Young & Restless’ Allison Lanier Gets Personal as She Sets the Record Straight: ‘Whoever Is Updating My Wiki…’
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We live in the Information Age, when it seems like everything we could ever want to know is right at our fingertips. Teasers about The Young and the Restless? Just a few clicks and we’ve got them. The complete history of Summer, Chance, Nick and Phyllis? We’ve got that covered. And if we want to know everything there is about Allison Lanier? That’s as easy as heading over to Wikipedia and — actually, maybe it’s not that easy.
Lanier herself took to X/Twitter to provide what we’d like to think of a public service announcement about trusting everything we see online! The actress, it seems, was keeping an eye on her own information that’s out there when she noticed something wasn’t quite right with her Wiki.
To “whoever is updating my wiki,” she tweeted. “I love ya! But you have my birthdate wrong and older than I am. The article you’re citing is not a credible source.”
Whoops! OK, noted. Do not trust the Wiki! We already know that it’s important to make sure there are sources, but it’s also just as important to be sure those sources are actually trustworthy! With that said, Lanier didn’t offer what her correct birthday is, and we aren’t going to be the ones to ask! That’s entirely up to her to share or not.
But what we did love was her response when a fan noted how cute it was that the actress checked her own Wikipedia page. ”Of course,” Lanier answered with a laugh. “I’ve Googled myself once or twice. Gotta see what the soap sites are saying about Summer!”
Oh hey, that’s us. We’re soap sites!
But also, that is really cute. And honestly, if we were famous enough to Google at all, we’d probably be searching our names out day and night! For now, at least, it looks like Lanier succeeded in scrubbing her page of the false information, because last we checked, that wrong birthdate is gone.
And that, we say, is a win! Be careful what you read out there, folks. Not everyone is going to be as diligent in checking their information as Allison Lanier!
