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Kim Matula Leaving The Bold and the Beautiful!

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Late breaking news today has that longtime series star, Kim Matula is leaving her role as Hope Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful, after five years with the CBS daytime drama.

The Bold Insider Twitter account put out this tweet with this statement: “We wish #KimMatula the best as she moves on to other opportunities. We love Kim & she will always be a part of the #BoldandBeautiful family.”

Matula appeared on The Talk this afternoon with her co-stars, Darin Brooks (Wyatt), Scott Clifton (Liam), and Ashleigh Brewer (Ivy) promoting their upcoming Amsterdam episodes that kick-off on Friday, November 7th as part of the shows November Sweeps storyline. 

According to a B&B rep, there are no plans to recast the role of Hope at this time. On-Air On-Soaps will bring you further details as information comes to light on Matula’s departure from the series.

What do you think of Kim Matula leaving the role of Hope Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful? Comment below!

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Glory be! Best news I’ve heard regarding B&B in a long time. No offense to the actress, but the bloody character of Hope Logan has played a large part in what I feel has become the destruction of B&B. The non-stop focus on Hope and Brooke (KKL) has just been too much these past few years. They lost me as a viewer because of it.

I am just so tired of the back and forth between Liam and Wyatt it’s getting very very old

This role could so easily be recast. There must be at least 25 million blonde haired 25 year old actresses looking for a job in L.A.

Hopefully one of them can act.

hallelujah!!! I am sure she is a nice lady in person, but she just cant act worth crap. Good luck to her on getting another role. We will probably see her flipping burgers on Sunset in 2 years given her acting ability. I mean no offense to those who are cooks, it is a great career. Just saying she cant act worth dodo.

I agree they need to be together already!! The writers and screenplay writers are taking up too much time with Ariel views, ridiculous! Not replacing Hope is an epic fail! I am not surprised that Hope is moving on, she is a great actor and you can see her an Liam have a repore together, i am not mad a Wyatt but I can’t stand his face expressions it just doesn’t seem to come naturally to him. And Ivy, star stuck, love struck is aweful! I am really close to not watching this show anymore, I am down to taping it now, I used to plan my day around it LOL that is awefiul I know!! LOL. I used to watch Days many years ago, like 15 and have not watched it since, I am really close to that now with this show. I have to add Caroline walking in heels is SO over the top, if she can’t walk/ run in them then give her a lower heel. She is so fake acting except some times with Rick/ The NEW WRITERS ARE ABOUT TO LOSE ME!!!

I loved Kim she inspired so many people I was such a big fan of her always will
Thank you Kim I will miss you your so talented 🙂

if KKL & KM leave the show (B&B) that will be the best bday gift for this coming 13 of Nov.14 i put up with KKL face for 26 years on my screen in a daily basis and KM for 5 years as well please, bring KM (karla mosley) with you! Maya is a replacement of Hope as a huge pest in the show!KKL,KM and another KM (karla mosley) is a huge distraction hypocrite Witch whore character in B&B history!! please bring back Steffy,Thomas & Taylor and if possible please bring back from the dead Queen Stefanie even if recast to make B&B alive again…B&B needs a real Forrester family to run FC.

Yeah, bring back a mom and her two kids for all kinds of story!

It doesn’t bother me at all that she’s leaving, except that KKL is sure to get an even bigger part now (who thought it was possible?)!

I didn’t mean to dis the actress. She’s a beautiful young woman. I’m just tired of the whole triangle storylines. Now we’re repeating the pregnancy interrupting true love storyline. I guess Liam deserves it though!

you’ve got to be kidding me…bring back Taylor? She doesn’t need to be on the show…she has no storyline…This show will be cancelled if KKL leaves.

I agree.

I THINK KIMBERLY MATULA WILL RETURN ONE DAY.
Did you see,it adage,”Will not be re-casting KM” and i hope the ORIGINAL hope logan,kimberly matula wil return one day. She is fabulous.and many jealous of her want her gone,but i m sure one day she will return.

For now,i will watch . But if KKL and Kimberly Matula,leave for good i am no longer watching same as many others.Ratings will fall,once again,if both are going to leave for good.I hope both will not and return one day.

Please do not bring back Steffy, and Taylor, they are dilllusional, living in a dream world !! Please don’t do it!! Keep them away in Paris!

