Sheila Carter is alive but who did Steffy Forrester Kill that night?
Why Christian LeBlanc almost got FIRED from Y&R
Just a couple of months in, Christian Le Blanc was on the brink of getting kicked off the show! Can you believe it? After being on the show for decades, he opened up about a close call back in the early days of “The Young and the Restless”. You don’t want to miss this one out so stick around for more details.
Christian Le Blanc’s exciting start on Young and the Restless
I think we can all agree that Christian Le Blanc has been one of our favorites from early on. Joining the Young and the Restless as Michael Baldwin in 1991, he was able to get the viewers hooked with his person on screen. And how could they not? Off screen he was like a ball of joy. But with so much love he received from everyone, turns out there was a time when he thought he was done for.
One thing we know about LeBlanc is that he gets along with anyone and everyone. So before he even filmed his first episode on The Young and the Restless, he was already getting close with the crew. But mind you, the first day on set wasn’t about shooting scenes, it was just a cast photoshoot. And let me tell you, LeBlanc is a talker, and I mean that in the best way possible.
On the happiest occasion of his anniversary of his debut on the show, he himself said in an interview with Soaps.com, that he “tends to be, talkative.” Even when he sits for an interview he always likes to stall and talk around things for almost 45 mins before getting into the actual topic. This guy will chat about anything and everything, there’s no topic he won’t dive into and the side stories he tells are all over the place, from cute to downright hilarious.
So, on the first day on set, LeBlanc was all over the place, introducing himself to anyone with a pulse, even the cafeteria lady and probably random people who don’t even work on the show. As they’re getting ready for the big group photo, he hears Lauralee Bell aka Christine Blair on the show, who was three rows up shouting, “That boy talks a lot!” Classic and then LeBlanc was like, “They get me, they really get me.”
Is Christian Le Blanc leaving Young and the Restless?
Fast forward to his first episode on November 26, 1991. Despite pulling some shady moves early on, like Michael attacking Christine after renting the apartment next door, audiences ate it up. Who can forget the scene when he broke through the apartment’s connecting wall and attacked her. He was playing the dark side, and it was a total opposite from his usual quirky roles. He said, “ Thanks for Lauralee because she was his ride-or-die during those intense scenes which he had never done before.
He confessed, “I was being violent toward a woman. And thank God for Lauralee, because if she’d looked at all uncomfortable as we were playing this extremely difficult material, I would have crumbled.” Michael went off the deep end, but as long as Lauralee was game, LeBlanc was all in. “As a result, this show has taught me that I am capable of so much more than I ever imagined when it comes to acting,” he said.
View this post on Instagram
Now, of course Michael was losing his grip, doing crazy stuff, and LeBlanc saw the writing on the wall,” Crazy doesn’t tend to last too long?” and thought his time was up on the show. Emmys were around the corner, so he’s like, Can I shave off this beard? Surprisingly they were cool with it, but in his head, he’s like, “Uh-oh, guess it might be time to look for a new job!”
Even as they kicked Michael to the curb in 1993, the Bell power couple, William J. and Lee Phillip, were like, “Chill, LeBlanc, we got you. You’ll be back.” Most loved fired guy ever, apparently. And true to their word, Michael got a therapy session and a second chance at life when he came back to GC in 1997. Now, he had a dark past and all, but he’s got Lauren to keep him in check. The guy relies on her like it’s oxygen.
But for how long? Michael’s got this darkness lurking around and he’s thinking about all the messed-up things he did back in the day, abusing secretaries at the law firm and whatnot. Like, are there secret love children out there? Could his shady past come back to bite him in the ass? What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments below.