Well, no one bats a thousand, and Rea had a lot more hits than misses. Variety, at the time of her death, credited her as casting director at GL from '70-'96, and ATWT simultaneously from '79-'83. That's a lot of talent found.
Are you asking if there ever was a Ross/Van/Billy triangle? The answer is no. Billy kind of questions what Van's feelings about Ross are after he finds out about Dinah, but he leaves town and he and Van divorce before Ross and Vanessa start back up in '87. When Van comes back in '89, she chases Ross while Billy flirts with her, but she gets pulled back into Billy's life via the Dylan revelation. And Ross doesn't really show a lot of interest in Van, as he's (mostly) got his sights on Holly. At least from what I've seen of what's available. Nadine does assert that Ross has lost interest in sleeping with her since Vanessa returned, but (and it's hard to gauge) Ross never seemed overly committed to pursuing Nadine. It seems like they were kind of just thrown together because Ross didn't have a woman at the time.
After that, it's pretty clear that Van and Billy are always each other's "someone". And that Ross is serious about Holly and later Blake.
I think it would've been easy to write a Billy/Van/Ross triangle, with both men having an equal footing in Vanessa's life.
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