Cameron Kirsten has returned to The Young And The Restless for the first time in 20 years but who exactly is he and what’s so important about his shocking return?
In the 50 years it’s been on CBS, The Young And The Restless has seen countless characters come and go from Genoa City, whether that’s in the form of new arrivals, returning fan-favorites or characters who have seemingly come back from the dead.
The soap’s most recent storyline has seen another familiar face return in the form of Cameron Kirsten, who last appeared on The Young And The Restless almost 20 years ago, and so it’s no surprise that fans have been left asking exactly who this character is and why he’s so important.
Cameron Kirsten returns to The Young And The Restless
In May 2023, Cameron Kirsten returned to Genoa City for the first time in almost 20 years after being released from prison.
His return was signaled when Sharon Newman received an expensive bottle of champagne that upon closer inspection was found to have a red mark on it that looked like blood.
Cameron continued to hint at his return when he sent Sharon a postcard from Denver, Colorado, a key location in their shared past.
As Sharon began to panic about Cameron’s reappearance, the man himself checked into the Genoa City Athletic Club, setting up some tense events in the coming episodes.
Who is Cameron Kirsten and why was he in prison?
Cameron Kirsten first appeared on Y&R between November 2003 and August 2004 in a storyline that has left Sharon Newman traumatized to this day.
Sharon first crossed paths with Cameron in Denver after she fled Genoa City after kissing Victor Newman. Once there, she met Cameron in a bar and he instantly became infatuated with her.
They went on to sleep together but Cameron turned violent during their encounter, prompting Sharon to return home.
But that wasn’t the last we saw of Cameron Kirsten as a year later, he came to Genoa City on business and began manipulating Sharon, forcing her into helping organize a New Year’s party.
During the event, Cameron arranged for Sharon to meet with him at a seedy motel where he tried to force Sharon into sleeping with him again, but she resisted and after pushing him to the floor, she used a champagne bottle to hit him over the head – which is why Cameron sent her some champagne to signal his return.
Sharon believed that she had killed Cameron and quickly hid his body but in actual fact, he had just been knocked unconscious and when he came to, he vowed to make Sharon’s life a living hell.
Cameron continued to stalk Sharon and would don makeup to make him appear as a ghost in an effort to frighten her and get her to believe she was losing her mind.
Eventually, Cameron re-emerged in public life and announced that he was still alive and when Sharon confronted him about this, Cameron tried to gaslight her by denying that the events of their New Year’s incident had ever happened.
Later on in their storyline, Sharon became the top suspect in the murder of Frank Barritt, who had actually been killed by Cameron, and he proposed that they should leave the country together, a plan that she reluctantly accepted.
However, Nick Newman followed the pair to Cameron’s jet and during the flight, a fight broke out on the plane and Nick overpowered Cameron and knocked him unconscious.
After all three had parachuted back to the ground, Nick and Sharon called the cops and Cameron was arrested which proved to be the last we saw of him until his unexpected return to Genoa City 20 years later.
Who plays the character in Y&R?
Taking on the role of Cameron Kirsten in The Young And The Restless is Linden Ashby.
The Florida-born actor has been active since the early 1980s when he appeared on the ABC soap, Loving, where he met his real-life wife, Susan Walters, the actress who plays Diane Jenkins in Y&R.
Since making his on-screen debut, Ashby has appeared in almost 100 roles, with notable appearances in Melrose Place, Resident Evil: Extinction, Days Of Our Lives, Mean Girls 2, Iron Man 3, the Teen Wolf TV series and the Mortal Kombat franchise, where he plays Johnny Cage.
The Young And The Restless airs daily on CBS.
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