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Jack Wagner Teases His Return to ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’
Fans of “The Bold and the Beautiful” were ecstatic to learn that Jack Wagner’s Nick Marone is returning for a summer storyline arc, and his arrival is finally pretty imminent.
Jack Wagner will begin airing on Monday, June 16, 2025, and the veteran soap actor tells Soap Opera Digest that he is embracing the speed of things. “Daytime now, it is really a moving train. It’s a locomotive. So I realized how much I love to work that way, especially when I’m working with [Katherine] Kelly [Lang], who likes to rehearse.”
Jack Wagner Explains How His Return Came About
GettyThe actor, best known for his role as Peter Burns on “Melrose Place,” first joined the cast of “The Bold and the Beautiful” in March 2003 and remained with the show until February 2012.
“I ran into [B&B Executive Producer and Head Writer] Brad Bell at the golf course about six months ago and said, ‘Hey man, I’m going to Italy in the summer. You want me to do any press for the show? I know I haven’t been on in a while.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, that sounds great.’ “
Then Bell “calls about six weeks later — because I have this window of time [before] I go back to “When Calls the Heart,” the series I’m on on the Hallmark Channel — so he goes, ‘Do you think you have time to do a summer story arc on “The Bold and The Beautiful”? I have an idea. We can finish shooting in Naples because Nick would run Marone shipping by then.’ And I’m, like, going, ‘Okay!’”
Jack Wagner Teases His Return to ‘Bold’
The actor admits that he wasn’t ready to sign on for just any storyline. He worked with Bell to ensure that there was a solid plan in place for Nick Marone. Wagner tells Soap Opera Digest that he wanted “to make sure that the focus is on his main objective. And that is to wake Brooke up from this toxic pattern with Ridge Forrester and to win her heart. That’s it. That’s the objective. And so I was clear on that, which gave me a lot of layers to play.”
As for the character himself, it seems that this version of Nick Marone is an upgrade from the guy who last appeared on camera. “He’s advanced in the shipping world and now runs Marone Shipping, and I would call him a shipping tycoon,” Wagner says. “He’s a very wealthy man. He’s an international, world-traveling shipping tycoon businessman.”
“I thought the key for him was to be fearless — that was the key to the storyline working,” Wagner asserts. “So when Ridge [Thorsten Kaye] would enter and there’d be any kind of butting heads, I treated it as though there was a fly on Nick’s shoulder,” he adds with a chuckle. “It gave us a lot of comedy and I think it fed into the rivalry as well as battling for Brooke’s love.”
