Devin weighs in on Ridge's recast in her own blog:

http://devronnsblog.com/2013/12/21/what-has-happened-to-our-soaps/

Devin Devasquez says:

December 21, 2013 at 6:19 pm

I didn’t know Billy left must have been the same reason why Ronn did. Ronn was asked to take a ridiculous insulting paycut and was willing to take a pay cut btw, but not that ridiculous. So Bell had options back then and made his choices and Ronn made his. You guys are sure quick to bash Ronn’s acting when he created that role and did it for 25 years and has a tremendous worldwide fan base. Ronn had to make stupid storylines believable like digging up his wife from the dead. Emmys are political and have nothing to do with anything. KKL hasn’t won one and deserves to.

Edited December 21, 201311 yr by Hotness

So he was offered a huge paycut. So what, Ridge had become so useless on the show. And that was also due to RM not caring about Ridge for an extremely long time IMHO.

Now I know why HT clocked that beeyotch.

There has been so much craziness in the soap world lately.

Bitch needs to have several seats

Boo boo poor Ronn he had to take a pay cut waaahhhh

Devin weighs in on Ridge's recast in her own blog:

http://devronnsblog.com/2013/12/21/what-has-happened-to-our-soaps/

RS & ES took 50% plus paycuts when OLTL was at ABC the last few years. Its happening all over. Devin needs to STFU your husband cant act and hasnt learned to in 25 plus years. You should be greatful he had the job that long

So he was offered a huge paycut. So what, Ridge had become so useless on the show. And that was also due to RM not caring about Ridge for an extremely long time IMHO.

And again, the numbers show that what was asked of Moss wasn't that off the mark!

I'm certainly not surprised that someone would be outraged at a huge paycut when they've been at a job for 25+ years (especially people as dramatic as actors are). I'm prepared to at the very least understand the notion that a pay cut might be just too big.

At that point, you decide/weigh your options. If you don't like what the show can offer and are positively morally outraged, then fine. Walk. Which he did.

But I don't see why his wife is bitching about it. In the end, it was Ronn's decision. And, according to Tylo, Flannery walked for the same reason.

RS & ES took 50% plus paycuts when OLTL was at ABC the last few years. Its happening all over. Devin needs to STFU your husband cant act and hasnt learned to in 25 plus years. You should be greatful he had the job that long

AMEN!

And again, the numbers show that what was asked of Moss wasn't that off the mark!

What are those numbers?

What are those numbers?

The ratings! RM stopped being an asset long ago.

The ratings! RM stopped being an asset long ago.

I thought salary number had been made public

You're right, ratings weren't affected at all

Got to say I don't miss RM at all, loving TK as nuRidge

The thing is B&B makes money internationally and if things got better for the show financially he would have been screwed long term as I doubt that Brad would have increase his salary again if things got better (this is different than OLTL which didn't have such a revenue stream.) With prime time television, sometimes as a concession to save money they'll give actors a percentage of profits and a lower salary. That would have been something B&B could have contemplated perhaps...

Bell has slowly made the veteran characters supporting while building up the next generation, which is what a soap needs to do for long term survival.

However, IMO the ratings have sustained and/or risen for all the remaining soaps because there are just less shows to watch. The remaining audience of those cancelled shows have chosen one of the remaining shows to watch, and I'm not sure it entirely has to do with the quality of any of them.