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Charlie Mason
Monday, March 25th, 2024
Credit: Howard Wise/JPI (2), Brian Lowe/JPI (2), Aaron Montgomery/JPI (2), Sean Smith/JPI
Not in a million years did we expect we’d see the day that The Young and the Restless put Sharon — Sharon! — on the backburner. Yet here we are. And worse, there she is. Emmy winner Sharon Case’s beloved alter ego is puttering around without a story to call her own.
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It simply didn’t have to be this way.
Sharon’s relationship with Chance showed signs up livening them both up. But the show gave her a dream from which she awakened no longer interested in being with him. While the last thing Genoa City needed was another CEO, at least Sharon’s return to the business world promised to put her in constant contact and conflict with the Newmans. It hasn’t, though. She renamed Cameron’s company Cassidy First Technology and… that was that.
“I should take down the Christmas decorations. It’s not like I don’t have time!”
Credit: CBS screenshot
Maybe — and we can only hope! — Young & Restless is building up to a grand new romance for Sharon. Bring Lauren’s son Scott back a little older and wise enough never to cheat on her again. Have her cross paths with Bold & Beautifultycoon Bill, thereby capitalizing on Case’s chemistry with Don Diamont (who used to play Brad, you know of course).
Or the show introduce a whole new character, and cast an MVP that daytime fans miss seeing on the regular. William deVry (ex-Julian, General Hospital) if he could be enticed. Or Matt Cedeño (ex-Brandon Days of Our Lives) or… The possibilities are limitless.
Who would you like to see Sharon paired with? On your way to the comments, stop off at the below photo gallery to review the heroine’s wild past.
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![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (9) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (9)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-nick-cbs-ec.jpg?fit=1230%2C1548)
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<p>Though Sharon Collins and Nick Newman were dating other people when they met —and his mother strongly disapproved of his holding the hand of a girl from the wrong side of the tracks —they fell so hard for one another, it was a wonder they didn’t bruise.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (10) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (10)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-nick-sharon-wedding-1996-lipson-cbs-ec.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
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<p>A few months after eloping, Sharon and Nick said “I redo” — and then some. “You have already made me happier than I ever dreamed was possible,” the bride told her groom. “Well, hang onto your hat,” he replied. “We’re just getting started!”</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (11) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (11)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-young-cassie-jp.jpg?fit=1230%2C719)
Image: John Paschal/JPI
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<p>When it looked like the Newmans’ newborn, Noah, might not pull through in 1997, Mom’s old pal/Dad’s sometime lover, Grace Turner, located little Cassie, whom Sharon had given up for adoption. Suddenly, Nick and Sharon went from having one kid to two!</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (12) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (12)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sharon-body-cameron-yr-jp.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: John Paschal/JPI
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<p>During a particularly dark time in her life, Sharon got involved with Cameron Kirsten, a tycoon who was as disturbed as he was rich. There was only one way to escape him, she thought — and you’re looking at it. But not only was he still alive when the sheet hit the fanatic, he murdered Cassie’s father and framed the object of his obsession for the crime!</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (13) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (13)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-cassie-death-brian-lowe.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Brian Lowe/JPI
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<p>Cassie’s tragic demise didn’t just break Sharon and Nick’s hearts, it, in essence, broke them up. He went racing down a dead-end path to vengeance that led to an affair with Phyllis Summers, and she leaned on the very broad, very welcoming shoulder of one singularly…</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (14) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (14)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sharon-Brad-YR-AM.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
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<p>As much of a playboy as Brad Carlton was — and they don’t come much more incorrigible — his feelings for Sharon were as deep as they were true. The two of them could never quite make a go of a relationship, though, and in the end, he was frozen out. Not by Sharon, mind you. He died saving Noah from an icy lake, an incident which to this day makes us want to put on an extra sweater.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (15) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (15)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-nick-sharon-ashley-faith-ss.jpg?fit=1230%2C719)
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
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<p>Sharon grieved mightily for her late daughter, Faith, only to discover in 2010 that the baby was alive and well, and being raised by Ashley Abbott. But that good news came with a big dose of bad: Sharon’s own husband — Nick’s half brother, Adam — had stolen her child to replace the one he’d caused his stepmother to miscarry!</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (16) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (16)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sharon-nikki-fight-ss.jpg?fit=1230%2C1230)
Image: Sean Smith (3)
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<p>It would be an understatement to say that Sharon has never gotten along with Nick’s mother, Nikki. Sure, they’ve disposed of the occasional body together, but more often than not, they can be found throwing both shade and punches in one another’s direction.</p>
Image: Brian Lowe/JPI (3)
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<p>When not endeavoring to start her own private fight club with Nikki, Sharon has frequently traded a mix of insults and blows with perennial “other woman” Phyllis. And the two of them didn’t care <em>who</em> got caught in the crossfire. Wouldn’t you agree, Drucilla? (RIP.)</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (18) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (18)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-victor-wedding-ss.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
