List of The Bold and the Beautiful characters (2017)
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The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. It was first broadcast on March 23, 1987, and airs on CBS. The following is a list of characters that first appeared or will appear in the soap in 2017, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the series' executive producer and head writer Bradley Bell, and co-head writer Michael Minnis.
Sally Spectra[]
| Sally Spectra | |||||||||
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| The Bold and the Beautiful character | |||||||||
| Portrayed by | Courtney Hope | ||||||||
| Duration | 2017–present | ||||||||
| First appearance | January 31, 2017 | ||||||||
| Created by | Bradley Bell and Michael Minnis | ||||||||
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| Crossover appearances | The Young and the Restless | ||||||||
| Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||
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| Residence | Genoa City, Wisconsin | ||||||||
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Sally Spectra, played by Courtney Hope, first appeared on January 31, 2017.[1][2] In March 2018, it was announced that Hope would exit the role of Sally.[3] She made her last appearance on April 5, 2018. On April 19, 2018, Hope announced she was back filming as Sally and she made her re-appearance on June 15, 2018.[4] In August 2020, Hope announced that she has been let go from the series, making her last appearance on August 5, 2020.[5] Later in the month, it was announced that the actress would be joining the cast of The Young and the Restless.[6] In October 2020, it was revealed that Hope would be portraying Sally Spectra crossing her over to ‘’Y&R’’.[7] She made her first appearance on November 3, 2020.
The Bold and the Beautiful[]
Sally is the grandniece of Sally Spectra (Darlene Conley) and the granddaughter of Sally's sister, Shirley Spectra (Patrika Darbo),
Bill Spencer Jr. (Don Diamont) and C.J. Garrison (Mick Cain) make an agreement for him to purchase the land in which Spectra Fashions sat, and to knock the building down for land clearance to build a new Spencer Publications office. This job would take six months to prepare, which gave C.J. enough time to see younger (first cousin once removed) Sally Spectra off, in an attempt to re-open Spectra's doors as a fashion house to rival Forrester Creations, repeating history. Sally hires a team resembling that of the old Spectra Fashions gang and - in the best, most efficient way possible - by hiring their relatives! Joining this also larger-than-life Sally are her grandmother Shirley, Saul Feinberg's grandson Saul Feinberg Jr. (Alex Wyse) and Darlita the receptionist, who has no relation to Darla Forrester (Schae Harrison).
Sally is called by her great aunt, the original Sally Spectra to save the old Spectra building and revive Spectra Fashions. Sally begins building a social media presence by pulling hamulating stunts at Steffy Forrester's (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) expense to garner free publicity and media attention for Spectra Fashions. She invites Eye on Fashion reporter Jarrett Maxwell (Andrew Collins) who works for Spencers Publications to a early preview of Spectra Fashions. Maxwell takes a liking to Sally's designs angering his boss Bill Spencer. Bill writes a disparaging article against Sally and Spectra Fashions while using Maxwell's name on the article, in a attempt to destroy the business and quickly push through the sale of the old Spectra building.
This causes a major setback for Sally, but she continues on to rebuild Spectra Fashions with similar tactics done by her grandaunt Sally. Her grandmother Shirley (Patrika Darbo) whom Sally refers to as "grams" secretly places a hidden camera on her sister Coco (Courtney Grosbeck). Coco heads off to work as a intern at Forrester Creations. Coco remains unaware of the hidden camera, allowing both Shirley and Sally access to all of Forrester's fashion designs before their runway debut.
Sally mimics all of Forrester's designs with slight alterations and launches her runway debut a day earlier to the Forresters. The runway debut becomes a success and angers Steffy who accuses Coco of betrayal and nearly causing her to lose her job. However this success becomes short-lived when the Forresters sues Sally and Sally is arrested and charged with grand larceny and industrial espionage. This causes Spectra Fashions to temporarily cease all operations. Thomas Forrester (Pierson Fodé) decides to help Sally by buying the Spectra building against Bill and investing millions, reviving Spectra Fashions once again. He becomes co-partner with Sally and head designer of the business.
Bill goes all out in taking Sally down from rigging a charitable fashion contest between Forrester Creations and Spectra Fashions to having his attorney Justin Barber (Aaron D. Spears) set the Spectra building on fire after learning that the building has electrical and wiring issues. Sally's business goes up in flames and Thomas leaves her after Bills lies to him telling him that his niece Caroline (Linsey Godfrey) whom Thomas has shares a child with is dying.
Sally is left no options but to sell the building to Bill. However Bill's son Liam (Scott Clifton) temporarily takes over as CEO from his father and gifts Sally the deed to her building out of compassion. However that gift becomes voided due to legal loop holes found by Justin allowing Bill to go ahead with demolishing the building.
On the day of the demolition, Sally and her crew decides to stage a protest inside the old Spectra building preventing Bill from demolishing it. Bill threatens them out, but Liam decides to return along with Sally. Justin tries to text Bill, warning him that Liam and Sally were still inside but Bill does not sees this text until after he pulls the trigger blowing up the Spectra lot. Under the rubbles of the building, Sally and Liam are trapped, the two share a kiss thinking that they were not going to survive. Bill and Steffy manages to rescue them.
