Hunter Tylo Breaks Silence on Dramatic Final Days at ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ originally appeared on Parade.
Former The Bold and the Beautiful star Hunter Tylo is opening up about what led to her exit on the popular CBS soap opera. Sharing how her verbal agreement for coming back was ignored, and how a last minute script change led to a physical altercation that reaffirmed her decision to leave.
During an interview with The Unexpected Cosmology, Tylo was asked about her final episodes in 2019, and how she handled the physical altercation between Brooke, played by Katherine Kelly Lang, and her character Taylor.
Tylo began by saying, “Well, it got intense. I don’t know why.” She continued, “So, this storyline had kind of sort of ended. At least it was supposed to be wrapping up, but the door kept feeling open like there might be another episode.”
The actress was living in Scottsdale and commuting to the studio and already decided that she was not interested in remaining on the show in a long-term capacity. “It was only a temporary thing so that we could deal with a plot point of who shot Bill, then of course they needed a plot point for the baby I guess to be kidnapped or sold or I can’t remember.”
Back in 2019, on-screen, Taylor’s daughter Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) found herself in the center of a giant baby swap storyline as Steffy began unknowingly raising Hope’s (Annika Noelle) daughter, Beth. Tylo shared that it was “A lot.” Reflecting on the story.
Tylo had been upfront with head writer and showrunner Brad Bell about what she was and more importantly, was not interested in playing anymore, from a content perspective prior to rejoining the soap. The actress shared, “I’d already been convicted about even if my character had been married to Ridge, in the past, every time I go back and forth and he’s married to [someone else]. Just because I had been married to him before, does not give me the right to go and seduce him again. He’s in a different marriage, and I was just not wanting to set that example anymore.”
The actress was straight forward with specific scenes she didn’t want to do, adding, “So I said, I’m not doing any bed scenes. I’m not running around scantily clad and I’m not doing all that. I said if you just need me to have conversations with my daughter on the show, I can do that, and I loved Wayne Brady, so I thought this could be fun, and it was.”
However, things didn’t stay that way, as Tylo went on to reveal, “But then they had there in that next to last episode a scene where I walk up, and while Brooke is out of the room, kiss Ridge on the lips deliberately.” Tylo was frustrated with this story development, she explained, “I said, ‘Wait a minute. I thought we were not going to do that. I’m not going to do that.’ and they responded, ‘Well, it’s not a bed scene.’ I go, ‘But still, no. That is not what I said I wanted to do.’”
The actress explained how her speaking out upset certain individuals, “Certain people got upset because this held up production, but that was the verbal agreement of what I was and was not comfortable doing.”
After complaining, the actress revealed that changes were made to her following script. “So, I got a long three page speech the next day of added pages in my script.” Tylo was critical of the pages sharing, “I know that the writers are good when they want to write a really good speech, but this speech was so difficult. Nobody could have memorized it.”
The actress brought this to Bell’s attention saying, “It was it was insanely juvenile. I was trying to fix it, I called Brad and he was at […] a cocktail party. I said, “Brad, I can’t say this. Did you read this? Did you read this three-page dialogue?” He’s going, “Yeah, yeah, hey, just fix it. Do whatever you want to do. Just go ahead, we’ll deal with it tomorrow. Don’t worry.”
Tylo explained that she wasn’t that reassured by Bells words saying, “I was worried, because as a performer you got to memorize three pages of a script with strong story points in it, that are worded so strangely, that I just was like panicking.”
She didn’t give up, explaining how she stayed up making changes and trying to get the scenes to work for her, sharing “I stayed up almost all night working on it. Then that morning when I got there, the directors are still going by the old script. I’m like, “Didn’t you guys get the pages I emailed?”
“So it was so uncomfortable. It got to Katherine, who was a little frustrated and they were wanting us to argue again. She was trying to find some way to make the scene work, but she kept grabbing my face and squishing it. I’m like, well, we’ve never done that before. If it’s in the script, that’s one thing, but what’s going on? I don’t know if that’s a new level of something they do kind of like making it a reality show where somebody unexpectedly out of not in the script grabs your face. But I thought wait a second, you know, because I’m not going to be abused here.”
The actress explained she didn’t think Lang was trying to physically “abuse” her, rather help get her to a certain place as an actor, but she didn’t appreciate the way that it was done. Sharing, “I don’t think she was trying to do that. I’m not saying she was. I’m trying to say as an actress, I think she was trying to find a way to make this scene work that everybody was freaking out over what a nightmare it was becoming.”
Things continue to escalate then reaffirmed for the actress that she was making the right decision walking away. Tylo said, “So she’d been poking me in the chest, I said, ‘That’s fine, but don’t please don’t do it real hard.'” She continued, “but that was when I said, ‘I don’t like where this is going because nobody stepped up to try to stop it.’ Nobody in the control booth tried to stop it. Even though they saw it wasn’t in the script, nobody was protecting me and I was just like, why am I staying here? Why would I do this? Why would I do this anymore?”
Parade reached out for a comment from the show, but has not heard back.
The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS and streams weeknights on Paramount+. Classic episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful, including episodes with Tylo’s portrayal of Taylor Hayes are available on the series official YouTube channel.
Hunter Tylo Breaks Silence on Dramatic Final Days at ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ first appeared on Parade on Aug 15, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 15, 2025, where it first appeared.