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A long-missing veteran star is finally back on The Young and the Restless<\/em> fold. Here\u2019s the show\u2019s latest comings and goings casting news. Find out who it is, as well as if any other stars from yesteryear are joining the soap this week or in the near future, if any newcomers are boarding in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, or if any of your favorite actors or actresses are leaving the CBS drama.<\/p>\n At long last, Jess Walton is finally back on the Genoa City scene as Jill Abbott. The beloved character returns for real \u2014 not just via another video phone call this week \u2014 when she arrives home on Thursday, October 2. Look for the character to immediately settle unfinished business with Jason Thompson\u2019s Billy and Billy Flynn\u2019s Cane.<\/p>\n Valarie Pettiford, who\u2019s been conspicuously missing as Amy Lewis, is finally back onscreen. The character has been MIA since the stunning murder of her son, Damian (Jermaine Rivers)<\/a>. Pettiford shares scenes with Christel Khalil\u2019s Lily on Thursday, October 2. Pettiford also airs opposite Sean Dominic\u2019s Nate on Friday, October 3.<\/p>\n Cait Fairbanks returns as Tessa Porter. (Learn some interesting facts about the actress here<\/a>.) She interacts with Sharon Case\u2019s Sharon this week.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported on Soap Hub<\/a> on September 27, 2025. Add Soap Hub as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long-missing veteran star is finally back on The Young and the Restless fold. Here\u2019s the show\u2019s latest comings and goings casting news. Find out who it is, as well as if any other stars from yesteryear are joining the soap this week or in the near future, if any newcomers are boarding in contract, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[315873,316942,381796],"class_list":["post-2053743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jess-walton","tag-the-young-and-the-restless","tag-valarie-pettiford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Young-and-the-Restless-Comings-and-Goings-Long-Missing.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Week of September 29, 2025<\/h2>\n