Don Diamont is doing more than attending The Daytime Emmys tomorrow than to cheer on his fellow Bold and the Beautiful nominees. The actor says he “wouldn’t miss” being there as his colleagues Edward Scott, B&B’s Supervising Producer, and Melody Thomas Scott, who plays Nikki on Young and the Restless, are being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Going for the Gold

“We have lots of folks who are nominated, so I certainly want to be there to support all of them,” Diamont says. “But I am particularly coming, of course, because of Ed and Mel’s lifetime achievement [award]. I’m just so thrilled about it. It’s so well deserved.”

Diamont’s connection to Scott, former executive producer of Y&R, the show on which Diamont played Brad Carlton for decades, began even before he landed the role of the hunky gardener.

“Ed directed my screentest,” Diamont shares. “Even though I’m younger than he is I think that, in many ways, we grew up together. I was learning how to be an actor on that show while Ed was learning how to be a supervising producer. He was working under [Y&R executive producer] Wes Kenney while I was in my first year. I was learning a lot from Wes, and I think Ed was learning a lot from him, too.”

Diamont suggests that at Y&R he was the “kid” and Scott was the adult (even though Diamont was a grown man when he started airing in Genoa City), but “it was more that kind of relationship.”

When the two men were reunited at B&B — Don Diamont joined as Bill in 2009; Scott came on board as a producer in 2010 — the actor says that they were much more contemporaries.

Diamont has great respect for Thomas Scott, as well. There was a period of time that Brad and Nikki were engaged. They made it all the way to the altar but Victor (Eric Braeden) being shot caused Nikki to hit the pause button.

“Mel and I have had so many laughs over the course of my career,” Diamont fondly recalls.