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We’ve bought a cleaning soap opera shocker, superstar gossip followers.
Allison Lanier — the Emmy Award-nominated actress who has portrayed Summer season Newman on The Younger and the Stressed for the final three years — introduced on Wednesday that she’s exiting the favored CBS drama.
Like, instantly.
“This Friday, May 2nd, will be my last episode on Y&R,” the star wrote in an April 30 message shared to social media, including:
“I’ve cherished the journey and discovered a lot however it’s time to develop in a distinct route… very grateful for all the Y&R followers who’ve supported me
Wow, huh?
Nobody else related to Lanier and/or The Younger and the Stressed has but commented on the surprising departure.
The veteran actress joined the solid of the long-running program in Might 2022, taking over the position of Summer season Newman… who has been a sequence common since her delivery on a 2006 installment.
Lanier was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2024 for her efficiency, dropping the Excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Collection trophy to colleague Courtney Hope.
She took over the enduring character from Hunter King, who had performed the position on and off since 2012, and was awarded a pair of Daytime Emmys for her effort — in 2014 and 2015.
Previous to King, Summer season was performed by Lindsay Bushman, Samantha Bailey, and an assortment of dual youngster actors, together with Elara and Rhea Kerwin, and Bianca and Chiara D’Ambrosio.
It’s unclear at the moment what is going to grow to be of Summer season.
Or who would possibly take over for Lanier.
The character has already been kidnapped, despatched into anaphylactic shock by a peanut-laced kiss, performed confederate to a cop killer, dedicated bribery, grand theft auto and an entire lot extra. She’s been by it.
Lanier joins Colleen Zenk in strolling away from The Younger and the Stressed.
The four-decade veteran of Because the World Turns made her exit after solely a yr on the present in appropriately grand style — by chugging a teacup stuffed with crushed sleeping drugs in a January episode.
