Bold & Beautiful Just Set Up Thomas’ Return — in a Way *No One* Will See Coming (2024)

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Candace Young

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024

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It’s not rocket science to see where the Forrester Creations storyline is headed next on Bold & Beautiful, but what you may not have picked up on was how Thomas’ return will tie in to the current goings-on… perhaps because the means by which he’s brought home is almost unimaginable!

Ridge’s sudden desire to focus on design and step back as co-CEO came at us a tad out of the blue considering he was so adamant about running the company several months ago that he was battling with his severely ill father over it. But that’s old news we suppose.

Perhaps almost losing Eric put things in perspective for Ridge, who is determined to direct all of his energies at shoring up the couture line. Who can blame him? We’d rather be drawing than breaking up fights between Steffy and Hope all day too.

In any case, the timing of his declaration just happened to coincide with Steffy wanting to ax the Hope For the Future line, and with Hope begging Brooke to step in and take over at Forrester… so it’s not hard to see where it’s all headed.

Bold & Beautiful spoilers tell us Ridge will make a surprising offer to Brooke, which can only be to step in for him as co-CEO given the foreshadowing. After all, last we saw him he was musing, “There must be someone who could step up and help,” when his daughter told him running the show on her own would be “a lot on her plate”.

With Hope pushing Brooke to rep the Logans, it’s a no-brainer that she’ll say yes. So, what does that have to do with Thomas? Well, we’ll tell ya.

With or without Brooke at the helm, Hope’s line is on the chopping block if the numbers don’t improve in the next quarter… and as Bold & Beautiful has told us over and over again, the only way Hope For the Future can truly thrive is by having Thomas design it.

Given that protecting her daughter’s line is going to be Brooke’s top priority, Bold & Beautiful has set up the almost unimaginable to happen — Thomas’s biggest detractor will have to convince him to come back and save HFTF.

You may be thinking that will never happen, but Brooke had inched a smidge closer to accepting Hope’s relationship with Thomas before the failed proposal debacle that sent him overseas, and Bold & Beautiful is always willing and ready to change a character’s outlook on a dime if it supports a plot.

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Yup, we think Ridge is going to install Brooke as Steffy’s co-CEO, and the blonde will realize the only way to save Hope’s line is for Thomas to return. The catch? She’ll have to convince him personally, which is something no one will ever see coming, including Thomas and Brooke!

Where do you think the Forrester Creations storyline is going? Let us know in the comments after joining us in remembering soap stars we’ve lost in 2024 in the photo gallery below.

Daytime lost a true great in January of 2024 when the co-creator of Santa Barbara <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/713465/santa-barbara-creator-bridget-dobson-dead/" target="_blank">passed away at age 85</a>. The trailblazing Emmy winner also served as headwriter of Guiding Light, As the World Turns and General Hospital, the soap created by her parents, Frank and Doris Hursley.

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2/20

Legendary Days of Our Lives vet Bill Hayes <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/714349/bill-hayes-doug-williams-died-dead/" target="_blank">passed away on January 12, 2024</a> at the age of 98. Married to his co-star Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie) for nearly 50 years, he will always be remembered for playing one of Salem’s longest-running characters, Doug Williams. Read the tributes as <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/bill-hayes-dead-remembered-days-of-our-lives-doug/" target="_blank">daytime remembers the beloved actor</a>.

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3/20

On January 12, the I Wanna Be a Soap Star winner who played Dixie Cooney’s half brother Del Henry on All My Children from 2005-07 <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/714406/soap-star-dead-alec-musser-all-my-children/" target="_blank">died by suicide at age 50</a>. “I loved this guy. Cannot believe he is gone,” Instagrammed Adam Sandler, who cast the hunk in his 2010 movie Grown Ups. “Such a wonderful, funny, good man.”

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4/20

On January 21, the sad news went out that the alum of General Hospital spinoff Port Charles — he replaced Michael Dietz as Joe Scanlon — had passed away at just 58 years old. The actor had also starred on the primetime soap Savannah and played out a memorable arc on the original Beverly Hills, 90210.

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5/20

In late January, One Life to Live leading lady Erika Slezak’s website broke the news that the Emmy winner and husband Michael Davies’ beloved daughter had suddenly passed away at age 42. Fans of the soap will recognize Amanda from her 2003 stint as a teenage Viki in flashbacks.

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6/20

An original cast member of Knots Landing, Murray played Abby’s brother and Karen’s ill-fated first husband, Sid Fairgate. The Oscar-nominated actor, who boasted a mile-long list of film credits, died on February 2 at age 94.

