Betty White Joins THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

[PT Freakin' G]

Primetime Vets Cast as Stephanie's Family
Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 12:40:55 AM

The Bold and the Beautiful will be getting a little more "golden" next month with the addition of two very well-known veteran actresses. Betty White (Sue Ann Nivens, The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls; Catherine Piper, Boston Legal) and Alley Mills (The Wonder Years) join the cast in short-term roles, but these roles will be very much central to the show's ongoing storylines.


The multiple-Emmy-winning White will tackle the role of Ann Douglas while Mills will play Pamela Douglas, Stephanie's supposedly-dead mother and sister. Exactly why Stephanie has kept the fact that Ann and Pamela are still alive will be addressed in the context of the storyline.


This will be the first foray into daytime television for Mills, but not so for White. In 1988, White appeared as a waitress on Santa Barbara during a one-episode stunt appearance. That same year, White portrayed Brenda Barlowe (1988) on Another World. Both soaps shared a common network - NBC - with White's primetime show at that time, The Golden Girls.


White and Mills will first air on December 1st.

[Jon-R]

I can remember reading this somewhere this past week, I dont remember where though. Could have been online or in a newspaper. Anyhoo I love Betty White and I think its cool that even though she's the oldest of the Golden Girls, she's the one who appears to have the highest profile these days.

[Miss_Texas]

oh noooooooo! not on B&B

[ChrisSumnerMatheson]

This is just yet another B&B stunt that will go nowhere. I wish they had cast Stephanie's mother and sister with actors more familar to daytime so we'd have a better chance of them sticking around.

Constance Towers (Helena, GH) was long rumored to be Stephanie's sister and would've been a great choice.

[kassidy_katherine]

I'm happy for Betty as I enjoy her work...but I'd hate to see her character just go poof like Linda Gray's character (Priscilla) did.

[Walford Queen]

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought it said Barry White joins The Bold And The Beautiful. I was thinking of the now deceased singer with that great big walrus tash. :eek: I thought I was hallucinating.

[PT Freakin' G]

B&B can be campy...but resurrecting Barry White is way too over-the-top even for them :p