‘Young and the Restless’ POLL: Steve Burton: Is He Better as Y&R Dylan McAvoy or GH’s Jason Morgan? VOTE!

Most fans either know Steve Burton as his character Dylan McAvoy on “The Young & the Restless” (Y&R) or as Jason Morgan on “General Hospital” (GH). There are fans who have expressed some very strong feelings about where he truly belongs and which role suits him best. An interesting fact is how popular he was in the role that started out his whole acting career. Do you remember it? His breakout role as surfer boy, Chris Fuller on Out of This World in 1987.

Jack Stephen Burton was born in Indianapolis on June 28, 1970, and grew up in the suburb Richmond Heights, before moving to Hollywood. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Steve married Sheree Gustin in January 1999 and they have three children together; Makena (2004), Jack (2006) and Brooklyn (2014).

Besides the roles he has played in various soap operas, he has also appeared in the movie The Last Castle with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. He is also the voice actor of Cloud Strife in the Kingdom Hearts series among others, like Final Fantasy! Steve Burton appeared on High Stakes Poker, Season 3, and he donated all his earnings to his fan club for the building of a clubhouse.

Before he made the role of Jason Morgan (GH) famous, he played the role of Harris Michaels, a love interest for Eve Donovan (then Charlotte Ross) on Days of Our Lives, in 1988. Steve joined the daytime drama General Hospital in 1991, where his character, Jason Quartermaine, had been rapidly aged to his late teens. He was a star athlete and the pride of the Quartermaine family, until that dreadful day in 1995, he was involved in a car accident with his brother A.J. (then Sean Kanan) that left him with amnesia and irreversible brain damage.

In comes, Jason MORGAN! He severed all ties with the Quartermaines and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) took him under his wing and turned him into a killing machine and mob enforcer. He opted not to renew his contract and left in 2000. He returned briefly in 2001, but returned on a full-time basis from 2002 to 2012. In 2012, Steve purchased a house in Tennessee and moved his family out there. He didn’t want to have a bicoastal family and when the powers that be couldn’t accommodate him, he chose to leave General Hospital.

In January 2013, Steve Burton was hired to portray the role of a new character, Dylan McAvoy, on The Young and the Restless. He initially was involved in a story with his former lover, Avery Bailey Clark (Jessica Collins); their reunion was shocking considering that Avery was told he had died on one of his military tours to Afghanistan. Avery remained conflicted but chose to stay with Nicholas Newman (Joshua Morrow), but Dylan doesn’t give up without a fight.

When it looks like he is on the losing end, he has a one-night-stand with Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan), and she later deceives him into thinking he is the baby’s father. Steve Burton played the role perfectly when his character found out that Adam Newman (the Michael Muhney) was in fact, the baby’s father. To him, it was devastating to lose yet another child; remembering that he lost a baby with Avery too. We cannot help but wonder what is going to happen when the truth finally comes out about Christian/Sully’s paternity. Will he spiral out of control? Who could blame him if he did, this would be the third child ripped out of his life!

In October 2013, Dylan finally had some ties to some key players and prominent families. The truth came out that Dylan was the son of Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) and Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott). Steve Burton, himself, couldn’t help but compare this storyline to the one he played on General Hospital, as Monica Quartermaine’s (Leslie Charleson) son, Jason. There is also the similarity that Jason Morgan had a brain injury, causing amnesia and reinventing himself. Dylan is a war hero from Afghanistan, who suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

Do you see other similarities between his characters? After observing Steve Burton in both roles, which one do you prefer him in, Jason Morgan (GH) or Dylan McAvoy (Y&R)?

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Cristie Geroux

Cristie is a stay-at-home housewife who is an avid fan (over 30 years watching General Hospital and The Young & the Restless), with extensive knowledge of all four of the current Daytime soap operas and many Primetime shows. Cristie is married to her best friend and a mother of two grown children. Cristie loves writing about all the news, rumors and plotlines. She enjoys writing about the actors and characters and is always excited to share her thoughts on spoilers and how there could be interesting twists with completely different outcomes.

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