Who is Karla Mosley ?

I happen to have loved watching Kimberly Matula. I am very sorry to see her leave. She and her story line is one of the reasons I watch the show. I will greatly miss her sweetness.

Brooke & Hope make B&B worth watching

agree and hope and laim have to make it

I feel the same way..,They are the only reason I watch.. Not sure what I’ll do after Kim Matula is gone.. To me she is a breath of fresh air after a long hard day of work.. Hate she is leaving!

I agree. I’m upset Kim Matula is gone, and KKL is not here until a few weeks, I’m sorry I’m a 24 year old who thinks since they took away the hope story line, they lost me daily. I’m sorry but us younger generation can understand the love triangles!!!!This Maya and Rick show sucks!!!!!

This will be a big loss. I hope they look for someone else to replace her. No one can quite fill her shoes, but writing her off and losing another baby will be terrible. If the show is going to have women get pregnant don’t keep having them miscarry.

It needs to be Liams beby, they find out the timing was off oOR she loses the baby when Quin pushes her down and it open the door to go back to Liam!

not going to be the same with hope and brook off the show

Yes it won’t be the same with out hope, couldn’t care less if Wyuck and QUINNZILLA leaves !!!!! She definitely will be missed

If Hope is leaving the show, her crazy mother in law will probably have something to do with how she exists the show. I’m sad because she is now pregnant and it has not been proven who the father really is. Her and Liam really love each other and it will be just awful if they let her die off or maybe she’ll come up missing. I can’t see her just leaving Wyatt and never return. I don’t know, just guessing at some reasons they may have her leave the show. Anyway, good luck to Kim in her career. She’ll be missed for sure, the show won’t be the same without her in it.

Kim Matula REALLY lives her role. No fake tears or screeching here. I just wish she and Liam FI-NALLY had their happy ending here. Maybe the actress really IS pregnant and she needs to rest. I do hope she returns. I enjoyed her work. Good luck!

ally from biggest loser was hope and I must say I hated the change but this hope was fantastic!! Allie is doing very well for herself but if Hope and Liam don’t get back together I am SO done! Wyatt has no acting ability in facial expression and Ivy has no ability but to be love struck! Letting one actress go with true talent really? The new Ridge has not held up his part but that is not why I watch…. Hope and Liam make the show! Brooke and Ridge getting back together is always a great suggestion and Katie and Bill working things out. you can create drama by Caroline being pregnant with Rick’s baby and that gets them back together and Brooke and Ridge move to Paris and get married! Ivy gets with Wyatt and Quin is the outcast, she goes to jail for murdering the diamond guy! Liam goes and looks at he puppies at the shelter and Hope has a photo shoot there, she confesses her love for him and gets hit by a man on a scooter and she loses the baby, liam takes her to the hospital and finds out she was further along than they thought and it was Liam ‘s baby all along, They finallly get married and have twins, but during one break up she has sex with wyatt , the twins, as they are brothers, one has Liam ‘s DNA and the other has Wyatt’s!

i am really gonna miss Kim , i love her , she is so cute , i love her , why is she leaving , this is Bul* Sh*t , all the good actors/actresses are leaving or are already gone , BELL , what are you thinking , i’m getting to the point i dont wanna watch anymore

They are probly leaving for the same reasons we all grip about,boring story lines,it’s boring to watch everyday but it must be twice as boring to read the same lines over and over. B&B thinks it’s so great because they go to Europe for shows but are they really there or are we fed tourists sites with back ground pictures they stand in front of? Like Hope waiting for Liam near the Eiffle Tower,she was behind a hedge for crying out loud,!

I agree!! I was beginning not to watch it all the time even after 25 years! I loved her for a long time and she is a good actress, it was the storyline that was getting too old, making me feel almost stupid for watching!!

I really enjoy Kim as an actress. She is beautiful and has always had a wonderful message. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was that the storyline took her to Wyatt. They had always showed her as NOT being like her mother and how important a message that was, and then they had her going back and forth between Liam and Wyatt. She deserved to be with Liam….someone on the show could at least be happily married.

I would not watch if they took KKL off. She has been the real reason I have watched as long as I have. Since inception of the show in “87. I like Kim, but I have become very disillusioned with the show, everytime we think Hope and Liam will be together, Wyatt enters the pictured and mess things up. I do not like the character, Wyatt, nor his mother Quinn.

