Conner Floyd’s days on The Young and the Restless are over. Let the Days of Our Lives era commence.
“It’s been real GC. What a ride. I have truly been blessed to call myself a citizen of Genoa City,” Floyd wrote in a touching Instagram tribute to his time on Y&R on Monday. The day marked the last appearance of his character, Phillip “Chance” Chancellor, who was fatally shot four years after Floyd stepped into the role.
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“To share the stage with so many talented and hard working actors, creatives and crew members. This is without a doubt a special place,” he continued. “I’m grateful to have been a part of such an iconic piece of art that has lasted through the decades and that has such a stellar, die hard fan base. Thank you for accepting me. Chance will always have a close place in my heart. He’s taught me a lot and I’ll miss him dearly. It’s been an absolute honor to represent the Chancellor legacy.”
For one last time, Floyd wrote in closing, “Detective Chancellor, over and out.”
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Conner Floyd and Billy Flynn on ‘The Young and the Restless’
Monday’s episode of Y&R was one for the books. Floyd’s Chance was among an exclusive set of Genoa City (the fictional setting of the CBS sudser) elites invited to France by Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn) to hide out from an unpredictable killer who’d already slain Germain Rivers’ Damian Kane. Sadly, no amount of distance was enough to save Chance.
After Vincent Stalba’s Carter, the lowly yet enigmatic assistant to Y&R newcomer Aristotle Dumas (also Flynn — it’s complicated), is revealed as not only Damian’s killer, but the madman who took Lily Winters (Christel Khalil) hostage, a scuffle ensues. When the smoke cleared, both Carter and Chance were dead.
The Chance character had a long history in Genoa City, though Floyd had only portrayed the character since 2021. Chance, a Genoa City Police Department detective and the wealthy scion of Chancellor Industries, had previously been portrayed by John Driscoll, Donny Boaz, Justin Gaston, and a set of child actors (including Penn Badgley) that originated the role in 1988.
But soap fans won’t be missing Floyd entirely in the aftermath of Chance’s death. The news that Floyd would be exiting Young and the Restless in June also came with the announcement that he’d been cast as Days of Our Lives‘ new Chad DiMera. In a bit of soap world Trading Spaces, the actor who most recently portrayed the Days staple is none other than Flynn, who joined Y&R earlier this year, and was with Chance in his final moments.
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The cast of ‘The Young and the Restless’ in 2022
Though many Y&R fans have reacted with shock and anger at the grisly circumstances of Chance’s end, Floyd thinks the character would approve.
“As sad as it is, I think that’s how Chance would want to go out,” the actor told Soap Opera Digest on Monday. “That’s his story that he’s always been telling — that he’s a hero — and the ultimate person to put everybody else above himself, so I think it’s a little poetic in a way.”
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