Big Brother icon Rachel Reilly is heading back to the world of glamour, secrets, and scandal on The Bold and the Beautiful. After an 11-year gap since her last visit to Los Angeles in 2014, Rachel Reilly will appear on the CBS soap again as Rachel, the Bikini Bar bartender turned energy healer and spiritual cleanser. Her latest stint marks a milestone: this Bold and Beautiful comeback will be her 30th and 31st appearances on the show, and it lands on November 13 and November 14, 2025, episodes that put her right in the action with Liam, Bill, and Katie.
Rachel Reilly to appear on The Bold and the Beautiful has become the crossover event reality fans manifest every few years, and this time, she’s manifesting it herself. Reilly explains that “one of the biggest things I was hoping for going into Big Brother was that I would get to have another walk-on role on Bold and the Beautiful,” adding with a laugh, “I was so excited.”
Her return continues a long-running Bold and Beautiful tradition of inviting Big Brother players to stop by when a season wraps. Reilly first guest-starred in 2010 and last appeared in 2014 before popping back into the house as a surprise player on Season 27. Now, the reality legend is back at the Bikini Bar, bringing a new, more spiritual twist to a familiar fan-favorite character.
When Rachel Reilly Returns to The Bold and the Beautiful
Rachel Reilly’s new Bold and Beautiful episodes will air on Thursday, November 13, 2025, and Friday, November 14, 2025. In those scenes, she shares the screen with Scott Clifton’s Liam Spencer, Don Diamont’s Bill Spencer, and Heather Tom’s Katie Logan, dropping viewers right into a Spencer-centric story where the vibes matter as much as the dialogue.
These episodes officially mark her 30th and 31st appearances on the soap, a staggering number for a guest role that began as a fun stunt tie-in. Reilly notes that The Bold and the Beautiful has “a long-running tradition” of featuring Big Brother contestants once their time in the house is over, and her own journey fits that pattern perfectly: a 2010 debut, return visits, and now a 2025 encore after an 11-year absence.
Reilly has been dreaming about this Bold and Beautiful return since before she even walked back into the Big Brother house as the mystery houseguest in Season 27. She admits that coming back to CBS daytime was on her personal vision board, describing herself as a “student of the game” in reality TV and a die-hard fan of the Forresters and the Spencers.
Rachel the Bartender Becomes an Energy Healer at the Bikini Bar
The Bold and Beautiful creative team hasn’t left Rachel frozen in time. She may still sling drinks at the Bikini Bar, but now she’s also an energy healer and spiritual cleanser, which feels like a natural evolution for a crossover character shaped by reality TV. Reilly explains that this version of Rachel is grounded, calm, and tuned into the emotional temperature of every scene she walks into.
To find that new layer, Reilly says she “kind of channeled my inner Kaitlyn Herman from Big Brother,” pointing to the former houseguest’s energy-healer persona as inspiration. “She was like an energy healer on Big Brother,” Reilly adds, noting that she leaned into “picking up on the vibes as the Gen Zs say” while playing the character this time around.
It’s a clever bridge between the unscripted world that made her famous and the scripted soap that embraced her. Rachel’s new spiritual side lets Reilly merge competition instincts with the heightened emotions of daytime drama, turning a bartender cameo into a character with a very on-trend wellness flair.
Reilly also makes it clear that Rachel doesn’t just want to clean auras; she wants a promotion. “I told them I think that maybe a new manager role at the Bikini Bar should be opening soon because I think I need a promotion!” she jokes. In her mind, she’s either climbing the ladder or getting ready to “buy the Bikini Bar” after saving up all those tips.
Rachel Reilly, Surprise Houseguest on Season 27 of Big Brother
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Who’s in Rachel Reilly’s Bold and Beautiful Scenes?
One H2 in this Bold and Beautiful breakdown has to do what soaps do best: spell out who’s who. Reilly’s November 13–14, 2025, episodes feature a small but powerhouse group of characters that fans know well.
- Rachel Reilly as Rachel – A Big Brother icon returning as the Bikini Bar bartender, now working as an energy healer and spiritual cleanser. These new episodes are her 30th and 31st appearances on the soap.
- Scott Clifton as Liam Spencer – Liam, always torn between duty and emotion, is one of the Spencer men who crosses paths with Rachel at the bar.
- Don Diamont as Bill Spencer – Dollar Bill brings his signature swagger into Rachel’s orbit as he appears in her scenes during this two-episode run.
- Heather Tom as Katie Logan – Katie, a Logan who knows the Spencer men better than almost anyone, is also part of the November 13–14 scenes with Rachel.