I dislike! I wanted her and Liam to finally get together like they should of from the beginning! I will miss her.

Let’s bring Kim Matula back to the Bold Fold! She is definitely the Hope Logan we all love on the day time soap opera. I realize Kim wants to explore her opportunities but she knows the people and she can hold her own when it comes to her character and the men. Kim needs to return so she can put Quinn in a clinic where she belongs. Quin n should pay for what she did when Hope fell down the stairs. Also Liam and Hope nesds to get married once and for all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if they will recast the role? If they do, I suggest Julie Marie Berman.

They have no plans to recast her..

Of course Hope will be recast. And very soon.

They have to recast, the show will be dull without a Hope Logan.

I have benn HOPING for Julie as Hope for years!!!!

Julie would be perfect for this role!

Looked her up good idea.

I knew being with Wyatt would end up pushing her off the deep end. She should be with Liam. I will probably quit watching if she leaves. It just isn’t the same Liam with someone else.

I will probably quit watching, me too.

I stopped watching when she married Wyatt. Only reason i heard about this was due to following the soups digest magazine page that showed it. It will b sad to see her go, but at the same time curious how they plan to write her,and the baby she is carrying , out. And when she leaves,if its tragic and she goes missing or something else that’s even more sad ,how will Liam react ,since he is with Ivy ….

Agree 1000% ! If Bell would’ve put her with LIAM she probably wouldn’t of left the show…. STUPID BELL, WHAT HAVE YOU TO THE STAR CROSSED LOVER’S-SOULMATES

Actually the actress admitted that she thinks Hope shoukd be witg Wyatt. She’s probably leaving because of the poor writing.

I love liam with Steffy. Hope was too rigid and wishwashy. Tbat is why she never got a happy ending with Liam.

I love Kim Matula, Please dont leave I am devasted, what a shocker. If thats her decision, then I support kim. Maybe she will get her own series, she is a wonderful actress. I will miss Kim on The Bold and The Beautiful.

Me too… I am heartbroken to see her go.

I agree!!! Hope is my fav actress. I do like Ivy but if Hope goes I really won’t watch bold and beautiful as many others won’t either. I really hope we will have a idea instead of not knowing with Steffy.

Best of luck for what ever the future holds for her. She will be wish

I just started watching again…so there is no HOPE she’ll change her mind?

I know she’s a little older, but I’d love to see someone like Julie Marie Berman take over this role.

Truly shocked by this exit; I really didn’t see Kim Matula leaving the show. I do wish her the best in her new ventures. I’m sure they’ll recast the role; Hope is pivotal to B&B at this point.

I agree the role likely will be recast. Still, I am tired of Hope Logan stories. The endless triangle really wore me down and turned me off to B&B.

I agree completely! I am so sick of how the show makes Hope and Brook out to be so irresistible to men, it’s about time to put us out of our misery with the Logan women!

Well there goes another B&B actor. While Hope hasn’t been my fav on the show. when she is with Wyatt I like her better. Can’t stand “Lope” that should’ve ended long ago. But my point is .
When is Mr. Bell going to realize he is losing all his good actors? I can remember back when his mom&dad was running the shows and they kept ALL the actors. Then BBell gets his hands on the businesses and it all falls apart. Can’t keep the good actors. This should tell him something. WAKE UP OPEN YOU’R EYES. I don’t see these soaps making it another 2yrs..

Well I hate Wyatt and Quinn. So if her leaving means those two will be off the show, maybe it will be more bearable. Wyatt is just like crazy Azz Quinn. It will show up soon. It already started today, with that looser taking up for her when she was sneaking around doing Hope Dr. appointment. I hope, that Hope next to last Sven will be her shooting both Wyatt and Quinn on the show.

Charecters and Actors come and go on soaps they Always have and Always will, some like playing the same role year after year and some don’t,

Love Lope!!! Hope they recast and reunite lope soon!!! Wont watch livy or hottmess they stink!!! Lope forever!!!

Best news all day!!! Now let’s get Jacki Mac back!

NO no no, bring back Sheila carter. Kim Matula will be missed.

Sheila Carter is dead.

I would say yes about JMW coming back, but honestly, she deserves better.

