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Were you as shocked as we were when Don Diamont (Bill, B&B) showed up at the tail end of yesterday's episode of Y&R as the late Brad, who appeared to his daughter Colleen while she was drowning? Did you also notice that the actor was sans the beard he's been sporting while playing Bill on B&B? Diamont enlightened us on how the whisker-free guest spot happened. "It was a big secret, of course," he explains. "B&B had just started a five-week hiatus, so I was able to shave off my beard, do the Y&R scene and then grow my beard back while on vacation. So many people are used to seeing me with facial hair now that when I showed up at Y&R that day all clean shaven, a few people didn't recognize me!"