B&B: Susan Flannery News

Yesterday, August 20, 2012, CBS Soaps in Depth announced that Susan Flannery (Stephanie) on the Bold and the Beautiful is leaving the program.

This isn't surprising news as Susan has been saying this for years. That said, I'm sad about this development. At this point, we don't know when or how the character of Stephanie will depart the canvas. Will the character die or leave town? There will be a huge gap in the program. I don't know how B&B plans to fill it or if they will end up leaving a hole and continue to focus on the younger characters.

I wish Susan well and thank her for 25 years on B&B.

Revised around 1 PM ET on August 21. Now Soap Opera Digest has posted that Susan is staying on their website on August 21. So what is going on? I just want to know, but since they haven't announced a time frame for the length of her story it could be anything. This is developing, so I bet I'll have more thoughts on this later.

On August 22, it was announced on tvline.com that Susan will be on through December as she signed a short term contract.