Lee Phillip Bell Will Appear on 11,000th Episode of 'The Young and the Restless'

Lee Phillip Bell

In honor of The Young and the Restless' 11,000th episode, someone who played an integral role in the show’s inception will make a cameo on the CBS sudser.

On its September 1st episode, show co-creator Lee Phillip Bell will make a cameo. Her character encounters real-life daughter Lauralee Bell and on-screen husband Doug Davidson, reported TV Insider.

“We won’t spoil the deets but, trust us, it’s super charming,” reported the site.

Bell and late husband William J. Bell co-created The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Mrs. Bell became a talk show icon in Chicago, winning 16 local Emmys during her storied career. In 2007, she was honored with the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award for her decades of work in daytime serials.

Akbi Khan has been a soap mega-fan for 31 years. She has been writing about them and working to save the soap genre for several years. Last May she got her Master’s in rhetoric and composition, for which she completed a thesis on the Save Our Soaps (SOS) movement and created her own SOS group, thistimeitsforever.org. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with family and friends, activism for various progressive causes, traveling down her spiritual path, rollerskating, going dancing, anything having to do with language or words, and laughing heartily and often, and more. You may reach her at akbikhan@gmail.com.

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