Bold and the Beautiful delivers Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) once again at each other’s throats and things are escalating with Steffy demeaning Hope who’s gone from being a bit confrontational to trying subterfuge to actively undermine Steffy.
Bold and the Beautiful: Hope Complains to Brooke About Steffy
So this week we saw Hope complaining to Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) about Steffy. And during that chat at the Logan estate, Hope said she poured her heart and soul into Forrester Creations and said Steffy is killing Hope for the Future on purpose. And Brooke tried telling Hope, “This isn’t personal.
The company needs to focus on Eric Forrester‘s (John McCook) new line, yada yada.” But then Hope told her mom that Steffy laughed in her face. And Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) wasn’t happy about that either. Because he took Steffy to task for that. But she was unconcerned and unapologetic both to Hope and also to her dad Ridge for the way she treated her stepsister.
Hope said that she feels like she’s being punished. And Brooke told Hope that she doesn’t want things to escalate. And then Brooke was insisting that she’s just trying to go along and keep the peace. But then Hope accused her mom of being passive.
She thinks Brooke should be co-CEO with Ridge and not Steffy. Because Hope said that Brooke has done so much more than Steffy at Forrester Creations. And then Hope said Brooke should be the one at the top giving orders and not taking orders from Ridge’s nepo daughter. It’s kind of funny that Hope’s calling Steffy a nepo baby when it was Hope’s aunt Katie Logan (Heather Tom) who handed her that clothing line to start with. That is nepotism, same thing.
Hope Tries to Get Brooke to Take Steffy’s Job on Bold and the Beautiful
So, we had Hope getting Brooke all worked up. Hope was saying Brooke made herself small. And then Hope said her mom is Brooke freaking Logan and she didn’t give up on her dreams. So, basically, we saw Hope just intentionally amping up her mom. And she convinced Brooke to talk to Ridge and was pressing her mom to go after the CEO, the co-CEO seat.
So, Hope’s trying like crazy to get Brooke to take Steffy’s job. I’m sure in Hope’s mind, if Brooke is co-CEO, then Hope will get her line back. Brooke is okay with the line being on hold while they focus on Eric. But Hope suspects with good reason that her line is going to be permanently shelved.
She knows if Brooke was in power instead of Steffy, that wouldn’t happen. Because let’s face it, Hope knows that if Steffy stays co-CEO, then Hope for the Future could be dead for good. And I think that’s accurate. So, right now she’s got Brooke all hyped up and she’s going to go talk to Ridge, who is already kind of irritated with how Steffy is handling things with Hope.
While Ridge agrees with Steffy’s decision to shelve the line, he doesn’t think that she is communicating in a respectful way with Hope. But Steffy in the end does not care at all what Hope thinks. Doesn’t think she has anywhere to go or any options. And that’s when she laughed in her face.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge in a Lose-Lose Situation
But at the same time, this is what Ridge always does. Like with Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig) versus Brooke in the love triangle, Ridge just stands there like a stupid waffle, you know, while he was with Taylor and Brooke was pawing at him and trying to have sex with him and kissing him. And then also when Ridge had told Brooke that he was going to be with her after the thing in Italy, then he kept going home to Taylor and letting her paw on him and everything. Because he’s just too meh to set any kind of boundaries.
You know, Ridge generally doesn’t take any kind of stance when it comes to the women in his life. He just waffles along. And we may see that. Because if he doesn’t stand by Steffy, she’s going to be furious. And if Ridge doesn’t stand by Brooke, she’s going to be livid. So Ridge is in a lose-lose situation.
And that’s when he usually just kind of and he just stands around and doesn’t take a side. And at some point, we could see Brooke telling Ridge that it was Hope who said that she should be co-CEO because that is something that Ridge would probably repeat to Steffy who would lose her mind and go off on Hope.
Bold and the Beautiful: Can Ridge Reach Them?
I’m sure Ridge is going to try and play peacemaker. Because he doesn’t want to deal with it. But in the end, even if Ridge agrees with Brooke, that’s not enough to put Hope’s mom into power. The only way Brooke can get what she wants is to try and get Eric on her side. His 37.5% plus Ridge’s 20% of the shares in Forrester is enough to override Steffy and put Brooke in as co-CEO. But if Eric listened to Brooke, I think Steffy would get really ticked at her grandpa on Bold and the Beautiful.
Bold and the Beautiful: Brooke Not Going to Get into Power Unless Eric Supports Her
Either way, I think it’s going to come down to Ridge being under a lot of pressure. I expect that Steffy would gripe to Ridge about Hope getting Brooke all worked up. Because Hope wants to reverse the business decision about Hope for the Future that was the right one to make. Based on chats we’ve seen this week, it looks like Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Ridge both do support Steffy’s decision to shelve the line.
But they just don’t like the way she’s talking to Hope. In the end, Brooke is not going to get into power unless she can convince Eric to come to her side. As much as he usually gives Brooke her way, I’m not sure Eric would do that this time. Because not very long ago, Brooke sided with Ridge and was part of the decision to push him out of Forrester Creations and into unwanted retirement that sent him running over to Logan.
Even though Eric is back at Forrester, I don’t think he’s forgotten Brooke’s role in pushing him out before. And even though Eric has moved past what she and Ridge did, I don’t think he would do Steffy like that. Because she’s always stood by him. And I would expect if Brooke goes to Ridge and wants him to push Steffy aside, he might say, “Look, once again, Hope has overstepped.” Ridge may tell Brooke, “Look, I was already trying to smooth things over with Steffy and was advocating for Hope, but her trying to replace Steffy with Brooke is kind of like Hope pulling a coup 2.0.” And Steffy just brought up the coup the other day. This is kind of like another coup, right?
Bold and the Beautiful: Hope’s Nuclear Bomb Will Fizzle Out
Obviously, Hope’s getting Brooke worked up trying to get Steffy fired as co-CEO. Hope was likely hoping to blindside Steffy, but in the end, I think what could have been Hope’s nuclear bomb is going to fizzle out instead of doing what she wanted. And Ridge is probably going to have to say to Brooke, “Don’t put me in this position just because your daughter Hope’s mad at my daughter Steffy.” And in the end, Hope’s trying a Hail Mary to knock Steffy out of power. Because she doesn’t want to face the fallout if she decides to go to Logan, which is clearly the horns of the dilemma she’s on.
Steffy is using Eric’s return as a clear excuse to knock Hope aside. We’ve seen these two act like this before. You know, Steffy and Hope always take shots at each other, and her aggravation with Steffy is part of what led to the coup before. So, things are about to get messier, and I expect that Hope is finally going to leave Forrester Creations by the time May sweeps is over on May 20th.
And when she leaves, Brooke’s going to be ticked, not just at Katie, but also at Steffy for pushing her out. Maybe also at Ridge for sitting by and letting it happen. And of course, Donna’s going to be further torn. Eric’s not going to like it. So, it sounds like some real soap chaos is coming that has the potential to wreck Forrester Creations and pit people against each other even more.
