| Danny Romalotti and Phyllis Summers | |||||||||||
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| Danny and Phyllis | |||||||||||
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| Current status | Exes; coparents | ||||||||||
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| Family | Romalotti Summers | ||||||||||
| Alias(es) | Phanny | ||||||||||
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Danny Romalotti and Phyllis Summers are fictional characters and a former married couple from the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Danny Romalotti is portrayed by and Phyllis is portrayed by Michelle Stafford.
Phanny is the nickname given to the relationship between Danny Romalotti and Phyllis Summers
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. Once Danny realized how manipulative his new wife was, he divorced her. Then after seeing Phyllis "in a new light" during their baby son, Daniel's life-threatening illness with bacterial meningitis, Danny remarried her.
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.
A vicious custody battle ensued and all of Phyllis's lies and manipulations were brought out in court--including the fact that Danny had been drugged that first time and never even made love with Phyllis as she claimed. The court found her to be an unfit mother and Danny won custody of little Daniel.
In 2003, Danny returned and he ran into Phyllis. Although pleasant, he refused to give her any information on her son who was still in boarding school. Daniel hardly ever saw Danny. Left to believe his mother abandoned him and his father didn't have time for him, Daniel developed resentment for both parents.
Several months later, Daniel returned to Genoa City a 16-year-old. Phyllis heard he was coming and was desperate to get to know him. She ran into Daniel at Crimson Lights, realized who he was and began making contact. She told Daniel she was his mother and, eventually, he asked her to tell him the truth about his family. Once Daniel heard Phyllis's side and discovered that Danny was not his real father, he took off to confront Danny and Christine who had resumed their romance. Daniel decided he and Phyllis should move in together so they could bond.
The old lovers briefly got back together, but it didn't last with Danny going back to Christine. The pair are currently happy parents and grandparents to Daniel and Lucy.