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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 ladykp41 at Thursday, July 17 2008 10:56 AM

you are so right CHLOE needs to leave the show but I don't think that victor is over Nikki at all and too cut his kids out of his will for telling the truth the one person he should believe is his daughter she has known Sabrina longer then anyone so wrier if you read thses post write CHLOE off the show......

Posted by cher cher at Thursday, July 17 2008 11:27 AM

there is something strange about sabrina i think that she is hiding something. maybe it is a good idea for them to let her go because to me she does not really fit into newman world but again maybe she does

Posted by estes82 at Thursday, July 17 2008 11:33 AM

I am glad she is leaving. I could never get with this character. They should have let her hook up with Brad or Adam, not Victor. Vicki is her best friend. Come on writers, that was too creepy.

Posted by Vicster at Thursday, July 17 2008 11:44 AM

People come on here.....this is the soap world...there are no "realistic" storylines. I loved Sabrina and so what about the vasectomy storyline. Hey sometimes those procedures dont "take" LOL. Yeah now back to the same old boring crap.

Posted by mindy92129 at Thursday, July 17 2008 11:47 AM

I'm over joyed that the writers decided to kill off her character. It was to scandalous! I never really liked her character from the beginning. But with that being said, I wish her the best of luck.

Posted by radiant at Thursday, July 17 2008 12:02 PM

I really wish they were keeping Sabrina's character and kill off Chole instead I cant stant that girl she needs to go. The writers are making a mistake by letting her go I personally liked her and she with Victor the idea was growing on me. rvkfla- I know you might not be a Lily fan but I don't see why you need the writers let her be involved in some tragedy the only person thant needs to be in a tragedy is Chole.

Posted by radiant at Thursday, July 17 2008 12:03 PM

In my eariler post I meant stand not stant my bads.

Posted by fossilA at Thursday, July 17 2008 12:17 PM

Just when things were getting interesting the powers that be decides to squash the role of Sabrina!It seems there is more to her charecter and could possibly give Victor a run for his "money".How about that "look",when Victor presented her with the key to the chateau?Could the ladies of Genoa City not stand the competition?So what's a vasectomy among friends?this is a soap opera!!!

Posted by italianpastagurl at Thursday, July 17 2008 12:44 PM

Her & Victor did not pair well together...Kinda boring. I do however wish her great success in the future.
One thing I kinda wondered about if she and David Chow maybe in some kind of a plot together aganist Victor & Nikki
has anybody else wondered that??? If so please post your thoughts! Maybe their actions catch up to them and they hurry out of the Gala in order to try and not get caught and get into a car crash & killed...Or if they don't have a sceem going on might be that David kidnaps her and gets them both killed inorder to do one nobel thing for Nikki while he is still her husband before he dies so she and Victor can get back together! He truly is nothing but bad baggage filled with lies and decite.
I do not want to miss this episode for sure!

Posted by nonnie7 at Thursday, July 17 2008 12:47 PM

One of the reasons I liked Sabrina is that she was so good to Victor. She appreciated him for who he is and he seemed to be so much more at peace since he'd been married to her. She was so much more gentle with him than his sickening "family" and I think he really appreciated that. I also think he appreciated her dignity and refinement which is something he's never had before except to a certain degree with Hope. It's just a shame that what could have and should have been a great story line with Sabrina got rushed by so much nonsense that many of us ever really accepted Sabrina. One day they meet; the next week, she's moved into the mansion and is giving orders to the staff; the next week she's pregnant, etc. The writers never allowed the character of Sabrina to be fully developed. The writers might have thought they were redeeming themselves to the viewers, but, believe me, it backfired. Good luck.

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