Why is katherine chancellor replaced

Katherine and Rex eventually married, and they even pretended to be the servants so her maid, Esther Valentine , could impress the man she loved.

In , Jill discovered a letter leaving the Chancellor mansion to her and tried to evict Katherine, but the women were instead forced to share the house. Despondent, Kay left town and after being robbed, was taken in by a homeless girl, Mac, who turned out to be her granddaughter via Brock.

Katherine returned to Genoa City and reunited with her family. Jill and Kay were stunned when they were led to believe they were mother and daughter but eventually came to form a bond.

Nightmares about giving away a baby led to the introduction of Cane Ashby , who was believed to be the real Phillip Chancellor III for a time. While driving Marge to rehab, Katherine was in a car accident, and the two women were mixed up in the crash with Katherine being presumed dead.

Katherine married Murphy, after which it was revealed that Cane was hired by the real Phillip Chancellor III to fake his death because he was gay. With lots of love to her and to her family.. C, with anyone else. Sounds like a fitting tribute to this wonderful person and her character. Thought I have done my crying but it looks like I will need a few boxes of Kleenex to dry the tears that will flow!! Still missing this beautiful lady and it hits close to home for me seeing my Mother just turned 85 this past Monday.

Jeanne will live in our hearts always and forever!!!! Let me start by saying that I love the show.. But Jeannie cooper will be truly missesd. She was a great, great person in life and on the show. The show will never be the same.

I will miss her character. I have watched Young and Restless since I was a teenager. I always loved the character of Kate and the different live situations she presented.

I watched this and right away I had tears. I know the hearts are broken by her family and show family and many, many fans. She will definitely be missed and the show will always have an empty spot without her.

I looked forward every day reading what her son Corbin posted. I too, recently lost my Mother, March I know the pain and agony this brings. I knew this day was coming sooner or later, and I have a box of tissues ready. It was haunting these past few months to still see her in the opening credits.

I am so thankful that you are paying Jeanne the tribute that she deserves. Thank you for not trying to replace her she is not replaceable!!!!

Michigan here. I want the show to do right by Jeanne Cooper and her legacy but after the send-off Michelle Stafford got, I have set my hopes very low for this. Have faith. Bad writing is bad writing no matter what the circumstances and this show is just plain bad these days.

I have read Mrs. C said goodbye going up those stairs…that was NOT part of the script, she ad-libed it in…what a perfect ending…maybe she sensed the ending was coming.

Goodnight Mrs. Of course I will be watching and recording. It has been a long time since I cried when a soap opera character has died simply because of all the fake deaths over the years have made me cynical about the whole thing, never knowing if they are really dead or will come back some how in a year or less or be a ghost. Mary it is all over everywhere that they are going to use her death concerning a secret she knows about Nikki think long lost son now who could that be?

Her funeral is two episodes and I have heard no word on Phillip, Nina Mac or anyone else being there. I hope on this one they are wrong but MTS is all over tweeting about her new storyline. Okay, maybe that was the creative difference JG had with JFP because that make zero sense to the history of the show. Did they drop that angle?

Who would be the father? Well if true this will really stir up the fans, and not in … Read more ». By the way if Nikki truly had MS she would not be able to ride a horse or walk around in 5 inch heels. And as for Sharon I just want to come on the set and carry her off and give her a job where she is not thrown under the bus for 2 jocks who need to be selling … Read more ». I never once felt that they would bring in a new actress for JC.

She is the one and only Katherine Chancellor. I have admired her acting for years and she will be truly missed on the show, not only by her fellow actors but by her multitude of fans. These characters, as much as we may profess otherwise, are part of our family; we have grown to love them.

Good Bye Mrs. You have brought so much to the screen, reminding some of our own trials and tribulations. Times dictate otherwise. Current audiences or so TPTB believe want more shallow, base behavior. Good Bye Kay; good bye to an era and a genre. Amen to that— we were blessed to experience soaps at a time when they were at their best. We got to enjoy 40 years of performances Jeanne gave us.

She was a movie actress who never thought doing a soap was beneath her. As more and more in front and behind the camera who made soaps great retire or pass away, the daytime dramas as we knew them will either die or change in a way that will make them something so different it will never be the same.

Sad but true. Lady Chancellor… was loaded, triggered and aimed forthwith… Jeanne Cooper, starred in a big show. I cry for a segment of our viewing … Read more ».

