Definition and meaning of Nicholas_Newman_and_Sharon_Collins

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Nicholas "Nick" Newman and Sharon Collins 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 lasts ten years within the series, a soap opera rarity,^[2]

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 three children together, Cassie (Camryn Grimes) (deceased), Noah (Kevin Schmidt) and newborn Faith Newman.

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 confide in Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). Brad and Sharon kiss at a business trip, but Sharon wants to work on her marriage. Nick starts an affair with Phyllis Abbott (Michelle Stafford), which Sharon later finds out about. Although Nick wants to try and work things out with Sharon, she feels he is staying in their marriage out of obligation. Sharon, at her job, leaves her office, and minutes later starts kissing Brad. 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. Thus ending the 10 year marriage between the two, as Nick weds Phyllis. Sharon later becomes engaged to Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman). Sharon is almost killed after she falls into a river over a cliff. 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.

Months later, Phyllis publishes an article in Restless Style magazine that infuriates Nick. Phyllis is tired of him taking up for Sharon, and things begin to shift into motion for a possible Nick and Sharon reunion. Jack says, "Sharon divorced Nicholas because his deception stood in the way of their love, a deception she felt was unforgivable. Now that Sharon has forgiven his deception, what's standing in the way of their love?"

In November 2008, Nick and Sharon meet up by coincidence in Paris.^[3] Sharon came in order to accompany their son, Noah, on a field trip. Nick came to search for his missing father. Nick learns that this is Sharon's first trip to Paris so he decides to give her a tour around the city. Wrapped up in the moment and indulging in memories of the great times they shared, they end up passionately kissing. The kiss is witnessed by Nick's wife, Phyllis, who traveled to Paris for a Restless Style photoshoot. Sharon stops the kiss before it goes too far. She does not want to hurt her husband, like Nick hurt her. She also does not want to be the other woman.

Sharon and Nick later have sex in the Abbott cabin on two separate occasions. Nick tells Phyllis about the encounters and she pushes for them to work it out. Upset over Nick, Sharon has sex with her brother-in-law, Billy. She later reconciles with Jack only to divorce him out of guilt over sleeping with his brother. Sharon then finds out she is pregnant, not knowing which of the three men she was with fathered the baby. Nick leaves Phyllis for Sharon and promises to be a father to her baby even if that baby is not his. After Sharon gets the DNA test results back which name Nick as the father, she finds out that Summer is in a coma. Not wanting to take him away from his family when they need him, Sharon lies that Jack is the father and urges Nick to reunite with Phyllis.

After trying on a ring that is exactly like the one Nick bought for Phyllis, Sharon steals it and is arrested. Instead of going to prison, she is ordered to seek psychiatric help at an institution where she gives birth to Faith. Nick's half brother Adam Wilson steals her and giving Faith to Ashley, making Nick and Sharon mourn baby Faith.

Adam & Sharon later got married on December 28, 2009 after becoming romantically involved. Nick is very much not happy about the marriage, believing that Adam is using Sharon.

Cultural impact

The Sharon/Nick/Phyllis love triangle, which took place in 2005-2006 and was finally resolved in 2007, was considered one of the genre's more titillating storylines. Jamaica Gleaner was enthralled by the twists and turns of the love triangle and published an interview with Michelle Stafford; the newspaper asked whether Nick would end his ten-year marriage to Sharon and rather enter into an official romance with her character Phyllis. Within the story, Phyllis wonders if Nick is the father of her unborn baby. 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."^[4] The love triangle was a prominent topic of soap opera debate during its run. Daniel R. Coleridge of TV Guide labeled it "A can't-miss week for the popular Sharon/Nick/Phyllis triangle" when Phyllis's OB-GYN is to inform her that she is expecting.^[5] In addition, the love triangle was cited as popular and successful by critics who felt that it rejuvenated Nick and Sharon's romance after the death of their daughter, Cassie; Soap Opera Digest named it "Best love triangle". The title was reported by TV Guide.^[6] "When former enemies Phyllis and Nick began a sizzling and secret affair behind his wife Sharon’s back — viewers were in daytime heaven!" stated the magazine.^[6]

AuthorsDen, where authors like Milt Thomas and Ron Horsley display their work, also took notice of the complicated love triangle. Author Aubrey Hammack published an article on the matter. He cited the storyline as realistic:

See also

• List of fictional supercouples

References

External links

• SoapCentral