B&B Stars Look Back On Their Classic Digest Covers

Don Diamont (Bill; ex-Brad, Y&R) 7/1/86, with Beth Maitland (Traci, Y&R) “My memories of that time, and you’ve heard me say this before, was certainly the privilege of work- ing with Beth [Maitland, Traci]. For somebody as green as I was, that was really to my benefit and she is such a wonderful person, so I was fortunate in both of those regards. The storyline proved quite popular. I do believe that was my first Digest cover, so that was really validating of the story and how well we worked together. It was very exciting, as it is now to put yourself back in that time. And it was a big deal. Both of us were really thrilled about it. Back in the Stone Age and the invention of the wheel. I just remember my mom and dad were over the moon about it.”

John McCook (Eric, far l.) 8/21/90, with Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) and Ronn Moss (ex-Ridge) “My first thought when I saw this cover was, ‘My God, look how long ago that was,’ and I mean that. It’s stunning to realize we’ve been on the air as long as we have and that very early on, we became mainstream soap opera news. I’m just lucky Kelly and I and Ronn Moss are blessed with wonderful genes from our families. There’s lots to do with working out and riding bicycles and doing all of these athletic competitions as it does with plain old good genes, I give my parents credit for that.”

Heather Tom (Katie; ex-Victoria, Y&R) 3/1/94, with Eric Braeden (Victor, far r.) and J. Eddie Peck (ex-Cole) “Back in those days they went all out for the photo shoots, it was like a whole thing, and getting a cover was a really big deal. Don’t get me wrong, it still is a big deal, but they used to do individual photo shoots for every cover and now they use photos from the studio so to do a separate thing nowadays, you don’t really do a lot of that. But back then, you did and it was always really fun. I remember that [controversy of whether they were brother and sister] well, and I remember the scene we shot with Victoria when she found out that they thought they were and later, clearly, they found out that they weren’t ... but they had rain on the set, she ran out of the tack house into the rain outside, which of course wasn’t really outside, and they’re in the rain, and the fact that they made it rain on the set was pretty great.”

Jennifer Gareis (Donna; ex-Grace, Y&R, near l.) 10/20/98, with Sharon Case (Sharon) and Joshua Morrow (Nick) “It is definitely a fond memory! It was soon after I moved to L.A. and I was so grateful to meet Sharon Case, one of my very first friends here. I was so fortunate to play this storyline which [former Head Writer] Bill Bell called his ‘baby’. It was pretty cool to walk through the grocery lines and see the cover! I would always get a few copies so I could show my folks. I remember this one being one of my favorites!”