Before Bold and the Beautiful star Rena Sofar settled in with her current husband, she had
a few misadventures with some literal and figurative animals.
And hers isn't the only love story befitting a soap opera actor.
John McCook is like his Bold and the Beautiful character Eric Forrester in that he's not
afraid of getting hitched.
In real life, he's been married three times.
His current marriage to actress Laurette Spang began on February 16, 1980.
They have three kids together: Jake, Rebecca, and Molly, while McCook has another son named
Seth from a previous relationship.
In 2007, Soap Opera Digest asked him if it was love at first sight, to which he responded,
"Yeah, pretty much.
I had been through a marriage before.
Laurette had not, but we were both really ready to commit to this thing.
We came to a place where we thought we would be terrific together.
We decided to fall in love."
McCook also noted that his successful marriage is thanks to communication.
As he revealed,
"When our first big crisis started, we were going to talk about it and the first thing
that we said was, 'This is not the end of anything.
When we finish talking about this, we're going to be together and everything's going to be
fine, but now we're going to talk about this.'"
Lawrence Saint-Victor has played Carter Walton on The Bold and the Beautiful since 2013.
He met his partner Shay Flake while attending the Conservatory of Theater Arts and Film
at SUNY Purchase College.
On the cusp of their 2007 marriage, Saint-Victor spoke about his nuptials with Soap Opera Digest,
stating,
"I'm exhausted and frustrated.
It's great, but it's a lot!
Everything's down to the wire.
Let's just get this sucker over with and let's go party!"
Eleven years later, the couple welcomed their first child.
Saint-Victor appears to be nothing like Carter, who's been in multiple relationships and even
called off an engagement before heading to the altar.
In September 2021, the actor took to Instagram on his wedding anniversary to post a carousel
of photos of him and his wife, along with the caption,
"14 years ago today I married the LOVE of my life.
What a journey.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!"
Don Diamont plays the ruthless Bill Spencer Jr.
His character has had his fair share of drama and women, but when it comes to off-screen
romance, Diamont is focused on just one lady love.
He first crossed paths with the woman who would become his second wife, Cindy Ambuehl,
back in the 90s when she auditioned for The Young and the Restless.
They tied the knot in France in 2012, and now they're married with twin boys named Davis
and Anton, born in 2003.
Diamont also has four other sons from his first marriage.
The actor discussed his relationship with his wife in a 2018 interview with TV Insider,
gushing,
"Cindy has a tremendous goodness — she has an open, warm, loving heart.
There’s no 'quit' in her.
She can take on any challenge.
She is tenacious.
She’s 'Superwoman.'
Anyone who knows her knows that’s the truth."
"Do you like to go all out?"
"No, I go all out."
Rena Sofer, who plays Quinn Fuller on The Bold and the Beautiful, has fallen in and
out of real-life romances just as her character has throughout the years.
In 2003, she married TV director Sanford Bookstaver.
They had a daughter together named Avalon, but then they divorced in 2017.
However, they eventually found their way back to each other and remarried in 2019.
That year, she revealed to Soaps in Depth,
"There was never another person, so it was never that issue.
We just needed to figure it out [...] I tried to date, but I ended up just dating dogs more
than anything.
I mean literal dogs, although I did date some 'dogs,' too!"
In May 2021, Bookstaver celebrated their anniversary by sharing some photos on Instagram, along
with the caption,
"Happy Anniversary to the Love of My Life [...] You are my everything."
Sofer responded by commenting,
"Awww happy weird anniversary baby!!!
I love you!!!"
Katherine Kelly Lang is one of the longest-running cast members on The Bold and the Beautiful,
having played Brooke Logan as a series regular since the show began in 1987.
Her character has been married 21 times, but outside of the soap opera world, Lang has
walked down the aisle only twice.
In 1989, she wed her first husband, Skott Snider, but they divorced after six years.
Then in 1997, she married Alex D'Andrea, though they divorced in 2014.
But Lang would find love again soon after.
She met her boyfriend, Dom Zoida, back when he was hired to train CBS employees for a
triathlon.
In a 2020 interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Lang dished,
"I met the love of my life seven years ago and can't imagine my world without Dominique
Zoida.
To finally have a man come into my life who is completely right for me is something I
wasn't expecting.
We are best friends and love doing everything together."
Karla Mosley played Maya on The Bold and the Beautiful from 2013 to 2019.
Unlike her character, she keeps her own romantic life relatively private.
We can say that she's been happy with her partner, John Rogers, but since Mosley has
been tight-lipped, it's not publicly known how they met or how long they've been together.
She occasionally shares some photos of her family, including Rogers, her young daughter
Aurora, and their new bundle of joy.
On July 18, 2021, the couple welcomed their first child together, Willa Josephine.
Mosley took to Instagram to share the news, as she announced,
"Our sweet water babe, Willa Josephine [...] We are in awe of her and having a blast getting
to know her.
Thanks for blessing us, dear one."
Darin Brooks plays Wyatt Spencer on The Bold and the Beautiful, while his wife Kelly Kruger
has appeared on the show as Eva the publicist.
