La di Diva

Wyatt, oh Wyatt honey. You are this close to being dead to me. Sally has been gone less than 24 hours and you're about to jump Flo because you think you should explore your feelings? Because Flo is so honest and will never lie to you? I don't want to see this happen but you are going to be crushed flat when you find learn Flo's Phoebeth Secret. My hunch is Flo is going to tell Wyatt the truth and beg him to forgive her and keep her secret. And Wyatt, besotted as he is trying to recapture his lost high school love, will probably hesitate a while before he spills all, if he does. I want someone to punch "Tom" (TM Liam) in his very punchable beady-eyed face. Maybe even punch him more than once. Tom will probably whine to Cray Tay about getting Liam away from Hope and back with Steffy and the girls, so Tom can slither in and marry Hope. I fully expect Cray Tay to enlist Sludge's help to break up Lope. Sludge may also prey on her grief and tell her to stop thinking of herself but consider Douglas and "the girls". I mean, if you're Sludge who cares about Hope's happiness when you can guilt trip her into giving up her marriage and the man she has only and always loved so that your entitled brats can have what they want. It would be very soapy goodness if Flo spilled the whole Phoebeth story at the Tope wedding right at the "does anyone know..." part. Zoe could try to stop Flo from talking screeching that she promised to protect Dr Shady Brady. Wyatt could look gobsmacked and then angry. Tom could argue that it doesn't make any difference because Douglas still needs a mother. Sludge could back up that argument. Brooke could squinty eye Sludge. Liam could look over the moon that Phoebe is really his daughter. Quinn could be embarrassed. Steffy could realize her daughter is a victim of human trafficking, etc, etc, etc. The wedding of course will be at Brooke's house and everyone will be there, even those who have no reason to be. The wedding day drama could play out over weeks of screen time. End result = Liam and Hope remarry, because it's already a wedding, while Hope is holding Beth. There could then be the "Tom the crazy stalker" SL where he kidnaps Hope because he still needs a mother for Douglas. Sally could help in the Hope rescue promising Tom she'll be Douglas' mother. The whole thing very dramatic on the FC roof. Tom holding Hope at knife point, Sally telling him it's ok she'll go with him and Douglas and they'll be a family. Wyatt and Liam grabbing Tom while Sally pulls Hope and Douglas out of the way. Lots of fall for couples and others as Lope reunite with their daughter. Wyatt kicks Flo to the curb. Quinn give Shauna what for when she finds out she knew the Phoebeth secret. Possible end of Bridge as Brooke reams Sludge a new one for tormenting Hope with guilt. Quinn has to apologize to Sally. Zoe is fired from FC, Charlie escorts her from the building. Flo is fired from FC and has to grovel to Hope and her aunts and work to regain their trust and a place as a Logan. Wyatt and Sally find their way back to each other, maybe, after months and months of work.

Zoe started as a full on crazy stalker, maybe Show is taking her back in that direction. She does seem jealous that the woman she thought was low class turns out to be a Logan and well connected to the Forresters. Zoe only has Shady Brady Daddy and Flo has a slew of aunts, cousins and uncles by marriage. The Logans are firmly on Flo's side; Shanna is $Bill's old flame, and $Bill won't play nice if he finds out what Zoe is up to. Make Zoe crazy then a big scene of her threatening Flo and Phoebeth and possibly Hope on Forresters roof. Wyatt and Liam save the day while Zoe rants, froths , and spills the Phoebeth tea would be a good way to end the baby switch, get rid of Zoe, cement Lope's relationship, and sorta kind of redeem Flo. Because everyone will think Flo kept silent because Zoe was threatening her, Hope and the baby.

