‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to Feature First Gay Male Couple in Soap’s Nearly 40-Year History’

The Bold and the Beautiful is venturing into new territory.

The CBS soap has cast Harrison Cone to be the love interest of Remy Pryce (Christian Weissmann), making them the first gay male couple in the show’s nearly 40-year history, PEOPLE confirmed.

Deadline was the first to report the news.

Though Cone’s character name is being kept under wraps due to him having a close with another character, the outlet said he’s an aspiring fashion designer and that he and Remy will kiss.

While this is a milestone for The Bold and the Beautiful, it isn’t the first LGBTQ representation on the sudser.

In 2012, the show featured its first lesbian couple with Karen Spencer (Joanna Johnson) and Danielle (Crystal Chappell).

And in 2015, Kara Mosley’s character Maya Avant came out as transgender and, later that same year, Scott Turner Schofield made history as the first transgender actor to appear in daytime television when he joined the cast as Nick.

Cone has appeared in television shows like Superstore, American Horror Stories, Hacks and the current season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, according to his IMDb page.

Weissman, best known for appearing in the Saved by the Bell reboot, joined The Bold and the Beautiful in 2024 and is nominated at this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Emerging Talent in a Drama Series category.

He’s up against The Bay’s Olivia d’Abo, Days of Our Lives’ AnnaLynne McCord and Ashley Puzemis, and his The Bold and the Beautiful castmate Lisa Yamada. Weissman will find out if he wins when the awards show takes place on Oct. 17.

While The Bold and the Beautiful is evolving by featuring its first gay male couple, executive producer Brad Bell recently teased how the soap will embrace its roots by embracing the fashion wars storyline once again.

“We are headed into an era of The Bold and the Beautiful — and it will begin here — that is going to be highlighting fashion much more than we have in the past, much more frequently,” Bell told PEOPLE and other outlets at a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the show’s first day of taping at Sunset Las Palmas Studios, it’s new home after 38 years at CBS Television City.

He hinted that the show will be “heading back to a two-battling fashion house way of storytelling like we did with the Spectras and the Forresters.”

“We’re getting back to fashion,” he declared. “We’re putting fashion into the forefront.”

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The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS (check local listings).