EXCLUSIVE: The Bold & the Beautiful is setting a new milestone with the addition of Harrison Cone.
The actor, whose credits include the feature films Ick and I Wish You All the Best, will join the CBS sudser as an aspiring designer who’s in a relationship with Remy Pryce (Christian Weissmann). He will make his first appearance at Forrester Creations on Sept. 16.
The addition of Cone will mark the first time that B&B has featured a gay male couple who will also kiss on-screen (another first for the sudser). Cone’s character name is being kept under wraps because he has a close tie to one of the major B&B characters.
This isn’t the first instance of LGBTQ representation on the Bell-Phillip serial. In 2012, B&B featured its first lesbian couple, Karen Spencer (Joanna Johnson) and Danielle (Crystal Chappell). Danielle was first introduced as Karen’s friend but was later revealed as her romantic partner.
In 2015, the soap made history by introducing Maya Avant (Karla Mosley) as the first regular transgender character in daytime television. Maya went on to become the first transgender bride in all of TV before her character was written off in 2019.
There have been other gay male couples in daytime, including As the World Turns‘ Luke Snyder and Noah Maye, Days of Our Lives‘ Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis. At present, CBS’ Beyond the Gates has a popular interracial gay couple played by Brandon Claybon and Mike Manning.
Weissman joined B&B in 2024. He was nominated this year for a Daytime Emmy in the new Emerging Talent category. The Daytime Emmys are set for Oct. 17 in Pasadena.
Cone’s other credits include Hacks, The Summer I Turned Pretty and American Horror Stories,