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EXCLUSIVE: B&B's Katherine Kelly Lang Chats On Joining The Cast Of Dancing With The Stars Italy!
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The Bold and the Beautiful’s Katherine Kelly Lang is putting away all the romantic and familial drama of Brooke Logan Forrester for a few months, and putting on her ballroom dance shoes! That’s right! Katherine is set to be one of the contestants on the new season of Ballando con le stelle Italy, or as we say here in the U.S. – Dancing with the Stars Italy!
In this exclusive conversation with On-Air On-Soaps, Katherine telsl us that she is taking a break from the CBS soap opera to try her luck on DWTS Italy, where international soap fans know, Katherine and B&B are number one! Will the judges and Katherine’s fan keep her in the competition week in and week out? Will Katherine come back to the States with a Mirror Ball Trophy in hand? If Katherine’s determination and athletic prowess are any indication, she just might be one of the celebrity contestants to beat!
So, is the soap superstar nervous? What did B&B executive producer Brad Bell have to say when she decided to take part in the series for a few months in Europe? What might happen to Brooke in the meantime? Here’s some Intel from Katherine on her upcoming DWTS experience and more!
Katherine, this isn’t your first foray on Ballando con le stelle (Dancing with the Stars Italy). You had been on previously for a guest stint, but now you are a full on contestant for the new season! How did it all come about?
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KATHERINE: I did do one episode of Dancing with the Stars Italy about six years ago, or so. I didn’t want to do it longer at that time, because I didn’t want to take time out from The Bold and the Beautiful. But this did work out this time where I could take off the time in between contracts, so I said, “O.K”! Dancing with the Stars Italy has been calling me to do the full show, and I didn’t want to do what Ronn Moss (Ex-Ridge, B&B) did, and go back and forth from Italy each week, and all that craziness. I am going to go and stay in Italy for the duration, instead.
Do you know who you’re paired with as your pro dance partner yet?
KATHERINE: I don’t know what pro dancer I will be paired with yet, but the first airdate is October 4th live. So every episode is live on Saturday night until I come back to Los Angeles in December!
What happens if you get booted off the show?
KATHERINE: They don’t like do to that! (Laughs) But of course, someone is going to get booted off. And you don’t want to get booted off, but even if you do, you get another chance to get back on. So the contestants still stay, and they still have to rehearse two more dances, and then perform those dances the next week to try to get voted back in the running. So no matter what happens, the show kind of keeps you going.
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Are you nervous about learning all the different dances in the competition … or are you excited?
KATHERINE: I am really nervous, because I haven’t really done anything like that in awhile. I feel my body is different, because I have been training for the “Iron Man”! So I have this sort of heavy clumsy body right now! (Laughs) And that is just for the “Iron Man” style competition. So I need to get more elegant and graceful, and stretch more, and get more in shape that way. It’s totally different muscles, the dance muscles. I love dancing and it will be fun, but stressful for me when it’s live!
Do you know Italian well to handle the language barrier on the live show?
KATHERINE: I know it from being in Italy for awhile, and when I come back, I pick it up again. I have studied the language through the years. But honestly, I understand the language better than I speak it!
You will probably exit The Bold and the Beautiful on-air in four weeks or so. How do you think the series will exit Brooke from the story to facilitate your time away to dance on Ballando con le stelle?
KATHERINE: I think Brooke might go to Forrester International to help run the business and to clean up the office over there! (Laughs) And the international company is based in Milan, and so maybe there might even be a remote in Italy … we don’t know yet.
How was B&B’s executive producer and head writer, Brad Bell about you exiting the series for three months to go to Italy to appear on Dancing with the Stars there?
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KATHERINE: Great! Brad was super about. He was saying, “I would go over there and do that if I were you!” (Laughs) This is a perfect tie-in for the show, too. And you know half way through Dancing with the Stars I will get homesick, and I will miss playing Brooke! And that happens! Sometimes I will be like, “I need to have my time off,” and a week later I am like, “Hmmm. I kind of miss Brooke!” I have been doing her so long that it has become a part of me. So it’s weird when I am not playing her, and having that to do on the soap. I mean, I will be competing on camera, but it will be different. I am so looking forward to the experience though!
So, what do you think about Katherine heading to Europe to compete in Dancing with the Stars Italy? Excited to root her on from afar? Let us know your thoughts! And here’s the link to the Ballando con le stelle website!
Good Luck! 🙂 You’ll be missed while you’re away.
dear Katherine, many of your fans do miss you when you are not on the airtime of b&b. maybe bb will bring bill over to Italy for brooke and bill to have a nice lavish wedding with a very elegant honeymoon and reception. that would work for all of your brill fans. good luck Katherine you do have a lot of competition in dancing with the stars. I found this page through google to find you. please sent links to facebook and twitter for your brooke fans to keep up with you they already miss you and want your Italy links to see how you are doing.
sincerely Elaine.
