Deacon Sharpe

Deacon Sharpe is a fictional character on the CBS soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. Sean Kanan originated the role on October 1, 2000 on The Bold and the Beautiful and continued in the role until February 22, 2005. As of June 23, 2009, the character now appears on The Young and the Restless.

Storylines

2000–05

Deacon Sharpe debuted on the soap as the biological father of "Little Eric", a baby being raised by Rick Forrester and Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz). The baby's biological mother is Amber's cousin, Becky. Amber passes the child off as her son with Rick. The truth is discovered and Deacon pursues custody of the child.

This launched a storyline that focuses on Deacon's romantic interest in Amber. He attempts to seduce her away from Rick for himself. The efforts are complicated by his relationship with Bridget Forrester. Deacon pretends to be over Amber after Bridgett discovers he married her to get Amber to leave Rick. She has a near fatal car accident and Eric tries to kill him by running him over with his car and he feels like scum. So in an attempt to make himself feel less guilty he makes an attempt to forget Amber but continues to pursue her by taking her to Vegas to give her a massage and by creating situations in which he shows up at beach locations and rubs lotion on her body in an attempt to tempt her. Bridget and Deacon's marriage was never unfortunately real but was based on his obsession with Amber and what kept them together was his attempt to prove to Bridget that he could be a better person and that was even after having an affair with Brooke. Deacon thus begins a clandestine affair with Bridget's mother, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) while married to Brooke's daughter whose husband had recently left her. He arrived at Brooke's apartment when Brooke was lamenting losing Thorne and Ridge both. Turning to each other for comfort, they had sex. They continue the affair behind Bridget's back. The reason Throne left Brooke is because he heard them discussing their past lives and overheard Brooke telling Deacon that she thought about Ridge every single day. Brooke gives birth to their daughter, Hope Logan. Deacon signs his rights to Hope over to Brooke and his marriage with Bridget ends.

Deacon goes on to connect with other older female characters on the show; a marriage to Macy Alexander (Bobbie Eakes)and an affair with Jacqueline Payne Marone (Lesley-Anne Down). The character leaves town in 2005 after relapsing back into alcoholism due to Jackie's husband Massimo Marone having Deacon's drinks laced with alcohol to get revenge on Deacon and Jackie for their affair. He will return in November 2011.

2009—

In June 2009, Deacon shows up in Genoa City as an art dealer. He is involved with a stolen painting incident and frames Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei), the boyfriend of Deacon's old flame Amber Moore. He agrees to provide the evidence that will get Daniel out of prison, if she has sex with him. Amber agrees, but while they have sex, he makes sure Daniel hears them over the phone by posing as Daniel's attorney, Michael Baldwin (Christian LeBlanc), when he is calling him.

Next to his scheme against Daniel, he is doing business with Victoria Newman (Amelia Heinle). Victoria faces marital problems. After seeing pictures of her husband J.T. Hellstrom (Thad Luckinbill) kissing his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Carlton (Tammin Sursok), Victoria has sex with Deacon. He later blackmails Amber into marrying him, by threatening Daniel Romalotti's freedom. He tricks Gloria Bardwell into handing over the stolen Terroni painting by promising her a share of the money he received when he sold it. He is tricked by Victoria Newman and Daniel Romalotti into thinking he has the real Terroni but he has a fake one.

Ryder's mother is blackmailing him to help her break up Michael and Lauren Baldwin. Deacon was blackmailed by Daniel's mother Phyllis Newman (Michelle Stafford) to leave town with Amber and he'd get the cell phone which incriminates his crimes, so he kidnapped Amber outside of Crimson Lights at Daniel's party, his car runs out of gas near an abandoned farmhouse, and he tells Amber that he still loves her and so does his son Eric, who still thinks of her as his mother. Daniel shows up along with Phyllis and it is revealed that the three of them tricked Deacon, so he'd get arrested for kidnapping and Phyllis gave the police the cell phone to exonerate Daniel of Ray Elkins murder, as Deacon is be hauled off by the police, he tells Amber that he won't be the only one to suffer, letting her know that Eric will suffer too.

