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The Young And The Restless Star Richard Burgi Fired Over COVID Rules

By Elizabeth Rose

Richard BurgiThe Young and the Restless comings and going reveal an Ashland Locke switch is on the horizon. Richard Burgi will no longer be playing the park and former Guiding Light star, Robert Newman, who played Josh Lewis on the now-defunct CBS soap will step into Burgi’s shoes, but Burgi has finally opened up about why he is no longer with the soap and it all has to do with COVID-19.

The Young And The Restless Spoilers – Richard Burgi Had COVID

While The Young and the Restless does not have a vaccine mandate, it does have COVID protocols that all actors must follow for health and safety reasons and Burgi inadvertently violated that protocol and explained what happened on his Instagram stories on Tuesday night.

“I was back east over Christmas and tested positive somewhere around Christmas [and was] at my niece’s house and visiting my 97-year-old mom,” Richard Burgi said in his video. “I took the necessary five days [quarantine] that the CDC [Center for Disease Control] recommended.”

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Y&R Spoilers – Richard Burgi Made A Mistake, Exits Gracefully

When Burgi returned home he listened to the new CDC guidelines saying if you test negatively five days later, you can resume life, but of course, wear a mask for another five days. He tested negative twice via the show’s testing program and thought it was fine for him to return to work, so he did, but apparently, Y&R is still using their old protocols and not going with their CDC’s recommendations, so his return was “not within the show’s guidelines, which is a 10-day protocol. So, I inadvertently violated the show’s COVID rules and protocols. I feel terrible about it. I still do. It bothers me mightily but it is what it is.”

Burgi expressed no hard feelings for the soap that has kept him employed over the last year, saying, “I respect the show’s decision,” he adds. “They’re doing the best they can. We all are.”

The actor even wished the best for Robert Newman, a veteran soap actor who hasn’t been seen on daytime screens for more than a decade. “I truly wish the gentleman coming in to play Ashland a wonderful time. He’s going to be working with the most incredible actress [Amelia Heinle, Victoria,] and a great, great cast. It’s an amazing show. I have nothing but good memories.”

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Elizabeth Rose

    Elizabeth Rose has spent most of her long adult life writing about soaps off and on. She grew up on long-departed soaps Another World, Santa Barbara, All My Children, One Life to Live, and Guiding Light. Since college she has been a General Hospital lover and considers herself to be an encyclopedia of everything daytime.

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