TED KING ON JOINING B&B

On July 30, Ted King will make his B&B debut as Jack Finnegan, dad to Tanner Novlan’s Finn, marking King’s first appearance on CBS Daytime after roles on four ABC sudsers (ex-Danny, LOVING/THE CITY; ex-Luis/Lorenzo, GH; exTomas, ONE LIFE TO LIVE).

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The gig came about “fairly simply,” to hear him tell it. “The casting office called my representative and asked if I’d be interested and they put it by me, and ironically, I had been jealous of the daytime actors over the last year who’ve actually been able to work when the rest of us were not able to work. I did do a pilot in October in Colorado, which was fantastic, but under extreme circumstances of Covid testing and it was complicated. But other than that, we were all at home with the rest of the world and homeschooling our kids [Ava, 10, and Vivienne, 8, who he shares with wife Maya] and doing a lot of Zooming. And I was able to see some of my friends on daytime and watch their work — and they were doing great work — and I was jealous for sure ... I like to create new characters all the time and when that gets cut off, you feel like a limb has been cut off; you’re not exercising your creativity enough.”