In July 2010, Deacon is paroled from prison. He encounters Phyllis, now estranged from husband Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow), and stuck in her car with a flat tire during a thunderstorm in a rather isolated area - somewhat near the Abbott cabin. Though she refuses Deacon's offers of help, when Phyllis sees Nick approaching, she kisses Deacon, in an attempt to make Nick jealous. However, as soon as Nick leaves, Phyllis stops and orders Deacon out of her car. A few weeks later, Deacon applies for a job as bartender at Gloria (Judith Chapman) and Jeffrey Bardwell's new club, Gloworm. Gloria hires him, much to the annoyance of many in Genoa City, still angry at his manipulations and his role in framing Daniel for murder. At his new job he gets to see Phyllis again and Deacon immediately starts flirting with her. When he kisses her again, Phyllis first kisses him back, before slapping him across the face as Phyllis' ex-husband and good friend Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) walks in. Feeling humiliated when she finds out that Nick is letting stay his ex-wife Sharon (Sharon Case) at their house, Phyllis returns into Deacon's arms and they have passionate sex in front of a dumpster behind Gloworm.

As a bartender doesn't show up, Gloria contacts Deacon to fill in on Victoria's wedding to Billy Abbott (Billy Miller). When Victoria sees the man who destroyed her last marriage, she tells Gloria that she wants him gone. Before leaving, Deacon notices the fight Nikki Newman (Melody Thomas Scott) is having to not take a drink. Afterwards he runs into Phyllis, who invites him to be her "plus one" to the wedding; just to piss off Nick. Michael tells Phyllis that she is going to far, but she doesn't listen and let Nick realize who she brought as her date. He the enters in cahoots with Meggie McClain, who has a crush on Victor Newman; in exchange for getting Nikki drunk and bringing her to Deacon, he'll help her win Victor over.

Deacon & Nikki become romantically involved, & he evens comforts Nikki during the difficult time she's currently going through with her former husband Victor Newman. The two become closer after Nikki is confronted by Victor, who yells at her for being involved with Deacon. Eventually Meggie is arrested and Nikki went to rehab. Since Nikki's return from rehab, she has attempted to be away from Deacon, but they quickly give into temptation. Deacon comforts Nikki who is dealing with family issues and returning desires to drink again. On Valentine's Day, Nikki and Deacon make their relationship completely public, upsetting Victor, Victoria, and many others.

Later Meggie returns to town and threatens to tell Nikki the truth about his involvement in her and Victor's breakup if he doesn't help her get out of jail. Originally unwilling, Deacon eventually tries to put together a plan to bust Meggie out, but it fails. Meggie calls Nikki to come to the jail because she has some important news for her. Deacon catches up to Nikki, but Meggie tells Nikki the truth anyway. Nikki is shocked by it and storms out. She calls Nick who tells her that Victor and Diane have gotten married. Only a day earlier Nikki and Victor had sex. All of this news forced Nikki back to the alcohol later that night.

Deacon returns in November 2011 when Nikki comes home from rehab. It is revealed that she had a short-lived relationship with him whilst she was away, and she is shown to seriously regret it. On December 8, 2011, after Nikki passes out from being drunk, Deacon makes reservations for them in Las Vegas. When Nikki finally comes to, Deacon reveals the apparent truth about the murder of Diane Jenkins. In order to keep him from revealing this to the police, Deacon blackmails Nikki into marrying him in Vegas. Afterward, he sends their wedding picture to all of Nikki's close friends back in Genoa City.

However, Nikki finds out that Deacon wasn't even at the scene of Diane's murder and that he was lying the entire time. Due to this, Nikki tries to have their marriage annulled but doesn't do it in order to find out from Deacon, whom Nikki decides to stay married to,in order to find out who killed Diane.

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