BACKSTAGE DRAMA: Is Y&R's Cast TICKED Daniel Goddard is Back?

Er, uh, er, uh... Y&R always seems to have the most backstage drama and the shit seems to be hitting the fan left and right lately. No WONDER they got that E! True Hollywood story some years back! Murphy's got a scientology enemy, now Cane's ruffled feathers and flustered up some skirts Marilyn Monroe style on the big vent and done pissed some folks off... I'm just waiting for Ameila to go batshit on the person who takes some soap and water and an effing hot comb to her head... yep, a hot comb. Her hair would run from a flat iron since it's never seen one, a hot comb would beat that hair like a switch to the behind.

Funny how I don't recall any Blind items or rumors of DG having bad blood with castmates until now. Goodard seemed to get on fine with the other cast members but now all of a sudden there's tension between him and his co-stars? I thought the original reason for Cane being written out (by death) was that the writers hating the Lane couple and decided to shake things up a bit. Seems like this is a whisper campaign to "auf" DG in case this latest Cane storyline does not work. And given many fans' disapproval of past doppelgangers/death fake-outs in the recent past, it seems TPTB are preparing a good patsy (DG) if Cane's "real" story (du jour) is not well received.

I wonder if Goodard would have been better off just leaving when Cane was originally slated to really die. Which brings up another question: Did the fan campaign to keep DG really make any difference, or had DG already convinced TPTB to keep him on? With the show being taped roughly six weeks in advance, it seems that the early "ghostCane" scenes would have already been taped and that Goodard was still under contract before fans mobilized on DG's behalf. Cane/Lane fans might also get thrown under the bus, too, if the Cane reveal is an epic fail. TPTB can claim fans forced their hand to keep DG even though I think they had already decided that before fans did a thing

The whole thing just seems rather suspect to me...

Sorry SOW I dont believe that for one second the Colin was brought in and kept on the canvas SPELLED OUT CANE IS NOT DEAD. Do I believe there is drama behind the scenes YES do I believe its over Cane who is such a small charater compared to 80% of the cast NO. Ready to see Genie/Tristian/Jess mix it up.

I always read good things about DG this is coming from out of the blue, I just want the Genevive storyline to play out can't wait to see Genie back in daytime..w/Jess/Tristan. As for Cane's story I like the character and the actor but I didn't like how they wrote all these different backstories and that's on the writers.

I read lots of rumors re: why he was let go one is that they wanted CK to go (cancer storyline) but he got the boot instead and it was because of the Cane/Lily storyline...if he is a twin I hope he doesn't get caught in the LiLy trap.

I am ticked the Cane character is back also. They should have left him dead on the church steps.

I am sure that the power-hungry likes of Eric Braeden and Michelle "BLEEPING" Stafford are upset that Goddard robbed them of all the media attention that they probably feel ENTITLED to. Boo hoo. Cry me a freaking river. This show has enough backstage drama to keep the gossip hounds at TMZ and E-True Hollywood Story barking for years to come.

But on to the matter at hand: I was EXTREMELY pissed that these idiotic producers/writers saw the need to bring back this inanely USELESS character, especially since they had NO problem killing off Brad and Colleen, characters that were FAR more important than Cane ever was or ever will be. And don't even get me STARTED on the other characters that they COULD have brought back for "Saint Lily," who is also a character who they have been nothing less than OBSESSED with over the past few years. Wanna know what their BIGGEST missed opportunity was, in terms of bringing back a much-needed character?? Just look at my avatar picture. Simple as that.

Cane is dead weight. Who cares if he's the father of Lily's kids? Lily is also pretty dead-weight character who gets way too much storyline, and Christel Khalil is neither special or talented enough to warrant such back to back frontburner attention. But I won't bark my way up that tree again. We all know how I feel about Lily and Christel Khalil. Lily was at her BEST when she was with DANIEL, not Cane. Why not just do a Lily/Daniel/Abby triangle and be done with it? Why dredge up a past that was never really all that exciting in the first place???

Goddard better watch himself. Otherwise, he might get a little bit of SALIVA in the face by one of his co-stars. We all know who I am referring to.