Brooks and Kruger met while filming the TV sitcom Blue Mountain State in 2010 and started
dating that same year.
Four years later, he popped the question while they were vacationing in France.
"Are we rolling?"
Fast-forward to 2022, and the pair, who married in 2016, are now parents to two daughters,
Everleigh Jolie and Gemma Wynter.
In a 2022 interview with People Magazine, Brooks shared that he and his wife didn't
want their older daughter to be an only child.
As he put it,
"We always wanted a sibling for Everleigh because I have my older brother and Kelly
has an older brother and two stepsisters.
So we were so excited to be able to give Everleigh a sibling and when we found out it was a girl,
it was perfect because Everleigh is just so awesome, caring, strong, and such a personality."
Thorsten Kaye is a soap opera veteran.
In addition to portraying Ridge Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful, another career
highlight is his time as Patrick Thornhart on One Life to Live in the 90s.
It would appear that that was when he met his wife, Susan Haskell, who played Marty
Saybrooke on the same show.
Before making it official, it was speculated that these two had been in a long-term relationship
for quite some time.
When Soap Opera Digest asked Kaye in 2018 if he and Haskell were married, he responded,
"Well, it's funny you ask that because people always keep calling her my 'life partner,'
but Susan is my wife.
We were actually married.
I'm not a church guy, but we did a thing on the beach a while back.
I don't talk about it because I'm just a private guy."
So while we don't know exactly when these two tied the knot, we do at least know that
they're parents to two daughters, McKenna and Marlowe.
Heather Tom took over the role of Katie Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2007 after
Nancy Sloan left the series.
In her offscreen life, she was together with her now-husband James Achor for 15 years before
they announced their engagement in August 2011 and tied the knot the following month.
Fourteen months later, they welcomed their first child — a son named Zane.
Tom allowed her webmaster to reveal the news on her Facebook page, and then she released
an official announcement, in which she declared,
"James and I are very excited.
I'm due in October so there is a lot of planning going on right now."
During a 2013 interview with soap opera journalist Michael Fairman, Tom chatted about being a
new mother and how amazing her husband has been through it all.
As she gushed,
"He has been better than I would have ever dreamed.
I fall in love with him more and more every day, because he is so good with the baby,
and eager to be involved.
James is really hands on, and more so than I ever thought he would be.
It's awesome and great!"
"Do you see him following in Mama's footsteps?"
"Oh, gosh.
I don't know.
I'm hoping for like, surgeon, like, brain surgeon, you know."
Jennifer Gareis has played Donna Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful since 2006.
And since 2010, she's been married to her husband Bobby Ghassemieh.
Interestingly, her fans found out about their private wedding when she changed her relationship
status to "married" on her Facebook account.
She talked about her family in a 2018 interview with Soap Opera Digest, stating,
"I want to be happy myself, but my own little family to be happy, as well.
I want my kids to be fulfilled and happy and loved unconditionally — that's really it.
Being back on the show makes me feel really good.
I don't want to go anywhere else.
It fulfills me.
I feel so blessed that I have two happy, healthy kids, a wonderful husband, and now, a career
again."
Gareis and Ghassemieh have two kids together — a son named Gavin and a daughter named
Sophia.
In March 2022, they celebrated 12 years of marriage, and on their anniversary, she posted
a loving photo on Instagram, along with the caption:
"12 wonderful years of marriage today!
20 years we have been friends!
You are my one great love, my dear Bobby!!
I love you googolplex!"
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood plays Steffy Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful, and she reportedly
might also play Steffy's twin sister Phoebe in the future, despite the character's apparent
death in earlier episodes.
However, even if that storyline does come to fruition, it likely won't be anytime soon
because Wood and her husband, Elan Ruspoli, have been busy expanding their family.
After getting engaged in 2017, the couple decided to throw caution to the wind and elope
during Wood's summer break.
As she told Soap Opera Digest in 2018,
"It was very small and casual.
We can always do something bigger later, but we thought, 'We love each other, so why wait?'"
The couple have two sons, and in 2021, Wood announced that she was pregnant again.
That November, she told People Magazine,
"Elan and I dreamed of having a large family as we are both only children and are over
the moon that our dreams are coming true."
Aaron D. Spears joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful in 2009 as attorney Justin
Barber.
Over the years, he's appeared in a variety of other TV shows outside of the soap opera
world.
But more importantly, beyond work, he and his wife Estela are the parents of four daughters
and a son.
So clearly, he's got his hands full with both his busy career and his big family.
Spears admitted to Soap Opera Digest in 2017 that his acting career wouldn't be what it
is today without the help of his wife.
As he put it,
"You have to have someone that you trust at home with the foundation.
It makes my job a lot easier because sometimes when you leave, you literally don't know when
you're coming back.
Like the last gig I did?
I didn't get in for like 24 hours.
I was on a plane, and the kids were asking, 'When are you coming back?'
And I was like, 'I don't know.
I haven't filmed it yet.'
It's how I make my living, but you have to learn to adjust, and we've all done that together."
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