Thorsten Kaye
"The Bold and the Beautiful" Set
Sunset Las Palmas Studios
Los Angeles, Ca.
08/13/26
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310-657-9661
Episode # 9870
U.S.Airdate 09/22/26
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Bold & Beautiful has long painted Ridge as being so self-centered that it’s a wonder he notices anyone else is in a room with him. But he scaled dizzying new heights of preposterousness when, for the zillionth time sharing Brooke’s dismay that Hope had left Forrester Creations for Logan, he grunted that no one had ever disrespected the “visionary.”

“Really?!?” viewers replied in unison. Yeah, we were shocked that, even someone as arrogant as Ridge, could have such a bad case of amnesia that he couldn’t recall the way he himself treated his own stepdaughter. “He called her a bitch,” ChocolateChocolateBoth noted on Reddit. “And a slut,” added bittermp.

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Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Thorsten Kaye, Annika Noelle
"The Bold and the Beautiful" Set
CBS Television City
Los Angeles, Ca.
10/03/24
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310-657-9661
Episode # 9394
U.S.Airdate 11/01/24

“I mean, if you think it’s OK to call her a slut from the valley in front of the interns or call her a bitch and a whore,” wrote Novel-Organization63, “then I guess nobody disrespected Hope. I mean, the way Electra treats Dylan, I wonder if they think that is the way co-CEOs are supposed to act.”

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Everyone at Forrester is “delusional,” chimed in BeginningWalrus8317. “They don’t think shutting down [Hope’s] ideas and sidelining her career is disrespectful.”

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No wonder it’s been so easy for Logan to staff up. “Literally everyone who works at [the upstart fashion house] was someone who got royally screwed at Forrester,” noted Actual_Bell703. “Ridge wouldn’t be in this mess if he and Steffy treated people better.”

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Since they are as likely to change their ways as Eric is to remember that he begged Katie to hire him, we doubt it will be long before Zende joins former FC employees Hope, Katie, Deke and Will at Logan. Warm up with this week’s hot topics in the below new edition of Soaps’ Burning Questions.