And since when is "confronting your bosses" a viable way to keep them from firing you?? We should ALL be so lucky?? What did he do, rough up Scott Hamner??? Threaten to replace Paul Rauch's bipolar meds with placebos?? Offer to take Hogan Sheffer's lunch from him?? Offer to tell the media where Maria Bell holds her weekly Botox parties?? They make the guy seem like a big bully, which only makes him seem LESS likable and only makes me LIKE/CARE about the character of Cane even less, even though I don't see how that's humanly possible.

I will make sure I try that if I ever feel I am in jeopardy of losing MY job......

"Confronting my bosses.........." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................

Restless Vixen, when I saw this little blurb this morning, I posted it on two Y&R email groups that I belong to BUT I also put a disclaimer in italics and parenthesis stating this this was written by Jillian Bowe from daytimeconfidential.com. I also said, since MAB, DG, CBS, or Sony have yet to confirm this story, it is pure speculation at this point. I wanted that made perfectly clear so that the group members also knew that this was at best, speculation and not truth.

Michael

I want Cane GONE. Sorry to Daniel Goddard because it's not good to be unemployed, but he could *easily* get another role on Days or GH. Phuck that shi!t!

Matealestlmo, please make clear this is a story that SOW IS RUNNING. You claim you are posting this in groups you are in that you are saying it was written by me when I just reported what SOW has.

Backstage drama exists I am sure but I doubt Daniel Goddard is the cause of it. I met him once and he is the nicest guy in the world and got along fabulously (or so it seemed) with all the other Y&R actors. Anyway, I for one (and my Mom too) are so glad he is back.

As with the Fairman/Scientologist flap, this is much more exciting than what's on screen!

There has been online rumors about DG and his leading lady not getting along as well. Apparently they are big fans of each other.

I want Cane dead...I don't want to see a twin of his. I could care less.

How come there is so much "tension" backstage at Y&R, but Victoria Rowell is the only who can't come back?

If I live to be 100, I will never understand this guy's huge fan following. Like most of the Aussie possie, he has decent acting skills, but he is NOT that hot.

Wait! I take that back. For a man over 40, that body is SMOKIN'.

I believe the story but moreover I'm proud of SOW for having the guts to print it. SOW used to cover the backstage drama all the time, it has become a little stale in it's 20's and it is nice to see the tabloid aspects coming back to differentiate it from SOD

Susan Hunter--

One word: RACISM!!! Yep, I said it.

Soap Armaggedon--

Technically, Daniel is only 39 years old, but you are right, he's got a KICK ASS body and he's pretty cute, but I also don't get his appeal. He's good, but not the second coming of Laurence Olivier.

As a long time YR fan who rarely tunes in anymore I also wish they would bring back Brad, Colleen, Dru or the 'real' Victoria. DG may be a good looking man but the character of Cane is boring and not necessary. YR needs to get back to it's roots and focus on the characters we have loved for years. I recently caught a few minutes of the show and hardly recognize it anymore. Victor is still an ass but why are Scott Baldwin, Robert Scorpio, and Stephen Cassadine now on YR??

AMEN!! ALSTONBOY... RACISM!!!

I bet Y&R has the most backstage shenanigans going on that we really don't even know about. I bet VR hasn't even revealed half the stuff but they want us to believe it's one big happy family. Like Eric Braeden said...they go to work do their thing and that's it. It isn't one big happy family. (paraphasing)

I liked Cane before he got with Lily. And for those of you who follow Jamey on twitter he revealed that Barbara Bloom would not let TPTB at Y&R break Cane/Lily up. Which explains to me why I was so bored with them. It made no sense that Lily, who dumped Daniel over a porn addiction, would keep going back to Cane after all the lies he told her. There relationship was stale and so unbelievable and BORING!

Thanks, Smitty!!

Personally, I like Daniel Goodard. I liked the Cane character before he hooked up with Lily. I actually think the Cane and Lily characters are better away from each other. I think CK has much better chemistry opposite MG's Daniel, and surprisingly Paul Leyden's Blake. I think Cane and Lily suck the life out of each other with all their schmoopies and essentially cancel each other out.

