{"id":494188,"date":"2026-02-27T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:27:11","slug":"lisa-rinna-names-biggest-bully-in-hollywood-actor-who-made-her-life-living-hell-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494188\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna names \u2018biggest bully in Hollywood\u2019 actor who made her life \u2018living hell\u2019 on set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisa Rinna makes some shocking claims about one of her Days of Our Lives co-stars in her new memoir, You Better Believe I\u2019m Gonna Talk About It.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the book, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star<\/a>, 62, writes about her time working on the 1990s soap opera and singles out the one co-star she claims made her life \u201ca living hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rinna<\/a>, who played Billie Reed, recalled receiving the Newcomer of the Year award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards and thanking her on-screen love interest, Robert Kelker-Kelly, \u201ceven though behind the scenes we hated each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very fine line between love and hate, and our disgust for each other made for fiery chemistry on-screen,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

After mentioning the infamous RHOBH moment when her co-star Kathy Hilton <\/a>deemed Rinna the \u201cbiggest bully in Hollywood,\u201d the actor continued, \u201cI\u2019ve been working in showbiz since I was 24 years old, and I have legit stories about the real bullies in this town. Robert Kelker-Kelly was one of those bullies.<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/p>\n

Lisa Rinna and Robert Kelker-Kelly played love interests on \u2018Days of Our Lives\u2019 in the 1990s (Peacock)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was horrible to me, and I\u2019d go so far as to say verbally abusive. He was passive-aggressive and manipulative and played weird mind games,\u201d she alleged of Kelker-Kelly, who played Bo Brady<\/a>. \u201cIt was the craziest s*** I\u2019ve ever experienced with a costar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelker-Kelly did not have an immediately available representative for comment.<\/p>\n

Rinna recalled having to film love scenes with Kelker-Kelly while \u201chalf naked\u201d and claimed she was given the \u201csilent treatment\u201d by her co-star \u201cif I didn\u2019t do what he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy theory is he was attracted to me, and when I wasn\u2019t available to him, it made him snap. He was a ticking time bomb,\u201d Rinna continued. \u201cI never knew when I arrived on set each morning if I\u2019d get nice Robert Kelker-Kelly or dark Robert Kelker-Kelly. He was unpredictable, and it was exhausting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regret that I never stood up to Robert because I was too young, and I was not willing to make waves at my new awesome job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rinna also claimed that she wasn\u2019t the only cast member on Days of Our Lives<\/a> to struggle with Kelker-Kelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly one day he disappeared from the Days set and next thing I knew Kristian [Alfonso] and I had our own full-time security detail,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI wasn\u2019t worried about physical harm but NBC had to cover their ass. We had rent-a-cops parked outside our houses and trailers for three weeks and were driven to and from work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lisa<\/p>\n

Lisa Rinna has revealed the celebrity she believes is the ‘biggest bully in Hollywood’ (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted NBC for comment.<\/p>\n

Both Rinna and Kelker-Kelly left the soap in 1995, though Rinna has returned on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Kelker-Kelly was replaced by Peter Reckell, who previously played Bo Brady, on Days of Our Lives. He later appeared on Another World and Port Charles. His last appearance listed on IMDB is General Hospital in 2014.<\/p>\n

Rinna previously addressed her relationship with Kelker-Kelly, telling Bravo<\/a> in 2015: \u201cI hated Robert Kelker-Kelly, hated him with a passion. He hated me with a passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a volatile combination, and it looked like love and sexual chemistry on camera, so that was some darn good acting right there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna makes some shocking claims about one of her Days of Our Lives co-stars in her new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,592,88,226281,590,226280],"class_list":{"0":"post-494188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-days-of-our-lives","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kelker-kelly","12":"tag-lisa-rinna","13":"tag-robert-kelker-kelly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}