{"id":2367753,"date":"2026-04-10T20:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2367753"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:53:30","slug":"why-shemar-moore-returns-to-young-and-the-restless-soap-opera-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-shemar-moore-returns-to-young-and-the-restless-soap-opera-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Shemar Moore Returns to Young and the Restless, Soap Opera Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI call my career high school, college, and graduate school: Eight years on <\/span>Young and Restless<\/span>\u2026was high school,\u201d he told <\/span>TV Insider<\/span><\/a> in an interview published April 2. \u201cThen 11 years on <\/span>Criminal Minds<\/span> was college, then eight years on <\/span>S.W.A.T.<\/span> was graduate school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But while Shemar has built a stacked TV resume since <\/span>The Young and the Restless<\/span>, he admitted to not always being confident in his abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning, I was scared to death and nervous and insecure,\u201d he continued, \u201cand really thought they\u2019re gonna realize I suck and tap me on the shoulder and say, \u2018Oops, we made a mistake, go on home.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Shemar\u2019s late costar <\/span>Kristoff St. John<\/strong>, who played his onscreen brother on the soap opera, extended their fictional connection to the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKristoff wrapped me up, and he said, \u2018I got you. I\u2019m gonna help you find your way,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cHe was a big brother to me on the screen. He was a big brother to me and a mentor in real life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And now Shemar is grateful to return to where he and Kristoff built their friendship. As he put it, \u201cI feel humbled and honored and nostalgic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, Shemar isn\u2019t the only actor who got his start on a soap opera. Read on for more celebs with daytime TV roots.\u00a0<\/span><\/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.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI call my career high school, college, and graduate school: Eight years on Young and Restless\u2026was high school,\u201d he told TV Insider in an interview published April 2. \u201cThen 11 years on Criminal Minds was college, then eight years on S.W.A.T. was graduate school.\u201d But while Shemar has built a stacked TV resume since The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Why-Shemar-Moore-Returns-to-Young-and-the-Restless-Soap.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367753","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=2367753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367755,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367753\/revisions\/2367755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}