She will be missed by all who are fans of the show!! I loved her spunk!! I will have a 3-pk of tissue by me the rest of this month till the end. When i think of her i have tears in my eyes because she was the queen of soaps. Katherine Chancellor -Jeanne Cooper you will be miss. It wasn't long before they were insisting on a DNA test, in hopes they could prove she was not Katherine's daughter. Jill met wealthy industrialist Tucker McCall on a business trip, but he let her assume he was just a bartender, and they had an affair.

Tucker soon showed up at Chancellor to advise Katherine and Neil to buy out a company named "Cell Tron" with Chancellor stock. Jill was shocked to walk in on the meeting and discover Tucker real identity, but he managed to talk his way out of it later, and they continued their affair. Another DNA test proved it. Tucker turned out to be the only stockholder in "Cell Tron," so he owned majority interest in Chancellor, which devastated Katherine. When Katherine found out about Tucker and Jill's relationship, she accused Jill of being in on his plot, and fired Jill from Jabot and Chancellor.

Victor and Adam staged a public fight, and Victor ran an article in Restless Style , exposing Adam as part of Nick's idea to get Chancellor back to Katherine.

So Tucker's first steps were to hire Adam Newman, J. Hellstrom, and Kevin Fisher, dump Jill as a lover, and sell Jabot. Jack was livid when Victor fired him, accusing Victor of dirty dealing. Jill talked Billy into hiring her at Restless Style , and they worked together to expose Tucker. Katherine, also trying to get something on Tucker to get Chancellor back, discovered that Tucker had paid off Alexander Thomas, the Cultural Minister of Yugoslavia, with a Griffin painting worth millions to promote the band that had launched his career 25 years earlier.

She confronted Tucker and threatened to ruin him with a charge of international corporate bribery. But her guilt over abandoning him as a baby got the best of her, and she backed off. After signing over Jabot to Victor, Tucker received word that Jack had gotten a judge to block the sale, pending investigation of Adam's part in it.

When Tucker realized that Katherine had given up the chance to get Chancellor back, he stopped the pending sales of other Chancellor assets, and made a deal with Katherine so she could buy enough shares to be equal partners in Chancellor. Jill became jealous, and published the story to expose Tucker. Tucker thought they had tricked him, so he prepared to sell all the Chancellor assets within the thirty days before sale closed.

Katherine swore that Jill had acted alone and Jill confirmed it. Later Tucker made a substantial donation to Katherine's annual charity ball, which benefited the homeless, so she was hoping she had convinced him. But weeks later Tucker informed Katherine that he wanted Jabot, or he would expose the security tape he had of Adam opening the sealed bids, which would invalidate the sale to Victor.

She had second thoughts about working for someone like McCall, but she later accepted, hoping that by working there she could somehow get Jabot back in the Abbotts' hands, where it belonged. In June , Liz Foster returned to Genoa City to see Jill, but was carried off the plane on a stretcher, accompanied by her son, Snapper. Jill and Katherine met them at the hospital, where Dr.

Snapper diagnosed Liz with Wegener's disease - a rare, autoimmune disease. Fearing that she might die, Liz confided one last secret about Jill's parentage to Snapper, who told Katherine, saying that he intended to tell Jill the truth. Katherine and the Fosters each spent some final time with Liz, talking mostly about the past and about Jill.

Later as she was about to finally tell the secret herself to a very distraught Jill, Liz passed away. Afterward, Snapper told Jill that her real father had been a very young Neil Fenmore, who had gotten a girl pregnant.

Neil's family had refused to let him marry the girl, so she had abandoned her baby at the hospital and committed suicide. Neil's daughter, Lauren, was disbelieving when Jill told her the circumstances that made them half-sisters. Katherine let Snapper know that she would look out for Jill. A DNA test proved Liz's story was true. But Lauren told Jill she was not interested in welcoming Jill to the family, so Jill consulted a lawyer about her legal options. At Katherine and Murphy's Fourth of July picnic, Jill announced how proud she was to be a Fenmore, and that she had legally changed her name to Jill Fenmore.

Murphy and Katherine continued to be happy together between his fishing trips and her charity events. Murphy and Meggie recognized each other, and she dropped the check and ran. Murphy got into his car and called Victor to warn him, saying he would "not let this happen again. Meggie got in the car, grabbed the phone out of Murphy's hands, and threw it out the car door. Murphy got so angry that he had a heart attack. Murphy reached for his heart medication. Meggie grabbed it away and threw the pills on the floor of the car, and left him there to die.

