Hello my darlings! Long time no see ❤️

TV Guide May 27 1995

It had to happen sooner or later. Still, we couldn't b be more bummed to report that daytime's best and most popular villainess—Kimberlin Brown of The Bold and the Beautiful—will be written off the show in early June. The actress, who began playing naughty Nurse Sheila —on The Young and the Restless in 1990 and then took the character to B&B in 92, is pretty bummed about it, too.

"What saddens me about [B&B's decision] is that I always thought Sheila would go out with a big bang,” says Brown. "There's not going to be a trial or anything. No final showdown with [archfoe] Lauren Fenmore. No one is ever going to know why she's the way she is." You name it, Sheila’s done it—kidnapping, baby-switching, arson, torture, man-rape. She even “accidentally” pushed her shrink off a penthouse balcony (hey, it happens).

Sheila had become so irredeemable, in fact, that Brown (whose contract wasn't due to expire until late July) says, “I tried to start negotiations way last fall to see what my future was going to be.Talks went back and forth for a while, and then I never heard anything more from anybody-until they told me I was done.They said they needed to take a 'Sheila break'.

Did Brown’s widely reported feud with costar Hunter Tylo (Taylor) trigger the termination? She doesn't think so: "Hunter and I may have had our personal problems, but they didn't infringe on the workplace at all. We were very grown-up about the whole thing and just avoided each other." Adds the star philosophically, "I would have been very happy to negotiate—or at least to try to negotiate. But sometimes you need to be pushed away before you take steps in another direction. I don't look at this as a bad thing at all. I'm not crying or losing sleep. It's time to stretch my wings and see where they take me."

Bradley brought Sheila back because B&B started tanking after Sheila's goodbye party. Sheila was played out by the end of her second run and she then became Bradley's "break glass in case of emergency" character.

Edited Friday at 11:08 PM2 days by kalbir

36 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Bradley brought Sheila back because B&B started tanking after Sheila's goodbye party. Sheila was played out by the end of her second run and she then became Bradley's "break glass in case of emergency" character.

Love Sheia, but she quickly became a cartoon after 1998. Her 2002 story was OK, so was her 2005 run on Y&R. Everything after that has been pretty stupid/meh.

Again, I think Sheila's best plots were on Y&R(minus Phyliss look alike) but she had character development on B&B.

It would be nice if they could send Sheila over to Y&R for a few months to mix things up, but I doubt the writing team is capable of making that interesting.

Who knows, the Cameron Kirsten return was lightly riveting, so they might do Sheila some justice.

10 minutes ago, Khan said:

I wonder if Bill Bell's Alzheimer's diagnosis, which likely occurred at some point during the late '90's, is what put the kibosh on his proposed new soap, as well as on expanding B&B to one hour.

Bill Bell stepped down from B&B in 1993 and he passed away in 2005, so it's possible his health issues began around 1994 or 1995.

It's funny to think KB didn't think she went out with a big bang with that Goodbye Party! She'd have the last laugh being back just a few months later.

I’ve now reached March 2001, with the Rick/Amber/Deacon triangle and Morgan holding Taylor & Steffy captive.

I still enjoy these storylines on this revisit, but I have to say I notice some irritating writing problems, like how Carmen got killed off too soon despite having a lot of storyline potential, or the sheer lack of believability of how Morgan arranges Steffy’s fake death. I also dislike how the show has sidelined the Spectras, what with Macy having died and Adam/Kimberly/CJ having been written out. Looking at IMDB, Darlene Conley is absent for 6 weeks around this era; Does anyone know whether there were behind-the-scenes issues involved?

I thought 1999 (and some of late 1998) was a phenomenal year by Brad Bell’s standards, but parts of 2000—and what I’ve now revisited of 2001—have not held up quite as well as I hoped. They’re enjoyable nonsense on the level of 1996 and 1997, or perhaps a tiny bit better due to the ongoing Little Eric custody plotline and the freshness of Throoke. But 2000 nonetheless has some issues, such as the sudden exit of Adam, the way the storyline about Becky’s illness ends up being more about Amber than her, or the poorly defined motivations of Morgan when she initially comes on board.

Also, the recasting of Rick eviscerated the romance between him and Kimberly; I found myself getting very emotionally involved with their romance during late 1998 and 1999, how they can’t be together due to Rick having a child with Amber and all that, but Justin Torkildsen just didn’t have the same screen chemistry with Kimberly’s actress as Jacob Young did. The result is that their storyline kind of fizzled out after Rick left Amber to be with her. However, I do think Torkildsen is an overall successful recast in the sense of feeling like the same character as Young’s.

All that being said, the late months of 2000—with the CJ/Amber/Rick triangle, Deacon’s introduction, and Morgan attacking Clarke and getting her secrets revealed—was very strong. Ridge confessing to Taylor that he slept with Morgan was just as nail-biting as I remembered it being. Kimberly’s U-turn into a seductress competing with Brooke for Thorne was probably the weakest link in terms of writing, but on the flipside, very fun.

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