Bold & Beautiful August chat

Annulments aren’t easy to get, if you’re a Catholic , you gotta write away to Rome but these Forresters just call the lawyer and it’s done.

Thanks for the August write up, daisy.

I thought the rule was no annulment if marriage had been consummated. None of those Forresters or Logans could go without sex. Excitement is building, won’t be long now until all is revealed. I read it will be next week or thereabouts – no spoiler there.

Front row pews. This wedding will drag on for several days of speeches and dagger looks for sure.

Everyone’s getting dressed and getting last minute advice/interference. Smoking hot Brooke finds Hope daydreaming about Liam and offers to call the whole show off if Hope decides to renege. Ridge tries to bolster the nervous roach. Liam’s dressed to go. Ad break. Eight wasted minutes. Hope will take ages to get dressed. Quinn’s stunning purple dress. The crowd is coming in , it’s a small crowd.

Donna and Katie bring the cleavage. Liam and the roach spit unpleasantries at each other.

Steffy sides with Brooke and suggests Hope call it off if she can’t commit to the roach. Hope is practically sucking her thumb at this point. Ad break no 2. We’re being hammered with mediocrity. I say it won’t be called off. Hope is so stupid.

Carter’s the celebrant of course. He’s done this gig to death. Ridge notes how unhappy Brooke is. Liam’s getting drunk and pissing in Carter’s ear, white anting the roach.

Eric takes over to stop the bickering erupting at the “holy, blessed event”

Steffy congratulates Hope , who’s on the Douglas train. She ‘s going to do it.

The atmosphere is icy at the wedding. Eric better get to the piano and croon this loot into behaving. Seven minutes. Call the groundhog.

Hope’s being a diva. Just get on with it. Maid of Honour steffy talks a lot of hogwash to Steffy. Last minute call to Brooke. Things are running late, so Pam gets more canapes. Ridge pep talks the roach.

Brooke goes to Hope, who’s not dressed yet. “Douglas needs me” Boo hoo.

Liam spits more Dutch courage abuse at the roach, who responds in kind.

The roach has cornwered Ridge and asked him to call his attack dog Brooke off. Ridge says it’s useless to try. These Logan women are so smart and stubborn, he asserts.

We end with Brooke in tears, begging Hope not to marry the roach. Brooke knows that she doesn’t touch or fondle the roach, ever. It’s going to take two or three episodes for Hope to get dressed.

Well, that’s one mystery explained. The episode begins with Thomas threatening to cut Douglas’s hair, to make him more presentable for his new victim, I mean, wife Hope. That’s the mystery of Douglas’s awful haircut solved. Meanwhile, what the hell is Douglas doing with those two action figures in the room right before the ceremony? My gosh, that kid is going to be *so* messed up.

Oh, and update on Taylor. Apparently she’s working for a human rights campaign in Africa (?!) and couldn’t make the wedding. Wasn’t she a psychiatrist, last anyone checked?

Brooke checks on Hope and offers to “take care of everything” if Hope is having second thoughts. My gosh. Maybe Brooke was planning on killing him? No judge would convict, Brooke.

Oh hey, there’s Donna, and wow, that’s all of her. Weddings just suit the Logan girls, don’t they? Upstairs, even Steffy is telling Hope that maybe she needs to call off the wedding. Oh my flipping gosh, Hope. Smell the manure, already. Marrying Thomas is a terrible idea!

Back downstairs, there’s a hilarious moment where Pam scolds Donna for doing her make-up at the wedding. “Are you planning on meeting somebody here?” Pam asks. Does Pam actually watch the show? NOBODY ON THIS SHOW DATES ANYBODY WHO ISN’T ALREADY IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

Meanwhile, Thomas is loudly goading Liam and the Logans into biting (forcing Eric to intervene). At this point, I just want them to all grab the wedding cake knives and go Ides of March on his smarmy shirtless arse. Nothing says a Forrester wedding like a fatal mass stabbing, right?

Although, Thomas shoots Liam a look that suggests he’s already thought about taking down Liam with some of the Forrester silverware.