Later in the hospital as Murphy recovered, Meggie injected something in his I. Just as Katherine was about to make the decision not to put Murphy on life support, he opened his eyes. Unable to speak or move due to "locked-in" syndrome, Murphy's eyes focused on Meggie across the room. Meggie had made plans to drug Victor, fly to Las Vegas and get married; then afterward make sure that Victor died from a sexual enhancement drug reaction on his newly transplanted heart, which would make her a rich widow.

Meanwhile, Murphy had finally gotten through to police detective Ronan by tapping his finger with Morse Code to warn him of danger. All went as Meggie had planned. They returned to the ranch, and once Meggie had given Victor the drug, she got cocky, asked him how he felt and told him that he was about to die and make her a rich widow.

But Victor suddenly came out of his stupor, grabbed Meggie by the hair, and told her he was on to her, saying that he had tricked her into confessing her intention to murder him. Ronan and D. Heather walked in, along with Murphy in a wheelchair being pushed by a policeman, his eyes zeroing in on Meggie accusingly. Meggie squirmed while Ronan explained that Murphy had exposed her by using Morse Code. Heather informed Meggie that they knew about her reputation as a black widow and that she was wanted in several states for suspicion of murder.

Meggie was arrested and taken to jail. Murphy explained that his son Francis had been in a serious accident which left him in a vegetative state, and Meggie, as his wife, had signed the consent to take Francis off life support.

Loyal friend Katherine told Victor about the deals that Jack and Victoria had made with Tucker to get Beauty of Nature from Victor to merge it with Jabot once they were awarded it in the arbitration hearing over his children's trust funds. They decided that together, Victor and Katherine would outwit them all. Katherine then went to Tucker and told him that his wedding to Ashley could no longer be held at her estate, because he was no longer welcome there. Instead of accepting his children's settlement offer, Victor held a press conference to announce that he was taking Newman public.

The Abbotts and Newmans, plus Tucker and Katherine, watched the television at Victoria's house in shock, knowing that Victor had always promised that would never happen. Katherine denounced them for causing it, saying she was ashamed of them. Nikki said she just wanted it all to stop, and left too. Billy left for the press conference, and arrived in time to ask if Victor had done this rather than give his kids the settlement they were granted.

Victor replied that he loved his kids, but they were influenced by some unsavory characters, and that he was saddened that they were not there to enjoy the new era of Newman. In the end, Tucker fired Jack for not bringing him Beauty of Nature, as promised, Victoria and Nick were arranging to buy up stock, as were Jack and Ashley. Abby just wanted her settlement in cash, and Tucker asked Katherine to buy stock with him to stop the kids from gaining control.

Katherine called it a scheme, said she was not a fool, and would have no part of it. Then Katherine went to Victor offering to pool her funds with his so that none of them could seize control of Newman from him. Tucker offered to buy Abby's stock options but her resentment of Tucker made her sell them to Jack. Jack later offered them to Tucker in exchange for Jabot, but was turned down.

Tucker then proposed to the Chancellor board that they buy Newman stock, resell it to Tucker at a loss and take a tax write-off. When Katherine found out about it, she met with Victor, ready to bring Tucker down. Tucker was in critical condition after being struck by a car. With a fractured skull and subdural hematoma, Katherine gave permission for surgery to relieve pressure on the brain. Afterward, the doctor reported that they had found another bruise on the brain which caused a coma from which Tucker might not survive.

Tucker's attorney, Nelson McGinnis, was called in to announce that Tucker had a living will stating that no extraordinary measures were to be taken to save his life. Katherine refused to allow it, but following his instructions, the doctors took him off the ventilator, expecting him to die. But Katherine made Tucker breathe by shear willpower. Nelson called a meeting to announce that Tucker had named Katherine to take over the company as conservator if he were to become incapacitated, and that Tucker had a son whom he had never been able to locate.

Katherine took over, and she began to foil Tucker's plans to buy up Newman stock once it went public. She also hired Paul to search for Tucker's son. Victor offered Katherine an irresistible sum of money for Jabot.

As she was thinking it over, Jack presented Katherine with a new marketing plan, logo, and a new skin care product made from cactus pectin which had been developed by Ashley. Jack had lined up department stores and a home shopping network to sign on only if Jack were appointed CEO of Jabot. Jack promised Katherine that they could put Jabot back on top again, and reminded her that selling to Victor would lose all of that.

Katherine was pleading with a comatose Tucker to help her decide what to do, when she was visited by the presence her deceased friend John Abbott who gave her counsel. Jack walked in, having just been counseled by the spirit of John as well about his obsession to return Jabot to the Abbotts.