As far as backstage drama goes, it doesn't really matter to me either way who's beefing with whom. I'm just wondering how much is the truth and how much is a whisper campaign. I think the decision to get rid of the Cane character was originally a good one, as this cast is already over-bloated; it's the method that I had a problem with. He didn't have to actually die, he just could have gone away. But to undo such a "final" death with yet another death-fake out or doppleganger is just pathetic to me. Enough already, show! Y&R has already lost too much integrity with these silly ass tired soap cliches. And I have grown tired of this FUBAR Cane character. He has been retconned to death. His whole original purpose of being fake-Phillip was that he had no real family. But then he he was involved with some cattle rustling moofia, who just happened to be to be led by his father who was supposed to have not existed, along with some random sister we never heard heard of before. And now his mother is coming to town and he may or may not be dead or have an evil twin or plastic surgery doppleganger, and a partridge in a pear tree! GMAFB. I'll never understand why the writers keep trying to make fetch happen with this patchwork quilt of a character. I think they should just give up, which was their original intent, I guess. Who knows, maybe ghost/Zombie/faux Cane was the plan the whole time. But if he was fired, too bad DG lost a job, but that's life when you're an actor on a TV show. No one has lifetime contracts.

Y&R's backstage drama is just ridiculous. It seems like everyone hates each other over there. That's horrible.

You look at GH and all of them seem to be close friends, like family.
Even DAYS, OLTL and the AMC cast seems to be close.

OK If True Does DG have Goods On MAB Cause Will Confronting the boss save ur job? If anything it would get u fired faster

This is complete hogwash Daniel gets along with alot of the cast he is the one of the sweetest people. I cant believe that our soap mags have become tabloids but i guess since the people who do National Equirer are behind SOW

In my humble opinion anything to do with Cane is a waste of good story time. I personally agree with what Alstonboy has written and think that he should have been left dead on the church steps.

Yojoromo--

I am glad you and I are starting to agree more....

So by this reasoning Jana is gone because EOB didn't get mad at TPTB when they let her go?

This rumor doesn't square with common sense. If there is any truth to it a major piece of information must be missing.

I'm not a Lily/ Cane fan but I like DG when he first arrived. I would much Cane/ or character who looks like Cane than Tucker. Y&R has numerous men in their 50s/60s and only one left in their 40s since they lost Brad.

DG is sexy and good looking and just turned 40. They could try him with Phyllis, Ashley, Sharon, Diane, Lauren, well, almost anyone Ashley and younger. Tucker, besides being a crappy character pairs up with who else besides Ashley? TPTB already seemed to decide although Jill was not good enough for him or maybe too old (although the same age). Tucker is 60 I don't want to see the old/young hook-up they do with Victor the crypt keeper repeated with Tucker, Gross.

I would rather lose Tucker, I'm sure he's more expensive than Cane.

This seems like B.S. Goddard is close friends with Kristof St. John. Those two are always posting on each other's Facebook pages with pictures. On Twitter, he's always tweeting Christel Khalil.

I could believe that there are some people who might be jealous of his fan base. No other actor on the show had fans hire a plane to fly a banner over the studio to declare their love for a character.

Goddard has done a phenomenal job of using social media to connect with fans. When it became apparent that his job was in jeopardy, he reached out to his supporters.

Now, Goddard is going to be in a front burner story with Genie Francis, Tristan Rodgers, Christel Khalil, Jess Walton, and Jeanne Cooper.

I'm sure that some of the swelled heads on set are envious.

Y&R has already said that it plans to hire some AMC and OLTL actors. That means that some heads are going to roll on the show. I could see nervous actors wanting to knock off other cast members now, to ensure their safety.

Eric Braeden and Michael Muhney have both stated how cliques amongst the actors make life difficult for some actors. I can see that happening.

AlistairCrane,

No, Goddard could not easily get a job at either GH or Days. There are no easily available jobs in daytime. Jobs are disappearing. GH is firing actors to cut costs. Days already has a big cast but its producers have already said that it might take on an AMC or OLTL actor.

I'm excited to see the Genie Francis' character come to town and shake things up. According spoilers, Tristan R.'s Colin will be plotting to take Lily's children. This might be a great summer storyline.