Occupation: Actor

Parents: Victor Distefano and Sylvie Rawlins

Siblings: Blake Distefano

Relationships: Shailene Summers, Benji Rydell

Appearances: Season 4

Who’d Play Him: Greg Vaughan

The Action Star Living a Double Life: Scott Kelly was a popular action-film star cast opposite Alex Reynolds and Victor Distefano in Angel Assassin 2: Halo and Goodbye. Handsome, marketable, and accustomed to protecting his image at any cost, Scott understood that his career depended as much upon publicity as talent.

Behind the heroic persona he projected onscreen, Scott was secretly involved with men. Among his occasional lovers was Benji Rydell, whose recklessness made their encounters especially dangerous. Fearing that the press might discover his private life and damage his standing as a conventional action hero, Scott devised a distraction with Benji’s encouragement.

Scott planted a false story claiming that he and Alex were having an affair during production. The rumor generated enormous publicity for the financially troubled film and redirected attention away from his relationships with men. James urged Alex not to deny the story because the scandal was helping the production, rewarding her cooperation by restoring her first billing. What began as Scott’s attempt at self-protection soon complicated Alex’s marriage to Jordan and drew her into another public humiliation.

Scott’s arrangement with Benji eventually turned violent. After Benji became convinced that Scott might have given him a sexually transmitted infection, he attacked the actor with a baseball bat. Scott was hospitalized with severe head injuries, while suspicion initially fell elsewhere. Detective Stephanie Callahan questioned Alex because of their supposed affair, and Alex impulsively accused Jordan of arranging the beating. The allegation became one more factor in the collapse of Alex and Jordan’s marriage.

Although Scott survived the attack, his storyline exposed the dangerous pressures beneath his glamorous career. His fear of being publicly identified as gay or bisexual led him to invent a heterosexual affair, use Alex as a shield, and allow the lie to spread because it benefited both his reputation and the film. In trying to control the public narrative, he helped create consequences that reached far beyond his own life.