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>...After moving past his early days in Salem, Diamont became a major fan favorite playing Brad Carlton on The Young and the Restless. But after decades on the show, lightning struck a second time when he was unexpectedly let go.

>“That was the day before Thanksgiving. Literally after 24 years,” he said.

>After that meeting, a moment came that would change his life. “I walked down the hall, went to up to reception, and I said, ‘Hey, does Brad still happen to be here?’ He said, ‘Yeah, he is,’ they said, ‘Would you tell him Don Diamont’s here? Talk to him for a couple minutes if he has time for me.’ And Brad was on the phone with Michael Menace, and he said, ‘Hey, Michael, Don Diamont just walked in. We’re going to get him to leave Y&R and come join us over here.’ He hangs up with Michael. Sit down, ‘Don, what’s going on?’ He said, ‘Well, your brother just fired me, and I’m looking for a job.’”

TIL Mr. Diamont was dismissed by William Bell Jr., the President of Bell-Phillip Television Productions. Some may recall that years later, he would fire his wife Maria Arena Bell as Y&R's Executive Producer and Headwriter.

>Aug 17 (Reuters) - Rebuffing President Donald Trump for a second time, the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear his ‌appeal of a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist....

Please note the article was published in April 2026. Here's an excerpt.

>On April 29, 2005, daytime lost, if not its greatest talent, certainly one of them.

>Few and far between are the soap writers who know as well as the late, great William J. Bell did how to get an audience’s attention and keep it. He was a master of provocation and titillation, innovation and inspiration, a puppeteer from whose strings hung our emotions...

>...How successful was the rising star? So successful that in 1972, when he made plans to quit so he could run his own show, The Innocent Years — which was ultimately rechristened The Young and the Restless — Days of Our Lives sued to keep him penning its longterm story. (Yes, this was back in the era when soaps actually mapped out longterm story.)

>Birth of an Empire

>When The Young and the Restless debuted in 1973, it wasn’t an out-of-the-gate smash. Bell is said to have become so frustrated that he asked to pull the plug early on. But CBS believed in the soap — and in Bell — and in the end, the network’s faith paid off. Since 1988, the show has been atop the Nielsen ratings. (And at the time, there were 13 soaps on the air!)...