Y&R: Casting Shocker

Tonight Angelica McDaniel, the head of CBS Daytime posted shocking "The Young and the Restless" casting news. The role of Billy has been recast as 2013 Daytime Emmy Winner Billy Miller has decided to leave the role. My thoughts about this are below.

Please join me in welcoming Daytime Emmy winner David Tom back to #YR and @CBSDaytime as Billy Abbott’s exciting storyline continues.
— Angelica McDaniel (@AngelicaMcD) November 19, 2013

David Tom is returning to the role, and he was the person who was hired when Billy was aged from a child. He played the part successfully from 1999 to 2002 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Younger Actor category in 2000. During his years away from Y&R, he appeared on One Life to Live along with other projects. If they had to recast the part, I'm glad they hired someone who has history with the show and the character though Billy is very different than when David was playing the role more than a decade ago. Obviously the biggest change is that back then Billy would have never fallen in love or married Victoria because back then Victoria was played by David's sister Heather. Obviously there is no way any soap opera would pair real life siblings in a romantic story.

I hope this works out for Y&R. I wish Billy Miller well in his future career and welcome David Tom back to Genoa City.