[1] Rebellious blue-collar Bo was paired with more upper-class Hope Williams (Kristian Alfonso), forming one of the show's first and most popular supercouples.

[9] On March 18, 2015, it was announced that Reckell had signed a deal to return for the show's fiftieth anniversary, airing on August 28, 2015.

[11] Bo was born on November 5, 1963[12] and is the only son of Caroline Brady (Peggy McCay) and Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston).

[13][14] However, Bo is raised as the youngest child of Caroline and her husband Shawn Brady (Frank Parker) until his paternity reveal in 1985.

During the Salem Stalker storyline, Bo loses his mother and older brother Roman (Josh Taylor).

On New Year's Day in 2006, Zack was hit by a car driven by Bo and Billie's daughter, Chelsea (Rachel Melvin).

However, as time went on and his investigation took on a wider scope (ostensibly as part of a larger ISA mission), so did his absence from home, and Hope.

In March 2014, John Black delivered a message to Hope that Bo's investigation had branched off into a larger, more powerful, and more dangerous criminal organization than even the DiMeras, and is working deep undercover in Europe to bring them down, and may not be back for another year or more.

And don’t even get us started on what happens when we hear “Tonight I Celebrate My Love for You""[17] Mason also placed Bo 24th on his ranked list of Soaps' 40 Most Iconic Characters of All Time, writing, "Until Peter Reckell rode onto the screen in the 1980s, we had no idea that Hope Williams' true love was going to turn out to be the hero for whom we were holding out".