I think Sally apologized to Thomas because, unseen by us, she probably called Carowhine a variety of ugly names when Thomas abruptly dumped her in NY. I was never a Carowhine fan, and certainly not a CarRidge fan so not terribly unset by her death. I suspect Flo is for Thomas; there will be a chem test in a few weeks. Thomas probably meets Flo through Hope. Also I think Thomas will be part of the PhoeBeth reveal. He knows what it's like to have his child kept from him. Already on Friday we had the ThomHope interaction, which was nice, low key and seemed like the beginning of a friendship. Spoilers say Hope will help out with Douglas. What if Flo confesses to Thomas about PhoeBeth? Then Thomas is torn between keeping Flo's secret, hurting Hauxdi by taking her new toy, and further hurting Hope by keeping Beth from her. Please Show, do not have him ask Sludge for advice. Sludge will tell Thomas to keep his mouth shut. Because you can't hurt pwetty pwetty Pwincess Hauxdi by taking away her new toy.... uh... daughter. . and besides Lope can have another baby. So yep, bygones on the baby stealing. But I would flove to see Thomas read Cray Tay for filth for being part of the babynap. Even if she didn't "know" the details, Cray Tay had to suspect something was up as perfect white babies just don't magically appear when desired. Maybe there was an off screen scene with Dr. Shady where he confesses all to her and we see the flashback. And Show, if Spectra is rising from the ashes, please, pretty please can we have Gran, Saul and Darlita return? Please?

I'm just waiting until Sludge tells Brooke that she should advise Hope to let go of Liam and help push Liam back to Hauxdi. Because after all now that the reason Lope got married in the first place is gone there is no excuse for Lope to stay together. And yes I think Sludge is crass and heartless enough to say this. I think he's enough of an asshat to say this to Hope and try to sent her back to Milan. So... waiting for this to happen and praying my girl Brooke will give Sludge the squint eye and then throw his greasy self out of her house -- for good. Also I predict Cray Tay and Sludge will find out Phoebeth is Beth and scheme to keep the secret from Lope. They'll probably bring Hauxdi in on it. Because we all know Hauxdi won't give up her new toy until she is forced to. Probably by a court. There's a thought -- a custody case in which Lope try to prove the Phobeth is really theirs. A DNA test shows a match between Flo and Phoebeth, so Hauxdi argues that of course Flo is the bio mother. In a stunning moment on the stand worthy of Perry Mason, Flo reveals the whole Dr. Shady plot and that the DNA match is because she's Hope's sister via Deacon. Dr. Shady makes a surprise appearance and confesses what he's done just before being hauled off to jail. Judge Joe Lando can reappear as the family court judge. This time when Sludge tries to blackmail him, Judge Joe can say aw hell no.

JMW cannot leave my screen soon enough. I want the martyr Hope SL over ASAP. Maybe the truth will come out and Hauxdi will disappear with Kelly and Phoebeth. JMW can be on maternity leave. Bill will move heaven and earth to find Hauxdi and the girls. He'll restore Beth to Lope and thus will begin the healing of the Bill/Liam relationship. As Thomas is returning, are they going to explain the Carowhine and Douglas situation? Are they going to be off screen in NY awaiting his return? Will Thomas explain to Sally he lost his damn mind when he went back to Carowhine? Will he declare his undying Tally love and want her back? Will he say he now realizes he can be Douglas' father without living with Carowhine? That would be novel -- a B&B character realizing parents don't have to be together. Sludge's head will explode if he hears Thomas say that.

Anyone have the over / under on how quickly Sludge starts browbeating Liam to go back to Hauxdi? Because Kelly and Phoebeth need a family, and Hauxdi needs his help, and Hope has revived HFTF to keep her busy, and her mother to help her, and Steam belong together, And besides the reason for marrying Hope in the first place is gone now so no reason to continue the marriage. I absolutely believe Sludge will tell Liam that without Beth there is no reason to be married to Hope. It will never occur to Sludge or Cray Tay that Liam loves Hope and they will probably try again after a while. Just like it never occurs to them that Hauxdi taking a midnight ride on the Stallion is the reason Liam left her.

I thought for sure Thorne knew that Steffy whacked Ally in "self defense" and all the circumstances of her death. If he doesn't maybe this is how we get Steffy off screen while JMW is out on maternity leave. Thorne decides to visit the scene of Ally's death and in poking around finds the tire iron Steffy threw away after she hit Ally. As far as I know Steffy never told the police about the tire iron. Maybe Ivy still has the video stored on a thumb drive somewhere and sends it to Thorne. Thorne takes it to the police .... And what with one thing and another, Steffy ends up doing 2 or 3 months in the slammer for involutary nmanslaughter or something. Thorne leaves for Paris because he can't bear to be in Bell A any more. He asks Katie to come with, but she sadly says no because Will needs to be near this father. Thorne agrees, he leaves and they quietly divorce. With Thorne off the show, the way is clear for Batie to reunite, and Thorne can return when needed.

