The Young and the Restless Star Peter Bergman Celebrates 35 Years As Jack Abbott

Talk about quite the milestone! The Young and the Restless star Peter Bergman, who is best known for his role as Jack Abbott on the hit CBS soap, is celebrating 35 years in Genoa City. Keep reading below for everything you need to know.

The Young and the Restless Star Peter Bergman Celebrates 35 Years As Jack Abbott

In a new interview with Soap Opera Digest, Peter opened up about his milestone and all of the wonderful memories he’s made along with the strong bonds he’s formed with his co-stars over the years.

The talented actor even put it this way, “Well, this particular milestone is a reminder that this doesn’t happen to everybody, that there are unique things about working with all of these actors for that many years. If I am on a set with Beth Maitland — I mean, she is as close as a friend can get to being my sister.”

“I want to look out for Beth Maitland the same way Jack wants to look out for Traci, so that is underneath every scene I do with her. I don’t have to kind of reestablish what our relationship is; it’s just so easy to cross a room and wrap my arms around my little sister and tell her I love her, or to be thrown by my little sister throwing common sense in my face.”

“That’s not hard to find at all. After 35 years, so much of that part of the work is so easy, and I’m very grateful for it.”

Peter also said that he had a special message for all of his The Young and the Restless fans out there.

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He said, “I’m speaking at [former host of The Hollywood Squares] Peter Marshall’s memorial service; I got to know him through a curious connection with friends. And one of the things Peter Marshall always said was, ‘We are so lucky. Few people are so lucky.’” 

“That’s the way I feel about 35 years and the audience of Young and Restless, that I got to share some of these moments in their lives that were not terribly dissimilar from Jack’s. I got to share with them a marriage falling apart, a relationship starting, the loss of my father, the loss of my mother, the complication of a relationship with your mother.”

“All of those things, I got to share with people who really, really cared about those things, and that’s the opportunity of a lifetime. We are the luckiest people in the world to know what it feels like to touch other people’s lives with our work. I’m one of those people and wow, am I grateful.”

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