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Lily Winters (formerly Romalotti and Ashby) is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Starting off as a rebellious yet naive teenager, the character became one of the series' popular heroines. Stories centered around Lily included the mystery of her paternity and social issue storylines. The character also made up one half of two popular pairings, the first a young love story with Daniel Romalotti and the other, a mature relationship with Cane Ashby. and "Daily" (for Daniel and Lily), while Lily and Cane were known as "Lane" (for Lily and Cane) on Internet message boards and in the press.

Khalil received Daytime Emmy nominations for the role in 2004, 2006, and 2010. She also won an NAACP Award for the part in 2008.

In August 2002, The Young and the Restless cast Christel Khalil in the role of Lily Winters. She garnered two nominations for Outstanding Younger Actress for the 2004 and 2006 Daytime Emmy Awards Khalil left the show in 2005 and cited stress as the reason for her departure. The show attempted to convince Khalil to return, but when that failed, they recast the role in 2006 with Davetta Sherwood. Though she replaced a popular actress, Sherwood said she felt no anxiety over it because Khalil chose to vacate the role.

After leaving The Young and the Restless, Khalil had multiple talks with representatives from the series about possibly stepping back into the role. Former executive producer and head writer Lynn Marie Latham said she was happy with the casting change because she was impressed by Khalil's work. "Christel is a brilliant actress," Latham said. "We're thrilled to have her [as] part of the Y&R family again...Davetta did a fine job, but shows generally prefer to have original players back when they can get them." On her MySpace blog, Sherwood said she felt negativity from others on the set of the show before her firing. "I have yet to be informed of the reason behind this firing... by anyone at CBS," she said. "I suppose that bothers me and I don't think it's right or fair."

Lily Winters has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.