@ Anna Yolei "... this version of Ridge who is as miscast as Jason Thompson as Billy Abbott." Yes, yes, yes! x 1000 to this. RM's Ridge did some terrible things throughout the years, but I never outright hated him like I do TK's Ridge. Most of the time these days I just want to slap the smirk and entitlement off Sludge's face. When it finally comes out that "Phoebe" is really Beth, Sludge will be yelling the loudest that it isn't fair for Lope to take away Hauxdi's daughter. Never mind that Beth is Lope's child. And really never mind that Sludge is the main cheerleader for a child belongs with both her natural parents. I guess that only applies if Hauxdi is the mother. I fully expect Sludge to push and browbeat Liam to leave Hope and raise Kelly and Beth with the slattern. If that happens I want Brooke to punch Sludge in the throat, throw his trifling freeloading butt out of her house, and be done with him forever.

I was a teeny bit disappointed with AN when she first came on as Hope. But damn, she has grown and come into her own. We see the sweetness of Hope tempered with a bit of bitchery (her initial reaction to Sally working for HFTF, and at Ridge stiffing her for Stuffy's bedroom). Now with this Baby Beth SL she's on fire! Sad, angry, desperate unbelief, bottomless despair ... all the beats in playing her grief at losing the long awaited baby. But geez if sweet Hope didn't appear for a moment when she and Wyatt were talking about the loss of their son. AN's Hope is not a one note character. Yes she's sweet, kind and "good" but she's more than that. AN is showing us all those layers. Kudos to the writers of the Lope/ foursome scenes this past week. AN is soooooooo much better at showing us a multifaceted person, which is how Show seems to be writing Hope these days. Hauxdi is still a one note slattern. She's all cha cha cha and no cattle

Ummmmm..... didn't Raya name their daughter Elizabeth, aka Lizzie, after Brooke's mother. Why on earth is BabyLope also going to be Elizabeth aka Beth? Show, seriously you don't need a Lizzie and a Beth. You know .... It's not a requirement to name your Spencer/Logan/Forrester baby after someone in the family. There are plenty of other baby names If determined to use a family name go farther afield. Why not name the baby after Bill's mother? (Do we even know what her name was?) Or name the baby after Liam and call her Leigh. Since there is a Hope why not Faith? Erica after brother Rick. Angel/ Angela because you live in Los Angeles. Heck go really wild and name her Deana or Connie after Deacon. We know he's never been much of a father, but after all Stuffy is named for Satanie. Come on Show, at least try to be creative.

Catching up on B&B by watching episodes on line. I finally got a really good look at Cray Tay's face when she and Stuffy (bad wig, bad) were remembering Phoebe. OMG. Cray's lips look like over inflated inner tubes. And her cheeks! What on earth did she do? They look like a squirrel with 10 walnuts stuffed in each. I know HTy was never a great actress and SF carried her in any Taylor/Stephanie scenes, but seriously........ HTy is just awful. I think all that Botox has rotted away what little talent she had. Ok and BEC here ... but who is dressing HTy with the tight, low cut, abundant cleavage tops? I'm not a prude, but not appropriate, not attractive, certainly not sexy. HTy is not a young fresh thing. I'm not suggesting Stephanie pantsuits, but HTy is mutton dressed as lamb. And don't get me started on the way Donna dresses.

Just throwing this out there What if all of Cray Tay's crying and sobbing and blubbering and angst and terror and pleading people to keep her secret is an act to make everyone feel sorry for her? Make everyone believe she's too emotionally fragile to withstand jail? What if she's really a stone cold wanna be killer who planned to shoot Bill? Premediated murder, not a sudden irrational impulsive fugue state.