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7/20

Veteran actor Malachy McCourt passed away on March 11, 2024, at the age of 92. Though he had numerous credits throughout his career, he will always be remembered by daytime fans as beloved bartender Kevin McGuinness on Ryan’s Hope, as well as Father Clarence on All My Children. He also turned up on One Life to Live as Mr. Kenneally and played a landlord on Guiding Light, a priest on Another World and Big Begelowe on Search for Tomorrow.

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8/20

In March, we learned that the General Hospital alumna who’d played Bobbie’s stepdaughter Terry (via first husband D.L.) in the 1980s had passed away at age 64 on March 12, 2024. Bernard, whose sister Crystal was a regular on Wings, also appeared on The Facts of Life and Simon & Simon.

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9/20

Beth Peters, who played Agnes Whitaker on General Hospital, passed away at the age of 92 on March 14, 2024. For those who don’t recall, Agnes lived on a farm in Beechers Corners, where Luke and Laura took refuge while on the run in 1980.

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10/20

March 21 took from us Ron Harper, who was best known for Land of the Lost and Planet of the Apes. But the actor, 91 years old when he passed, also had a long and storied career in daytime, appearing on Where the Heart Is, Love of Life, Capitol and Generations (with, as you can see, Joan Pringle and Dorothy Lyman).

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11/20

After suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy for seven years, the soap-hopper — who made her biggest impact as Young & Restless hooker-turned-nun Gwen Sherman in the 1970s — died on March 18 at age 76.

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12/20

Barbara Rush passed away on Sunday, March 31, 2024, at the age of 97. The actress, who had numerous credits on her resume, may be remembered by soap fans for her roles as Marsha Russell on Peyton Place and Nola Orsini on All My Children.

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13/20

An Emmy winner for her work as a writer on General Hospital, Bennett also starred on Young & Restless in the early 1980s as Victor Newman’s first wife, Julia. Over the years, she also appeared on Search for Tomorrow and Santa Barbara and, in the late 1990s, was co-headwriter of Aaron Spelling’s Sunset Beach.

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14/20

The veteran actress, who had played the Abbott family’s gadabout matriarch Dina on and off for nearly 40 years on The Young and the Restless, died at age 85 on April 25. The Emmy winner is also fondly remembered for her work as Eric’s first love Beth on The Bold and the Beautiful.

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15/20

In May 2024, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lynn-loring-dead-search-for-tomorrow-tv-executive-1235864577/" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a> learned that Lynn Loring passed away on December 23, 2023, at the age of 80. Though the actress will be remembered by daytime fans for playing Patti on Search for Tomorrow, she appeared in numerous primetime hits such as Fair Exchange, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The F.B.I.

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16/20

The veteran actor, who passed away on May 16 at age 92, will probably always be best-known as the boss from hell in 9 to 5. But in the early 1970s, the rising star passed through daytime, recurring as Dr. Tracy Graham on Bright Promise (opposite Susan Brown, who’d later play Gail on General Hospital).

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17/20

On May 26, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/26/general-hospital-actor-johnny-wactor-dead-shot-killed-robbery-attempt-car-catalytic-converter/" target="_blank">TMZ</a> broke the horrifying news that the General Hospital alum, who played Brando Corbin from 2020-22, was shot and killed during an alleged robbery. He was 37 years old.

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18/20

Elizabeth MacRae passed away in her hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina on May 27, 2024 at 88. The actress will always be remembered by her daytime fans for having roles on such soaps as General Hospital as Meg Bentley, Another World as Gertrude Beaudine, Days of Our Lives as Phyllis Anderson, Guiding Light as Agatha Dobson and Search for Tomorrow as Jozie.

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19/20

Janis Paige passed away on June 2, 2024 at the age of 101. The beloved actress will be remembered for her many, many roles, but in daytime she was known for playing Minx Lockridge on Santa Barbara in the early 1990s. Prior to that, she played Iona Huntington on General Hospital, as well as Laureen Clegg on Capital, and starred as Jan in the 1950s sitcom It’s Always Jan.

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20/20

Colon cancer claimed the life of the veteran actor on April 28, 2024. Scarfe, who died at age 77, is best remembered by daytime fans as One Life to Live con artist Leo Cromwell, who back in 1988 sought not only to find a way into the mythical city of Eterna but also to convince Viki that his daughter was her long-lost child.

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