Bold and the Beautiful: Ridge’s Interference Backfires – Forces Eric to Walk Away!?

Bold and the Beautiful has Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) finding out Eric Forrester‘s (John McCook) big secret this week. And when he does, Ridge is going to explode.

Let’s talk about how they’re going to probably force Eric to quit designing for Katie Logan (Heather Tom) at Logan.

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This week there’s just a perfect storm of bad circumstances. Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) and Katie are talking with Eric about when the collection is going to be ready. He doesn’t want to be rushed and tells Bill and Katie that perfection takes time. Katie gets that because she’s worked at Forrester and understands it, but Bill is not a patient guy.

There’s some debate over the materials and Eric is not happy. Bill had to remind him they can’t use the same suppliers that Forrester Creations uses, even though those are better fabrics, because that would risk the big secret about Eric being the designer at Logan going public.

Bill said he had to make an executive decision. Katie was pressing Eric, saying they need some idea of when they can launch, but at the same time, she says she’ll do whatever she can to support him. Bill says he wants to be respectful of Eric, but he’s also pushing to launch Logan as fast as possible.

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Eric didn’t like the way the designs looked on the models. He said it’s all wrong and the work is shoddy. He wants everything to be perfect, but Bill snapped and said they can’t keep delaying the launch.

Eric clapped back, insisting he won’t do this if it can’t be done right. He’s very wrapped up in making this collection better than Forrester. Eric wants to show Ridge up because he forced Eric out.

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Meanwhile, Ridge was over at Forrester telling Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) that the doctor he and Eric share is worried about his dad’s stress levels. Of course, Ridge is wondering how Eric is stressed out. He thinks he’s retired and playing pickleball.

Ridge thinks that Eric is enjoying being retired and hanging out with Donna Logan (Jennifer Gareis), not doing anything stressful. Here’s what I wonder: why is Eric’s doctor breaking the law and blabbing about his private health matters to Ridge? That’s not okay—not one little bit.

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Donna showed up over at Forrester Creations and Ridge asked why Eric is so stressed. And Donna is nervous and covers, saying Eric misses being at Forrester, which is true enough. She said he’s just trying to start a different future.

Ridge wondered what that meant because it was cryptic. Donna was hustling out of there because she didn’t want Ridge to lob any more questions she had to dodge. She headed over to Logan, where Eric was telling her how bad his first look was at the dresses that came out of production.

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Once Donna was alone with Eric, she started telling him she’s really worried about all the stress he is under. Donna wants to know if the job is getting to him. It kind of is, but I think he also feels obligated.

Meanwhile, Katie was telling Bill she doesn’t want to push Eric, but Bill says they have to get this launch done. Katie thinks that keeping the secret from the family is a bad idea because it’s just very stressful on Eric, and we can see that happening on Bold and the Beautiful.

Donna and Eric left Logan and headed home. Donna brought up the doctor’s concerns about his stress levels, and Eric shares my opinion about this. He’s upset that his doctor violated his HIPAA privacy, but Donna kind of brushed it off and was going on about his health.

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Donna’s worried about what working for Katie and Bill could do to Eric. She thinks it’s too much. Eric admits he does not like working with Bill and can’t stand it. But there’s also a lot of ego at play because Eric doesn’t want Ridge to think he was right to kick him to the curb.

Eric admits he is overwhelmed and would be happier if he was still at Forrester. He’s working at a startup, which is stressful, versus an established company where everybody bows down to him.

Donna tells Eric she wants him to quit Logan. Later this week, Ridge and Brooke find out that Eric is the lead designer for Logan. It’s actually Katie and Bill who tell them.

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I’m betting that Katie and Bill spill primarily because Katie’s concerned about Eric, especially because he has breathing problems on Tuesday. Donna wants him to go to the hospital. We know Ridge is going to be seething when he finds out that Eric is working for Katie and Bill.

From there, there’s really only two paths to take. First, because of his anger at Ridge and because he wants to teach his son a lesson, Eric may decide to press on and keep working for Katie despite the health issues. By the end of this week, Eric is raging at Ridge, saying that Ridge is trying to take this away from him.

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Katie could come up with a way to give Eric what he wants: to keep designing with less risk. She could bring Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) in and help Eric complete what’s probably his very last collection, and then Logan gets its fashion show. That way Katie can launch and Eric can have his big last design hurrah.

The other way this could go: Ridge puts down his foot like he loves to do, thinking he’s in charge of everybody. He may demand that Eric quit Logan. I expect Ridge to rage at Bill and Katie and claim they’re trying to kill his dad. I think he’ll go all out trying to force Eric to stop.

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Things are going to get worse because when Eric is arguing with Ridge, there’s another incident and Eric’s health gets a lot worse. He’s going to collapse, struggling to breathe. Ridge is calling out to somebody to dial 911.

After this incident, I feel certain that Ridge is going to try to force Eric to quit Logan. A lot of other people will back Ridge up on that. Not only will he demand Eric quit for his health, but I think Brooke’s going to back up her husband, and Donna is also going to take their side because she doesn’t want to lose Eric.

By the end of this week, Ridge and Brooke get a confession from Eric. He wanted to do this one last collection at Forrester, but then Ridge shoved him out and wouldn’t even look at his designs. The big question now is whether Logan Designs can survive this crisis. If Eric steps away, then Katie’s got no designer and her company could be dead in the water—which she would still prefer over Eric working himself to death.

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Ridge has been low-key hoping that Katie was going to fail. He kept saying she was in over her head. In addition to being concerned about Eric, I am quite certain Ridge would happily sabotage Logan because he despises Bill.

If Katie’s company is dead by the end of February sweeps, I’m going to be a little frustrated because they built it up as this big rivalry and that hasn’t happened. It’s very typical of Brad Bell’s writing to build up to something dramatic and then it poops out. I hope Katie gets her launch.

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