2006: Summer Ann Newman made a dramatic debut when her mother, Phyllis (Michelle Stafford), gave birth while stuck in an elevator. Jack (Peter Bergman) was there to assist in the delivery, which required him to right a breech birth.
2006: Summer was just a baby at Phyllis and Nick’s (Joshua Morrow) wedding, where the bride was arrested for blackmailing Brad over his affair with Sharon.
2009: A 5-year-old Summer (then-Samantha Bailey) was hospitalized after a near-fatal reaction to a peanut allergy.
2012: Summer (then-Lindsay Bushman) and Fen (then-Max Ehrich) shared a few kisses. He wanted more, but she wanted to remain pals.
2012: Summer was upset following an argument with Phyllis, and her car collided with a vehicle driven by Adam and a pregnant Chelsea. Everyone survived except for Chelsea’s baby — the accident caused her to miscarry.
2012: Summer (Hunter King) began harassing Jamie(Daniel Polo, r.) on social media but regretted it and became friends with him. Fen became jealous and bullied Jamie. The tormented teen attempted suicide, then left town with Ronan.
2013: Summer became smitten with Jack’s son Kyle (then-Hartley Sawyer). They almost had sex until a new DNA test (which was later deemed inaccurate) showed that Jack was her bio dad, making her and Kyle half siblings.
2014: Summer, now 19, flipped for Austin (Matthew Atkinson), a cameraman on her aunt Avery’s (Jessica Collins) show. When he was arrested for shooting Paul, Summer and Austin quickly got married by a judge.
2014: After Austin avoided prison time, he and Summer decided to have an official church wedding.
2015: Summer and Austin’s marriage got rocky because of his insecurities. While at the Abbott cabin with (from far l.) Noah (Robert Adamson), Courtney (Kelli Goss), Abby (Melissa Ordway), Mariah (Camryn Grimes), Fen and Kevin (Greg Rikaart), Summer was horrified when Austin was found murdered.
2015: Kyle (then-Lachlan Buchanan) returned to Genoa City. He and Summer recoupled and made love for the first time.
2016: When Kyle took a job out of town, Summer drifted into an affair with Luca (Miles Gaston Villanueva), a businessman with a shady past. After their engagement went bust, Summer decided to travel the world and departed Genoa City.
2018: After a two- year absence, Summer returned to town, a reckless party girl always looking for a good time. She set her sights on her mother’s lover, Billy (Jason Thompson), and they had a one-night stand.
2019: Summer touched base with Fen (Zach Tinker) while he was visiting his parents.
2019: Summer tried to woo Kyle (Michael Mealor) but he was in love with Lola. When an injured Lola needed a partial liver transplant, it turned out Summer was a perfect match. She wanted something in return for donating a piece of her organ, so Kyle married her.
2019: Summer took up with Kyle’s former best friend, Theo (Tyler Johnson), which annoyed Kyle.
2019: Kyle was miserable in his marriage, so Summer granted him a divorce in June and he married Lola (Sasha Calle) in August.
2020: Kyle and Lola split; he and Summer happily reunited.