Anywa, the episode ends with Brooke begging Hope not to marry Thomas. Roll credits. My gosh. I thought they’d drag this out to a ridiculous degree, but we ended the episode and Hope wasn’t even in her wedding dress yet. It’s gonna take her a month just to reach Thomas at the end of the aisle, isn’t it?

Will this wedding be like when sleeping beauty is born, when a wicked fairy, resenting her lack of invitation casts an evil spell on the centre of the celebration, then a kind good fairy arrives to attach a kind of waver.
Hope should know by now how to dress for a wedding. She should take less time than I take throwing on a pair of shorts.

The soup at cuculia. Cream of onion. Complimentary and delicious.

Brooke and Bill were there, meeting secretly, as were Eric and Donna. Sheila was waiting tables and eavesdropping.

Fyi I am not in this photo. Our new place is in la Vrazia on the beachfront. We wanted Porto Venerre but it couldn’t find accomodation we liked. It worked out well. We have a sand beach out the front and it’s probably more relaxed. We have nice sea views from the front windoes too.

POSSIBLE SPOILER

I heard from a friend in US that the news is out over there, so we should get it soon. Very surprising is the identity.of the person who told.

The episode starts with Thomas continuing to be antsy about whether Hope will even show up … but finally, Hope arrives and walks down the aisle, and it only takes five minutes. Heavens be praised for that. When she reaches the front of the living room, Hope tells Steffy, “the girls look beautiful!” It’s hard to tell whether she’s talking about the kids, or all the cleavage on display (and between Steffy and the Logans, there’s enough to sink a battleship).

At Forrester Creations, Flo shows up, obviously drunk, and she and Zoey have yet another shouting match about the secret. I gotta say, though, Flo is remarkably more interesting after downing two bottles of scotch. First ad break.

The second segment isn’t too interesting either. Flo and Zoey, etc etc, meanwhile, over at Brooke and Ridge’s house, the minister recites the speech (he’s the guy who marries Forresters, so he probably has it memorised), Ridge stands up to compliment his awful son, while Brooke then stands up and tells everybody how great marriages are (she would know). Second ad break.

The middle segment was pretty worthless, but oh yes, the final part of the episode delivered. Thomas recites his vows, and I didn’t even listen. Anyway, right when Carter asks Hope whether she takes Thomas to be her husband, you know what happens? Phoebe, playing on the floor at Hope’s feet, has her first words. Her first word? “Mama.”

Me, watching the episode: “You’ve got to be kidding me.” I may have used slightly more swear words than that.

Hope freaks out, but doesn’t say a word. Roll credits.

Douglas follows his coaching to the letter when he bleats ” I do” . How cute was that? Hope is affected. The roach glows. Six minutes to go and we’ve only heard two speeches. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I’m just gettin to “Mommy” Yuck.

Oh, that is sick. Phoebe fawns over “mama” .Curtain. Groundhog.

The thought of Eric dating Steffy. Yep. Gross but doable.
Phoebeth calling Hopeless Mama: now that kind of a wonderful miracle. (Ha ha ha).. I bet Thomas was kicking himself that he hadn’t coached Dougie to do the same.
Douglas saying, *”I do, inappropriate, creepy and illegal in all states. But that’s the reality. Hopeless is marrying a 5 year old. It seems like only a year ago that Douglas was born and I said. *What an ugly baby, and now he is already getting married. Still keeping it in the family.

Semi comatose Hope capitulates and says “I do” in spite of Phoebe bawling “Momma”. Carter pronounces the two roach and wife. Little Douglas , channeling Damien from The Excorcist, hands over the ring. This show is a celebration of child abuse. Disapproving looks from all the Logan girls.

Flo is getting pissed. Skeletor is on her relentless prison guilt trip. At least Flo is not no gonna drink , drive and text. Waffle continues at the dull wedding. Lot of dark looks. Flo reckons the truth is coming out today. Nah, it won’t. Over my dead groundhog. Heaps of speeches to go yet. Ad break.

