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Young & Restless star down under

Foxtel is bringing Young & Restless hunk Doug Davidson to Sydney for a promotional visit.

Davidson, who plays Paul Williams, will appear at the Astra Awards on April 23.

He will also meet fans at Westfield Parramatta at 1pm on Tuesday 24th April.

It’s another opportunity for Foxtel to remind aggrieved fans of Y&R that it’s been wlecomed with open arms to cable television.

Press Release:

FOXTEL today announced that Doug Davidson, a leading cast member of popular daytime drama THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, will be visiting Australia in late April for a promotional tour, which will include a guest presenting role at the 2007 ASTRA Awards.

Doug Davidson stars as handsome private investigator ‘Paul Williams’ in THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, which launched exclusively on the W. channel on April 2, airing weekdays at midday and 6.40pm. He joined the hugely successful daytime drama in 1978 and now has more than 3,000 episodes to his credit.

Davidson will be visiting Australia from April 23-27. His tour will include an appearance as a guest presenter on April 23 at the 2007 ASTRA Awards, the annual awards that recognise excellence in subscription television.

He has received numerous awards for his work on Y&R, including the 1997 Soap Opera Award for Best Supporting Actor and Soap Opera Awards for Outstanding Hero in 1991 and 1992. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy® in 2003 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Davidson’s acting credits include roles in the Judith Krantz mini-series I’ll Take Manhattan and The Initiation of Sarah. He has also appeared as a guest-star in series such as Diagnosis Murder, co-starred with Paul Reiser in the feature film Mr. Write and had supporting roles in films Don’t Stop Now and Fraternity Row. Davidson was also the host of game show The Price is Right in 1994.

The Young and the Restless premiered on US television in 1973. It has consistently been the number one rating daytime drama there since 1988 and has notched up more than 50 Daytime Emmy® Awards.

The show premiered in Australia on the Nine Network in 1975 and was a staple of its daytime line-up until February 23 this year. FOXTEL’s W. Channel is now the show’s exclusive home on Australian television.

The Young and the Restless revolves around the powerful Abbott and Newman families in Genoa City and, apart from Davidson, its long-standing cast members include: Peter Bergman (‘Jack Abbott’), Eric Braeden (‘Victor Newman’), Melody Thomas Scott (‘Nikki Reed Newman’) and Don Diamont (‘Brad Carlton’).

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  1. Speaking of “Yum” from Y&R … I was watching the second episode of Season 4 of Nip Tuck yesterday and was very pleased to see not only a brief appearance from the wonderful Richard Chamberlin (had another face lift???) but also Y&R young hunk JT Helstrom (Thad Luckinbill) playing a bisexual character AND we get to see him fully naked from the back (what a butt!!!). Another great episode!
    Jack!

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