She’s baaaaaaaack!
Big Brother is not the only long-running CBS franchise that reality TV icon Rachel Reilly is returning to in 2025. Entertainment Weekly can exclusively report that the former Big Brother winner, who came back to compete this summer on season 27 of the competition franchise, will also be making a triumphant return to the Bikini Bar! Which is to say that fresh off being released from the jury house, Rachel will once again be guest-starring on The Bold and The Beautiful.
Rachel will again be playing her legendary role of “Rachel” — a Bikini Bar server. But expect the unexpected because this time, there’s a twist! It seems her character also has a side hustle as an “energy healer and spiritual cleanser.” And, in a fitting nod to her reality TV past, the character of Rachel has “experiences with toxic houses.” (No word on if the spiritual cleansing involves the use of life vests in any form or fashion.)
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The woman dubbed Iconica on her BB Comics cover will appear on two new episodes slated to air on Thursday, Nov. 13, and Friday, Nov. 14, and is filming her episodes today. She will be sharing scenes with Don Diamont (who plays Bill Spencer), Heather Tom (Katie Logan), and Scott Clifton (Liam Spencer).
“I shook the Big Brother 27 house with boldness, beauty, and a touch of betrayal,” Rachel tells EW about returning to The Bold and the Beautiful. “So naturally, I’m stepping back into the Forrester world — where drama meets couture. As an icon, I serve both and couldn’t be more excited to be back.”
While Rachel is best known for her three times playing Big Brother — including the past season where she was taken out in a controversial twist and ended up as the first jury member — she has also competed on other shows including The Amazing Race (twice), The Traitors, Celebrity Fear Factor, and Snake in the Grass.
But she is also, at this point, a certified soap opera veteran, having starred on The Bold and the Beautiful in a string of episodes between 2010 and 2014. The two new installments will mark her 30th and 31st appearances on the popular daytime program that has been on the air since 1987. That marks the most for any Big Brother alum crossing over to the soap opera, followed by husband Brendon Villegas, who has appeared 18 times. Even sister Elissa Reilly Slater has guest-starred six times, also as a Bikini Bar server, as evidenced in our gallery of Big Brother and Bold and the Beautiful crossover stars.
It’s been quite a year for Rachel. Even though she did not win in her third appearance on Big Brother, she was a force of nature during her time in the house, and was never even voted out by her peers.
“I would argue that I played the best game of Big Brother 27 of the people in the jury house,” she told EW right before the finale. “I was never nominated. I went home by never going through an eviction. I went home on a twist. And I would argue that most of the evictions this season were due to the strategic gameplay that I played…. I have to say I think I played the best game this season, and I hope that America feels like that, too, of the jurors — actually, maybe of everyone.”
And now she goes from one show filled with drama and backstabbing right into another.
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