The Young & The Restless: What To Expect From Shemar Moore & Vivica A Fox’s Return As Malcolm Winters & Stephanie Simmons

The Young & The Restless: What To Expect From Shemar Moore & Vivica A Fox’s Return As Malcolm Winters & Stephanie Simmons

After decades apart, Malcolm Winters and Stephanie Simmons will reunite on The Young and the Restless. The characters are back and will be reprised by their original actors, Shemar Moore and Vivica Fox. Shemar last played Malcolm in 2023, while Vivica left the show in 1996.

Moore, played the role from 1994-2005 and made occasional visits since, didn’t hesitate when the call came. “I feel humbled and honored and nostalgic,” he says. “But I also have a bone to pick with Young and the Restless because all I was asked was, ‘Would I be willing to come back for a cool little story?’ And my mother raised me to always remember where you came from, but I didn’t know they were gonna make me memorize 124 pages for three days of work [Laughs]! Even when I was Malcolm for real all those years back, I never did 124 pages!”

That mix of gratitude and humor reflects the actor’s long relationship with the show, which helped launch him into a prolific primetime career that included starring in Criminal Minds and S.W.A.T., and he appreciates that Y&R set him on the path to get there. “I’ve created what I’ve created, so when I got the call to come back, the answer was yes,” he notes. “There’s no Kristoff [St. John, who played Malcolm’s brother Winters and passed away in 2019] this time around, and they still asked if I would bring Malcolm back to life and tell a cool, dramatic story. The Young and the Restless had a lot of fun working with Christel S.W.A.T.