Another bludger of an episode. Despite hinting that Phoebeth’s “Mama” would jolt Hope to her senses, Hope eventually turns back to Douglas and says, “Yes, I do.” Of course, immediately after the ceremony, she heads upstairs for a nap because she’s tired, so it doesn’t look all that good for the wedding night.

The episode doesn’t liven up until the third act, when drunk Flo shows up. I like drunk Flo, have I mentioned that lately? She’s fun, and the girl’s got balls. Arriving too late to stop the ceremony, Flo freaks out when the Logan sisters tell her that Hope said yes, and then, when everyone heads outside (to watch Eric on the jumping castle. Oh yeah, there’s a broken hip in the making), Flo confronts Thomas and tells him that she’s going to tell the secret, right now. Thomas grabs her by the arm and just about throws her out of the house, saying that she’ll keep the secret until she dies! It sounds like a threat, and coming from Thomas, it’s certainly meant as one …

… but little do any of them know, but Liam is listening in from upstairs, and heard the whole exchange. He says to himself, “What secret?” and that’s all she wrote today.

More Flo/ Skeletor waffle. Flo bolts for the wedding, which has assumed a funereal tone. Liam looks as pathetic as ever. Steffy apologises for Phoebe interrupting. Thomas tries to play down the mother confusion. Ad break. Get your arse here, Flo before the food runs out.

Liam goes upstairs to Hope and has a brainstorm, telling Hope she married “the wrong guy”. Murderer, child abuser , pervert, manipulator, impatient cake cutter, single bad Dad.Hope ‘s chickens are coming home to roost. She’s miserable. What a happy occasion this wedding has been. Seven minutes until groundhog release.

Ridge and the roach are annoyed that Liam is upstairs with sick Hope. Hope’s bought into Phoebe’s schtick. Flo’s downstairs dropping hints in front of the roach.

Thomas and Flo discuss the secret with raised voices. This is how everyone in town got to know. Liam hears it and pulls his “where did I leave the car keys?” emoting. The muzak is like that from a horror movie, Curtain. Half a groundhog.

I have been gone about 8 weeks and the only progress has been, Quinn comes home, Thomas has killed Little Emma (progress indeed), Flo finds a personality in a bottle of scotch,Hope married Roach, Liam once again finds out about TS, and Phoebeth is now in year I thought I would miss the big reveal but maybe not. Anyhow, or as Roach would say, “anyways”, I feel I have missed nothing. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

See, the plot today does advance, it’s just moving at a pace that would see it lapped by glaciers.

So, with the sun setting on another successful Forrester wedding, everyone heads off. Liam does something smart (unbelievable, but true), and spends the night hanging out with Wyatt. He reveals everything he knows to his brother (that he overheard Thomas being a dick to Flo about a “secret” that’s got something to do with Hope), and since Wyatt is (mostly) a sane, rational human being, he believes Liam, and the two resolve to figure this out.

Back at Wyatt’s place, Flo receives another threatening text message from Thomas (you know, Flo, you really could go to the police with these), and although she convinced herself earlier that day to tell the truth, what happens? The plot contrives to send her Shauna, who pops in to say hello to her daughter. Shauna is outraged at Thomas threatening her daughter, and murmurs, “I should sort that shirtless bastard out myself” (thing is, you know she would). But the lure of the Forrester billions is too much (great parenting again, Shauna), so literally ten seconds later, she tells Flo to keep the secret, keep her head down, and do what Thomas wants.

Over at Ridge and Brooke’s house, Thomas continues to be an evil bastard, manipulating Douglas into telling Hope, “You should be with my daddy tonight, since you’re married.” It’s as horrifying as it sounds, and Thomas leads Hope into the bedroom and puts the moves on her. Hope freaks out, once Thomas moves to undress her, makes up an excuse, and flees. Of course, Thomas isn’t thrilled by this (imagine that. The girl you tricked into marrying you, who has no interest in you romantically or sexually whatsoever, doesn’t want to have sex with you. Shocking) and he fumes, in a particularly-deranged way, blaming Liam and Flo.