Jack told Katherine to go ahead and take Victor's offer if she felt it was one she couldn't pass up, and that he knew that she would do what was best for Jabot, and that their friendship was more important.

But in the end, Katherine hired Jack back to head Jabot. Tucker came out of his coma, and was livid when Katherine admitted that she had been compelled to fire Ashley and hire Jack rather than accept Victor's offer to buy Jabot.

Tucker married Ashley and asked her to take over his company and to not tell anyone how much his thought processes were impaired or the company would nosedive. Ashley assured him he would be back to normal in no time. Jabot's national launch of its new cactus pectin product line and new Jabot logo was held at Fenmore's, and hosted by Lauren, Jill and Michael. Ashley, who developed the product, was with Tucker who was being dismissed from the hospital and insisted on attending the launch party.

Ashley objected, fearful that the reporters and paparazzi would ask him questions and figure out his mental limitations. But Tucker and Ashley arrived to everyone's applause in the middle of Jack's speech, and when Tucker was stymied by a question, he turned things over to Ashley.

Weeks later, as a judge was considering revocation of conservatorship of Tucker McCall Unlimited he was interrupted by Katherine, who proved that Tucker was not fully recovered. The judge decided not to revoke the conservatorship until Tucker could demonstrate his competency.

Once Katherine was able to convince the Chancellor Board to buy Jabot back from Tucker Industries, she gave the contract to Tucker inserted among other things to sign. Tucker made a strong showing at his next competency hearing and was declared competent to run his company again. Then Katherine divulged that Tucker had signed the contract selling her Jabot, and Tucker was put on the spot having to admit he knew what he was doing, or he would have lost his competency decision.

When questioned by Ashley about his unknown son, Tucker admitted that he had a lot of one-night-stands with groupies when he was on the road with his rock bands in the s. Tucker said he received a note from an unknown groupie telling him that he had a son that he would never know, and he had figured this was payback for growing up without a father himself.

Meanwhile Paul was led by an old photo to another groupie, Amy Koslow, who told him about the groupie known as "Candy Cane," who had a big crush on "Mick", the nickname that McCall went by then, and that when Candy had disappeared, she was rumored to be pregnant. After reporting the news to Katherine, Paul was told not to tell anyone since Tucker obviously didn't care enough to track him down on his own.

Later that same day when Katherine heard that Tucker had fired Devon who worked for Tucker as a record producer, she met with Devon and asked him to become president of a new yet-to-be-named entertainment division of Chancellor Industries. Devon was shocked but accepted the job. Tucker sabotaged Jabot by getting suppliers to cancel contracts and by creating work stoppages.

Jack gathered the suppliers, freight and dock workers together and appealed to their sense of fair play, offering them bonuses if Jabot did well, and they agreed. After Jack told Katherine that he handled it, and she blew up at him, he agreed to Tucker's offer to help Tucker get back Jabot, if Jack would have complete control as CEO. Tucker sued Katherine to overturn the sale of Jabot, citing that he could have gotten a better price.

Tucker made a deal with Jack that if Tucker won, he would sell Jabot to Jack. Deciding that the sale was made under a cloud of secrecy, the judge found in favor of McCall. After the decision, Katherine collapsed while yelling at McCall.

At the hospital Katherine was unconscious, and it was confirmed that she had a stroke brought on by hypertension. Outside Katherine's hospital room, Tucker overheard Jill and Katherine's lawyer Mitchell discussing Devon's recent inclusion in Katherine's will, and guessed that Devon was his long lost son. Tucker tracked down Devon and told him that he was his father, but he was rebuffed. Once Katherine regained consciousness and Jill admitted that Tucker knew about Devon, she yelled at everyone who visited her except for Murphy, until Brock was the voice of reason.

Phyllis broke the story of Devon's paternity in Restless Style , Yolanda saw the webcast, and asked her boss at a Milwaukee diner for time off to see her son. Tucker held a news conference and said that he was happy to welcome Devon, a fine, bright, gifted young man to his family, and that he was looking forward to a relationship with his son.

Yolanda showed up at Devon's, clean and sober, telling him that she finally had her life together, and that she had changed her name to Harmony when she changed her life. Harmony explained that back in the late eighties, she had been jealous that Tucker had taken up with another groupie, and after she gave birth she had let Tucker know that he was a father with an unsigned note. Later after Devon had left, Tucker arrived and was confronted by Harmony.

