Is The Young and the Restless' Noah Newman a spoiler waiting to happen?

On The Young and the Restless, Sharon’s family has rallied around her during the ongoing, if not repetitive, crises that she’s gone through. All of her family, except one noticeably absent son, Noah.

Noah Newman on The Young and the Restless

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The son of Nick (Joshua Morrow) and Sharon (Sharon Case), Noah Newman, was last seen in 2023 when the role was played by actor Rory Gibson — although, notably, Robert Adamson portrayed the character before that from 2012 to 2020. While there were certainly opportunities for him to reappear since then, we didn’t see Noah in Genoa City during any of his mom’s recent kidnappings or health crises.

This week, Sharon and Nick came pretty close to visiting Noah, who is living in London. However, Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) convinced them at the last moment that their presence was needed in town in case there is an arrest of Sharon’s latest abductor, and they decided to just call Noah instead.

Notably, Sharon admitted they “bailed” on Noah, but maybe what is needed is for their son to come to them instead. With him, he could be packing several possible spoilers for other storylines.

Noah Newman spoiler possibilities

Noah isn’t just tied to Nick and Sharon; in fact, he had a relationship with someone in Genoa City that viewers didn’t know about until after the fact.

When Noah came to town a few years ago, he was shocked when Audra (Zuleyka Silver) told him a secret. Through their conversations, viewers learned that Audra and Noah had been in a relationship in London, though we never saw it play out on screen.

We’ve had to use bits and pieces of information over the years through other conversations to piece it together, but if you put it all together, there is the possibility of a juicy storyline waiting to happen. Audra told Noah that when their relationship had turned sour, she realized she was pregnant but didn’t tell him. As they were fighting, and he didn’t want to be with her, she thought it would be considered “emotional blackmail” to tell him that she was pregnant.

Audra claimed that she miscarried after Noah had left. However, he’d also told his dad at one point that the person he was in a relationship with in London had married someone else. Was there more to the story, or are there some details that we’ll never hear about again? Either way, it leaves the door open for a few possibilities: Audra didn’t miscarry after all, she may have already been married to someone else, and/or having an affair and the paternity was questionable — and that man may have the baby if she had given birth.

Audra also got quite uncomfortable the day that she and Nate (Sean Dominic) talked about how Amy (Valarie Pettiford) had kept Damian’s (Jermaine Rivers) paternity a secret for so long. Audra had encouraged Nate not to judge Amy in her situation as she may have had many reasons for her secret. Was she speaking from experience?

With Nikki Newman’s (Melody Thomas Scott) birthday party coming up in May, will Noah be returning to Genoa City for the festivities? If so, it could be the perfect opportunity to reopen some doors from the past.

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