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"Sounds like #BOLDANDBEAUTIFUL is recasting Ridge: HARPER 40 Handsome Upscale Businessman Refined/rich At least 5’11” Contract Names only"

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40! WTF?!

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Honestly, Ridge can't possibly stay gone for long. Either RM will return or they will recast, but it's gonna happen either way. Knowing this show, they might recast and then dump him when Moss decides he needs the work lol

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Honestly, Ridge can't possibly stay gone for long. Either RM will return or they will recast, but it's gonna happen either way. Knowing this show, they might recast and then dump him when Moss decides he needs the work lol

Which would be totally unnecessary because the numbers prove Moss was no loss to the show. And let's face it, no matter who they hire, the person is going to be a better actor than RM. Gather 50 men, blindfold yourself and throw a dart and you are going to hit someone more talented than Moss! Hell, even Dreck Hogestyn is more talented (and I cringe as I write that).

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Gather 50 men, blindfold yourself and throw a dart and you are going to hit someone more talented than Moss!

Edited July 12, 201312 yr by dmarex

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But is this really gonna happen?

Edited July 12, 201312 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

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40 is too young for a Ridge recast. This is likely a brand new role. Possibly new man for Katie

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July 12, 201312 yr

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Definitely doesn't think it is Ridge. Way to young.

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But is this really gonna happen?

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You can't recast talent like that.

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To me Ridge is not recastable. Ridge IS Ronn Moss. Of course he's not an actor, but I think he never held himself on par with Susan Flannery or others. The role called for someone handsome and charming and he was all of those things IMO.

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That doesn't sound like a recast.

If Nellie Olsen says it, I don't believe it.

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July 12, 201312 yr

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given Nellie said John Stamos has been taping at Gh for awile, I don't believe much of what he says lol

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To me Ridge is not recastable. Ridge IS Ronn Moss. Of course he's not an actor, but I think he never held himself on par with Susan Flannery or others. The role called for someone handsome and charming and he was all of those things IMO.

THIS. I'd even quibble at the "charming" part because blowhard Ridge lost his charm long ago, but Ronn Moss I can get behind. He has never pretended that he is some great actor (side-eye to Maurice Benard), nor that he was cast for anything other than his looks. But he played Ridge as too smooth, too good-looking and infinitely fickle, and that is what the character was always about from Day One. IMO, unless he returns in the role, it just isn't Ridge. You can be f*cking brilliant Lane Davies (who subbed for Ronn Moss a couple of days back in 1992) and it still would not be Ridge.

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But is this really gonna happen?

Never. Gets. Old.

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40! WTF?!

in soapland/actorville 40 is 50. LOL

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