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Guiding Light alumna Crystal Chappell has really become the go-to gal for playing lesbian on daytime now that it’s been announced that she’ll join the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful playing – wait for it – a lesbian!
Chappell, a fan favorite for portraying Olivia, who fell in love with Natalia (Jessica Leccia) on Guiding Light, joins The Bold and the Beautiful as Danielle, the other mother of Caroline Spencer (Linsey Godfrey). Danielle was in a relationship with Caroline’s mother Karen (Joanna Johnson), as Entertainment Weekly explains it. Chappell’s episodes are slated to air in mid-May, according to EW.
A veteran daytime star, Chappell starred on Days of our Lives and One Life to Live before her turn on Guiding Light in the sensitive same-sex pairing that launched the mash-up “Otalia.”
Following Guiding Light’s cancellation in 2009 Chappell co-created the web series Venice, in which she plays a lesbian interior designer. The series has run for three seasons and costars her Guiding Light on-screen love interest Leccia.
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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