Music to my ears this is the best news ever, going to do the happy dance now, no lost there…Hahahaha

Cindy…it is music to my ears, also…LOL!!!!! AGREED!!!!!

Kim I wish u all the luck in the world sweetie. I loved watching u n I believe u will do good out there. Just keep in touch with all of us fans.

Sad to see her go as I liked the actress but I’m glad that Hope will be off the show for a bit. I’m sick and tired of the Hope Liam thing and I’m glad it will finally be put to rest. I was about to stop watching but now I’ll wait and see what’s in store.

what’s going to happen to the story line about her and Wyatt and their new baby, will it end with them moving away like Brooke’s other daughter Bridgett. I wish Ms. Kim all the best,and I hope they fix this story. I know they might not want to recast her,but don’t kill the story line now

The story line of those kids are getting truly boring! ! I never liked her as an actress !!

But I don’t understand how there is no plans to recast Hope when she was on all the time? How are they going to do this? Wish Kim Matula the best as she moves on though. The show really will be terrible now.

The b&b will not be the same without a hope Logan they have to replace her with someone. And they need to put her and Liam together forever……

It will be very empty without Hope.
Why are they all leaving?
Is Brooke coming back? Or has Kelly left too?

Please, do not kill B&B!
I LOVE the show!
And I hate to see my favourites go!

Kelly recently posted that she is on her way back to work on B&B. Her absence was only temporary, for her to do the Italian version of Dancing With the Stars.

I think that I will stop watching. If she leaves and Wyatt and Quinn stay, it is a sure thing that I say goodbye after 20 plus years of watching. All the good guys are gone!! Best wishes to B & B.

Laurell,

Yes I agree with you..I may not watch B&B after 5 years.. I’ll miss Kim and the obvious onscreen connection with Scott… I wonder if they are ‘friends’ off screen

Kim and Scott are brilliant actors

James

Hate to see”Hope”going from the show. Wishing her good luck.

I wonder if this had anything to do with her sex scene popping up all over the web yesterday? I also wonder if this will inspire JMW to come back (fingers crossed!).

She made the decison awhile ago apparently because ages already taped her final scenes so I doubt it. Why would this make JW want to come back ?

4ever DAYS…y-e-s!!!!!

A request of my own: A-L-L- 3 of the remaining soaps (DOOL, GH and Y&R) should N-O-T hire Kim Matula PERIOD!!!!!

I’m just saying……

Jaybird you have to much time on your hands, lol. Kim MATULA will land on General Hospital as Serena Baldwin or The new Belle Black on DAYS. I still love you Jaybird, no matter what. Normally I agree with your comments, but not this one my friend. YOU are a sweet nice man. Take care.

Hi Josh,

OK…I tell you what…I-F Kim Matula actually does land on either GH (as Serena) or DOOL (as Belle), I HOPE TO GOD that it’s an anti-Hope kind of role. Dude, I’m sorry but I CANNOT STOMACH watching A-N-O-T-H-E-R Hope Logan-type of character. No. Sorry.

Oh, and Josh…I still love you, too…no matter what. Take care, you sweet dude.

Peace.

I think she will be good on dool as Brady or Erics wife. she is loyal. LOL

She’s a great actress.

Noooooooooo!!! She is the only reason I still watch this soap. Ivy seems sweet and all but she is No Hope. Team Liam and Hope forever!!! This makes me so sad!!

I agree. It’s crazy!!! Hope is awesome, and putting someone else won’t be the same. Such sad news.

THANK GOD!!!! Maybe with her new “film” getting so much praise….maybe she has found her true calling—ugh..and good riddance her her being “robbed”—if she was smart she’d never come back until they make that Character likeable instead of annoying!

What film?

I guess Kim got tired of the story line too huh!!?? I really hate she is leaving the show. I know its a soap but I do hope she is not killed off. That would be too much!!

Wow did not see this coming. Shame I liked Hope but hate the way her story line is gong. Don’t like Whyatt at all wish he would leave. Quinn can stay cause she is funny.

I hate Quinn she gets on my nerves she’s so annoying.. She ruins Wyatt and Hopes relationship

Nooooooooo……

No offense to the actress but am not sad about not seeing hope because I gave up watching because I was sick of hope.. Good luck to matula thou, wish her all the best

i agree sooo boring this triangle lasted tooo long

When Wyatt called her a TRAMP & A B!$&H I KNEW THEN…

What did I miss? when did he call her a tramp?

