| Danny Romalotti and Christine Blair | |||||||
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| Danny and Christine | |||||||
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| Current status | Lovers/engaged 2024-present | ||||||
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| Family | Romalotti Blair Grainger | ||||||
| Alias(es) | Chranny | ||||||
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Danny Romalotti and Christine Blair are fictional characters and an engaged couple from the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Danny Romalotti is portrayed by and Christine is portrayed by Lauralee Bell.
Chranny is the nickname given to the relationship between Danny Romalotti and Christine Blair
Though the much younger Christine Blair had previously been just a kid in Danny's eyes, they now dated and fell in love. Christine's friend Nina Webster was being pursued by David Kimble. Danny and Christine were convinced he was a gold digger and tried to interfere with their wedding, so David set Danny up to be arrested on cocaine possession. The setup was exposed at the trial and Danny got off. David tired to kill Christine and Nina at a masquerade ball while wearing the same costume as Danny. But Paul foiled the plot, and David ended up being crushed to death in a trash compactor.
Christine became a lawyer, and she and Danny were happily married. Then Chris's boss, Michael Baldwin, became obsessed with her. Chris filed charges and Michael was fired. In retaliation against Christine, Michael arranged for a woman to pose for photos with the drugged Danny. Christine got Michael's new wife to testify and Michael was found guilty. Danny temporarily left town to appear on Broadway. The show was renewed and Danny stayed away much too long. This causing his marriage to suffer and Christine began spending a lot of time with Paul.
While in New York, Danny was stalked by Phyllis Summers, an obsessed fan. She drugged his drink, got him into her bed, then claimed to be pregnant by him. Danny divorced Christine and joined Phyllis in a "trial marriage" to "do the right thing" for the child.
Chris and Paul were able to plant enough doubt in Danny's mind that he got a blood test done on their son. Danny was devastated to discover that their son was really the child of a man in Phyllis' past and that she had set him up all along. However, Danny was the legal father.
In February 1998, Danny returned to his seat beside Christine after searching the TransGlobal Airlines plane for Phyllis. "Coast is clear", he told her, "no sign of Phyllis anywhere". Christine reminded him that there were two planes following this one not to mention the plane that took off a half hour prior to them. They had to get to New York before Phyllis did! They had to have the manuscript that proved Phyllis' schemes. With it, they would win. Also, Christine explained, they needed either Peter Garrett or Sylvia Browne to testify on their behalf to prove that the manuscript hadn't been out of their sight and hadn't been altered.
The couple reconciled in 2024 after Christine's divorce from Paul was final. They are happily in a relationship together.