When the cameras stopped rolling on Conner Floyd’s final day as Chance Chancellor, the set of The Young and the Restless didn’t feel like a workplace—it felt like a family saying goodbye to one of its own. The weight of a 50-year legacy on CBS met the quiet reality of an actor walking away from a character who had just sacrificed everything on screen. In that moment, tears weren’t scripted—they were raw, real, and unstoppable.
And yet, even as Floyd hugged his co-stars for what felt like the last time, another door was opening hundreds of miles away, on the soundstages of Days of Our Lives. The man who died a hero in Genoa City was about to be reborn as a DiMera in Salem.
Floyd admitted later that he went into his last day determined not to cry. “I told myself, ‘You’re a professional. Hold it together.’ But the second we wrapped, I lost it.
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