The adorable Kyle Lowder was recently interviewed by TV Guide Canada. Here are highlights from the interview:

TVGuide.ca: You must be thrilled that your wife, Arianne Zucker [Nicole] is back on Days of Our Lives and kicking some major diva ass!
Kyle Lowder: You know Days was her first job. She was a successful model before, and that’s what the soap was looking for when they hired her. After she left Days, she wanted to go back to school and improve her craft — not that she was bad before, but she wanted to use her free time to hone her craft, instead of wasting it. And now, look at her — I love what she’s doing as Nicole.

TVG: You and Arianne reconciled after a brief separation; congratulations! At last year’s Daytime Emmy Awards, I hung out with both of you and I never suspected you guys were having problems. A few weeks later, you announced your separation. I was a little shocked, to be honest and thought: Wow, they’re better actors than I gave them credit for! [laughs]
KL: [Laughs] I know — the separation was all about me. We were never not in love. We never put on a show unlike some other A-list movie stars who will remain nameless. I was going through some major personal issues that disconnected me from reality.

Our time apart was about me finding myself. And yes, it takes two to tango, but in this case, I was the one with the issues to resolve, and luckily, she wanted to put the pieces of our relationship back together. She was there for me — and that needs to be said.

This week on The Bold and the Beautiful, Rick joins forces with Taylor.

The goal? To help his new love regain custody of her baby son, Jack.

“He meets with some Forrester attorneys and draws up paperwork that he can hopefully get Nick to sign, saying she could basically have her child back,” says Kyle Lowder (pictured, Rick).

Kyle Lowder (The Bold and the Beautiful) will sing the National Anthem before the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Arizona Diamondbacks game on Thursday, April 2. The game begins at 7:00 p.m. at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA.

If anyone attends, take a video and send it in!

We now take a break from delivering soap opera spoilers and news to provide fans of The Bold and the Beautiful with a couple cute pictures.

Sure, these photos of Winsor Harmon and Kyle Lowder are a bit old… but does that make them any less attractive?

Yesterday, we published pictures of two As the World Turns cast members showing their pseudo support for Heidi Montag of MTV’s The Hills.

Below, fans of Kyle Lowder attended the same CosmoGIRL-sponsored event and depicted their love for this star of The Bold and the Beautiful in a different, fun way.

Check it out:

You see Kyle Lowder on TV every day.

But now you can catch The Bold and the Beautiful star live and in concert!

The man that portrays Rick Forrester will be part of The Existents exclusive West Coast Premiere Concert Presentation. The show will be held Monday, October 8 at 9:00pm at the legendary Whisky A Go Go, located on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip.

Lowder will be joined by Ty Taylor (RockStar: INXS), Eden Espinosa (Wicked), Jason Wooten (We Will Rock You), Carly Thomas-Smith (Rent), Douglas Crawford (Jersey Boys), and Debby Holiday (Nebula 9 Records).

This ensemble will perform selections from The New Rock Musical, which was written by Crawford, Taylor and Wooten.

Seen here in 2004, Kyle Lowder (Rick, The Bold and the Beautiful) and Arianne Zuker (formerly on Days of Our Lives), who married on August 3, 2002, have split up.

“We are saddened to announce that after five years of marriage we will be amicably parting ways,” the couple said in a statement. “This decision has come with great consideration and was not easy for either one of us. We continue to have tremendous respect, admiration, and hold one another in the highest regard.

It’s the end of the line for Kyle Lowder and Arianna Zuker as a couple.

We greatly appreciate all of the support we have received from our family, friends and co-workers during this difficult time and are grateful to everyone for respecting our need for privacy and healing as we move forward in this process.”

When Rick Forrester returned from overseas, fans got a slightly different character than the one they may have remembered.

That’s because Kyle Lowder brought him back from Europe with a new musical talent. CBS.com caught up with Lowder to find out more about his own musical background and how he landed the role…

CBS.com: How has it been on the show so far?
KYLE LOWDER: It’s been great. I had such an amazing experience on Days of Our Lives at NBC. It’s one of the things that I really missed about my life, was the grind of daytime. It kept me busy. I’m someone who loves to stay busy. It was funny, the first couple of episodes I did here it’s like riding a bike, you know, it gets a little shaky.

CBS.com: Were you looking to get back into the Daytime genre?
KYLE LOWDER: I was actually. I loved Days and again I had the best time there, but for a lot of reasons I just needed some time for myself. I didn’t really get a chance to work on music that much and that’s where I came from and what really drives me. It was no one’s fault. It was just the grind and the work schedule was so busy I couldn’t do it. So, I really wanted to take some time, as much time as I needed to start writing music again, get together with my song writing partners and record music again.

Even if it wasn’t a career, I just needed to do that. But quite honestly, after a year of that, and it was wonderful, I feel like I got the music part of my career up and running a little bit. But then it was time I needed some stimulation. Because once you’ve done this grind it’s hard to do anything else because it keeps you busy and it’s such a great time. You form such a great bond with the cast, the whole crew, production staff. We just put out some feelers right after Thanksgiving. My representation just put up some flares and said Kyle’s interested in returning to Daytime and it was just amazing that at time The Bold and the Beautiful was casting this role.

CBS.com: Fate stepped in.
KYLE LOWDER: Exactly. I had a wonderful meeting with Brad [Bell, Executive Producer and Head Writer] and I just fell in love with the guy. He’s so cool and the story that he’s telling right now that he was telling me about was so intriguing and I was like, “What do you need me to do?” Long story short, it worked out.

CBS.com: So you weren’t worried about coming in as an already established character?
KYLE LOWDER: No hesitations but it was definitely was, and is still on my mind. I mean, especially with the popularity of the character. Jacob Young, Justin Torkildsen. Justin won an Emmy for the role. I wanted to remain as respectful to the history of the character as I could and of course put myself in the role but also try to keep it consistent and have a seamless transition between actors. Justin was just on the show recently and I didn’t want people to be like, “Who is this guy?” You know what I mean?

Yeah I’m different but I’ll do my best to keep the transition seamless. Intimidated, no - hesitant, no, but it is still on my mind. It’s going to take a while before people accept me as this character and I can even accept myself as the character. Until then it’s on my mind. I’ve told everyone here, I’m an open book, let me know what you need me to do. If this is not Rick, tell me. And also, Brad has been very forthright about, “Kyle, do your thing. We hired you because we want you to do your thing.” So there’s a mutual respect there.

CBS.com: So you are definitely aware of fan response when coming onto a show.
KYLE LOWDER: Very much so. The fans are what keep these shows driving. They’re on during the day; it’s an effort to watch them in this day and age with everybody working. Fans are what drive these shows, all of Daytime in general. You got to keep them happy. Playing a character that’s front and center it’s important to keep the fans happy. And that’s just what I’m going to be aware what they’re thinking, I’m going to do my thing but if there’s anything that can be done better or differently I’m open.

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