Don Diamont is This Girl’s Best Friend

As successful and beautiful as actress/realtor Cindy Ambuehl is, her fianc’, actor Don Diamont, is no slouch himself. Born Donald Feinberg in New York on December 31, 1962, Diamont moved with his family to California and attended high school at Brentwood School, where he excelled at basketball and football. He worked for several years as a model before making his acting breakthrough as Carlo Forenza on ‘Days of our Lives’ in 1984. A year later, Diamont became Bradley Carlton on ‘The Young and the Restless.’ He left the cast in 1996, but returned in 1998 and continues to portray the playboy Carlton, who quickly rose from gardener to corporate executive on the show. In the August 15, 2006 edition of Soap Opera Digest, Diamont discussed his Jewish background. His storyline on ‘Young and the Restless’ paralleled his personal life when the top-rated series revealed that Carlton had been concealing his Jewish roots and was actually named George Kaplan. Carlton, as it turned out, was actually the son of a Holocaust survivor and, in a bizarre murder plot (although not so bizarre by soap opera standards), Carlton/Kaplan had survived the murder of his family by crazed Nazi commanders from his mother’s past. Ergo, Kaplan changed his name to Carlton. Elsewhere in TV land, Diamont has also appeared on ‘The Fall Guy,’ ‘Diagnosis Murder’ and ‘Baywatch.’ In feature films, he appeared in the Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson tete-a-tete, ‘Anger Management,’ and in the Keenan Ivory Wayans comedy, ‘A Low Down Dirty Shame.’ Diamont is also known in Dayton, Ohio, as the Morris Home Furnishings spokesperson, and he is an active supporter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, as he has a niece who suffers from the illness. The success of his earlier career as a model obviously still lingers. Diamont has appeared on the cover of Playgirl twice, and in 1990, People declared Diamont one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world”the first daytime drama actor to receive the magazine’s honor. Obviously, fianc’ Ambuehl agrees. There is little doubt that Diamont is this girl’s best friend.