Hunter Tylo shed further light on her decision to leave “The Bold and The Beautiful” in an interview with French magazine Télé Star in 2013. Explaining that her contract was up, Tylo said that the show hasn’t been the same ever since Ron Moss and Susan Flannery — two central stars on “B&B” — quit their roles. Moss, who played Tylo’s love interest, shocked viewers when he departed the soap in 2012 after 25 years as Ridge Forrester. Not two weeks after his departure, Flannery, who played the iconic matriarch Stephanie Forrester, followed suit. Initially, Tylo said she was delighted by Flannery’s exit as “this put Taylor in a position as kind of a new matriarch, sort of taking Stephanie’s place.” She then trailed off, saying, “But then Brad Bell, the producer, chose to orient the series to Brooke’s family, so…”
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As longtime fans may recall, it wasn’t the first time that Tylo had to make the difficult decision to walk away from “B&B.” In 2002, the actor also left the show in order to look after one of her children who has retinal cancer, as reported by IOL. Katya, her daughter with late actor Michael Tylo, was diagnosed with retinoblastoma shortly after she was born in 1998. “She was not a wonderful baby,” Tylo recalled to CNN in 2003. “She was crying. She was showing signs of something that was painful.” Katya ended up having surgery to remove her cancerous right eye when she was just 3 months old. Fortunately, she was later declared to be cancer-free after undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy.