What?? What are you talking about Wyatt has never said such things about Hope.

would like to see character recast ….why would you end Hope? that is ridiculous..unless she is dying. why would you producers not put Liam and Hope back together for the love of God and put an end to this back and forth!! terrible soap opera saga!! I have been watching for years and I am about to give up on you people. I think could do better producing sometimes. Good luck Kim!!

I hate that another B&B actor is leaving. I happen to like her – remember she is acting a script that is written for her! And besides, her and Liam should always be together

I hope her exit isn’t a disturbing one..because she is with child..

Kim is the main reason I watch the show 🙁

I kw right!!!!!??? I get if it’s truly her decision but I hope she leaves a bit more graceful then Steffy did. Bc though I didn’t care for Steffy it was a crazy departure.

Me too. Love her. Hope she comes back but until then a triangle between Steffy, Liam and Ivy would be great

I just started watching the show just over a month ago….It needs to be an hour long and better Actors…How is Hope leaving and will her tv hubby go with her?

Wishing Kim the best! She is probably tired of the same story lines repeating over and over and over again! She’s moving on to bigger and better things! Hopefully B&B will figure it out and start writing some fresh new lines for their wonder actors before they all start leaving.

This totally sucks that means her and Liam will never get back together. Guess its a good time to stop watching

Well that must be the reason they brought Ivy on for Liam. Hope was ruined by Wyatt and Quinn characters. Hopefully these characters will have no reason to be on the show, and send Wyatt and Quinn off with Hope. The show has gone down hill.

so sad just when she is having a baby & i think Liam is the father so we will ever know now she is leaving i wish her luck will miss her

Maybe Hope will exit by going to Italy to live with, raise her child with along with work for her mother at a Forester Creations there. Then maybe Hope will come back to B&B when her child is a adult. They make children grow up extremely fast on soaps. And last but not least ; I don’t want to see Quinn kill Hope off. .Hope Quinn will flip out & self destruct leaving Wyatt to be his father Bill’s president at Spencer Publications & Liam will move over seas somewhere to work for a Spencer Publications there or another big business leaving Ivy to hook up with someone else that’s a new handsome very powerful character.

This would be crazy maybe she moves to paris and character Hope and steffy become real close friends. i know i may get hammered for saying this i just hope they have Hope lose her baby and she leaves because she just wants to get away from Wyatt and Liam and moves to Paris to work with Steffy and forrester creations in Paris who knows .

Without crazy the show gets boring.Crazy makes soaps more interesting & helps keep the viewers focused so they keep tuning in to view B&B again.

I am really sad she has decided to leave but wish her great success she is an amazing actress I’m sure whatever she sets her sites on she will do well.
Will miss seeing her on the show.

Heard she just put out she is not leaving that she just signed a new contract.

Wow!!! If that’s so then bold in the beautiful is literally crazy and loosing viewers me being one.

Not true.. Scott Clifton confirmed that she isn’t renewing her contract.. And she also posted on Instagram that she was leaving and that her final scenes have been taped

Wow……. will miss her. . GOOD Luck … GOD BLESS. ..

I will miss Kimberly (Hope) on the show. I am hoping with all those leaving that The Bold and the Beautiful will still remain #1 in soaps! I am kind of worried as this is a soap opera that is only 1/2 hour long and they will loose their rating. 🙁

I loved her!! I wish she wasn’t leaving! Just let hope and Liam be together and LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!

I am sad that she is leaving. She is an amazing actress. May God bless her in whatever she is going to do.

Why is we loose all our soap opera stars that are so good and are part of a good story line. They are a big part of our family lives to. She is such a good actress we will miss her terribly.

Yes.

I loved you on B & B. You are going to be missed. The show won’t be the same without your pretty face.

I don’t want her to leave the show. she is great and I love her on the show.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate to see her go but if she leaving they should kill her off have Quinn do the deed what a twist that would be

hope dont leave u r irreplaceable.just started watching it again. consider your fans we love you.

Losing Kim is a big loss for the show. She is really great in her role. She belongs with Liam…not Wyatt. Oh well…the best to Kim in her new ventures.

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