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<p>Sharon’s always had a thing for Newmans. So maybe it shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise in 2012 when, after marrying both Nick and Adam, she also tied the knot with their father, Victor. On an unrelated note — or <em>is</em> it? — she was soon after diagnosed as having bipolar disorder.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (19) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (19)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-mariah-sharon-victor-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C719)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Eager to convince Sharon that she was losing it, Victor hired a Cassie lookalike named Mariah Copeland to spook his former wife. But the joke was on him — he actually did her a favor, by inadvertently reuniting her with the twin sister she’d never known that Cassie had had!</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (20) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (20)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-dylan-nick-christian-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>… of your husband, in Sharon’s case. When she revealed in 2016 that Sully — her and newest spouse Dylan McAvoy’s baby — was actually ex-husband Nick’s “late” child with subsequent wife Sage Warner, the detective accepted an undercover assignment that was so dangerous, it resulted in him leaving Sharon and Genoa City to enter Witness Protection.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (21) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (21)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/JPI_Episode11338_0001739122.jpeg?fit=1231%2C718)
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
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<p>Despite his affinity for scarves, Sharon opened her heart and home to Lauren Fenmore’s son, Scott Grainger. Soon, he was ready to propose. If only he could find a moment when he wasn’t cheating on his would-be bride with Nick’s half sister, Abby. As you can see, Sharon did <em>not</em> take the betrayal well.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (22) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (22)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-nick-2018-wedding-hw-1.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Sharon was all set to remarry Nick in 2018 when — dang it! She learned that he’d strayed with Phyllis again. (What <em>is</em> it about her?!?) So instead of recite vows, she dropped truth bombs, blowing up not only her and Nick’s reunion but, as an added bonus, Phyllis’ relationship with Billy Abbott, too!</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (23) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (23)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-adam-rey-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C717)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>After getting past the fact that she was a suspect in the “murder” of J.T. Hellstrom, detective Rey Rosales got serious with Sharon — <em>so</em> serious, in fact, that he married her. “Well, I ain’t going nowhere,” Adam all but said. And truer words were rarely if ever all but said.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (24) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (24)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/yr-sharon-faith-mariah-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C720)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Despite appearances, everything was <em>not</em> coming up… whatever kind of flower that is for Sharon. If Faith (then Alyvia Alyn Lind) wasn’t scaling new heights of adolescent angst, Mariah was getting abducted while carrying a baby for Abby Newman and her MIA husband.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (25) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (25)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sharon-adam-kiss-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Though Sharon had every intention of remaining true to Rey, the heart wants what the heart wants — and so does the rest of the body. So even when she wasn’t thinking about kissing Adam, she found herself thinking about <em>thinking about</em> kissing him. Which isn’t <em>quite</em> as bad… but almost.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (26) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (26)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Adam-holds-Sharon-cry-YR-CBS.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: CBS screenshot
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<p>Rey’s sudden and unexpected death left Sharon… Well, see above. <em>That’s</em> how the unfortunate turn of events left the widow. Adam was there to comfort her, and so was Nick. All of her favorite exes stepped up, come to think of it. But rather than hurl herself into a rebound relationship, Sharon bravely endeavored to go it alone.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (27) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (27)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JPI_Episode12441_0001987325.jpeg?fit=1230%2C754)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Following Rey’s passing, Sharon became “everybody’s touchstone,” portrayer Sharon Case told <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/wp-admin/_wp_link_placeholder" target="_blank"><em>Soap Opera Digest</em></a>. “She’s still running the coffeehouse — that’s a top priority for her — but she’s also taking care of her daughter and daughter-in-law during their adoption journey and listening to Noah about his past with Audra and… ” Yeah, Sharon <em>really</em> needed to get her groove back.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (28) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (28)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/JPI_Episode12591_0002022286.jpeg?fit=1229%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Off his split from Abby, Chance Chancellor started looking as appealing to Sharon as a psychotherapy patient who didn’t mind discussing their personal problems in a crowded coffeehouse. But would she ultimately give him the thumbs-up that he so clearly desired?</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (29) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (29)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Sharon-Cameron-wall-YR-HW.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Actually, no, the cat couldn’t have dragged in Cameron because he had already murdered it. As crazy as ever, the ex-con still wanted to run away with Sharon. And his heart’s desire? She wanted to run away, too — but <em>from</em> him, not <em>with</em> him.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (30) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (30)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-18-at-6.40.22-PM.png?fit=1231%2C718)
Image: CBS screenshot
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<p>Sharon did eventually let herself get carried away by both passion and Chance in the back room of Crimson Lights. But just as their relationship was beginning to solidify, she took a jackhammer to it on the advice of a weird-ass dream. You know, as one will.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (31) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (31)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sharon-sign-YR-HW.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
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<p>Sharon had more important things to do than knock boots with Chance, anyway. In Cameron’s will, he left her his company. So she immediately moved to the top of her to-do list asking her ex-husbands if they wanted to work with her and renaming Kirsten Incorporated after her late daughter.</p>
![Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (32) Young & Restless Tees Up a Sharon Crisis We Never Saw Coming — and Neither Did She! (32)](https://i0.wp.com/soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Faith-tells-Sharon-Moses-split-hw.jpg?fit=1230%2C718)
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