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Sam Young 2022, 2023-
Lived: 24 Ramsay Street
Parents: Rose and Mike Young
Occupation: Executive Assistant at Lassiters Hotel

After finding herself being given more and more responsibility, and tasks above her pay grade, by Lassiters Hotel's manager Paul Robinson, Chloe Brennan eventually managed to persuade him to hire an assistant for her. Chloe then hired a young woman named Sam through an Inclusive Employment Initiative that had been set up at the hotel the previous year by Paul's predecessor, and ex-wife, Terese Willis.

Though Chloe and Sam quickly developed a good working relationship, Sam noticed how unhappy Chloe was becoming at work, both due to the recent death of her former stepson Hendrix, and the fact that Terese was planning to sell her shares and cut ties with the hotel completely. Though Terese went ahead with her plans to sell, she struggled to keep away from Lassiters, and when a troublesome guest called Mr Trotter, who was holding an antiques conference at the hotel, started making demands, she could see that Paul wasn't coping. With Chloe away in Adelaide, Terese then secretly teamed up with Sam to make sure that everything went smoothly, allowing Sam to take the credit, knowing that Paul wouldn't be impressed if he knew that his ex had interfered.

When Chloe returned from Adelaide, she broke the news to Sam that she'd decided to sell number 24, quit her job and leave Erinsborough. As Sam waited to find out if the new owners would keep her on, she was visited by her dad, former Ramsay Street resident Mike Young. The visit proved surprising for many of Mike's old friends, including Paul, and his old flame Jane Harris. After a trip down memory lane together and some encouragement from Sam, who was eager to see her dad move on with his life, Mike admitted to Jane that he was still in love with her, and that he'd decided to buy 24 Ramsay Street. Sam was delighted by the news, especially as Jane agreed to Mike's suggestion that they could revisit their relationship, take things slowly and see what might happen.

Mike, Jane and Sam then spent a couple of years as a happy family unit on Ramsay Street, and Sam was thrilled to learn that her dad was planning to propose to Jane during a holiday to the UK. With Sam staying with the Kennedys at no. 28, she kept in regular touch with her dad, who was beginning to worry that Jane didn't want to marry again and would say no to him. With some encouragement from Sam, he finally proposed and Jane said yes. Erinsborough High principal Jane then returned to Australia to try and save the school from closure, while Mike remained to tour Scotland on a motorbike. After a few weeks, Mike got in touch, mentioning that he'd been offered a job, touring the UK with groups on motorbikes for a few months. Jane persuaded him to accept, and said that she and Sam would be fine together, and could join him for Christmas. They weren't alone at no. 24 for long, however, with Jane's daughter Nicolette, returning to town, along with David, Aaron and Isla, and moving in with Sam and Jane.

As the year came to an end, Jane and Sam planned to fly out to the UK to join Mike for Christmas. But with Jane attempting to convince both the Education Department and the local council to approve her and Terese Willis's plan to reopen the school, she told Mike that she would have to stay in Australia. Sam then flew out to join Mike, accompanying neighbour Vera Punt and her nephew Curtis Perkins, who were taking their own trip to Europe. Sam returned a few weeks later, with Mike planning to join her once his job was finished, but as that time approached, he contacted Jane and told her that they'd asked him to stay on for another few months to extend the motorbike tours into mainland Europe.

With Mike still not home, Jane's ex-husband Vic arrived in Erinsborough with the news that he had terminal cancer and only six months to live. Sam became concerned that her dad and Jane were becoming distant and became even more worried when she witnessed a close moment between Jane and Vic, and him kissing her on the hand. After Vic collapsed one day and spent the night in hospital recovering from dehydration, Jane let him rest on her bed for the day, as there was a party taking place across the road at Byron's house, where Vic had been staying. When Sam saw Vic on Jane's bed, she was upset and encouraged Jane to make more effort with keeping in touch with Mike, then arranged a visit to a bridal shop with Jane and Byron, hoping that Jane might remember that she was engaged and focus on Mike rather than Vic.

With Vic facing a lot of regrets over the way he'd treated Jane during their marriage, he ended up kissing her and, although she didn't return the kiss, it started to make her think about her relationship with Mike. Vic then found out that, following some trial immunotherapy treatment in London, his cancer was in remission and he disappeared from town. As Vic had made it clear that he didn't understand how Mike could stay away for so long if he was serious about the relationship, Jane was starting to realise that perhaps her ex-husband was right. When her friends Susan and Terese also shared their concerns about Mike's prolonged absence, Jane admitted that she knew she had to talk to him about it, but was afraid of the answer. After a great deal of thought, she then decided to end the relationship, but was in for a surprise when Mike too admitted that he wanted to end things but had been struggling to admit it.

He told Jane that he'd developed an attraction to his boss, Angela and, although nothing had happened between them, he wanted to see where things might go with her. Mike was then relieved when Jane said that she had come to see Sam as a member of the family and like another daughter to her and would be happy for her to stay on if she wanted to. Mike then spoke to Sam himself, telling her how sad he was about Jane, though Sam's main priority was finding out how soon he planned to marry Angela. With all of the difficult conversations out of the way, Jane made it clear that Sam could stay with her for as long as she wanted to, and Sam admitted that she'd come to see Jane as a second mum.