Thomas: “I’m surrounded by idiots!” Well, yes Thomas, yes you are. But that’s entirely not the point.

Wyatt returns home and sees Flo, still upset about what happened. Although Flo still has Shauna’s words in her ears, she says, “No!” and resolves to tell Wyatt everything. Of course, that’s where the episode ends.

So at least both Wyatt and Liam know there’s *a* secret, and it involves Flo and Hope, even if they don’t know the exact details. And they both got a vested interest in solving the mystery, so maybe, it won’t be long? We can hope, pun not intended.

The by now shirtless , pissed off roach rationalises that “we’ve got the rest of our lives” to consummate this insane arrangement. Four minutes til groundhog liftoff.

We get to the sulking roaches surrounded by idiots soliloquy. It’s a new low point in entertainment.

Liam rings Hope to start telling her but right on time, that little bastard Douglas hollers from his bedroom and Hope’s off like a bucket of prawns. Curtain.

Good recounts both of you.
Oh my. Little Dougie forced to be Dadd’s pimp. I was envisioning him going and putting his own Sesame St on.
So there was no need for Thomas to pump him full of cough medicine. He’s probably going to use it on Hope tonight, like he did with Caroline.
That Flo is surely one good secret keeper. She has been wanting to tell for about 12 weeks real time, and still nothing.Zoe seems to have had nothing to do in all that time, except pop in to tell Flo not to tell.
And how is Brooke taking all this lying down?
I’m not too hopeful now that two of the Keystone cops are on the case. Last time one of them, I don’t recall which, asked “What were you and Zoe just talking about “If anyone finds out”….or blah, blah, blah like that, they just replied, “Milk, or blah, blah, blah”, and the guy said, “Oh”.
But in spite of my cynicism, I think we may be close to TS coming out before Thomas kills another young intern. Although he might kill one just for fun. The writers are probably going to have to keep the murdering, woman drugging Roach around.

Dollar Bill by now is looking like a saint. He hasn’t killed anyone(having Ridge killed by having him thrown from a helicopter failed), and he hasn’t drugged any of his women or children.

Bill’s a chick magnet.
Thomas is a chick dragnet.
Bill likes his women gagging for it.
Thomas just likes them gagged for it.

😂😂😂😂

Under heavy interrogation from Wyatt, Flo almost spills TS but the roach send her a vile text to the effect of keep it shut or you’ll be in a grave etc (If the cops were competent enough to find that). So she clams up and says she’ll go back to Vegas. Flubber is flustered..

Liam asks Steffi what she knows about Flo, which is not much.

Brooke finds Hope wandering around in the wee hours and mentions the word “annulment”. Call Carter.

Ad break.

The pitiful dialogue between Wyatt and Flo continues. Wyatt doesn’t want Flo to go to Vegas. Liam and Steffy try to figure out stuff about Flo. Dumbasses , both of them. Ad braeek

More pitiful dialogue and interrogation of Flo from Wyatt. Flo flashbacks to the roach threats. She goes to take a shower. Bet she disappears.

Brooke and Hope are still yakking. Hope says that “something is drawing me to Phoebe”. Nine minutes til groundhog release.

Liam rocks up to Wyatt’s . What will it take for these knuckleheads to get with the program? “What about Phoebe?” Der. Ad break. How much more can we take? It does appear to be soon but who knows?

So, shockingly enough, we got our hopes up for nothing. Wyatt presses Flo on the secret, because she’s clearly upset after the wedding … but she guts out. She has PTSD-style flashbacks to Shauna and Thomas telling her to keep quiet, so she makes up a story about how seeing Phoebe is hard for her, and leaves to go have a shower and go to bed.

But … Wyatt, you clever bastard. When Flo is telling Wyatt how happy she is, she tells him all the things she wants to do with him that she’s never done before, like get married or buy a house or have a baby … and Wyatt immediately realises, hang on a minute, she’s already had a baby. Or has she?

