.

Later, at the Athletic Club, Nick emerged from his room, caught Sharon going down the hall, convinced her that they were meant to be, and they again made love. Meanwhile, Phyllis was pouring her heart out to Jack, and they ended up making love, as well, with Mary Jane scowling through the window. But after Jack left Phyllis' home, he went to Mary Jane and they made love, too. Because Nick and Sharon seem to be getting back together, Mary Jane appeared to be working on getting Phyllis out of Jack's life so she could have Jack to herself. Nick told Phyllis to go ahead and file for divorce, that he would not fight her on anything, and Phyllis replied, "You want it so bad, get it yourself!" After Nick left, Phyllis told Summer that her daddy was not going to be living with them anymore.

Sharon and Nick went house hunting and found the perfect home on Rampart Lane. Sharon got the paternity test results back and was ecstatic that she and Nick were expecting Faith, the daughter that Cassie predicted on her deathbed and in Nick's dream. But after seeing Nick so distraught over his daughter Summer being in a coma, Sharon realized that he needed to be there for Summer and Phyllis, and not run off with someone else like he did over Cassie, so she told everyone her baby was Jack's. Summer’s obsession with watching the video of their wedding made Nick realize how much he really loved Phyllis and wanted to stay together, even marry her all over again. Meanwhile Sharon admitted to Jack that Nick was really the father of her unborn baby, and Jack refused to forgive her for lying to him. Sharon watched from the bushes as Nick and Phyllis renewed their vows. Later Sharon walked out of the Jewelers in a daze with a duplicate of Phyllis's new wedding ring, was arrested. and institutionalized for 30 days for mental observation. Her mother Doris visited her and questioned why Jack, the father of her baby, had not been by to see her, causing Sharon to admit that Nick was the real father. Later as Doris left, Sharon opened her door and cautioned Doris not to tell anyone, but Nick was outside and overheard. After Doris was out of sight, he returned, confronted Sharon with the truth, and she admitted it. Nick told Sharon he cannot walk away from his child.

Ashley was convinced by Jack to check in to the same mental hospital where Sharon was. Adam followed with Dr. Taylor in tow. It wasn't long afterward that Sharon went into labor, and with no obstetrician on-staff, Dr. Taylor was enlisted to deliver her baby. Ashley went into "labor" for her hysterical pregnancy, and begged Adam to deliver her baby in her room. He gave her a drug that knocked her out. Meanwhile Dr. Taylor delivered Sharon's baby girl. Adam snatched her out of his arms, and when Ashley woke, Adam handed her Sharon's baby as her own. Dr. Taylor was forced to deliver the news to Sharon that her baby had died.

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