Why not do the American version? O right three months in Italy—sounds like a nice gig half vacation, half work– she can eat all the great food then dance away all the calories- LOL
Good Luck. I wish I could watch you on it.
Same here!
just go to google and tyipe in dancing with the stars Italy this should bring up Katherine Kelly lang and her dancing and being judged. Katherine you come back to b&b when you get done a lot of your fans do miss you on that show. we do love you.
sincerely elaine
B&B Brookefree: BEST NEWS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe it will last 🙂
Yeah right. Brooke’s the only reason you watch the show. Even while she’s gone, you’ll do nothing but bitch about Brooke all day and how everything is her fault.
i didn´t bitch about her, not worth it! i watch because of all the other stars. there are others on the show. realize it, you brookelover!
sporrester…SO TRUE!!!!! But…you know what would make me EVEN HAPPIER…a Hope-free show!!!!! LOL!!!!!! Yep.
And the entire time Brooke is gone, you’ll be bitching about her. You and sporrestor, like all the other Brooke-haters, claim to watch the show for the other characters, like sour moon face Katie or Crisco-haired rapist Ridge (and their snooze-worthy romance, during which they’ve talked about nothing but Brooke, Bill, Brooke, Brooke, Bill, Brooke and Brooke), but you watch so you can whine about Brooke and you all know it.
Good Luck with the dancing..I will be rooting for you!!! I must say I will really miss you while you are gone!!! Also I hope those writers get Liam and Hope back together real, real soon!!! Show those people in Italy how to dance..You Go Girl!!! <3 🙂
you will be missed very much..what will B&B be like without the Brooke???
Congratulations on getting to be on Dancing with the Stars Italy while taking a break from Brooke!!! I won’t watch B&B while Brooke is away in Italy unless there’s a remote and she’ll actually have some scenes, but I’ll definitely watch Ballando con le Stelle all the more. I’ve missed seeing you dance. You’re such a fantastic dancer and you definitely have it in you to win the whole competition! I can’t see anyone else beating you. You’re the best!!!
I wish you would consider Dancing w/the Star in America. Good luck you will be missed.
I’m very happy for Katherine! She did well on her last appearance on DWTS. Considering she carries B&B, and has for years (though Bad Smell, aka Brad Bell, doesn’t have enough sense to realize it), she definitely deserves a little time off. But to the ever-hardworking KKL, time off means “preparing for DWTS,” which is very intense. She loves to be physically active.
How much fun is that,ENJOY!
I think it great.but I will miss see you on B&B.all the. Best. 🙂
Someone I would love to see on Dancing with the Stars is Michael Muhney. I think he’d be perfect.
Hey Katherine if you are going to leave for 3 months do everybody a favor and take Hope, Liam & Wyatt with you. We need a break from this triangle. Please!
I am very happy for her. She is my favorite character on B& B. Without her I probably will take a break from B&B myself. Not very happy with new casting.
I’m wondering if there is any way that we could watch this in the US? Does anyone know?
I watch it on the dish cable TV. Italian RAI station
You will certainly be missed, but this was a good way to exit off the show for a rew months….giving yourself time to think about all that Bill Spencer has done in these past few months and always hounding you to get married despite what he did to Ridge. Also the writers were clever in writing you out saying you are going to the Milan office to get things straightened out. Enjoy this experience. You only live once, and this will certainly be a memory that will live on for you for many years to come thereafter. Ciao.
she already got voted off, I don’t think this was a good experience for her
So now what is Katherine Kelly Lang going to do for the next few months?
hopefully, she will return to B&B sooner than planned.
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It looks like the current run of Lucas Adams (Noah) and Tamara Braun (Sienna) on The Young and the Restless is coming to an end, after the Monday, August 3 edition of the CBS daytime drama revealed that Noah and Sienna are leaving Genoa City and heading back to Los Angeles.
In the storyline, Noah informed his mother, Sharon (Sharon Case) and half-sister Mariah (Camryn Grimes) that he and Sienna made the decision to move back to the West Coast to put distance between themselves and Matt Clark (Roger Howarth). Although Noah did not say it was a permanent move, he did assure his mom that once Matt is hopefully gone from Genoa City they could return.
However, as previewed already on the video teaser for this week’s episodes of Y&R (see below), it appears Noah left Genoa City’s The Shadow Room to be run by a returning Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian). So with that, coupled with today’s episode, it would appear the move could wind up being more permanent.
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COMINGS AND GOINGS
Adams made his Y&R debut on November 4, 2025 as the successor to Rory Gibson who last played Noah on-screen in April of 2023. Earlier in 2025, Gibson took over the role of Michael Corinthos on Genera Hospital replacing Chad Duell, who stepped away from the part after 15 years.
