During summer 2025 on Y&R, Christel was pregnant, but her character Lily Winters wasn't. A lot of the characters were on a set supposedly on an estate in the French Riviera. There was a swimming pool on the estate -- pool wasn't shown but implied to be just out of camera range (long story, don't ask). Anyways, in these poolside scenes, everyone was in bathing suits on lawn chairs or sunning themselves on chaises longues. However, Lily was wearing a short kaftan in a flattering pattern/color -- that served as a "beach cover-up" in these scenes. To make it less glaring that she never showed much skin, the show did this: Whenever a group poolside scene included Lily, most of the other characters on the poolside set were wearing bathing suits with coverups, sarongs, Hawaiian shirts, etc. There were some poolside scenes without Lily that had the other women wearing only bathing suits.
They should all have been scantily clad -- but they had to hide her pregnancy, and this was what the show did to make her need for coverup blend in.
Currently, the character Hope on B&B has been covering up and even wearing coats in the summer, but actress Annika hasn't announced any pregnancy -- she's had a miscarriage in the past, so I would understand her privacy if she is. And maybe she's not pregnant, and just being modest, or has an illness, I don't know. So in recent scenes with Hope, B&B had Brooke wearing a coat, too. This was somewhat clumsy for the month of June in L.A, but I guess it's what B&B chose to do.
Back to GH: my point is, I agree with @carolineg that there should be some way to offset the contrast between Chase being shirtless and BLQ being heavily shrouded.
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