So the episode ends with Wyatt relaying all that information onto Liam. Neither of them is any wiser (although, I am impressed with Wyatt’s impromptu detective abilities), but they know that Phoebe is involved in this, somehow.

Liam, meanwhile, finds all the adoption paperwork (that Steffy kept), and begins carefully examining it. Put it this way. Liam does more due diligence, in researching the adoption deal, in 5 minutes, than Steffy and Taylor did in a month. Go figure.

The episode’s hilarious highlight was over at Ridge and Brooke’s house, when Brooke finds Hope sleeping on the couch downstairs … and says that if Hope wants, Brooke can call up Carter and annul the marriage, lickity-split.

Because *of course*, Brooke Logan has Carter (the guy who can perform and annul marriages) on speed-dial. Of course she does.

Thanks guys. I think Hope has had a one day marriage before, and a few near misses, so she’s pretty familiar with “Call Carter”.

Liam and Flubber should put one of those detective pin up boards on a wall with some connecting red string. That way they will see that the string all leads to Hope, Flo and Phoebeth. And they run their chins and go, “Hmmmmmm?”. I wonder what that could mean. And why is Flo so nervous and suspicious. 5 minutes in a room with Vincent Donofrio would get her to tell. (They have Law and Order reruns here).. In fact, if Flo is so busting to tell, 5 minutes with Pam and a plate of lemon bars would do it.

Well, I watch and read – you lot cover everything so well that there’s no need for further comment. Today is Friday so that means another cliff hanger for the weekend. We are supposed to be ahead of the US in episodes but all has been revealed over there, so it has to be sooooon! Quite a bit of over-acting from Wyatt yesterday when he was trying to get info from Flo – he’s in for a very rude awakening very soon. There will be many ramifications from this I’m sure. I mean what about Carter – births, marriages and deaths lawyer, not so hot in checking out adoption papers. But he is gorgeous.

I spent the afternoon hanging out with a friend of mine in hospital, so I missed the first half of the episode. Nothing interesting happened in the rest of it. Hope’s still moping because of her marriage, Liam is still digging into the adoption …

… and Douglas overhears a phone conversation between Thomas and Flo, and learns the truth. “Beth is alive.”

Wow Douglas, you’ve finally become useful to the rest of us.

Oh crap, that means Thomas is going to kill his own son to keep this quiet.

I wish there was a laughing emo.

Anyhow, Douglas finding out Beth is alive has to be good news, although Thomas only need pull some bs, like, “If Hope finds out Beth is alive, she won’t love you anymore”. It makes evil sense. I must have an evil mind to even think of that. But Douglas might let it slip next time Thomas slips him a bottle of cough medicine before bedtime.

Mope has gone around dragging her knuckles for so long now, she won’t know how to do anything else.

Douglas can’t stop saying “Baby Beth is alive” He’s becoming a real liability. Thomas tells him he can’t ever say it again but we know it’s too late. He can barely say anything else now.

Hope keeps banging on about her commitment to the cutesy, loudmouthed liability to Flo, who’s beating around the baby bush and questioning Hope about feelings for the roach.. Mercifully an ad break comes along.

Flo and Skeletor are having the same conversation they’ve had for three months. Skeletor reckons they’ re both good people , just victims of circumstance.

Over at Steffy’s for a sleepover , Douglas asks Hope if Phoebe had any other names. Hope, Liam , Steffy and the roach are there. Thomas gives his little brat the evil eye to shut up. The shit could really hit the fan here , so we go to another ad break.

The sledgehammer hints about Phoebe continue to be woven into the terrible dialogue.

Douglas finally blabs the secret to Hope and Liam. It’s over!!!!!!

Curtain. Praise the fucking Lords of daytime soap operas.

IT AIN”T GROUNDHOG DAY NO MORE!!!!

Don’t tell me you were walking the dog, Windsong!

Good for Douglas, surely it can’t be long now. Too much time spent on Flo and Zoe, for heaven’s sake we want the truth, now!!

