"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)."
"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+."
The Bold & The Beautiful will introduce its first gay male couple with Harrison Cone cast as an aspiring designer in a relationship with Remy Pryce, debuting on 16 September and featuring the soap’s first male same-sex kiss. Past LGBTQ+ milestones include the first lesbian couple in 2012 and Maya Avant, the first regularly appearing transgender character, who married Rick and became television’s first trans bride before leaving in 2019. Karla Mosley said she stepped away because it became inappropriate for her to continue in the role. Scott Turner Schofield was the first transgender actor in US daytime television in 2015. The show airs weekdays on CBS in the US.
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