Aw, Nuts! Young & Restless Descends Into Madness (2024)

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily hitched for the third time. Well, <em>relatively</em> happily. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>At the moment, there isn’t one. Nikki is on board with Victor’s plan to protect Katherine’s legacy by putting her in charge of Chancellor Industries.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced… for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Perhaps only a fear of re-breaking their hearts. Claire’s mom and dad are taking inspiration from their resurrected daughter and trying to raise their romance from the grave.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> United, they stand.<strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They married against all odds. Now they just have to keep <em>beating</em> the odds — a neat trick, what with son Kyle planning to use Glissade to torpedo the family business.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Hot and heavy. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Orders of French fries usually last longer than the relationships into which these two get themselves.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Twitterpated. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s more of a fear, really — that the couple will decide that they’re likelier to live happily ever after in Paris than Genoa City.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Former bedmates. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Re-teamed up at Glissade, it may be only a matter of time before the colleagues are getting tangled up in sheets besides the spread- kind.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Ashley had no sooner said “I do” to her conniving ex than she asked herself, “What have I done?” Arguably even more problematic is that she soon splintered into a number of alternate personalities, leaving her to wonder not just “What have I done?” but “Which one of us did it?”</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Circling one another. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Let’s see. Summer is already jealous of her and Kyle’s son Harrison’s new nanny, and Victor has warned Claire to be wary of the Abbott heir. Yeah, these two are totally gonna happen.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Reunited and it feels so… uh-oh. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Heather may have succeeded in winning Daniel back from Lily, but Lucy’s parents lost their jobs in the process. And now the teenager is acting out in ways that eerily remind us of ill-fated Cassie.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Engaged. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Rug burn? Other than their propensity for stair sex, there isn’t really anything standing — or lying — in the way of their happiness. Heck, even her dad Victor approves!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Partying like it’s 1989. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though Phyllis tried to repeat ancient history by coming between the former marrieds, their love emerged victorious this time around. Danny’s sure to be writing Christine a wedding song any second now. “Rock On… Your Finger,” maybe?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Second time’s the charm? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Dealing with son Connor’s mental-health struggle put Chelsea to bed with babydaddy Adam. Now, despite a lifetime of pulling cons, she seems to have lost her poker face around Billy.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Split. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Sally wasn’t quite as over Nick’s brother Adam as she’d wished — and Nick had hoped — she was. But hey, they’ll always have their memories. And that couch.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Lovers.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Playing with each other, they’re playing with fire, so it’s only a question of which one of them is going to get burned.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married… with children. (Well, one, at least.) <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Daughter Aria’s hearing loss has forced the couple to listen ever closer to their hearts.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Flatlined. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their relationship was already on its last legs when the return of her “late” daughter kneecapped it once and for all.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A thing of the past. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> One big betrayal (Summer’s secret-keeping for mom Phyllis) led to another (Kyle’s affair with Audra). These days, they’re likelier to end up in court to fight for custody of Harrison than to ask a justice of the peace to remarry them.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She’s ready to ride off into the sunset with her husband. He’s less interested in a <em>last</em> hurrah than the <em>next</em> one.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Kaput. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> In one fell swoop, Tucker lost not only his fiancée but the cosmetics company with which they’d hoped to conquer the world one tube of lipstick at a time.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Take ’em off the grill, they’re done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Billy’s support of Chelsea turned out to have as much to do with him wanting to reunite with her as it did him wanting to look out for her mental health.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Th-th-that’s all, folks.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Not a lotta husbands want to stick around after their wives have random stair sex with their sperm donor. And to be clear, Chance wasn’t one of the husbands who <em>did</em> wanna stick around after a thing like that.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> History. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> You <em>could</em> say Diane. But between “Phack,” they have more emotional baggage than you could fit in the overhead compartment of a dozen jets.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Don’t start us crying. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His untimely demise stuck a fork in one of the more stable marriages that Sharon has ever had.</p><p></p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Pressing “restart.”<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It was full-steam ahead for “Ally.” Sally was even 100-percent supportive of Adam and Chelsea’s efforts to get son Connor the help that he needs. But she’s likely to question how the boy’s parents drunkenly hooking up was going to help him get better sooner than later!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> As finished as finished gets. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He gave friend Abby benefits that were most definitely <em>not</em> approved by his girlfriend.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> “Ex” marks the spot. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their passion was said to have burned them as badly as it heated up their nights.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Splitsville. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Is there one? The way he likes to call her “hot mom” and she likes to call him “hot dad,” we’re not so sure that <em>anything</em> stands between Summer’s parents.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> R.I.P. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Nate’s affair with Victoria was the last straw for Elena. And she’d given him a lot of straws!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Game over. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Britney Spears’ “Toxic” wasn’t written about the exes — but it could’ve been.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finito. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They just didn’t have what it takes to be lifers. Together, they were more like…yearers? A-few-monthers.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Did we mention how incredible Billy Boy is at turning good things bad? Because it does bear mentioning.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> It was fun while it lasted. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They were just kids when they originally hooked up and locked it down. (See photo.) And Daniel still hadn’t matured enough to deserve Lily; just ask Heather, with whom he two-timed his one and only.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Broken up. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They might’ve gotten past her kissing his cousin Nate, but going so far as to play doctor with him? Er, not so much.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Adam moved on with Sally and Chelsea, with Billy. So, um, why as they came together for son Connor’s sake did the exes also sleep together? Maybe it’s not as over between them as we (or <em>they</em>!) thought.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Friends without benefits. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> No sooner had Chance and Sharon slept together than it started looking like Summer was into him, too. (Spoiler alert: She was and is.) Then Sharon had a wacky-ass dream that prompted her to dump the new exec in town without so much as a goodbye bagel.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced buddies. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> When they were together, she was kind of a homicidal homewrecker. Now, though? Well, now she’s the kinda femme fatale who’d throw herself at him just to stick it to his <em>other</em> ex, Christine. So… progress?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Nemeses. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The onetime coconspirators were probably too much alike for that old flame to get relit.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Done-er than done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Take it from Ashland — once ya lie about having cancer, there’s no going back. Also, he’s dead.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> May we never speak of their marriages again. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>Since she saw him as a father figure and had been hitched to both of his sons, they kinda put the “ew” in “union.”</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Mom-and-pop operation. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s a tossup as to which of these two has a greater propensity for falling out of the frying pan and into the fire.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> <em>El fin.</em> <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Doug Davidson has said that he <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/600536/young-restless-doug-davidson-says-not-returning-paul/" target="_blank">won’t be returning</a> to the show. Translation: Paul won’t be returning to Christine. Cue Danny saying, “Whew.”</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Involved… we think. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> We haven’t seen them on screen in so long, we can’t be sure they’re even still a couple!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Exes. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Even if she hadn’t figured out that she was a lesbian, these two were probably always destined to be better as buddies than bed buddies.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status: </strong>Flunked out.<strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> After being shipped off to college, the young sweethearts’ relationship didn’t make the grade.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Charlie and Mattie’s daddy had a dreadful habit of lying to their mommy. And kissing other women. And sometimes sleeping with them. And…</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Former colleagues. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Imani vanished from the canvas around the same time that sis Amanda left town.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Apart. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though the former marrieds are endgame to many a fan — and her subconscious — they have a hard time convincing the stars to align. And <em>stay</em> aligned!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced to the nth. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He may have married her twice, but he now hates her three times as much as he ever did.</p>