Nicholas Newman and Sharon Collins

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Nick and Sharon Collins (Joshua Morrow and Sharon Case).

Nicholas "Nick" Newman and Sharon Collins Newman are fictional characters and a supercouple from the American daytime drama The Young and the Restless.^[1] Nick is portrayed by Joshua Morrow and Sharon is portrayed by Sharon Case. Their marriage lasted ten years, a soap opera rarity,^[2] despite adultery on both sides.

1 Storyline
2 Cultural impact and popularity
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Storyline

Nick Newman and Sharon Collins meet as teenagers and fight through many tragedies and third parties to be together in a marriage that lasts 10 years. They have two children together, Cassie (Camryn Grimes) (deceased) and Noah (Hunter Allan).

The greatest test of their marriage comes when Sharon's teenage daughter, Cassie, whom Nick adopts and loves as his own, dies in a tragic car accident. Nick and Sharon grow apart because of Nick's obsession with finding the responsible party (the accident is actually Cassie's fault). Sharon starts to develop feelings for Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). Brad and Sharon kiss at a business trip, and later they fall in love with each other, but Sharon wants to work on her marriage. Nick starts an affair with Phyllis Abbott (Michelle Stafford). Sharon later finds out about Nick's affair, but feels little guilt about carrying on an emotional affair with a married man. Sharon realizes that Nick is no longer in love with her. She feels he is staying in their marriage out of obligation. Sharon, at her job, leaves her office, and minutes later starts kissing Brad. Nick approaches her car, and notices that the two are about to have sex, and he leaves. Sharon sees Nick watching them, but continues to kiss Brad.

Nick gone, Sharon tells Brad that Nick saw them together. Brad, who is married to Nick's sister Victoria (Amelia Heinle), becomes afraid. Later that night, Nick and Sharon mutually decide to get a divorce, as they have both fallen in love with different people. Thus ending the 10 year marriage between the two, as Nick weds Phyllis. However, despite being in love with Brad, Sharon becomes engaged to Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman). Sharon is almost killed after she falls into a river over a cliff (due to an argument over Sharon refusing to admit the truth of her affair to Brad). Sharon admits that while falling she had visions of Brad, not Jack, her fiancee. Regardless of Sharon's feelings, she ends up marrying Jack on April 23.

As of 2007, Sharon mourns the presumed death of Nick. However, a mysterious woman named Logan finds Nicholas alive and returns him to Genoa City. Logan alerts Nikki that Nicholas is alive. Nikki notifies Sharon and Phyllis, who later arrives. Nick is proven to be suffering from amnesia when he kisses and believes himself to be still married to Sharon. Nick says that it's difficult for him to believe that he let Sharon go romantically.

Due to Nick's amnesia, he and Phyllis have a period of withdrawal, while Sharon and Nick grow close again. When Nick begins to accept his marriage to Phyllis (due to his daughter, Summer), Sharon agrees to be friends. However, they share a passionate kiss while locked in the vault and are at each other's side during the Clear Springs disaster. Nick and Sharon are both concerned for their son, Noah, who lost a spleen after the disaster. Phyllis is imprisoned due to her blackmail of Sharon and Brad in early 2007. This leads Nick and Sharon to grow closer. However, in the last days before Phyllis is to be sent to jail, Nick starts to see why he fell in love with her in the first place and falls in love with Phyllis again, though he does not regain his memory. News gets out of a kiss between Nick and Sharon due to Brad wanting Sharon back and hoping that revelation of the kiss will be the end of Sharon and Jack. Despite Phyllis and Jack being upset at their spouses, Phyllis and Nick, as well as Sharon and Jack, are still together.

[edit] Cultural impact and popularity

[edit] Newspaper

Sharon and Nick on the cover of the magazine Soap Opera Digest, July 16, 1996.

Arguably one of the most titillating storylines to ever be crafted toward Nick and Sharon's love story was the Sharon/Nick/Phyllis love triangle, which took place in 2005-2006 (finally being resolved in 2007), all the while garnering a notable amount of interest, such as Jamaica Gleaner — a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Jamaica Gleaner was enthralled by the twists and turns of the love triangle and published an interview with Michelle Stafford, querying her specifically about the matter of whether Nicholas Newman would end his ten-year marriage to Sharon Collins and rather enter into an official romance with her character of Phyllis Abbott. A pregnant Phyllis wondered if Nick were the father of her unborn baby. To that, Stafford replied, "In a perfect world, she'd wish it were Nick's. But he's married; he's not going to leave Sharon. And she doesn't want him to."^[3]

[edit] Magazines

The Sharon/Nick/Phyllis love triangle was a hot topic of soap opera talk during its airing. Daniel R. Coleridge, of TV Guide, labeled it "A can't-miss week for the popular Sharon/Nick/Phyllis triangle" when character Phyllis's OB-GYN was to inform her that she is expecting.^[4]

The love triangle was cited as so popular and successful by critics who felt that it breathed new life into Nick and Sharon's romance after the death of their daughter, Cassie, that Soap Opera Digest named it "Best love triangle". The title was reported by Sympatico/MSN/TV Guide.^[5]

[edit] AuthorsDen

AuthorsDen, where authors like Milt Thomas and Ron Horsley display their work, also took notice to the complicated, romantic cross-mingling of Sharon, Nick, and Phyllis. Author Aubrey Hammack published an entire article on the matter, citing it as realistic and further commenting on adulterous betrayal.

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Men are notorious for saying; I can separate my sexual side from my emotions. Well, unless you are a person without a conscience, this is impossible. Most men just don’t realize that once you have sex with someone, that the emotions kick in not to mention the feelings of being in love and caring about that someone you are having the affair with. When this happens, things spin wildly out of control.^[6]

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