*Zob raises hand*
My grandparents were all French Canadian and I was a college French
major. I knew it would come in handy some day, lol! I just
translated the whole interview. Google Translator is a handy tool to
have but it yields some pretty funky stuff sometimes, lol. I think
it's because it can't detect nuances and idioms. Not only that, but
in this case I have a feeling that Hunter's interview was in English
and had been translated into French for that blog so translating it
back there was a lot of "data loss."
Anyway, this is the interview translation. It's actually pretty
interesting:
"Hunter Tylo, her frank interview:"
"Ronn, Moss and I flirted a lot"
"The tragic departure of Susan Flannery, Katherine Kelly-Lang's
ex-husband's violence and her <Tylo's> amorous history with Ronn Moss,
him also leaving the series... For the first time, Hunter Tylo reveals
all the hidden secrets behind the soap drama Love, Glory and Beauty
<the French name for Bold and the Beautiful> each morning on France 2
at 9:35 a.m. A revealing interview that is going to captivate you!"
T�l�
star.fr: "Why did you leave B&B in May 2013?"
Hunter Tylo: "My contract was up. The series completely changed
after Ronn Moss and Susan Flannery left. I was delighted that this
put Taylor in a position as kind of a new matriarch, sort of taking
Stephanie's place. But then Brad Bell, the producer, chose to orient
the series to Brooke's family so..."
T�l�
star.fr: "So, did the rivalry between Taylor and Brooke carry
over into real life with Katherine Kelly-Lang?"
Hunter Tylo: "Just once, many years ago. I was in my dressing room
and from the one next to it I heard her ex-husband completely crazed
with anger at a love scene that she had played. Things were thrown. I
had been afraid that he would hurt her and I called security.
Katherine blamed me because she was trying to save her marriage. But
today she is out of this situation and so much better.
All those years we often laughed at our characters' fights."
T�l�
star.fr: "What did you think of Susan Flannery leaving?"
Hunter Tylo: "She had told me that she wanted to leave because her
contract negotiations weren't going well. Frankly I thought it would
all work out. I couldn't see them letting Ronn and Susan go at the
same time! Same when Ronn left, I thought he would come back in a
month or two. But nobody came back. And Susan confided in me, "They
will not get me back. I asked them to kill off my character."
"My husband is jealous of Ronn Moss"
T�l�
star.fr: "What memories do you have of these fifteen years
working with Ronn Moss?"
Hunter Tylo: "There were some good times and others less so. I was
married to Michael (Tylo) and he was jealous of Ronn. This is the
norm when you play so many love scenes. These are always difficult
moments for the spouses. No matter what the actors say to reassure and
to assuage the reality, this is always a dilemma. So I did everything
to keep Ronn at arm's length during those years. I sensed the danger
because we were playing our scenes with more and more passion. In
2002, my character was "killed." In leaving the series, I was very
touched. Ronn had just separated from his wife Shari Shattuck and he
told me that he felt he was losing his "two wives" at the same time. "
"With Ronn, we flirted a lot"
T�l�
star.fr: "When did your relationship change?"
Hunter Tylo: "When I separated from Michael after 18 years together.
The producers asked me to return to B&B. I was happy to get back
together with my family and ... Ronn. We were now free and we flirted
a lot. Our kisses had now become real kisses. We succeeded in
keeping it a secret until a party in New York where we danced closely
against each other in front of our colleagues."
T�l�
star.fr: "Would you say that you have lived a real romance?"
Hunter Tylo: "We were playing with fire... But we knew that our story
couldn't last because we were working together on the same show. So
we chose to see other people. It was at that time when he began
dating Devin Devasquez (a Playboy Playmate) to whom he is married
today."
T�l�
star.fr: "Are you still close to Ronn?"
Hunter Tylo: "Since then, we have maintained a rather brotherly
relationship. But there had been one concern. "
T�l�
star.fr: "When was that?"
Hunter Tylo: "After a fan club meeting August 18 2007. Ronn
organized a party and he invited me to his home. On seeing me, Devin
wasn't very happy. During the evening things deteriorated between
Devin and me. She threw my jacket at me so I could leave and I fell
in their garage and hit my head on the ground. I saw red. I went
back to the kitchen and we were on the floor fighting and pulling
hair. I regret everything that happened. The next day Ron called me
and told me that we could not longer be close like before. It cost me
my friendship with him."
T�l�
star.fr: "You're remarried now?"
Hunter Tylo: "Yes. I met Gerson through a net dating site. I had
used a fake name to avoid being recognized. We communicated for a
long time by telephone without knowing that we lived ....200 meters
from each other. We got married after a year. This is a wonderful
man. My daughters lost their brother (her son Michael Jr. died in
2007 at age 19 by drowning due to a epileptic seizure) and their
grandmother in a very short time. They see very little of their
father who lives a long ways away. Gerson is reassuring and also very
religious. That gives them the stability that they need.
"There will never really be a conclusion of the Ridge and Taylor
storyline"
T�l�
star.fr: "Why did you want to give us all the details of a
private nature in this interview?"
Hunter Tylo: "For Katherine Kelly Lang. To set the record straight
for her because her ex-husband is spreading false rumors about her and
to clarify the fact that Ronn Moss had nothing to do with their
separation. And concerning my story with Ronn, that was to help my
fans understand why there had never been a conclusion to the Ridge and
Taylor storyline. And lastly for Susan Flannery; people often ask me
if she left to hide an illness, or because she's a capricious diva.
It's neither one nor the other, people need to know that."