Maybe Cray Tay will persuade Dr. Windsor Castle** to help her kidnap Baby Lopetina and tell Lope the baby died at birth. I have to say Dr. WC can't be much of a doc if he doesn't see how cray Tay is. Seriously, who spills all that nutty Tea to someone she just met minutes ago. Steffy were you watching and listening? Your mother isn't stressed and/or upset. She unhinged. Her therapy isn't working, if she's even in therapy. I'm betting not. And of course Sludge isn't disturbed that Tay shot Bill in the back and left him to die. Sludge threw Bill off a balcony to do the same thing. ** Great name! Thanks smartyshorts

During Ridge and TayTay's conversation, I got the distinct hint Cray Tay is going to try to shoot Bill again. She's ranting all over town to everyone that It's. All. Bill's Fault. Everything. Is. All. Bill's Fault. I think Cray Tay is going to draw down on Bill in front to S/H/L, maybe Brooke will be there. Cray T will rant and rave and wave a gun at Bill and in general wave it at the assembled group. She might fire off a warning shot or 2 close to Bill's head. Possibly one over Brooke's head just because she's a blond Logan. It will be painfully obviously to everyone that Cray has completely lost it. Cray will take dead aim at Bill. Steffy will try to stop her and in the struggle for the gun both Steffy and Hope will be shot. Det. Snachez shows up and Cray Tay is dragged off kicking and screaming that it's all Bill's fault and he deserves to die for what he did and he'd better watch his back because she'll be back. Liam and Bill clue Det Sanchez in on Cray being Bill's shooter. Hope ends up having an emergency C section and premature baby. Drama there for Liam and the new mom. Steffy ends up in a coma thereby allowing JMW to go on maternity leave. Liam is sole parent to Kelly for a while and he, Hope and the 2 little girls seriously bond as a family. Steffy finally wakes up, maybe has to go through physical therapy. Then there's the drama, possibly custody battle when Liam and Hope want to keep Kelly. Because Cray Tay might get out one day and Kelly needs to be kept away from her. This sets up a possible recurring SL where Tay escapes from the nuthouse and returns terrorizing everyone for months until she's caught. Maybe kidnaps Kelly or Baby Lope before she's caught. Lots of potential in a Cray Tay character in short term SLs

Fearless prediction: Ridge and Thorne are going to gang up and beat the hell out of Bill, enough to put him in the hospital. Ridge because Bill "put his hands all over [his] wife" and Thorne because he's angry Katie is giving Bill more time with Will. Thorne is so obviously using Will to make up for losing Ally. If Will isn't ripped from Bill and Stepdaddy Thorne can step in completely, Thorne will feel like he's losing Ally all over again. It would be interesting to see Throne melt down over having to share Will with his real father. A scene in which he conflates losing Will to losing Ally and rants and screams about losing his son ... uh daughter ... uh son to that monster Bill. A scene in which, maybe, he admits he married Katie mostly to be a father again.

Oh Steffy STFU. You only told Daddy Sludge about "The Kiss" because you are so ticked off that Bill admitted that Brooke was his one and only and that you ... Hauxdi ... were merely a stupid, lost his damn mind for a minute, highly regrettable interlude for Bill. Oh and what's with the hinting to Wyatt that Brill is back on? Actually not just Brill, but a torrid illicit affair. Sludge get down off your high horse and take a stadium full of seats. You were trying to sex up Quinn and slobber kissing all over her, behind Eric's, and Brooke's, back. You can just join your Haux daughter in the corner and STFU too.

'Victoria Barkley' slap!!! Oh crowsworks I loved "The Big Valley" back in the day. Saw it in reruns, but totally adored Barbara Stanwyck's Victoria Barkley character.

Sludge is looking waaaay too smug and pleased with himself. He's going to spill to Brooke that "by this time tomorrow" Bill will have lost custody. Brooke will ask how can he know that and Sludge will puff up and say he fixed it with his ol pal ol' buddy ol' friend the Judge "who "owes" him a favor. I swear that Ridge was asking the Judge to terminate Bill's rights completely. It's how he keeps talking with his 'Bill will lose everything" proclamations Brooke will be appalled. I except her to go tell Bill or at the very least agonize over whether to tell him. She might tell Katie instead, which could cause her to drop the suit at the last minute. In either case I suspect she'll be disgusted and angry at Sludge and tell him he's playing as dirty as he always accuses $Bill of. That they are really exactly alike. The first crack in Bridge perhaps?

Justin is going to find the connection between Ridge and the Judge. The Judge is already so torn by what Ridge is insisting he do. I suspect at the last moment the Judge will rule that the joint custody agreement stands as is. Not because $Bill coerces him, but because he sees it's the right thing to do. Ridge's "You owe me" be damned. And might I say Joe "Silver Fox" Lando is looking mighty fine. Much, much better than TK.

