Young & Restless Family Reunion: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Sally’s Grandma Shirley and Sister Coco

Sally has a lot on her plate these days… Not only is she pregnant, she’s planning to marry the father of her child. She knows Billy’s family pretty well yet he doesn’t know hers — but that’s about to change next month when the bride-to-be’s grandmother Shirley and sister Coco show up in Genoa City.

Longtime viewers of The Bold and the Beautiful have already had the pleasure of being introduced to Shirley and Coco but for those who haven’t, here’s everything you need to know about the extended Spectra clan…

Who Plays Shirley and Coco

Former Days of Our Lives star, Patrika Darbo (ex-Nancy) will reprise the role she created and first appeared back in February 2017. Though Courtney Grosbeck initially appeared as Coco later that same month, newcomer Ashley Campbell will step into the role when both characters return to the daytime canvas in October.

Who Are Sally’s Relatives

We’ve already established that Shirley is Sally’s grandma and Coco her sister but how were they introduced over on sister soap Bold & Beautiful? Well, back in 2017, Sally received a call from the great Sally Spectra, who she was obviously named after, urging her grandniece to save Spectra Fashions. Just as Sally agreed and hung up, her grandmother appeared and the two headed over to the empty building where Forrester’s biggest rival used to be housed.

After deciding then and there to revive Spectra, both got to work to create a line, which ended up getting a horrible review in Eye on Fashion. That’s when Coco arrived on the scene and Sally privately declared to her grandmother that they needed Coco to be a spy at Forrester. Her sister ended up getting an internship — and unknowingly did Sally and Shirley’s dirty work by being tricked into wearing a piece of jewelry containing a hidden camera. And in true Spectra fashion — pun intended — Sally stole Forrester’s designs and used them for their own show (a chip off the old block!). Coco, who’d since been in a relationship with and fallen for R.J. Forrester was absolutely devastated.

How Shirley and Coco Left the Canvas

Then, as they say, all good things must come to an end (and, really, who can compete with the Forresters?!)… The Spectras departed the canvas with Coco leaving first, followed by Shirley and ultimately with Sally exiting as well.

Now with Sally having been front and center in storylines on Young & Restless since 2020, the same year she left Los Angeles for Genoa City, it will be interesting to see her family back in the mix. Stay tuned!