She told Tucker how Rubin, his road manager, had tried to give her cash to have her pregnancy "taken care of". Tucker swore he had not known, and that she should have come to him. Later Tucker apologized to Devon, admitting that he had not tried hard enough to find him, and how guilty he felt for all Devon had gone through when Tucker had the means to change it.

Tucker tried to pay off Harmony to leave town, but she refused, was determined to stay and make things up to Devon, and find a way to restore Devon's trust. Katherine ran into Harmony and asked her to stay at her estate while she was in town.

Harmony told Devon that she was grateful for the Winters family giving him a secure and loving home, but she respected his wishes to leave and gave Devon her contact information in Milwaukee, assuring him that she would always be there for him if he needed her. Although Tucker received an anonymous bid for three times what Jack had offered, he went through with his promise and sold Jabot back to Jack.

The Abbotts were finally owners of the family company again. Tucker's therapist opined that he could not expect Devon to forgive and accept him for not being a part of this childhood if Tucker could not forgive Katherine for not being a part of Tucker's. So Tucker brought Katherine her favorite candy "Red Hots" as a peace offering, but once he saw that Harmony was living there, he immediately decided that she and Katherine were plotting to get Devon to their side against him.

They had words and then he left. Not long afterward, Devon showed up to return the investment money that Katherine had given him for his recording company. He told Harmony that she looked and sounded sincere, but to not be taken in by "people" who were just using her to get what they wanted. But as time went by, and with Katherine's help, Harmony stayed sober, she and Devon began establishing a guarded relationship. Harmony took an interest in his recording business, and got a job in the same building as a receptionist at Restless Style.

As Christmas neared, Harmony volunteered to be in charge of the Children's Christmas pageant at the church. Katherine arranged for Harmony's daughter Ana, who was appearing in a concert nearby in Chicago, to come to Genoa City to sing "Oh Holy Night" at the pageant, as a surprise for Devon and Harmony.

Harmony was shocked to see her daughter with whom she'd had no contact since Ana was a small child. Ana handled it well, keeping it light, and was obviously receptive to knowing Harmony.

Ana left with Devon, and Harmony ran out of the room overwhelmed with Katherine following. Harmony was grateful for the gift, and told Katherine how hard it must be for Ana and Devon to see all those happy families there, knowing they had been cheated of that by her. Katherine told Harmony not to look back, but to do what she could to change things for the future.

Ana and Devon discussed their circumstances later at Crimson Lights and Ana had similar advice for themselves. Harmony convinced Devon to thank Katherine for the visit from Ana, and then convinced Tucker to work on reconciling with Katherine, if he ever hoped to have Devon do the same with him. Running into Neil, he praised Harmony for the turnaround she was making in her life, and after Tucker came over to wish Katherine a happy new year, she thanked Harmony for being there for her too.

Later that evening, Katherine was visited by Nikki whose heart had been broken by Victor once again when he asked Sharon to marry him. After Devon confided in Harmony that he was having some trouble hearing the finer parts of the tracks in editing Angelina's song, Harmony suggested to Tucker that he look further into some Cochlear implant research that his company was already funding to help Devon.

Devon initially refused help from Tucker when he found out, but Harmony and Neil talked him into giving Tucker a chance to help his son. Devon was scheduled for surgery, and Tucker let Devon use his private jet to go to Dallas. Devon asked Neil and Harmony to accompany him. Katherine thanked Tucker for doing this for his son, and Tucker touched Katherine lovingly, and said "Thanks, Mom.

It wasn't long before Cane and Lily decided to remarry, and they joyfully gathered their family in the park to announce the wedding date would be Valentines Day, and included Katherine and Murphy. But the day before their small wedding, Katherine surprised them by moving the wedding to a friend's villa in Provence, France, and flying friends and family there in her private jet. The wedding was held on the beautiful grounds of the villa with Abby as maid of honor, Devon as best man, and Neil giving away the bride.

The vows were spoken informally about second chances, and they exchanged both their old and new rings. Afterward, a reception was held in the garden, but Katherine had stayed home for Delia's birthday party. After Devon returned from his implant operation temporarily deaf, Katherine impressed him by using sign language to ask him for forgiveness.

Devon said that he was not ready to forgive yet until Katherine reminded him that she doesn't have as much time to wait as Devon. Devon then agreed to forgive, but not forget. When the implant devices were finally turned on, the entire family was there to rejoice that Devon could hear clearly again. She wrote the Think About it column for the Roanoke Tribune for 10 years and was a contributor for the Yahoo Network, She had been married to her high school sweetheart since , they have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.

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