Bold and the Beautiful: Dylan’s Mom Arrives – Kelly Sullivan Lands Darcy Role!

The Bold and the Beautiful announces some really exciting casting news. If you have not heard, we’re about to meet Melissa Dylan‘s (Sydney Bullock) mom, Darcy Dylan (Kelly Sullivan). And Bold got a great actress to play the role, soap veteran Kelly Sullivan. And it definitely sounds like Dylan needs her mom since Katie Logan (Heather Tom) is going after Dylan so hard.

Now, we don’t know much about Dylan’s backstory before LA, so this should be pretty interesting. We are going to talk about where you might have seen Kelly Sullivan on another CBS soap and what brings Dylan’s mom to town.

Bold and the Beautiful: Kelly Sullivan’s Soap History

So, we just found out the news that B&B hired the incredible Kelly Sullivan as Dylan’s mom, Darcy. If you also watched General Hospital, you might recall Kelly Sullivan was on there from 2011 to 2014. She played Connie Falconeri and dated notorious mobster Sonny Corinthos.

Connie had mental health issues. She had dissociative identity disorder. She also went by the name Kate Howard. And she wound up getting killed off by Ava Jerome (Maura West) before she could expose a mob plot. And then after General Hospital killed off her character Connie, then she swapped soaps.

So, Kelly Sullivan was next over on The Bold and the Beautiful’s sister soap Young and the Restless from 2014 to 2016. And on there she played Sage Warner who had a really brief fling with Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) and got pregnant and that was back when the character was played by actor Justin Hartley. So, Sage got pregnant by Adam but was more deeply involved in a romance with his brother Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow).

Darcy’s Fate on B&B

And of course you know Nick actor Josh Morrow is the dad of Will Spencer actor Crew Morrow. So, it’s interesting that Kelly Sullivan’s going to be playing opposite the son when in the past she played opposite the father. So, that’s going to be really cool when she steps into her role as Darcy Dylan on Bold.

But unfortunately, Young and the Restless also killed off Kelly Sullivan’s character. She died in a car crash. But her son Christian Newman is supposedly still on Y&R, although we’ve not seen the kid since he was a toddler, and he only gets those off-screen mentions. So, let’s hope B&B isn’t bringing Kelly Sullivan in to kill her off like the other two soaps did. She earned daytime Emmy nominations for outstanding supporting actress for both General Hospital and Young and the Restless in 2014 and 2017, respectively.

So, if you haven’t seen her before, I think you guys will really like her. And Kelly began taping her scenes as Darcy Dylan this past Tuesday, August 4th. We’re going to see Kelly Sullivan’s B&B debut as Darcy on Thursday, August 27th. And this is good timing because Dylan could really use her mom right now because Katie Logan is coming down really hard on Dylan for wanting to be with Will.

The Bold and Beautiful: Darcy Arrives to Defend Dylan

And again, this is kind of out of character stuff with Katie being so vicious to this girl Dylan that she really knows nothing about, when Katie seems fine with Electra Forester (Laneya Grace), who has been so horrible to Will and has dumped him over and over, has judged him and Electra has never shown him any loyalty.

But Katie is convinced that Dylan is just social climbing by taking an interest in Will. And Electra has already decided Dylan’s a gold digger. But I thought she was very respectful to Katie and very honest. But honestly, at this point, Katie’s acting like a Forrester the way she’s talking to Dylan.

So, I’m very excited to see her mom, Darcy, show up in LA to defend her daughter. And we’re going to talk about what we might see once Dylan’s mama shows up on the bold scene later this month. First of all, I bet that Darcy’s daughter will tell her that Katie has been accusing her of lying and having an agenda and gold digging just because she was a fan of their magazine when she was growing up.

Bold and the Beautiful: Katie’s Mind Made Up

And of course, Katie said that Dylan’s trying to latch onto Will’s wealthy family. But as far as I can see, Dylan is a good girl who was probably raised right, and Katie’s not really being fair. So, Darcy may lay into Katie. From the second she saw Dylan at Will’s place and realized who she was, Katie has been convinced that Dylan is only interested in Will because she’s social climbing.

Also, Katie’s been really nasty calling her by her name over and over like it’s some kind of curse word. Lots of people go by different names. The good news is Will, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont), and Wyatt Spencer (Darin Brooks) all seem pro-Dylan. So, maybe they’ll push back on Katie. And then I expect Dylan’s mom, Darcy, to really push back on Katie and especially if she sees her coming in hot at Dylan in front of her.

Darcy in the Dark on B&B

Another thing that I’m interested to see is Darcy’s reaction to finding out that Dylan was homeless and that her daughter was living in her car and then living over Will’s garage before she landed the job at Forrester and the job at Bikini.

And with two jobs, she’s paying her own bills. I’m sure that Darcy doesn’t know that Dylan was homeless or she’d have told her kid to come home or Darcy might have sent money to her. But we know Dylan’s a hard worker who wants to pay her own way.

Also, Darcy, you know, may not know that Dylan was tied up and held hostage by Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) at gunpoint. So, I also wonder if Darcy knows that her daughter Dylan ran over and killed Luna. There may be some serious catching up that Dylan needs to do with her mom, Darcy.

And also, I expect Dylan might tell Darcy the awful thing Remy Pryce (Christian Weissmann) did to Electra with the deep fake nudes. Because Remy is Darcy’s nephew, she might ask Dylan about him and be totally shocked to hear what happened.

And I’m sure that Dylan’s also going to have to explain to her mom about her complicated dynamic with her ex-best friend, Electra. She told Dylan, of course, that she couldn’t date Will. But Dylan decided to pursue him anyway. And Will’s not going to listen to his mom, Katie. He already said he plans to keep seeing Dylan.

The Bold and the Beautiful: Darcy Meets the Spencers

And in fact, between now and when her mom Darcy shows up, Dylan and Will are going to get intimate. So by the time Darcy comes to LA, she will likely be meeting Will as Dylan’s love interest. And his mom, Katie, of course, as the overbearing person who’s talking nasty about her daughter.

I am looking forward to a showdown if Katie actually has the nerve to talk smack about Dylan right in front of her mom, Darcy. So, this week when Katie was blathering about how Electra is lovely and poised and basically better than Dylan, I was rolling my eyes. Electra is a brat who broke Will’s heart.

Also, speaking of Electra, I think Darcy might have some things to say to Electra for the way that she has treated Dylan because for a while now she has been bullying her, making unreasonable and unfair ultimatums. And aside from the verbal conflicts that Electra’s done to Dylan, we all saw Electra slap her. That was really wrong. I’d like to see Dylan report it to HR at Forrester Creations.

Forrester Creations Toxicity on Bold and Beautiful

Except I’m guessing they don’t have HR because there’s all kinds of nonsense that goes on there. It’s that toxic culture thing that’s now becoming public knowledge. I’m sure that Darcy is not going to be a fan of Electra at all. And I would also expect that Darcy will meet Bill Spencer and the rest of the family once she gets to LA and finds out, you know, that Dylan is seeing Will.

I do expect that Bill and Wyatt should be welcoming and Will should be too. But Katie might continue to be judgmental about Dylan without even getting to know the girl at all. I could see Katie telling Darcy, “You need to take Dylan and leave. Go back where you came from.” It could be really contentious. But what I can say is I’m super excited Dylan’s mom is coming to B&B and I’m thrilled that they cast Kelly Sullivan and I think y’all are going to love her.