Exclusive: A "Big Brother" Palooza on "The Bold and the Beautiful"
Sep 25, 2014
by Michael Logan


He's not just "America's Favorite," he's also a soap star!

"Big Brother" 16 contestant Donny Thompson wasn't named champ on last night's season finale of the CBS reality hit — he was evicted from the house weeks ago — but at the end of the show, the North Carolina groundskeeper did bag $25,000 in a viewer popularity poll.





Now he's off to the CBS daytime drama "The Bold and the Beautiful", where he'll appear in scenes on Oct. 30-31 with Emmy winner Scott Clifton (Liam) and Aussie beauty Ashleigh Brewer (Ivy) that'll riff on the paranoia Donny caused on "Big Brother" — he was so humble and down-home nice that the other houseguests suspected he was really a genius doctor from Harvard or an undercover super soldier.

"We're going to have fun with all the speculations about Donny's 'real' career and it'll involve a lot of costume changes," hints the soap's supervising producer Casey Kasprzyk, a longtime "Big Brother" fan who has also hired twelve other "Big Brother" houseguests for roles on the soap's Halloween episode.



That roster includes:

Amber
Zach
Cody
Caleb
Nicole
Hayden
Devin
Brendon
Rachel
Elissa
Jordan



"We were only limited by time and budget," Kasprzyk says.

"Otherwise, we would have invited even more houseguests. This was a season of terrific personalities."





But Donny topped them all. TV Guide Magazine had an exclusive chat with the fan fave about his upcoming suds debut.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Big-Brother-Donny-1087569.aspx