Bold and the Beautiful reveals Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) bringing his son Wyatt Spencer back to town as part of Bill’s big expansion plan for Logan. Now that Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) officially inked her contract and it looks like Wyatt is joining them, it’s starting to look like a strategic plan to destroy their competition.
We are going to talk about what sort of scheme Bill may be cooking up to crush Forrester Creations and make sure Logan comes out on top. Now, let’s talk about what Katie Logan (Heather Tom) and her hunky hubby might be planning to make sure Logan wins this fashion rivalry.
Hope Signed with Logan This Week
So, this week already, Hope made a decision to leave Forrester Creations and join Logan. She seemed conflicted last week and of course, Donna Logan tried her best to stop her. But this week, Hope grabbed up the pen and signed on the dotted line. And the Spencers and Katie made sure to emphasize that her brother Deke Sharp is definitely part of the deal. And Katie swore everybody in the room to secrecy, including Donna.
So, this is going to be a sort of epic blindside if they can keep it quiet. They didn’t manage to keep the Eric stuff completely quiet, though. But it’s definitely going to get messy because Hope still is going to have to quit Forrester Creations. Either that or invent some way to be out of the office most of the day. She doesn’t have the bandwidth to work there and also over at Logan. So, we’ll have to wait and see how she explains it. If Hope resigns from Forrester Creations and maybe tells her mom, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), she’s just going to take some time off to think things over because it’s been stressful.
Bold and the Beautiful: Keeping Hope a Secret
We know already from Katie and Bill’s plotting that they don’t want anybody at Forrester Creations to know that Hope joined them. They want to blindside with the release of her new line under the Logan umbrella. And this week, Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say things are looking up for Deke. That means Hope is going to go over and give her little brother the absolutely amazing news. Hope is going to tell Deke that she is now part of the Logan team, and he is too.
All he has to do is say yes. And we’ll see if Hope and Deke can pull off this line alone or if they’re going to need to bring in a lead designer because I’m still wondering if Zende Forrester (Delon de Metz) is going to join them because he’s tired of things at Forrester Creations as well. I’m certain if Hope talks to Zende and tells him she’s resigning, he may want to know what she’s doing. And Hope might roll the dice and ask Zende if he can keep a secret and if he wants to come to Logan. He is really frustrated being stuck babysitting R.J. Forrester (Joshua Hoffman) who’s been given his own little nepo baby line.
Bill Is Bringing Wyatt Back for a Logan Jewelry Line
But whether Zende joins or not, Bill is full speed ahead with Logan. And clearly he wants to topple Forrester Creations and make his wife Katie the first lady of fashion in LA. And I do think Bill has a strategic plan to take down Forrester Creations. I don’t think that Katie started Logan with the intent to poach from Forrester Creations, but after Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke forcibly retired Eric Forrester (John McCook), which is, you know, aka firing him, he’s the one who came to Katie. And that might have started Bill and Katie thinking that poaching dissatisfied people from Forrester Creations is a viable strategy.
It’s certainly a predatory strategy. So hiring former Forrester designer Deke is part of it and poaching Zende may be something else that Bill would love to do. You know, we can already tell that Katie and Bill are planning to rush out Hope’s line because they know they can’t sit on the secret for long. Even if Donna doesn’t blab, secrets leak out. Good news is that Deke already has a portfolio of designs that they can use as a starting point over at Logan.
Bold and the Beautiful: Bill Brings Wyatt Back
And then this week, Bill is bringing Wyatt back to town. I suspect Bill wants Wyatt to start a Logan jewelry line and to be the lead designer for it because remember, he learned design from his mom, Quinn Fuller. And at one point, Wyatt and Quinn were running her line out of Forrester Creations. They bought it. So, that would be perfect because it’s like poaching from the past.
But since Wyatt is a known design success in the jewelry field, it makes a lot of sense. And let’s face it, Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) is not as skilled or experienced as Wyatt. That’s just a fact. Plus, she spends a lot of her time pouting and whining about her love life. That’s distraction. So, Bill might one-up Forrester Creations by bringing in Wyatt. He could design pieces to go with Hope’s new line at Logan. And I fully expect for Bill to get Wyatt to hit the ground running and hustle out designs.
That way they can debut New Hope or whatever they’re going to call it along with a Logan jewelry line at the same time. They could put Hope and Wyatt on the runway together as a double whammy to slap at Forrester Creations. And if Zende’s with them, it’d be a triple slap.
Bill May Want to Match Forrester Creations Head-To-Head
Now, if Bill really wants to be on equal footing with Forrester Creations, they also need a fragrance line. So, we might see Logan trying to land a nose of their own to compete with Daphne Rose over at Forrester Creations. And I mean, for this, I would be so thrilled if we got a crossover from Young and the Restless. They could bring in Ashley Abbott. She was the primary fragrance designer and chemist for Jabot over on Y&R. If you don’t watch it, and if you don’t remember, Eileen Davidson did almost 140 episodes on Bold and the Beautiful, playing her Y&R character, and Ashley designed fragrances for Forrester Creations.
So, if Bill landed Ashley, that would be huge. Now, I will say Bill and Ashley never overlapped because she left Bold in 2008 and Bill only came to Bold in 2009 after the death of his father, Bill Spencer, Senior. But I could see Ashley coming back because back in the day, Ridge broke his engagement to Ashley to go back to Brooke, of course, and also Forrester Creations canceled her fragrance line. So, Ashley would be perfect for Bill to bring in. And Eileen Davidson is rarely on Y&R these days. She chose to step back from it. But taking another spin as Ashley on B&B might be something Eileen Davidson might consider. She’s not doing Real Housewives right now, I don’t think. So, she has some time.
And that would give Logan a youthful line from Hope, a jewelry line from Wyatt, and they might wind up with a fragrance line from Ashley. Then they just need a couture designer to follow up on Eric’s first collection since he’s already gone. I would love to see them bring back Clarke Garrison or Amber Moore for this.
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If Bill really wants to match Forrester Creations head-to-head, they’ll also need a lingerie/undergarment line. I mean, I think it’d be super tacky to call it Katie’s Bedroom to mock Brooke’s lingerie line, but calling it Logan Lingerie would definitely work. I noticed that Brooke is still griping this week about Katie stealing her name, the name they share. But just last week, she was calling herself Brooke Forrester. Not even Brooke Logan Forrester. Brooke Forrester. So I guess what? She gets all the names. You know, legally Katie had every right to use it, but I know a lot of fans remain torn over whether her registering the trademark was right or wrong.
Bottom line, I think Bill wants Logan to compete with Forrester Creations head-to-head, and he wants to see Katie come out on top. Last week, Bill called Forrester Creations a dusty old fashion house, and it has been, and said Katie’s company is the newer and better fashion house. Mostly though, I think Bill just really wants to stick it to Ridge. I will say I’m super excited to see what Bill is plotting to kind of wipe some of that smug attitude off Ridge’s face. And also, it’s really energizing as a longtime watcher to see two fashion houses competing on Bold and the Beautiful. They haven’t had that in many years, and I think it’s great.