Braun who played Adam’s mother on Days of Our Lives when she was Ava Vitali and he was Tripp Dalton, first appeared on Y&R back on October 14, 2025, where we soon learned she had become Noah’s lover as the new character, Sienna Bacall. It should be noted, Adams was on contract with the number #1 soap, while Braun has been on recurring status.
With Josh Griffith now exited as head writer of The Young and the Restless, and the newly announced co-head writing team of Jamey Giddens and Dan O’Connor having taken his place and starting their new tenure this week, it will be interesting to see how the duo resets the show, and if a Noah and Sienna return is in the cards for the future or not.
So, what do you think about the seeming departures of Lucas Adams and Tamara Braun from The Young and the Restless? Weigh-in via the comment section. But first, check out our recent live chat with Tamara and Lucas on the Michael Fairman Channel.
Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she plans to head back to a seat at the table of ABC’s morning talk show The View.
The announcement came during Monday’s episode of The Tangle Podcast where she shared she will participate in “in whatever way they want” her or “just as a guest” for its upcoming 30th season.
The View’s season 30 will kick-off this fall in September. O’Donnell explained, “They’re bringing back all the hosts, I think. And, you know, I’m pretty proud of that show, what it’s become and how it really speaks to the people and to politics.”
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ROSIE ON HER PREVIOUS GO-ROUNDS ON THE VIEW
As fans of The View know, O’Donnell famously had two different one-year stints on the talk show in 2007 and again in 2014- 2015. She often feuded with then co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
However, during her discussion with host, Kyle Ridley on The Tangle Podcast, O’Donnell also noted she often had tense moments with longtime moderator and anchor, Whoopi Goldberg.
O’Donnell also expressed, “Many, many people got the short end of the stick there. It was, you know, it was a factory where people were being churned in and out and their tenuous security, nobody got to be calm. It also was a show at the time that was run by a man. A show created by a woman, for women, about women, and the man was deciding what we should talk about. And that didn’t sit right with me, you know.”
Back in 2023, Brooke Shields had asked Rosie on her podcast, Now What? with Brooke Shields, about how she felt on her two stints at The View and all the controversy that surrounded it. Rosie at that time, stated, “I know this, it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness. It was not something I’d ever do again.”
You can check out the clip with Rosie and Kyle Ridley discussing her return to The View in some form for its upcoming 30th season below.
Then weigh-in: Would you be excited to see Rosie, even for a one-day or a week guest stint on the upcoming celebratory season of The View, or not so much? Let us know via the comment section.
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General Hospital Fan Club Weekend brought out many of your favorites to the four day event; with the main cast gathering on Saturday, August 1. Fans near and far attended the weekend held this year at the Burbank Marriott Hotel. Whether it be the main cast event or the smaller more intimate events featuring two or three cast members a great time was had by all.
Some of the cast participating in the main cast event included: Cyrus Hobbi (Yuri), Gary James Fuller (James), Bradford Anderson (Spinelli), Viron Weaver (Wiley), Paige Herschell (Jacinda), Chris McKenna (Brennan), Josh Kelly (Cody), Kayden Brenna Tokarsi (Scout), Cassandra James (Terry), Laura Wright (Carly), Dominic Zamprogna (Dante), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane), Rick Hearst (Ric), Adrian Anchondo (ex-Marco), and Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle).
In addition to, Van Hansis (Lucas), Cameron Mathison (Drew), Ryan Paevey (ex-Cassius), Easton Rocket Sweda (Leo), Maurice Benard (Sonny), Kristen Vaganos (Molly), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Kate Mansi (ex-Kristina), Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth), Cynthia Watros (Nina), Kristina Wagner (Felicia) and more.
Take a look at some of the snaps from the main event arrivals below:
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GH’s Rick Hearst with on-screen daughter, Kristen Vaganos, plus Nancy Lee Grahn, and Kate Mansi.
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GH’s Maurice Benard on-hand to meet the fans.
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Jack Brennan in the house … Chris McKenna.
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Adrian Anchondo, Van Hansis and Anchondo’s boyfriend, Days of Our Lives, Colton Little.
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GH’s Josh Kelly and his gal, the former Nelle Benson of Port Charles, Chloe Lanier.
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Who is James’ father? Not Cassius or Spinelli, actually. Actors Gary James Fuller, Ryan Paevey and Bradford Anderson!
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One of General Hospital’s newest cast members, Kayden Brenna Tokarski attends her first GHFCW event.
Check out some more arrival images featuring: Laura Wright (Carly), Cassandra James (Terry), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane) and more in the gallery below.
Michael Fairman TV will be adding more images to this post in the day ahead.
So, were you glad to see so many of your GH favorites attending this year’s General Hospital Fan Club Weekend? Let us know via the comment section.
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