{"id":392705,"date":"2026-04-11T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:10:09","slug":"why-shemar-moore-returns-to-young-and-the-restless-soap-opera-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392705\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Shemar Moore Returns to Young and the Restless, Soap Opera Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI call my career high school, college, and graduate school: Eight years on Young and Restless\u2026was high school,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1255653\/young-and-the-restless-shemar-moore-vivica-a-fox-return-photo-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Insider<\/a> in an interview published April 2. \u201cThen 11 years on Criminal Minds was college, then eight years on S.W.A.T. was graduate school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while Shemar has built a stacked TV resume since The Young and the Restless, he admitted to not always being confident in his abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning, I was scared to death and nervous and insecure,\u201d he continued, \u201cand really thought they\u2019re gonna realize I suck and tap me on the shoulder and say, \u2018Oops, we made a mistake, go on home.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Shemar\u2019s late costar Kristoff St. John, who played his onscreen brother on the soap opera, extended their fictional connection to the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKristoff wrapped me up, and he said, \u2018I got you. I\u2019m gonna help you find your way,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cHe was a big brother to me on the screen. He was a big brother to me and a mentor in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now Shemar is grateful to return to where he and Kristoff built their friendship. As he put it, \u201cI feel humbled and honored and nostalgic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Shemar isn\u2019t the only actor who got his start on a soap opera. Read on for more celebs with daytime TV roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI call my career high school, college, and graduate school: Eight years on Young and Restless\u2026was high school,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-392705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}