Bold & Beautiful Bombshell: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Hints at Explosive Twists as Steffy Plots Logan Take-Down
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The Logan/Forrester Feud that has powered The Bold and the Beautiful for years took a hella sharp turn with Steffy’s firing of Hope — and it is almost surely not the last one that we can expect. Now that the co-CEO has shown Hope the door, she’s crossing her fingers that Brooke will be inspired to follow her through the exit. “I would be lying if I said no,” that hasn’t crossed Steffy’s mind, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood tells Soaps.com. “That wasn’t Steffy’s motivation at first, but now that she’s had time to think about it.”
Though it would make perfect sense for Steffy to blame dad Ridge for the Logan/Forrester feud, given the way he spent her entire life ping-ponging between Brooke and Taylor, Daddy’s girl doesn’t. Her love for him is so great that he’s able to sit out the blame game. “That is a really complicated question,” Wood says. “Honestly, I think deep down Steffy only blames Brooke — for everything.”
Whether or not Ridge needed them, he scored a lot of brownie points with Steffy when he backed her decision to pink-slip Hope. “Oh my goodness, having Ridge’s support was everything,” Wood exclaims. “She wanted his support but wasn’t quite sure because, you know, Brooke…
“But,” she adds, “she feels very grounded and very strong as co-CEO with Ridge’s support.”
Granddad Eric attempted to convince Steffy to un-fire Hope… to no avail. It’s unlikely that anyone could’ve gotten her to change her mind. “Steffy loves her grandfather more than anyone, but no, Hope had to go,” Wood says. “End of story. Steffy is like her grandmother — resilient. She is not one to look back. Even when it’s sad, Steffy learns something, and her strength always shines through.”
Even when Steffy learns that Hope was not lying in wait in lingerie in order to pounce on Finn, should he happen by the design office, there’s about as much of a chance of her changing her stance on her sometime stepsister as there is of Forrester designing a line of potato sacks. Rather than feel guilty about her rush to judgment, Steffy, her portrayer predicts, will see the situation as one in which the end “totally justifies the means.”
Still, Steffy has a major shock coming her way — the revelation that Hope and Carter are in a serious relationship. Suddenly, the boss will have to look at her COO’s staunch support of Hope For the Future in a whole new light. No doubt, Steffy will be furious that both he and Hope lied for so long rather than admit that they were tag-teaming her because they were in love. “That is going to be a big and very intense moment,” Wood promises. “Keep watching, because there will be lots of twists that, well, Steffy at least doesn’t see coming.”
