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Rebecca Budig on Joining the Cast of The Bold and the Beautiful: “I Just Hope That the Fans Accept Me as Taylor and That it All Works Out”
In a real shockeroo, Rebecca Budig is back on CBS daytime for the first time since her Guiding Light days (as Michelle Bauer) and is now taking on the role of Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Taylor was back in the story at the end of the Tuesday, August 6th episode, when she was ‘spying’ on a romantic and celebratory moment between Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), while they were in Monte Carlo, relaunching Brooke’s Bedroom line for Forrester Creations. Next, viewers saw Taylor call her daughter Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), letting her know she was on her way home to Los Angeles.
Budig, 51, replaces Krista Allen, 53, who last took on the role of Taylor, before she was let go from the series back in October of 2023. Prior to that, Hunter Tylo became soap-famous in the part and played Taylor on and off from 1990-2019. Former GH and Santa Barbara favorite, Sherilyn Wolter, also briefly took on the role in 1990.
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Several fans have already taken to social media and shared that it appears on-screen that Budig is too young to be portraying the mother of Steffy and Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson). However, many are just happy to have her back on the soaps, because they know the quality of work she has brought to her other roles including as All My Children’s Greenlee Smythe and General Hospital’s Hayden Barnes.
Rebecca chatted with TV Insider on becoming Taylor Hayes, and meeting her new castmates, including her on-screen daughter and son-in-law. “Jacqui and Tanner (Novlan) are amazing, professional and wonderful,” enthused Budig.
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Joining B&B reunites Budig with Thorsten Kaye (ex-Zach Slater), who both appeared on All My Children together, but now they find themselves in a completely different set of circumstances. Taylor has always wanted Ridge and feels she has been second fiddle to Brooke for years. As Rebecca explained, “Brad (Bell, EP and head writer, B&B) made it pretty clear that Ridge is the love of Taylor’s life. She’s a psychiatrist, she’s smart, she leads with her brain while Brooke leads with her emotions. So, I love that there’s two different women in his life, and they each probably bring out something different in him.”
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As with any recast on the soaps, there are always the naysayers that won’t accept anyone in the role but their favorite, while others will give the new actor coming into the situation a chance. Rebecca understands this and shared, ‘I’m still getting my footing. I’m my own worst critic, but I’m really excited. I just hope that the fans accept me as Taylor and that it all works out. I love it. I mean, nothing’s guaranteed in this business, so I just kind of take every day as it comes.”
What do you think about Rebecca’s B&B debut as Taylor Hayes? Are you going to give it some time to see if you can accept her in the role? Comment below.
Yeah, sorry, but I can’t see it. She belongs back on GH as Hayden. Oh, well. Good for her.
I love Rebecca Budig, she is a wonderful actress. This is a miscast in my opinion. Brad Bell will get tired of Rebecca and will fire her. He fired Krista Allen, I loved her as Taylor Hayes. Loved Rebecca on AMC and General Hospital. Mark my words, we will see more Taylor Hayes recast in the future.
Frank…you have a very, very good point. At this point, I feel that Brad Bell no longer bothers to listen to us soap fans. I think that (nowadays) Brad Bell pushes his own personal soap opera agenda (or whatever)…and to hell with what us soap viewers want!!!!! Beyond sad.
Maybe they’ll bring back Hunter and CBS can do a promo about “the real Taylor is back”.
Longtime AMC fans know what I’m getting at.
OMG, standing beside Ridge, she looks like his daughter. She looks like the other one’s sister. It’s easy for them to say that the actor should be accepted for their acting ability, but we are the ones having to watch and be distracted by how ludicrous it all looks.
Thoroughly agree about Taylor looking like Steffy’s little sister. Love Budig but …
Just no
What was wrong with the other Taylor, other than the fact her chemistry was through the roof with Ridge? This show hates couples with chemistry, Hope & Thomas were hot & they shipped Thomas off. Now this, nothing against her but Steffy looks older.
As a fan since the beginning. This is one recast that I just cannot accept. When Taylor was introduced in 1990, she was the same age as Brooke and Sheila. Today Brooke and Sheila are 63 but Taylor is 51. There is plenty of age appropriate actresses out there who could have been cast instead! What a slap in the face to long time viewers.
Kassie DePaiva would have been a perfect recast
KDP – Perfect casting actually
And Rebecca should be on GH as Hayden, though GH burned her a few times…
Did Thorsten get her the gig ? She looks too young with her daughter.
This man does not have an original.idea! He is the king of triangles! I love Rebecca Budig and Frank Valentini should have brought her back as Hayden. The Brooke/Ridge/Taylor thing is stale. These folks should be setting an example for the next generation. Rebecca, I’m sorry is wrong for this role. Krista Allen and Jaqueline Woods resembled each other and they looked like mother & daughter. I wish Rebecca all the c luck!
A TOTAL DISASTER ALL THE WAY…
As much as I want to support the actress, she seems like a better recast for Phoebe than Taylor.
Unfortunately, the pictures further confirm the miscast here. Rebecca Budig is a great actress. I’ve been watching since her GL days. I even remember her first episode. That said, she looks more like JMW sister and TK daughter (if Ridge had another one). Brad Bell did the same thing with Ingo Rademacher. He wanted a name but Ingo was all wrong as Thorne. He looked older than TK (among other things). Obviously, Brad Bell is the boss and no one is going to tell him otherwise but this is so ridiculous.
My issue is why anyone would ever fight over Ridge? He’s an ass and a very unlikeable character!
I agree Kik To me he was always a pompus ass
Ŕight on!
I tend to agree here. I used to love Ridge and T.K when he first came aboard, but lately, he’s become a curmudgeon type,plus a horney old guy. I get so sick of Vwatching him and Brooke falling all over each other, trying to look romantic.
Give Budig a chance!
We already know what a dynamic, appealing actress she is.
It is a gift that she is back on daytime!
She certainly is all that, and I love her to death but not in the role that are giving her. It’s preposterous, she’s too young to be involved or related to any of these people, in turn making them all look ridiculous!
Nope…never going to work, but Brad Bell just does what pleases Brad Bell and KKL.
I love Rebecca, but she is just not going to fill the shoes of Taylor, there is no connection. I am all for her being back on daytime, but not this role.
She is miscast for the part. She looks like Ridge’s daughter. She is too well known as in daytime for the attempt to make her play an older Taylor work. Everyone is just going to see Rebecca in old woman makeup.
I personally think that being put along side the others , will just make her look even younger, or them older? Will have to wait and see, I guess
Watched Taylor’s homecoming today. No way in hell would anyone think she’s Steffie’s mom. It was so nice to see her , but she also made steffie look like more of a witch than she is.Cant wait to see Taylor with the “old guy” now.
She looks too young. Go back the general hospital now that Finn gone
Oh…Sorry….but she is all wrong….Not even close to looking like Stephy’s mother….Friend maybe..or cousin.
Too young
I liked Rebecca Budig in All My Children, but this doesn’t work on Bold and the Beautiful, she looks like Steffi‘s sister not her mother, completely wrong. Taylor needs to be older. Bad choice! Try again. Krista was better.
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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