Young & Restless’ Melissa Ordway Teases a Possible Return for Her Real-Life Husband — and the Dilemma With Which It Would Leave Her
Fans of The Young and the Restless were only too tickled when Melissa Ordway’s handsome real-life husband Justin Gaston filled in as Chance when the Jill’s grandson embarked on his ill-fated marriage to Abby. (Review the gorgeous photos here.) But that collision of art and life needn’t be the end of the couple’s on-screen collaboration.
“It would be so fun to have him come back on as a new character,” Ordway tells Soaps.com. There are even a bunch of legacy characters that Gaston could play, from Lorie Prentiss’ never-SORAS’d son Brooks to a re-recast Noah Newman to Victor Newman’s nephew (by way of brother Matt).
Originally, “I wanted Justin to come on as a new love interest for Abby,” Ordway recalls, “but now she’s with Devon, and I love that relationship so much” that she’d be the last person to advocate for a breakup.
“So,” Ordway concludes, “I might have to let him be for someone else!”
Considering how often couples get together and fall apart in Genoa City, there would be no shortage of potential romantic interests for Gaston, who originated the role of Ben on Days of Our Lives. (Here’s why it didn’t work out.) Would you like to see him return to Young & Restless on a more permanent basis? And if so, with whom would you be most curious about seeing him paired?
