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Breaking News! Raya Meddine Leaving The Young and the Restless!

Wednesday, July 16 2008


Raya Meddine (Shaun Proulx, ProudFM)
Raya Meddine, the beautiful actress who plays Victor Newman’s (Eric Braeden) new wife, Sabrina, has been let go from the show after only about five months. The actress joined the show in February 2008 as the best friend of Victor’s daughter, Victoria (Amelia Heinle), who had come to town to visit on her way to set up a new life in New York City.


**Mini-Spoiler**

No final airdate has been announced for the character of Sabrina, but as Soaps.com has reported earlier, previews show her involved in a tragedy that will unfold at the time of the Charity Ball.

Raya had signed a three-year contract, but there is a pervasive feeling in the soap community that her character, Sabrina, never quite caught on with viewers of Y&R, particularly when writers paired her so quickly with much-older mega-millionaire, Victor Newman. Since Sabrina also recently announced that she is expecting, viewers have been waiting to see if the scribes will address the fact that Victor is well-known to have had a vasectomy, and therefore, is the baby she is carrying actually his?

According to media reports, writers for the show are aware that fans are antsy about this complication, and are working on addressing it.

Soaps.com would like to wish Raya all the best in her future endeavors. Here’s hoping she’ll turn up in the soap world again soon, as she is certainly a wonderful actress!


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Posted by Charwid at Friday, July 18 2008 06:39 PM

I have watched the show from he beginning. I was in high school back when it first aired. It was unny because our school was doing this thing called a days and b days. Well I had b days off so every other day I was home watching it. I think the character Sabrina brought life to the show. I do not like how Victor turned on his children though with out getting all the facts and finding out that Jack pulled the wool over everyones eyes at the magazine. As far as her pregnancy goes I remembred the story line about Victor and that also makes it confuseing why he turned on his children. I hope he makes up with them and reinstates them into the will and starts acting lik the loving father he is. I think Adam needs to go he is the one that does not fit in.

Posted by Odelle at Friday, July 18 2008 06:52 PM

Ilove Victor ,Adam too, what I would like to see is the writers make it that all the children get along with each other stop having Adam creeping around have the children team up and run the newman enterprise,so Victor can take a holiday knowing that his children are capable because he teach them well.

Posted by retired and loving it at Friday, July 18 2008 10:01 PM

There is no way a father would would suddently fall in love with his daughter's best friend. What a load of crap. I really got sick at the love scenes. I was hoping she would hook up with Adam; it would make more sense and cause more of problem between her and Victoria. Now, I can't stand her. And I am glad she is gone.

Posted by MsRich at Friday, July 18 2008 10:34 PM

I think Victoria is as spoiled as her father raised her to be, I don't think she is selfish but yes maybe a little selfcentered but again her father raised her have whatever she wants so how could or why should anyone expect anything less. I agree that yes it would be nice for Victor to admit at least once in his life that he is wrong.

Especially with this whole magazine thing....... yes he and his kids may have their differences right now but to think that they would go as far as doing something like that to anyone and knowing how Jack is and how he got it out for him, you would think that he would know better and believe the kids when they say they were not part of it. And come on guys if in real life your very bestest friend that is 25 years younger than your father hooked up with him, kept it from you, and married him all in two months most would people would be quite upset and it should be no different for Vicki... doing something like that is almost up there with dating your friends ex.

I agree that it was a bad idea for Nick to go into business with Jack, just knowing Jack's past would have and should have been enough to make him want to stay away...... but kids at any age to crazy things when trying to prove something to their parents and make it on their own. Victor isnt going to be here forever and it would be nice that for once he does a little less trying to rule the world in EVERY aspect, and make some things right.

Posted by fann at Saturday, July 19 2008 07:24 AM

Sabrina needs to stay she brings class to the Y&R that was lost ....Y&R had gotten bored until Sabrina!!

Posted by twocentsworth at Saturday, July 19 2008 08:18 AM

Here's my "two cents worth"...the only reason the viewers didn't "buy into" Sabrina is what we viewed through the writers' eyes and words that Sabrina had to convey...said another way, this is not her (the actress's) fault, but that of the utter "unrealistic, unbelievable, unfair" storylines she was handed to portray...this actress is talented, beautiful to a fault, and will go on to play other memorable characters down the road, just not on this soap since the writers decided to move too quickly, too irrationally and too carelessly with her role...best of luck to Raya...

Posted by MsRich at Saturday, July 19 2008 09:24 AM

I agree that Raya is truly an talented actress, just with the wrong role. There is no fear that her career is over, she just will be moving on to something bigger and better..... they should have just thought more about who they hooked her up with. Or if they were going to put her with Victor they should have let it take a little longer to develop, they should have had it that Vicki still wasnt thrilled about it but because it happened over the course of some months instead of weeks, and had them be forward about it, she would have come around soon and in a better way. But whats done is done..... let's just hope that they will bring on some more people that will add flair to the show........ let's hope that since it is time where Noah will be growing up that the SL's this brings forth is interesting.

And let's hope most of all the writers STOP doing the same thing, having someone's mother not like the girlfriend(hence Nicky not liking Sharon in the past, Jill not liking Mackenzie when she was with Billy) and please let them STOP having everyone get pregnant/faking pregnancies for sleeping with someone else's mate. Fortunately that is something we wont be seeing happen to Amber for her mistake with Adrian.

Well that was my mouth full of thoughts

Posted by Thomasina1616 at Saturday, July 19 2008 09:33 AM

I don't think Sabrina should be let go--I did like the little spice of her mom, trying to be all tabloid at the wedding. Plus Adam demonstration that he's more Victor thn Nick ever was. I don't dislike her character, however I don't watch the show for her. My problem is, like alot of others--her romance with Victor was too fast. She was there for about 10 minutes, turned Victor on to modern art and boom. I did feel some chemistry, unlike Nikki and David (get him OFF of there, he was cuter as Lujack, back in the day, on the Guilding Light--but it was all too fast. Maybe if we had time for her to grow on us. Too fast.

Posted by Shlymi69 at Saturday, July 19 2008 09:51 AM

I'm glad to see her go. In fact when she was on I would always fast forward her scenes especially with Victor because I just didn't care for her. I'm not against the younger woman and that she was Victoria's friend first, after all this is a soap opera. I just didn't like the actress herself. When she first started on the show it wasn't so bad but once she got with Victor I just couldn't watch her. I'm sure I missed a lot of the story lines because of my fast forwarding but now hopefully Victor and Nikki will get back together or another better Sabrina will be brough on board. Sabrina and Victor talking in French all the time was kinda annoying too.

Posted by RevaFan2007 at Saturday, July 19 2008 11:13 AM

I hate to see her go I like seeing her with Victor if someone should go it should be that aggravating Chloe!!!

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