Long-running US soap gets its first gay male couple after almost 40 years
Harrison Cone and Christian Weissmann will play The Bold and The Beautiful’s first ever gay male couple. (Getty)
Harrison Cone and Christian Weissmann will play The Bold and The Beautiful's first ever gay male couple. (Getty)
Long-running US soap The Bold & The Beautiful is all set to feature its first gay male couple.
Deadline reported on Thursday (11 September) that Harrison Cone was joining the show as a yet-to-be-named aspiring designer who is in a relationship with Remy Pryce, played by Christian Weissmann. He is set to be seen for the first time in Tuesday’s episode (16 September).
Cone and Weissmann’s characters will be the first to share a male same-sex kiss in the soap, which first aired in 1987.
The news marks the latest LGBTQ+ milestone in The Bold and The Beautiful‘s history. The show’s first lesbian couple, Karen and Danielle Spencer, got together in 2012. They were quickly followed by Maya Avant, the first transgender character to appear regularly on daytime TV.
Maya married Rick, becoming the first trans bride in TV history, and they had a baby via surrogacy.
She was written out in 2019, and Karla Mosley, a queer cisgender woman who played her, told TV Insider in March that she stepped away because “it became truly inappropriate for me to play that role”.
In 2015, Scott Turner Schofield joined the cast as Nick, becoming became the first transgender actor to appear in daytime television in the US.
Executive producer Brad Bell recently said the show was “heading back to a two-battling-fashion-house-way of storytelling”, People reported.
The Bold and the Beautiful airs on weekdays on CBS in the US. Viewers in the UK can stream episodes on YouTube and Apple TV+.
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