After more than two decades on The Bold and the Beautiful, Ronn Moss is leaving the CBS soap where he’s played fashion magnate Ridge Forrester since the show’s 1987 inception, EW has learned.
The exact details are unclear, but an insider tells EW that Moss elected not to renew his contract over salary issues.
Production company Bell Phillip Television confirmed the exit. “Ronn has spent an amazing 25 years with B&B,” a rep for Bell Phillip said in a statement. “We will always consider him family, and we wish him only the best in all of his future endeavors.”
Moss was one of the “core four”, referring to the foursome of original actors still on the show.
Those include Susan Flannery as Stephanie Forrester, John McCook as Eric Forrester, and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan.
Moss will shoot his final scenes for The Bold and the Beautiful this Tuesday, Aug. 14, and his last episode will air on a yet-to-be-determined date in September.
Times have been tough for the genre lately, just four soaps — Bold, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital — remain.
Moss’ pay issue undoubtedly goes back to the stark reality that, as the daytime ad market has become much more competitive and now favors talk shows over dramas, these shows do not command the same big licensing fees that they once did. Last year, Bold was the biggest soap internationally, with 26.2 million viewers.
That huge international audience has made Moss a star around the world, exemplified by his second-place finish on Italy’s version of Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
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The exact details are unclear, but an insider tells EW that Moss elected not to renew his contract over salary issues.
Production company Bell Phillip Television confirmed the exit. “Ronn has spent an amazing 25 years with B&B,” a rep for Bell Phillip said in a statement. “We will always consider him family, and we wish him only the best in all of his future endeavors.”
Moss was one of the “core four”, referring to the foursome of original actors still on the show.
Those include Susan Flannery as Stephanie Forrester, John McCook as Eric Forrester, and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan.
Moss will shoot his final scenes for The Bold and the Beautiful this Tuesday, Aug. 14, and his last episode will air on a yet-to-be-determined date in September.
Times have been tough for the genre lately, just four soaps — Bold, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital — remain.
Moss’ pay issue undoubtedly goes back to the stark reality that, as the daytime ad market has become much more competitive and now favors talk shows over dramas, these shows do not command the same big licensing fees that they once did. Last year, Bold was the biggest soap internationally, with 26.2 million viewers.
That huge international audience has made Moss a star around the world, exemplified by his second-place finish on Italy’s version of Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
