Bold and the beautiful delivers Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) coils when Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) tells Hope bluntly that her leave is over and she is expected back at Forrester Creations because they have to reboot Hope for the future immediately.
However, Hope has received commitments to Katie Logan (Heather Tom) and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) over at Logan. So basically, Hope has been backed into a corner, and even though it looks like she’s about to confess to Steffy, I don’t think so. I think Hope decides to tell more lies instead.
Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Suspicious Offer
So this week, Steffy told Hope, “Enough with the games.” And she said, “I know what you’re up to.” So Hope was panicking that Steffy might know that she was transitioning to Logan, but Hope played dumb. And in the end, Steffy basically accused her of being up to something. She said Hope took leave to force her hand. And Steffy told Hope, “Okay, you got what you wanted.” So Steffy told Hope straight up, “It’s time to end your leave and get back to work.” And Steffy said they should to make a big announcement in the press about Hope for the future will be back at Forrester Creations.
The thing is, I suspect that Steffy was not sincere. I think she might be testing Hope. The vibe I got from watching those scenes is that Steffy knows something is up. She knows that Hope is up to something and that this leave is unpredictable. Ever since the coup with Cart Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), we’ve seen Steffy looking at Hope and she’s been suspicious of her, which is understandable. And Steffy knows that Brooke Logan’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) co-CEO move was all a plot by Hope.
Bold and Beautiful : Steffy’s strange behavior
So when I saw those scenes, I thought, um, okay, Steffy is channeling her grandmother, Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery), who was always skeptical of the Logan women. And when Steffy said to Hope, “Bring it in.” And then hugged her, that’s when I thought, “No. What’s even going on right now?” Steffy and Hope don’t hug it out stepsisters. Never been.
So my BS meter was off the charts. And I thought, okay, it’s either insane writing, which is possible, or Steffy is suspicious. She, I think, senses that something is wrong with Hope. Things don’t add up. But I don’t think she knows exactly what it is.
Hope’s Confession Cliffhanger and Lies at B&B
After Steffy hugged Hope and Steffy said, “I support you,” Hope seemed ready to confess. And she told Steffy, “There’s something you need to know.” That was the cliffhanger moment. But honestly, it’s way too early and not very soapy for Hope to come clean to Steffy at this point. Yes, I think so Hope should come clean. She should have quit and taken a clean break away from Forrester Creations when it all started, but instead she lied to Steffy, Brooke and Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) about her leave. And it was super scary.
And while Hope confessing would be the right thing to do, I just don’t see it happening. I can’t see her saying to Steffy, “Oh, by the way, I have a new line debuting at Logan, and I signed a deal with Katie and Bill.” And throughout this whole discussion, the look on Steffy’s face was almost like, “Ha, I got you.” But I think Hope is going to pout, and instead of confessing, she’s going to tell more lies. Like when she went out and took a leave of absence, instead of telling Steffy and Ridge, “Okay, I’m quitting,” maybe Hope is saying that she’s still working through things and she’s not quite ready to come back.
She might tell Steffy that she needs more time to work through her feelings, but nothing Hope says will convince Steffy to take no for an answer. And in the end, I suspect Hope might just be telling a bunch more lies, trying to buy a little more time while she works things out. Basically anything to put Steffy off so Hope can just get out of the CEO office and go.
Bold and the Beautiful: Hope’s Strategy and Logan launch plans
There is an official Bold and the beautiful spoiler that says Steffy’s offer changes everything, and another that says Brooke is celebrating a bright future with Hope. So I think you know Steffy can tell Brooke it’s okay Hope will come back to Forrester Creations. Steffy says, “I told her to finish her leave.”
But at the same time, I think Hope will tell Steffy that she just needs to fix some things. And I think she is vague and then going to run from there. And then Hope has to run over to Logan to talk to Katie and everyone else. Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) and Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) and Katie and Bill are all waiting. They are all worried. And Hope will tell them that Steffy told her to end her leave and come back.
It’s about to Hit the Fan on Bold and the Beautiful
And I think Katie might encourage Hope to just buy time to get to the launch, because when Katie reveals that Hope is her new designer, it’s all going to be open anyway. And that way, Hope doesn’t have to come clean to anyone. She doesn’t have to work herself up to tell Steffy and Brooke what she’s done and how she’s betrayed them. At the same time, I think it’s very cowardly if Hope does it this way and doesn’t come clean and keeps lying. But I think Bill would call it strategy.
But if Hope is lying, as I suspect she might, then it’s all going to be so much worse than if she just came clean from the start. She should have told Steffy, Ridge and Brooke the truth. Or you know Hope could have told Steffy when she decided to reactivate her line this week.
So if it goes this way and Hope messes around more with Steffy and Brooke just lying flat on her face, it’s obviously going to make things worse. And we already know that Hope won’t walk away from Logan because we’ve seen a leaked video of Brooke over at Logan going crazy on Katie.
And while that’s happening, Hope is hiding behind the screen, basically cowering as Brooke rages at Katie. So that means Hope isn’t coming clean to Steffy or Brooke would already know the truth about who her new designer was and Hope would have warned Katie.
Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Supicions and the Launch Showdown
But I think Steffy will figure it out because Brooke told her that Katie can only hire the Spencers, not the Forresters. And of course, Steffy expected Hope to be thrilled that her line is coming back. And Hope, not jumping at the chance to get back to work, will make Steffy more suspicious. She told Hope that Forrester Creations wish to announce Hope for the future is back.
And say that Steffy really believes this and isn’t into her. If they put it out in the press and then Hope ends up launching at Logan, it will absolutely humiliate the foresters, it will be as bad or worse than when the news broke Eric Forrester (John McCook) debuted a line above the Logan. Only, of course, he backed out at the last minute and didn’t walk the runway with Katie like Eric promised he would.
Too little too late to hope for B&B
But I think Hope won’t back down just because Steffy green lit her streak. Of course, the green light doesn’t erase all the times Hope felt disrespected that Steffy put her streak on hold and basically laughed in her face and flexed her power. So I think if Hope tells more lies it will make it that much more of a betrayal when she and Deke make their debut and they walk down the runway with Hope for the future diamond on her and they thank Katie and Bill.
So it could be Steffy getting Brooke amped up and that’s why she’s transitioning to confront Katie and demand to know who her designer is. Steffy may suspect that Hope defected Logan, but I don’t think Brooke is going to believe that her precious daughter would ever do that. And maybe that’s why Brooke goes over to confront Katie.
So I think if Steffy ends up suspecting that Hope defected, I think Brooke is going to hope she’s wrong. But Katie isn’t going to come clean, and I don’t think Hope will either. This means that we will probably get a huge throw-down showdown Hope for the future launch during sweeps and it might actually coincide with Eric’s launch and it might be because Bill and Katie plan to steal it Forrester’s thunder, but I expect more lies, not a confession.