- Brandon Villegas – Reilly’s husband and fellow Big Brother alum previously appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful as a server at the Bikini Bar. She recalls that “the last time we were on together, we let everyone know that we were engaged,” calling the shared cameo “really cute.”
- Kaitlyn Herman – Not in the episodes themselves, but Herman’s time as an “energy healer” on Big Brother directly inspired how Reilly plays Rachel’s spiritual side.
Reilly says working again with Clifton, Diamont, and Tom felt like slipping back into a familiar family. “It feels like home, so I don’t really get nervous anymore,” she shares, adding that she still watches the show and loves that even in a “new studio” with constantly evolving storylines, “you still feel the original energy from the Forresters and the Spencers.”
From Big Brother Legend to Soap Staple
Rachel Reilly’s Bold and Beautiful comeback only makes sense when you remember how much she’s done on Big Brother. She calls her role in the franchise “such a major role in the franchise of Big Brother” and says, “It’s been such an honor.” Over multiple stints, the show gave her some of the biggest turning points in her life: she met her husband for the first time, returned and won the game, and then came back again as Season 27’s twist player.
This latest run made even more history. Reilly points out that “this time, I am the only person now that can say they’ve never been nominated or evicted from the show,” a flex that cements her status as one of the franchise’s all-time greats.
Her Big Brother journey is why Bold and Beautiful keeps calling. Reilly says “Big Brother literally changed my life” and admits she never imagined that walking into the house in 2010 would lead to new opportunities in 2025, from returning to the soap to filming scripted movies and series.
At the same time, she has fallen deeply for daytime drama. “I love, love, love the soaps,” she says. The format “feels very unscripted,” with “stories [that] are so over the top” and characters that let her be “a larger-than-life personality.” That’s why this Bold and Beautiful guest spot feels less like a stunt and more like a natural chapter in her career.
Rachel Reilly in Big Brother 13
What’s Next for Rachel Reilly On and Off Bold and Beautiful?
Even as she returns to The Bold and the Beautiful, Rachel Reilly is not slowing down in either scripted or unscripted work. On the scripted side, she’s filming a new movie called The Other Side of the Window, where she plays a red carpet host. It’s another step toward the glam, story-driven worlds she now gravitates toward.
On the reality side, she’s eyeing another CBS juggernaut. “I would love to test my mental fortitude and my skills on Survivor, out on that island,” she reveals, saying that such an adventure “would be really exciting.” At the same time, she’s realistic about logistics now that she is a mom of two young kids, admitting that she’d prefer a stint “maybe a little bit shorter than 90 days.”
Asked whether she would play Big Brother again, Reilly doesn’t hesitate: “If it was an all-winner season, I would absolutely be honored to be part of that cast,” she says, hoping for a special “legends or winners” version of the game. She jokes that next time she returns, she’s “coming for that mastermind,” a nod to Season 27’s secret puppet master twist that she only learned about at the finale.
Still, competition shows may not be her long-term home. Reilly admits that “the older I get, these competition shows are a lot of work,” stressing that “they’re not for the faint of heart.” Physical challenges “are tricky, and they test your strength,” which is why “living in the glamorous world of The Bold and the Beautiful sounds kind of nice.”
Why Rachel Reilly’s Bold and Beautiful Return Matters
On paper, Rachel Reilly’s November 2025 episodes look like a fun bit of stunt casting. In practice, her Bold and Beautiful comeback tells a bigger story about how reality TV and daytime soaps now feed into each other. It shows how cross-pollination between franchises keeps both feeling current, letting viewers follow a favorite from the Big Brother house to the Bikini Bar.
Fans who have watched her since 2010 will get to see how far both Rachel and Rachel Reilly have come: one is now cleaning energy as much as glasses, the other is balancing motherhood, acting, and the possibility of another reality run. On screen, Rachel, the bartender and energy healer, is there to help Liam, Bill, and Katie read the room. Off-screen, Reilly is reading her own next chapter, one that keeps looping back to CBS but in new ways.
Whether she eventually returns for a Big Brother all-winners season, heads to that island on Survivor, or lands an even bigger role on The Bold and the Beautiful, this latest crossover proves one thing. Bold and Beautiful viewers and Big Brother fans alike are still invested in Rachel Reilly’s story, and for now, the place to see it continue is in her November 13–14, 2025, episodes on CBS weekdays.
TV Insider first published the exclusive interview with Reilly about her Bold and Beautiful return, her energy-healer twist, and her future reality TV dreams.
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