The Biggest Threat to Young & Restless’ Billy and Lily Isn’t Chelsea But [Spoiler]
Monday, September 19th, 2022
A blast from her past could be about to blow up their future.
When The Young and the Restless pulls one over us, it really pulls one over on us. We were sure that despite their toxic history, Chelsea was being set up as a spoiler in Billy’s romance with Lily. Chelsea certainly seemed to want a do-over with Lily’s man. But then the news broke that Daniel Graziadei was returning as Daniel, and suddenly, everything started to look different.
The way they were…
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The Second Time Around
You’ll recall that back in 2006, much to the chagrin of warring moms Phyllis and Drucilla, a baby-faced Daniel and Lily eloped and were married for a hot minute. She’d stood by him when he’d been blamed for the death of Cassie Newman but threw in the monogrammed towel upon discovering that Amber Moore had turned him into a porn addict.
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But, of course, that was then, and this is now. Both Lily and Daniel are older and wiser. They’re both parents. They’ve both lived a little. And were they to get to reacquainted, it isn’t hard to imagine what they’d first seen in each other combining with what they now saw in each other to create an impossible-to-ignore pull. Could they get a second chance to get a relationship right?
It doesn’t look like a goodbye kiss.
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When Opportunity Knocks…
This isn’t to say that Chelsea wouldn’t play a role in Billy and Lily’s breakup — she would. As Lily spends time with Daniel — just as friends — Chelsea plays mind games with Billy, hoping to make him believe that there’s more going on than just a couple of exes hanging out.
All it would take for Chelsea to stick a fork in Billy and Lily’s relationship, then, would be for her to arrange for him to catch a glimpse of his girlfriend being reminded of what a good kisser Daniel is. Billy would then do what Billy does best — i.e., make a poor decision — and rebound right into Chelsea’s open arms.
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“Would it help if we kissed?”
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Mixed Doubles
Suddenly, The Young and the Restless would have on its hands two rematches: Lily and Daniel’s, and Chelsea and Billy’s. But while Lily might actually fall for Daniel anew, Billy would very quickly realize that he’d made a mistake in giving up on Lily. By the time he tries to win her back, it’ll be too late: She will have committed herself to Daniel and to finally getting their romance right.
Catch up on the relationship status of all of Young & Restless’ couples in the below photo gallery.
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Colleagues (who seem to be contemplating a very different kind of merger). <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Not only is Nate supposedly serious about Elena, but Victoria is the boss. </p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Newlywed <span style="text-decoration: line-through">bliss</span> miss. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Diane. To keep the peace, Summer let Kyle’s back-from-the-dead mother reenter their lives… and has regretted it ever since!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Take ’em off the grill, they’re done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Billy’s support of Chelsea turned out to have as much to do with him wanting to reunite with her as it did him wanting to look out for her mental health.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> See illustration. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Sally is his brother’s ex — and could be carrying Adam’s child, not Nick’s.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> When they were together, she was kind of a homicidal homewrecker. That tends to leave a lasting impression.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Th-th-that’s all, folks.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Not a lotta husbands want to stick around after their wives have random stair sex with their sperm donor.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Oh, sheets. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though Tucker got Ashley back into bed, he still ranks low on her list of terrible ex-husbands. And he’s still sinking lower.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Kaput. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> You <em>could</em> say Diane. But between “Phack,” they have more emotional baggage than you could fit in the overhead compartment of a dozen jets.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Don’t start us crying. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His untimely demise stuck a fork in one of the more stable marriages that Sharon has ever had.</p> <p> </p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Estranged. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Since Daniel’s failed art career left him jealous of Heather’s success, they’ve found it easiest to keep a whole lotta miles between them.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Defunct.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> After he broke up with her in order to save her job, she rebounded with his brother.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> As finished as finished gets. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He gave friend Abby benefits that were most definitely <em>not</em> approved by his girlfriend.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Splitsville. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> With good reason, she hates his family as much as she loves him. Plus, if they never break up, they can never have make-up sex.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Power couple. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She’s ready to ride off into the sunset with her husband. He’s less interested in a <em>last</em> hurrah than the <em>next</em> one.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married… without children (yet). <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Will baby make three… or will baby make trouble?</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A thing of the past. Mm-hmm. Just like this picture suggests. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He’s a relationship wrecking ball, and she’s an agent of chaos. What could <em>possibly</em> go wrong if they tried, tried again?</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> “Ex” marks the spot. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their passion was said to have burned them as badly as it heated up their nights.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together again.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She’s already broken his heart so many times that it’s held together by staples and Scotch tape.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> On shaky ground. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His cutthroat side did in their relationship once and very well may again.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Game over. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> What check-mates their coupling is the fact that their passion for one another is matched only by his tendency to be toxic for her.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finito. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They just didn’t have what it takes to be lifers. Together, they were more like… yearers? A-few-monthers.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Did we mention how incredible Billy Boy is at turning good things bad? Because it does bear mentioning.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They were just kids when they got together. Wonder what would happen if they got <em>back</em> together as adults.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily hitched for the third time. Well, <em>relatively</em> happily. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> If their children aren’t fighting, the Newmans themselves are fighting Tucker. Or Diane. Or <em>somebody</em>.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> History. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They might’ve gotten past her kissing his cousin Nate, but going so far as to play doctor with him? Er, not so much.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Separated coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Sometimes love just ain’t enough. It didn’t help, either, that she tried to frame him for poisoning Rey.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Just a scheme team. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They’re probably too much alike for that old flame to get relit.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Done-er than done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Take it from Ashland — once ya lie about having cancer, there’s no going back. Also, he’s dead.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> May we never speak of their marriages again. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>Since she saw him as a father figure and had been hitched to both of his sons, they kinda put the “ew” in “union.”</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Mom-and-pop operation. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s a tossup as to which of these two has a greater propensity for falling out of the frying pan and into the fire.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Buds. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Mm, there’s really not once unless you think that Sharon would be reluctant to hook up with the latest ex of Abby, with whom her own ex Scott cheated.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> The honeymoon phase. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Is it a coincidence that his ex Audra recently showed up in Genoa City? We don’t think so.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Exes. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She eventually realized that she was a lesbian.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Who knows? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The teenage sweethearts were shipped off to college before becoming a big enough couple to get their names blown up like Tessa and Mariah’s.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Charlie and Mattie’s daddy had a dreadful habit of lying to their mommy. And kissing other women. And sometimes sleeping with them. And…</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced to the nth. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He may have married her twice, but he now hates her three times as much as he ever did.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Colleagues. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> What obstacle? Imani isn’t fussed in the slightest that the object of her affections already has a significant other.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Ancient history. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> As drawn as the former Romalottis remain to one another, she’s still technically hitched to the Invisible Man.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married… in theory. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Doug Davidson has said that he <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/600536/young-restless-doug-davidson-says-not-returning-paul/" target="_blank">won’t be returning</a> to the show, which leaves their relationship in total limbo — and leaves us thinking of a dire <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/657653/young-restless-killing-off-paul-williams-doug-davidson/" target="_blank">way to resolve the issue</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Apart. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though the former marrieds are endgame to many a fan, they have a hard time convincing the stars to align. And <em>stay</em> aligned!</p>
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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together-ish? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They’ve been friends for so long that it’s almost weird to picture them becoming more. Not impossible, though, as you can see.</p>
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