‘B&B’s Hunter Tylo Reveals Storyline She Refused in Rare Appearance 6 Years After Exiting Soap
Bold and the Beautiful alum Hunter Tylo, who played the original Taylor Hayes on the long-running soap, has opened up about her time on the show in a rare interview, revealing a storyline she once turned down.
Tylo has kept a low profile since her last appearance on the daytime drama series, which came in 2019. However, she recently appeared on the Unexpected Cosmology YouTube Channel, where she admitted to once threatening to walk off set after a scene in the script hit a little too close to home.
“I don’t think people understand what they’re getting into by wanting to be an actor or an actress,” she said, per MichaelFairmanTV. “I have, in the past, temperamentally walked off of a set. I have refused to say things or do things because either they didn’t jive with what I believe in, or I could just see how flat-out wrong it was.”
The All My Children actress went on to share how she lost her son, Mickey, in October 2007. Mickey died at 19 years old when he suffered an epileptic fit and fell into their home swimming pool. When Tylo’s onscreen daughter Phoebe (MacKenzie Mauzy) died in a car crash in a December 2008 episode, the similarities became too much to handle.
“They [the writers] will start taking your real life, and then they’ll write it into the story. So, you get to live it twice,” Tylo stated before opening up about her son’s tragic passing.
“The next thing I know in the script, one of my daughters dies. She gets hit and killed in a car wreck,” she continued. “I’m like, ‘What? I can’t do that. I can’t do this!’ This only happened like three weeks ago or two or whatever, however long it was. I don’t know.”
Tylo added that she started to turn up later and later to set, explaining, “My body was saying, ‘Don’t do this. Do not relive this because you’re going to have to use real life to get the tears to flow. You’re going to have a meltdown or something.'”
“There were a lot of people talking who were bad mouthing me… ‘Look at her. She’s late to the set all the time. Look at her. She’s just acting like a drama queen,'” the Days of Our Lives alum recalled.
Tylo revealed how there was one scene in particular that she refused to do. “They wrote a scene where I’m supposed to go to the morgue to identify my daughter, which everybody knows what a parent would really have to do. I did have to go through that,” she shared.
“And they wanted me to reenact it, live it, and do this whole thing of grieving and holding her body and her toes and her hands, and kissing their head like you do,” Tylo continued. “I wasn’t going to do that. I said, ‘I don’t care. Fire me. Goodbye. This ain’t happening. I mean, it’s not for sale. My pain is not for sale, okay?'”
Sharing her advice for those thinking about a career in acting, Tylo warned, “It’s not all roses. It’s not all flashy cars and limos and gowns and red carpets and lights are flashing and everybody loves you. It’s not. Sometimes people hate your guts and sometimes you’re doing stuff that is extremely traumatizing to yourself. So that’s my two cents.”
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Mrs Tylo sorry for the pain they wanted you to relive…not fair! But just to let you know I’ve been a faithful watcher of B&B since it started. And you have been the best “Taylor” And I have seen them all. I hate that you couldn’t continue your role. You definitely were the one that looked like Steffy real mom! 👍
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I know...RIGHT??-They are almost TWINS!-We pray things will change in a weird turn of events; where Hunter Tylo may reprise the role someday again as the original and BEST Taylor!!
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I understand you and your pain Miss tylo you deserve full respect not everyone on this earth that you will deserve their respect just hang in there,pray,and stay strong 💪 💪🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️never give up
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I miss you as Taylor. I get why you left. So sorry for every hateful thing said to you.
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But that's not the actual reason she left the B&B 'SOAP' most RECENTLY!
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Omg that is traumatic. So sad that in order to feed your self and family , you have to be a yes man .
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So sorry for the pain you went through withe the loss of your son. I lost my only child (son) 6 mos ago. I can certainly understand that you couldn't do the part. I feel your pain.
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🙏🏻😭prayers
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Ty
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Sorry for your lost I aways wondering what happened to Taylor on the bold and beautiful you where very pretty playing the doc
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You were so classy. Loved you...
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You do you . Lost two children is very painful it takes time sometimes off and on for years. Be strong.
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Sorry for your losses.
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Yeah HT well resembles Steffy
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I'm sorry for your loss, and I agree you shouldn't have to go through the trauma. No show is worth that. You were good on all of the soaps.you didn't deserve such treatment.
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I'm so happy you came back to let us know what really happened.
I stopped watching.... I only hear about it...
Loved you Taylor on the Bold and the Beautiful...I'm so sorry what happened to you son.... 💕
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You were the most beautiful and talented Taylor... The new one sux...She's built like a skinny teenage boy and is not a good actress... How the writers think that us viewers would believe that Ridge would not be able to choose between Brooke and the new Taylor is beyond me... When you played Taylor it made it a hard choice because you and Brooke were both beautiful and voluptuous, but like I said, this new Taylor sux...There is nothing voluptuous , or beautiful about her... I was really hoping the rumors were true and you were coming back....
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I am sorry 😔 for your loss and you have to do what's best for you I think that was so low and sad for what the writers did but you were strong enough not to let them exploit or use your pain for their gain I wish you well and continued strength and healing and success 💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹
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As a mother who lost her 25 year old daughter, I would not be able, to this very day do that for them or anyone! Their heads only worry about the bottom dollar. SHAME on them. I am still watching and they are getting as bad as GH about dragging things out and same story lines over & over. Li keeping Luna alive just like she did Finn. It even looks like the same room! How STUPID!! DO BETTER B&B!
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I agree!! 🙏 💕
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Shame on you!
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Diva comes to mind
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Shame on you! If you have nothing good to say, then don't day anything at all.
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DIVA? I HOPE you never feel the pain of loosing a child! They don’t event have a word for it!!
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