{"id":175369,"date":"2025-06-18T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/billy-flynn-playing-aristotle-dumas-on-young-and-the-restless\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:00:59","slug":"billy-flynn-playing-aristotle-dumas-on-young-and-the-restless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/billy-flynn-playing-aristotle-dumas-on-young-and-the-restless\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Flynn Playing Aristotle Dumas on Young and the Restless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ahead of his debut on <em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/billy-flynn-exits-days-of-our-lives-for-the-young-and-the-restless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Billy Flynn<\/strong><\/a> confirms exclusively to <em>Us Weekly<\/em> that he is, indeed, Aristotle Dumas.<\/p>\n<p>News broke in March that the actor, 40, was leaving <em>Days of Our Lives<\/em> after a decade as Chad DiMera to join <em>Y&amp;R.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of moving parts that were involved,\u201d Flynn tells <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cIt was a whirlwind of emotions \u2014 mainly excitement, but there was fear involved. I was leaving something that was very comfortable and seemingly secure. It\u2019s never really in this industry, but it felt like a gamble. I have a wife and two kids. But at the same time, it felt like something I needed in my life. It felt like a serendipitous thing, the way the universe put all these different pieces together for it to align where the opportunity came when it did, and how it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flynn admits that it didn\u2019t take long for the \u201cfear to kick back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/shocking-soap-opera-exits-kristian-alfonso-alison-sweeney-more\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Kelly Monaco, Alison Sweeney and More Shocking Soap Opera Exits<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWhen soap opera stars leave their roles, it can be as shocking as their shows\u2019 plotlines. Alison Sweeney surprised longtime Days of Our Lives fans in 2014 when she announced she\u2019d be exiting the series after 21 years. \u201cI\u2019ve been on Days of Our Lives since I was 16 years old, and I have never [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBefore I started, I was nervous to work with all these people. I was comfortable where I was and I had earned trust and in the people who knew what I could do,\u201d he continues. \u201c[But] everybody here was so great. I remember watching the monitor the first day, and was so impressed by everybody\u2019s talent that I started to get really nervous [again].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4015129\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Billy Flynn joins Michael Mealor as Kyle Abbott, Zuleyka Silver as Audra Charles, Susan Walters as Diane Jenkins, Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott, Courtney Hope as Sally Spectra and Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Bill Inoshita\/CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Flynn adds that the fact that there has been so much hype surrounding Aristotle Dumas \u2014 the soap has been mentioning the character as a mysterious business tycoon for months, but he has yet to appear on screen \u2014 makes it even more \u201cnerve-wracking.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Flynn also teases that there\u2019s more to the story, comparing his character to \u201cthe person behind the Great Gatsby.\u201d (Fans can come back after his debut on Friday, June 20, for more from Flynn on that tease.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/days-of-our-lives-cast-share-their-most-shocking-plot-twists-in-salem\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">\u2018Days of Our Lives\u2019 Cast Share Their Most Shocking Plot Twists in Salem<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTodd Williamson\/Peacock (3) The Days of Our Lives cast knows how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. For more than 60 seasons, the soap opera has provided more than a few OMG plot twists thanks to surprising courtships and love triangles, mistaken identities, murders, medical emergencies, kidnappings and more. \u201cIn this medium, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream come true,\u201d he concludes of joining <em>Y&amp;R.<\/em> \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to Josh [Griffith] and all the people involved who made that decision and trusted me to come over and see me in this part that on paper, I don\u2019t know if it was me or not, but time will tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Young and the Restless<\/em> airs weekdays on CBS.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/billy-flynn-playing-aristotle-dumas-on-young-and-the-restless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his debut on The Young and the Restless, Billy Flynn confirms exclusively to Us Weekly that he is, indeed, Aristotle Dumas. News broke in March that the actor, 40, was leaving Days of Our Lives after a decade as Chad DiMera to join Y&amp;R. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of moving parts that were involved,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-175369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}