Sally briefly leaves along with the rest of the Spectra team. She returns a few month later as a designer for Forrester creations and has a brief relationship with Wyatt Spencer (Darin Brooks). Wyatt tries to dump her when his former high school girlfriend Flo Flutton (Katrina Bowden) comes to town. Sally becomes jealous of Flo and highly obsessive of Wyatt. She fakes having a terminal illness in order to keep Wyatt away from her. She does this with the help of Dr. Penny Escobar (Monica Ruiz). Flo finds out and is knocked out by Penny while Sally decides to abduct Flo and chain her to the radiator in her apartment. Flo manages to message help to Wyatt by writing on Sally's undergarments and is saved by Wyatt. The two decides not to press charge against Sally and Penny, but Wyatt tells Sally to leave Los Angeles so both sides are able to heal and move on.
The Young and the Restless[]
After leaving her life in Los Angeles and Forrester Creations behind, Sally decides to move to Genoa City, Wisconsin. She gets hired by Lauren Fenmore (Tracey E. Bregman) as her executive assistant at Jabot. During her time at Jabot, she forms rivalries with Summer Newman (Hunter King) and her fiancée Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor). She also develops a love interest on Kyle's father Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) to Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) dismay.
Summer becomes threaten by Sally fearing that Sally might go after her job. Summer starts digging into Sally's past, trying to find any leverage to use against Sally despite Kyle's warnings her not to turn Sally into a threat. She flies to Los Angeles and talks to Wyatt Spencer (Brooks) and Flo Flutton (Bowden). Wyatt decides not expose Sally out of respect but Flo tells Summer everything. Summer uses it against Sally and taunts her with it promoting Sally to retaliate. She is unable to find anything to use against summer but is able find something against Kyle when Theo Vanderway (Tyler Johnson) Kyle's cousin decides to give Sally Leverage against Summer and Kyle. He tells Sally of Kyle secret affair and child with Tara Locke (Elizabeth Leiner), who happens to be married to a ruthless businessman named Ashland Locke (Richard Burgi).
Sally tells Kyle that she knows his secrets love affair to which Kyle tells Summer about promoting both sides to cease fire.
Phyllis continues to warn Jack about Sally to no avail and tries to run Sally out of town by asking Lauren to relocate her back to Los Angeles. Sally goes after Summer's job and hatches a scheme with the help of Tara. She flies back to Los Angeles to meet with Eric Forrester (John McCook), she asks Eric for help in securing a prominent fashion job for Summer in Milan on the promise that she leave the Forresters and Spencers alone.
Back in Genoa City, Tara threatens Summer by taking Harrison (Kyle's son) if she does not leave Kyle. Summer reluctantly agrees and leaves for Milan after receiving a prominent fashion job offer. She tells Lauren to give her job to Sally which raises suspicions with Phyllis.
Phyllis investigates and gathers evidence against Sally. She has Sally's accomplice Tara arrested for fraud and embezzlement and exposes Sally to both Lauren and Jack. Lauren fires Sally and Jack ends his relationship with her. Sally becomes briefly unemployed but is recruited by Chloe Mitchell (Elizabeth Hendrickson) as a fashion producer for Newman Media's. She helps Chloe launch the company's fashions platform Newman Fashions. Sally also begins a relationship with Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) which raises concerns with Chloe. Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) warns Adam not to date Sally citing her as a opportunist and socialite climber. Adam decides to keep a professional working relationship between himself and Sally but begins to have feelings for her.
Sally schemes again after overhearing Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle) discussing wedding gown options with her former boss Lauren. Sally sketches out a wedding dress personally for Victoria and plans to switch Lauren's dress with hers on the day of Victoria's wedding to Ashland Locke. She flies to Tuscany as Adam's plus one and manages to switch out both dress. She later makes a desperate plea to Victoria to wear her dress which Victoria agrees to. The dress gains media attention for both Sally and Newman Media and angers Lauren causing a strain in her family relationship with Chloe.
Adam's ex-wife Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) returns to town and joins Newman Fashions. She meets Sally, but takes no liking to her, knowing her past history and Sally knows about Chelsea's past history. Chelsea admits to having strong feelings for Adam despite her previous attempt of framing him for attempted murder of Ray Rosales (Jordi Vilasuso). She becomes increasingly jealous of Sally after learning from Chloe that Sally might be dating Adam. She catches both Adam and Sally hanging out in Adam's Office on New Years Eve to which Chelsea confronts Adam about. Later, Chelsea wants Sally fired mostly because of Sally's increased feelings towards Adam. She pushes Chloe multiple times to fire Sally, but Chloe refuses due to Sally's talents.
