‘Bold and the Beautiful’ Breakup? Thorsten Kaye on Ridge’s Blowup With Brooke and If He’d Go Back to Taylor
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A bitter showdown between The Bold and the Beautiful’s Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) on the December 13 episode leaves the future of their relationship in jeopardy.
In the aftermath of Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) and Carter Walton’s (Lawrence Saint-Victor) corporate coup — swindling the Forresters out of their eponymous company as payback for their planned cancellation of Hope’s clothing line, Hope for the Future — Ridge is less than thrilled with the two. “To have somebody take advantage of you for your own personal gain is a tough thing to get past,” begins Thorsten Kaye. “Ridge feels the only reason Carter would ever do this is because Hope is sniffing around. She messed up [Ridge’s son] Thomas, and then she went after Carter. Hope’s line was failing, and it was being canceled, so she had to get someone in there to fix it. If the line were making money, it never would have been canceled because it is a business.”
Though Brooke initially showed allegiance to her husband by chiding Carter and Hope for their underhanded tactics, things took a turn when Ridge has some choice words to describe Hope that are hard to come back from. “I tried to play it where it comes out of the frustration of the moment, but it’s still not a nice thing to say about someone’s kid,” concedes Kaye.
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However, there are other issues between the two at play, Kaye points out. “I don’t think that’s the thing that puts Brooke over the edge,” he observes. “I think the thing that puts her over is Ridge sniffing around [ex-wife] Taylor [Rebecca Budig] again. Brooke’s role was written very well in this — she stood by her man even after he insulted her daughter, and then she stood by her man until she couldn’t, and I do think that Taylor has a lot to do with that.”
Though Taylor Hayes, now played by Rebecca Budig, is proving once again to be a thorn in “Bridge’s” side, can Ridge really go back to her again? “As an actor, you always have to think that that there’s a chance,” explains Kaye. “You can’t play 10 weeks from now. In this moment in time, I think that’s a real possibility. I think those two are good together, and it’s nice to have someone that doesn’t want anything other than Ridge being happy with her.”
Kaye and Budig’s real-life connection dates back to All My Children, where he played Zach Slater and she was Greenlee Smythe. “I’ve known Rebecca for a long time, but we’ve never really worked together,” he relays. “On All My Children, we would have a few scenes together but not really a lot of stuff because there were so many storylines going on on that show. So working with her is great; she’s prepared and she brings something very grounded and honest to this role.”
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But even if Ridge does grow closer to Taylor again, that doesn’t mean it’s really over for Brooke and Ridge. “I think these two love each other but at this point, maybe it’s not really the issue here,” offers Kaye. “Something happens where he feels he’s betrayed by the woman that he loves and feels that he never knew her at all. And there’s this other woman who is always honest with him, who doesn’t have kids with his brother and his dad, and maybe she was always the right choice.”
Regardless of where the story goes, Kaye, who will mark 11 years as Ridge on December 13, is looking forward to whatever is ahead. “It’s a fun job,” he enthuses. “We laugh a lot. I don’t like saying that something is like a family because I have one already, but we do take care of each other. I always have to throw something out to John McCook [Eric Forrester] because he really sets the tone out there. He’s the big Papa Bear that everyone turns to, and he seems to always be in a good mood after 37 years on that show. He still loves it, and his enthusiasm rubs off on other people.”
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Just because Taylor doesn't have kids with your dad, and brother; she has slept with your dad, both your brothers (Thorne/Nick), Brooke's dad, and Brooke's son (after Rick had been with her daughter Phoebe and before he fell in love with her other daughter, Steffy).
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and? They were all single too. Unlike Brooke where they were all taken
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Wrong, but I'm not surprised by the comment. You missed my point, by now attacking Brooke...lol. I was commenting SPECIFICALLY to his statement about how Taylor doesn't have kids with his family members, but Taylor has SLEPT with more of his relatives than Brooke!!! Let's not forget Taylor also slept with James and didn't tell Ridge for 16 years! So forget your "and?"...Ridge slept with Caroline while she was married to his brother, Ridge slept with his father's wife, then slept with Taylor while married to Brooke, but of course, Ridge and Taylor can do no wrong, when they totally do all the time.
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Taylor's biggest downfall. RIDGE.
ALL of her problems and discretion caused by her love for RIDGE. She did love Nick but short lived because of the usual BROOKE. I truly wish Nick would have remained the love of her life
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Oh, please TK Hope did not mess Thomas up. He was the one who became obsessed with her while she was married to Liam. And he must not know the Tridge back story because Taylor has never been honest with Ridge. For example she made him think Thomas was Thorne’s or when she cheated on him with James.
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Hi Green. She didn't and she did cheat on him with James Their reasoning for the sexual encounter was "they were dying,."James had never been sexually active and this was his swan song. No one would ever know. Needless to say, they lived and the grand dam (STEPHANIE)found out. THE reason for Thorne being the father was once again BROOKE. THAT COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BETTER.
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Oh please don't put Ridge and Taylor together...please don't do that...smh...and Steffy needs to pay for how she's been too...Thomas has had a problem for a long time....always doing something...I hate that Carter did what he did soooo bad..it's unreal...Taylor is not perfect...some of them just need to let leave the show...ugh
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I don’t think I can take another storyline where Brooke ,Ridge and Taylor go rounds again, can’t your writers come up with something new. It’s the same storyline over and over again.It just keeps going in circles
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I hope the writers give Brooke a backbone now even though she loves Ridge but stand up to him and maybe join Carter and Hope if and when he goes back to Taylor..
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Ridge and Taylor will always love each other but should never be a couple. Taylor needs fresh air. If the budget doesn't allow for a new character then put her with a past one and reduce all the babies on the show. The glamor of the original show is long gone. Daddy Bell, you are truly missed. His vision was much more than Brook and the Logans. Time waits on no one. However, the show is not pulling in the younger viewers. The show looses it's old faithful viewers and then we return. The younger generations "that's nice, bye."
Bring back Thomas, Nick, and give dollar Bill that power to be a force to recon with.
Ps. I miss Stephanie. The Logan war would be on. Carter and Hope would have no life when she finished destroying them. Young Steffy ok but Grandma was the bomb...
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Ridge, Steffy and Taylor are sooo smug and self righteous. Its about time someone they "treated like family" returns the favor.
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I'm sick and tired of the Ridge, Brooke and Tyler thing I don't like Tyler never have sense day one I have always been a Brooke fan and her always trying to break them up and the daughter is just as bad as the mom both Bs I wish they would leave Brooke and Ridge alone any way I'm done watching the show because of it and I've been a fan sense day one
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Everyone seem to forget. Ridge is not even a Forester, he is a Maronie
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Brooke slept with HER DAUGHTER’S husband Deacon, has a child with him (Hope) and married her mother‘s ex-lover Eric!!!
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