Yeah. Watched the episode on Tenplay tonight. The rest of the episode was a write-off, but in the final seconds, Douglas reveals to Hope and Liam that, “Beth is alive.”

I’m pretty certain that this will go nowhere. You just know, tomorrow night, Thomas will emerge from the bedroom, be outraged at Douglas for telling lies, grab the kid and then throw him off a cliff. Besides, Douglas doesn’t actually have any of the proof (that Flo or Zoey or Zander or Shauna or, hell, Liam’s currently in the process of getting), so I can see them easily dismissing him.

But gosh, I hope they don’t.

It must be this week, at least. Of course Roach will put a gag on Douglas, bit where there is smoke…..and there has been more smoke than a Cheech and Chong, or Bob Marley party.

So, as I predicted last night? Nothing happened. Neither Hope nor Liam had the brains to believe Douglas, despite all the crazy crap that has been going on around them. Hope starts crying and rushes outside, while Liam has that, “did I leave the oven on?” expression of vague puzzlement on his face.

Anyway, Thomas briefly repeats his instruction to Douglas not to tell anyone anything about Beth, and Douglas promises, “I never will again.” Smart kid. Actually, Douglas shoots Thomas a look of pure venom, as Thomas is leaving, and it’s kind of heartening to realise that Douglas hates him just as much as the rest of us do.

Afterwards, Thomas takes Hope to a hotel room (that looks like every other room that ever appears on this show) and puts the moves on her, sweet-talking her until she gives in and they start making out.

Back at Steffy’s, Steffy goes to get the girls (who are sound sleepers, apparently. Geez, you think?) while Liam chats to Douglas. Seriously, Liam. If the five-year-old is trying to lead you guys to the conclusion, that says very bad things about the cognitive abilities of the rest of you. The episode ends with Liam reasoning, “If Beth was alive, you could go and point her out to me.” And Douglas responds, “But I can.” Roll credits. These idiots.

Oh, and every now and then, we cut back to Forrester Creations with Zoey and Flo having the same conversation they’ve been having since January. My gosh, I want Zoey to go to jail, just so she’ll finally shut up about this whole thing.

Well that gets a like, a like and a like. For comments, not for Forrester brains.
Wow, it is frustrating. I would hate for little Douglas to get sexually abused. No one listens to him.
And speaking of sexual abuse, Mope has to fall asleep at some point. Thomas makes his best moves when the woman is unconscious. That’s how Dougie was conceived.

Òòooooooph, surely not long now, and hopefully before the weekend. Liam is on the case! I hope that Thomas does not force himself on Hope, or at least lets hope she’s on the pill. He looks evil tonight. I really don’t know how Flo has stayed sane and not td the truth. Oh well, we’ll know all about it soon

That final scene, though. After months and months of build-up, Liam’s finally on the verge of figuring it out.

And it only took some very generous hints, from a five-year-old, to get there. Like, seriously Liam, this doesn’t reflect well on you.

Thomas’s sexual frustration has reached such a boiling point, I’m afaraid he’s going to commit (another) crime. He needs some bromide to calm that desperate trouser snake of his.

Liam knows Douglas holds the key to he case, but is too dumb to ask the right questions, ie. “Who in fucks name told you baby Beth is still alive?” Thomas has an evil streak, too for such a cherub. He appears more switched on than the rest of the cast. Offer him a designer job, tout de suite.

To the other CEO’s and assorted fools , it’s just baby talk. The sooner Thomas can get Douglas to mysteriously choke on his Corn Flakes, the better.

Skeletor and Flo wasted film about the prison ultimatum again. Boy is it old hat.

I’m smelling closure on its way. Or disclosure. Closure would involve Thomas, handcuffs, a court hearing and a prison sentence. It would involve jail sentences for Flo, Hooks and possibly Taylor, Zoe and a few others. But I guess they don’t have a prison/jail set and only borrowed the one they used for Ridges.
I predict another wedding on the horizon. Mope will have to remarry Liam after her annuimen to Roach.

Ah, I typed a recap and it must’ve disappeared into the spam folder! No!