Leanna Love

Leanna 'Love' Randolph was a fictional character in the American soap opera, "The Young and the Restless". She was portrayed by actress Barbara Crampton from 1987 to 1993. She returned on a recurring basis from 1998 to 2002 and briefly reappeared in January 2006 and January 2007.

Character's background

Jack Abbott (Terry Lester/Peter Bergman), the arch-nemesis of Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), arranged for Leanna to write a sensational tell-all biography of Victor under the pseudonym of Nora Randall entitled "Ruthless: The Victor Newman Story". Ironically, Victor had also hired her to write an authorized biography of his life. Without Jack's knowledge, Leanna added an extra chapter to "Ruthless" that exposed Jack's sister Ashley's (Eileen Davidson) affair with Victor, including Ashley's subsequent abortion. Victor's ex-wife, Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott), who was pregnant with Victor's baby, hoped that they would eventually resume their marriage. But when "Ruthless" was published, Victor assumed that Nikki was responsible and quickly divorced her. In a surprising move, Victor married Leanna. Because Leanna felt guilty about the expose novel, and had come to genuinely care for Victor, she wrote another book called "Victor Newman - Man and Myth", under her real name. Meanwhile, Victor devised a plan to punish Jack for his role in the publication of Leanna's book about Victor's life. Victor orchestrated a takeover of Jabot, displaced Jack and made Brad Carlton (Don Diamont) his superior. Victor and Leanna soon divorced and Victor remarried Nikki.

Five years later, following Victor's divorce from Diane Jenkins (Alex Donnelley), Leanna made another appearance. Diane's scheming lawyer, Michael (Christian LeBlanc), arranged for Diane to appear on Leanna's talk show, "The Leanna Love Show", in order to gain public sympathy for the settlement hearing. Still bitter over Victor's treatment of her five years ago, Leanna was happy to oblige. As revenge for this, Victor tricked Leanna into selling him "The Leanna Love Show", and then fired her.

In 2006, Leanna, now a journalist, returned to Genoa City to interview Ashley, who was being charged with the murder of Tom Fisher (Roscoe Born) (she was covering for her amnesiac father, John (Jerry Douglas)). Leanna lied to Ashley that she would paint a flattering picture of her, but instead, made Ashley look guilty.

Leanna returned once more in 2007 to conduct an interview with David Chow (Vincent Irizarry) about the death of Carmen Mesta (Marisa Ramirez).