Shirley Spectra[]
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| Portrayed by | Patrika Darbo | ||||||||
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| First appearance | February 1, 2017 | ||||||||
| Last appearance | April 6, 2021 | ||||||||
| Created by | Bradley Bell and Michael Minnis | ||||||||
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| Crossover appearances | The Young and the Restless | ||||||||
| Classification | Past; guest | ||||||||
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| Residence | New York | ||||||||
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Shirley Spectra, played by Patrika Darbo, first appeared on February 1, 2017.[1][2] In March 2018, Darbo announced she had departed the cast, due to the end of the Spectra storyline.[8] She made her last appearance on March 5, 2018. Darbo returned on November 8, 2018 for a brief appareance. She has also made appearances via video on sister soap Young and the Restless.
Shirley is the sister of Sally Spectra (Darlene Conley) and she arrives in Los Angeles to help her granddaughter, also named Sally (Courtney Hope), re-open Spectra Fashions.
Saul Feinberg[]
| Saul Feinberg | |||||
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| The Bold and the Beautiful character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Alex Wyse | ||||
| Duration | 2017–18 | ||||
| First appearance | February 3, 2017 | ||||
| Last appearance | March 5, 2018 | ||||
| Introduced by | Bradley Bell and Michael Minnis | ||||
| Classification | Past; recurring | ||||
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| Occupation | Tailor at Spectra Fashions | ||||
| Residence | New York | ||||
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Saul Feinberg II, played by Alex Wyse, first appeared on February 3, 2017.[1][2] In March 2018, it was announced that Wyse had departed the cast, due to the end of the Spectra storyline.[8]
Saul is the grandson of Saul Feinberg, the tailor of Spectra Fashions and friend of Sally Spectra (Conley). Saul is hired by Sally's namesake, Sally Spectra (Hope), as tailor like his grandfather to help re-open Spectra Fashions. He is shown to be insecure at times due his to feelings for Sally. He evens makes a threat against Thomas Forrester (Pierson Fodé) to which Thomas is not intimidated by.
Darlita[]
Darlita, played by Danube Hermosillo, first appeared February 9, 2017.[1][2] She is portrayed as dimwitted in her job despite her best efforts. Prior to the launch of Spectra Fashions, Saul (Alex Wyse) introduces Darlita to Sally as a protentional hire. Sally is reluctant at first prompting Darlita to make passionate but humorless plea. She tells Sally that if she hires her now "she'll live to regret it" when she actually meant to say "she won't regret it". Sally hires her anyway and throughout the season, the character has been used multiple times for comedic scenes. In March 2018, it was announced she would departed the cast, due to the end of the Spectra storyline.[8][9]
Darlita is introduced as the newly-hired receptionist at Spectra Fashions.
Coco Spectra[]
| Coco Spectra | |||||||
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| Portrayed by | Courtney Grosbeck | ||||||
| Duration | 2017–18 | ||||||
| First appearance | February 24, 2017 | ||||||
| Last appearance | February 9, 2018 | ||||||
| Introduced by | Bradley Bell and Michael Minnis | ||||||
| Classification | Past; recurring | ||||||
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| Residence | New York | ||||||
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Coco Spectra, played by Courtney Grosbeck, first appeared on February 24, 2017.[10]
Coco is the teen sister of Sally Spectra (Hope), the grand-niece of Sally Spectra (Conley) and the granddaughter of Sally's sister, Shirley Spectra (Darbo). She was previously a intern at Forrester Creations and briefly dated RJ Forrester (Anthony Turpei).
Mateo[]
Mateo, played by Francisco San Martin, first appeared on October 2, 2017.
Mateo is introduced as the Forrester Estate manager, who is hired by Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) to seduce Quinn Fuller (Rena Sofer), and cause her to betray Eric Forrester (John McCook)'s trust and have an affair, leading to the eventual end of their marriage.
References[]
- ^ a b c d SOD (January 31, 2017). "Spoiler Alert! Spectra Gang Back At B&B!". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Archived from the original on February 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^ a b c d Logan, Michael (January 31, 2017). "The Bold and the Beautiful Shocks Fans With Spectra Surprise and We Have the Inside Scoop". TV Insider. United States: CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 1, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^ SOD (March 19, 2018). "Courtney Hope Out at B&B!". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ SOD (April 19, 2018). "Courtney Hope Back To B&B!". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc. Archived from the original on April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
- ^ Eades, Chris (August 3, 2020). "Courtney Hope Says Goodbye to THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL". Soaps In Depth. United States: Bauer Media Group. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ SOD (August 20, 2020). "Courtney Hope Joins Y&R!". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Archived from the original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ SOD (October 7, 2020). "Courtney Hope Poised for Y&R Debut — as Sally Spectra!". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c Wilson, Lori (March 21, 2018). "Interview: Patrika Darbo Talks B&B Exit, Days Storylines, Indie Soaps". Soaps.com. United States: SheKnows Media. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Soaps SheKnows (March 20, 2018). "Danube Hermosillo Exits B&B As Darlita". Soaps.com. United States: SheKnows Media. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ SOD (February 10, 2017). "B&B Adds Another Spectra". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
External links[]
- Characters and cast at the Official The Bold and the Beautiful website
- Characters and cast at the Internet Movie Database
- Television characters introduced in 2017
- The Bold and the Beautiful characters