Bold and the Beautiful shows Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) is furious that Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) and Katie Logan (Heather Tom) pushed the Hope for the Future launch ahead of his dad’s debut. That and the reveal of Shauna Fulton’s (Denise Richards) jewelry line and the big blue Hope for the Future diamond shocked Ridge, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), Logan, and all of the Foresters.
And since then, Ridge is making what seems like disastrous business decisions. He shelved the jewelry line, and he pushed off Eric Forrester’s (John McCook) couture launch indefinitely. And new spoilers for next week say Ridge goes after Bill.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge’s Revenge on Bill
So, right now, Bill’s flying high. Sales are flooding in. The critics loved Hope for the Future and Deke Sharpe’s (Harrison Cone) design work. The jewelry line is a smash. And the big blue diamond is a huge attention getter. Everything’s great over at Logan, aside from Brooke raging and smashing things up.
But once the dust settles, I expect that Hope’s going to stay at Logan and Brooke’s going to walk out mad and the Foresters try and decide what is next. I think Ridge is making bad decisions. Why should a major fashion house like Forrester Creations change their plans because of a startup? I think letting Katie’s launch with Hope derail the launch of Eric’s couture line just it’s a bad decision. It’s nuts. I think it makes Ridge and Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) look weak as leaders.
Honestly, so does shelving Electra Forrester’s (Laneya Grace) jewelry line because basically like Ridge and Steffy are admitting that Logan’s outdone them and their stuff is better. It’s bad business and I think it’s going to make them look bad in the fashion press.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge Takes Action
So, official Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say Ridge takes matters into his own hands with Bill and that could only mean designer Ridge is out for some kind of revenge. I expect him to hit back hard against Bill after Brooke comes back from the Hope confrontation sad and angry. Brooke shell shocked. She’ll be crying on Ridge’s shoulder about Katie stealing Hope from her. And I’m sure we’ll also hear more of Brooke telling Ridge it’s just like Katie stealing the Logan name, stealing Eric’s designs. You know, the ones Bill and Katie paid for. All that crazy talk she’s been doing.
And Ridge may decide he’s going to hit back hard at Bill. Not only because he and Katie took such a hard slap at Forrester Creations with the Hope blindside, but also because Hope’s betrayal has crushed Brooke. And she thinks Bill and Katie are the real villains behind this mess. They think she’s brainwashed Hope, like Logan is some sort of cult or something.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge’s Options for Payback
So, let’s talk about what Ridge might do when he goes after Bill looking for revenge. The first thing I would expect is obvious: for Ridge to storm over to Logan and confront Bill like Brooke went to confront Katie. I could see Ridge blasting Bill for luring Hope over to Logan and absolutely crushing Ridge’s wife Brooke. It could even get physical, like an all-out brawl. I mean, honestly, it wouldn’t be the first time Ridge and Bill fought physically. And Brooke slapped Katie recently and then physically attacked Katie again this week.
So, Ridge and Bill are both arrogant hotheads and they hate each other. So, I think they would do worse than the women did. Ridge is beyond furious and Bill is the best one to take it out on. It’s not like Ridge can go over there and punch Hope or Katie or something, but he can certainly pummel Bill and we’ve seen Ridge throw Bill off a balcony. I think that was when he slept with Steffy and Ridge found out. So, yeah, I think that he’s going to head over there and he could do something physically harmful to Bill.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge Goes the Legal Route
Another option that Ridge could try for payback is to pursue a legal remedy because Hope was still under contract with Forrester Creations when she signed a contract to work at Logan. And we could see Ridge siccing legal eagle Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) onto Bill and Katie. They might be able to get an injunction to prevent Logan from fulfilling the Hope for the Future sales orders.
I did take a glimpse at California contract law and in a creative field like fashion like Ridge and Katie are operating their companies in, usually there’s a non-compete clause. There’s a no moonlighting clause. However, I will say Bold and the Beautiful isn’t a soap that usually goes into legal remedies.
So, I think Ridge suing Bill and Katie’s company over Hope’s breach of contract is kind of a long shot to see, but it is feasible if this were the real world. But if Ridge sued over the Hope thing, I think that would make Forrester Creations look weak as well.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge Resorts to Sabotage?
Another route Ridge might take to deal with the threat of Bill and Katie’s company is just to make them look really bad to the public. Remember, Ridge recently commented on the poor construction of the Logan gowns at the launch. I also remember that Deke was told that one of the models dresses tore and Hope and Deke were really rushing out the designs. So, Katie’s team might have cut corners trying to get ahead of Eric’s launch.
And I could see Ridge working with Steffy on this. You know, one of them could contact a fashion influencer they know, have her buy a Hope for the Future dress, and then claim that the dress Katie sold fell apart on her. Ridge could ask the influencer to do a really nasty video hoping it’ll go viral about how Katie and Hope put out cheap knockoff versions when Forrester Creations puts out quality clothing.
That would really embarrass Bill. And to be fair, he is all about the bottom line. And he talked to Deke about making sure that the costs were under control when they were making decisions about materials and designs. So, this is one way I could see Ridge hitting back really hard at Bill and the company that he gave to Katie to punish them for Eric and Hope both doing launches over at Logan.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge Poaches Shauna?
Another thing I could see Ridge doing to hit back at Bill is trying some of the same type of moves that Katie’s been making when she’s been recruiting from Forrester. Ridge might try and steal somebody important from Logan. The first person I thought of was Shauna. I think Ridge might be able to steal her away from Bill and Katie.
Or I guess I should say Shauna’s the only one that Ridge possibly could steal. I don’t think anybody else would even be open to it. But if you remember, Shauna has always had a huge crush on Ridge. Back in the day with Quinn Fuller (Rena Sofer) encouraging her, we saw Shauna getting Ridge drunk in Vegas and she tricked him into marrying her.
So, Ridge might flirt with Shauna and try to lure her over to their side. You know, Ridge might offer to put Shauna in charge of the Forrester Creations jewelry line and have Electra reporting to her. That would be a typical Ridge thing to do. Plus, honestly, Electra isn’t experienced enough to head up the line anyway.
Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge Gets a Spy to Infiltrate Logan?
Now, one last thing I think could be really soapy for Ridge to do for revenge on Bill is to embed a spy over at Logan to constantly feed Ridge information that they can use to try and undermine Bill and Katie and their business. I could see Ridge asking Zende Forrester (Delon de Metz) to go over to Logan and tell Katie that with Hope for the Future gone that the Forresters, the other Forresters have pushed him aside.
And I think that Katie would believe that Zende was put on the shelf. Honestly, Katie and Bill might jump at the chance to hire a Forrester, but it would be ironic if Zende went over to Logan intending to spy for Ridge, but then Zende liked it better working for Katie and he betrayed Ridge and flipped the script on him. I think that would be super duper soapy.
We’ll see how it goes, but I do think Bold and the Beautiful is really kicking it up a notch for July sweeps. Bring on the brawls. Bring on the confrontations. So long as Ridge doesn’t throw Bill off a balcony at Spencer Tower, I think we’re good because I don’t think Bill would bounce back from that.
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