Well, he kind of did -- because he wanted Carowhine to continue to lie about Thomas being Douglas' father. Even though it was incredibly obvious that the continued lie was freaking Carowhine out, Sludge was A-ok keeping Thomas from his son for ... reasons. Prime reason being Sludge is a selfish jerk who wants what he wants and the hell with everyone else. I really hope Thorne butting into Batie custody battle leads to an epic melt down about Aly's death, how he wasn't there for her, and his overwhelming guilt about her death. I also want him to tear into Hauxdi for wielding the tire iron. I believe IR has the chops to pull it off. Liam seriously, why didn't you tell Hope beforehand that RG was Hauxdi's OB and suggest she find another doctor? Oblivious much? This whole set up is just needlessly embarrassing for all concerned. Maybe this leads to RG letting slip that OPBG was conceived earlier than previously thought. Thereby letting Liam know he's not the baby daddy. One can but dream.

Sludge mentioned Phoebe today!!!!! Well... he didn't actually say her name, but he did mention he and Taylor had twins. I think this is the first time I've heard Ridge acknowledge he had another daughter since TK(never not)Ridge showed up. I think Taylor plans to physically keep Hope from the wedding (gondola anyone) and assumes that Liam will just naturally re-marry Hauxdi because Hope isn't there. And ........ seriously Show can you pleeeeeease stop having characters refer to Liam as Hauxdi's husband. Looking at you Sludge and CrayCrayTay. He is not. He annulled her ass because she's a loose booty haux who effed his father -- All. Night. Long. Even Hauxdi keeps reminding people they aren't married because she effed Liam's father. Of course, CrayCrayTay keeps referring to Sludge as "my husband" as if they were still married so there's that.

Fearless prediction. After the Still wedding $Bill produces the real true paternity test, The one that shows he is the father. Bill will explain that he initially altered the results when Liam chose Steffy because he wanted Steam to be a family, Bill kept the paternity a secret until after the wedding because he wanted Steffy to marry him for himself, not because he's the baby daddy. But now .... the truth is out -- because Still is married and Lope are together. Oh and the first thing Bill would like is to change Kelly's name. What's Bill's mother's name or Satanie's middle name or maybe Phoebe? Bill as baby daddy and the Still marriage solves the Liam with 2 baby mamas problem, makes Sludge's head explode, and probably helps break up Bridge. Sludge is going to rant and rave like mad to break up Still and reunite Steam even though Liam's not the father. His confrontation today with Hope was just the beginning. Have to say I'm so proud of my girl for standing up to the Sludge.

Emma, Xander and Zoe can get off my screen this damn minute and stay off. OMG!!!! these 3 make Ronnnnnnn Mossssssss look like Sir Laurence Olivier. None of them can act. At all. Not even a little. Plus -- I. Do. Not. Care. what Xander's secret past is. I don't care what he and Zoe got up to in London. Xander and Emma are boring and have zero chemistry. I am not interested in the least in watching this summer's teen scene. It is 1000x worse than the Summer of Coco & Slouchy. The fact Show put Emma and Xander in the credits is a travesty. More Wally please. Thatie is even growing on me. Bring Julius and Viv on regularly. If Show wants/needs a new character bring on the computer guru from today. Seriously the kids are not all right -- they are all wrong. Dear God in Heaven (tm Katherine Chancellor) make it stop. And is it me or was it painfully obvious today that the threatening messages to Hope were actually addressed to Xander from Zoe? Hopefully Sally will figure the whole thing out quickly and Zoe can be gone.

I want BabyLope to be a boy. I think Deacon Logan Spencer is a perfect name, called Logan or maybe Cooper Spencer. OPBG got the Kelly part. BabyLope gets the Cooper

Anyone but me think Ridge is going to tell Brooke that Hope cannot have Liam's baby. Sludge will most likely say that Hope should not go through with the pregnancy for the sake of Slutty's precious family. I think Sludge would have no qualms at all telling Brooke she has to convince Hope that she should get a termination right away. He'll probably also say it's awfully convenient for Hope to be pregnant now that Steam have reunited, and suggest she got knocked up on purpose. He'll probably want to send Hope back to Milan immediately to keep her away from Liam so she can't tell him about the baby. Brooke will be furious at all this and will let Sludge know that Liam is being told right that minute.