LINDEN ASHBY ON Y&R RETURN

Linden Ashby reveals that Y&R contacted him a year ago to reprise his role of the menacing Cameron Kirsten. “Back then [Executive Producer/Head Writer] Josh Griffith reached out to me through my wife, Susan [Walters, Diane], about coming back but I couldn’t,” the actor explains.

“I was shooting a movie and then I had another movie and then I was directing a Lifetime movie, so it just wasn’t good timing. And then he reached out again this year, and I said, ‘Okay, but I have this trip planned that I absolutely can’t get out of, so if we could do this [gig] in that window of time, I can do it.’ ”

Since Cameron’s return was written as a limited run, the timing wasn’t an issue. Before giving an answer, however, Ashby received strong advice from his spouse. “Susan was like, ‘All right, don’t say you wanna do it and not do it, and don’t say you wanna do it and then be a pain in the ass,’ ” the actor recalls. “And I said, ‘Okay, okay, I’ll do it.’ That was really flattering that he still wanted me back.”