
Hunter Tylo: I know you hard core celebuaddicts will know who she is, but she isn’t a household name. And you don’t need to know who she is to appreciate her. This over-tooled bitch has a life story with enough tragic material to make a Lifetime movie. A mini-series really. If I’m being totally honest, based on her most recent life choice, she could probably get a thirteen episode show. A Lifetime show now; a True Hollywood Story, later. I’m getting ahead of myself though. Let me get you up to speed on Hunter:
Hunter Tylo is a soap actress. She has been featured on All My Children, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful. I must confess, I originally wrote “the now defunct The Bold and the Beautiful.” That show is still on the air but Life on Mars isn’t as of next week? Okay, I’m trying to let go…give me time.
In 1996, Hunter was offered a role on Melrose Place. Shortly after she accepted, she announced that she was pregnant. Aaron Spelling fired her, she sued and won $4.8M even though she never filmed one episode.
In 1998, her daughter was diagnosed with some rare eye cancer. After the removal of one eye, it spread to the other. Then the tumor just disappeared.
In 2005, her eighteen-year marriage to Guiding Light actor Michael Tylo ended.
In 2007, Hunter’s nineteen-year-old son accidentally drowned when he had a seizure while swimming.
Last year brought even more drama to Tylo when she had to file a restraining order against her boyfriend, Corey Cofield. According to court documents, Cofield “snuck in the house in order to trap me upstairs. When I tried to go past him, he violently grabbed my wrist, and as I tried to get free, he grabbed my neck tightly and said, ‘I’m not going to go away that easy.’” Earlier in that same month, Tylo claimed that he “locked the bedroom door after I caught him in a lie about another woman and forced me to have sex saying, ‘Tell me you love me. Say it like you mean it.’” In addition, court records detail how Hunter’s daughters were “visibly shaking” after he disciplined them while she was at work.
And now, for the most recently written chapter, Hunter Tylo is getting hitched! She’s marrying the bedroom-door-locking rapist because they’ve, you know, worked out their issues-parenting classes, anger management classes and a withdrawn restraining order.
I really think there is a screenplay here. Protagonist tries to do well but is a beautiful caged bird, unable to escape her tragic set of circumstances? Check. Courtroom action with eventual vindication? Check. Catastrophic disease exterminated all thanks to a miracle? Check. Horrible tragedy resulting in the loss of a child or spouse? Check.
A side note to Danielle Steele: I really think you should consider suing Hunter Tylo for some sort of copyright infringement; she is living your books.
After the jump, this is what seven or eight years of tragedy and surgery can do to you.
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