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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Liam Flatlines! Is His Health Crisis a Mechanism to Reignite the Steffy/Hope Triangle, or Is it Scott Clifton’s Exit Storyline?

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Cliffhanger Friday on The Bold and the Beautiful, brought with it the pick-up of the Thursday episode shocker, which saw Liam (after a massive confrontation with his father Bill Spencer), lose consciousness and fall to the floor, as he hit his head on the way down.

On the April 4th episode of the CBS daytime drama series, Liam (Scott Clifton) somehow manages to get back up off the floor and stammers around for his footing inside Bill’s (Don Diamont) living room. He then notices he has blood dripping from the back of his head. Scared and confused, Liam makes his way to the front door of the house, only to pass out again and hit his head on the cement on the ground in front of the house.

Of course, Kelly (Sophia Paras) is waiting to have father/daughter time with Liam, and is hanging out with Finn (Tanner Novlan) at the cliff house. Meanwhile, Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) is worried about Liam and how he has taken the news that his father, Bill kept a convicted killer and her kidnapper  under house arrest at his home.

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Hope (Annika Noelle) is talking with her father, Deacon (Sean Kanan) at Il Giardino about the whole Forrester Creations takeover and the fallout with Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang). She begins to realize things really went south for her after she served Liam with divorce papers, and continues to note what a good man and a good father he is to his children, Kelly and Beth.

Steffy also reflects on what a good man Liam is, and decides to head out to talk to Bill. When she arrives on the scene, she sees Liam unconscious and bleeding on the ground. She immediately calls 9-1-1.  Next, Liam arrives in critical condition in the emergency room where Dr. Grace Buckingham (Cassandra Creech) is on duty.

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Grace asks Liam, “Do you know where you are? What happened to you? Did somebody to this to you?” Liam doesn’t respond and Steffy asks why he’s unresponsive. Dr. Buckingham surmises that Liam has suffered an intracranial hemorrhage, which is blood pooling between the brain and the skull that prevents oxygen from reaching the brain. She explains to Steffy that it only takes a few minutes for brain cells to die without enough oxygen.

Next, Dr. Buckingham hollers at the nurse that she needs a CT scan STAT! Steffy tells Liam she’s right here, but suddenly, Liam flatlines as the doctor and the nurse go into life-saving mode, while Steffy cries out for Liam! We fade to black.

The Bold and the Beautiful’s executive producer and head writer, Brad Bell previewed a new story for Scott Clifton in early February in an interview with TV Insider where he shared, “We have a great story for Liam (Scott Clifton) coming up as well, which I am very excited about.”

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So, now the discussion becomes, what is the great story? Are we about to get a repeat of the long-running triangle where both Steffy and Hope realize the man for them is Liam and this health crisis dredged up all those old feelings? Will Liam wake up with amnesia thinking he is still married to Steffy Forrester, which will cause major drama in her marriage to Finn on top of his Luna and Sheila familial ties? Will that leave Hope open to pursue Finn, yet again?

Could it be that none of this will proven to be true, and when Liam wakes up he will be having to learn how to exist partially brain-damaged or even from a stroke, or will Liam have a major personality shift, where he may actually have several personalities? Finally, could it be that Scott Clifton has decided to exit The Bold and the Beautiful and this is his final storyline?

Now below share your theories; why did The Bold and the Beautiful give Liam a traumatic brain injury? Comment below.

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i dont think he will think he is married to steffy cause how would that work out when she has a husband home he wont be able to go to her house i think he will think he is married to hope cause she was his last wife he tried to get back with her a few months ago plus if shes hiding out at deacons and he wakes up want to see his wife they will have to find her

I rather see him wake up as a person who has finally knows what it is he wants far as his life goes. He already tried dating as he told Steffy but it didn’t work out. It won’t work with Hope either even if the writers have them together.

Team Exit ✓

I’m team exit as well, but not because of the actor, Scott as Liam, but because the B and B storylines are absolutely unbearable.

Still hoping that Daren Brooks takes on the role of Michael Corinthos at GH, and if Scott Clifton were to return as Dillon Quartermaine, then we could get some really good and fun interactions on screen with the two actors, for they play very well off of each other.

But PLEASE do not have this be part of Jacqueline’s storyline to go on maternity leave for the upcoming months with the potential for a reunion of the Liam/Hope/Steffy triangle. That ship sailed at least three cycles ago…

And we do NOT need another “Liam has amnesia” storyline, which reminds me of how he played off of Rena Sofer’s Quinn who is currently on GH – get him to the Quartermaine Mansion ASAP!

While I do NOT watch #Bold any longer having stopped when Brad Bell fired Krista Allen as Taylor a couple of years ago, I truly believe that this is indeed Scott Clifton’s exit storyline. I’m hoping that former #Bold writer Michele Val Jean snaps him up and brings him on board to play firefighter Derek in a recast on #BTG.

That could work too. The Derek/Ashley pairing is not intriguing, though I feel that it may be both of the actors protraying that matchup…

I’d prefer seeing the Dillon Quartermaine character return with all of the Lulu, Dante, Brook Lynn, Chase stuff that is about to explode. That would provide Scott with lots of history to bring into the present situation of Port Charles.

And there also is the passing of Monica that is immenent, may she RIP. The Cardiac Unit looks lovely, and actually looks like new wings in current hospitals.

Krista Allen did relocate to Atlanta, so I’m guessing she will show up on BTG if it is successefully launched/renewed. I only FF thru B&B and do not listen to the dialogue, for it is repetatively painful.

I think the possibilities are endless and we just have to wait and see which Liam we will get. I don’t think he’s leaving the show. Maybe he’ll turn out to be Bill, Jr. exactly what he doesn’t want to be.

It’s possible he had a Stroke, the reason he passed out after Bill left and then he came to, got up, stumbled outside and fell again, where Steffy found him. No one knows the real facts and I hope tests show something happened before he fell and hurt his head.

I don’t think he is leaving. I think something has to come of him and hope..now they are both alone…so this will bring them together pissing stephi off I love it! Anything that pisses off stephy do it!!!

No renewed triangle, please. It wasn’t much fun the fifth or sixth go-around.

Oh please, no more steffy and Liam, no more steffy and anybody. And Taylor is so boring and useless. She needs to go and not come back.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Katie Kicks Bill to the Curb … for Now

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The future isn’t looking so bright for longtime loves Katie Logan (Heather Tom) and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont), when on the Wednesday, November 11 episode Katie wants Bill to leave and give her some space, and to stay away from her!

Katie explains she wanted none of this, but now her insecurity and fear of Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Bill has made it impossible. Bill pleads his case, “I was just trying to help” by speaking with Brooke. Katie tells him, well he didn’t, far from it, it’s all backfired in his face.

Bill insists to Katie that everything he did was for her and her sisters. Katie isn’t buying it. In her mind, Bill has always wanted to stick it to the Forresters. So what changed? She then asks him point blank, if he is still attracted to Brooke? Bill says “no,” but Katie said she wishes she could believe him. He tries to explain that him getting together with Brooke was to broker peace between the Logan sisters.

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THE TRUST IS BROKEN

Katie speaks to how she is building her own company, making something of herself, and Bill says to her, “You don’t have to lose the people that you love to prove that you can win.”

Next, Katie is convinced Bill was flirting with Brooke because he texted Brooke a Stallion emoji (she has a point, no?). That reminded Katie of the worst time in her life when he was having an affair with her sister!

She points out how Brooke destroyed her life and took Will away from her and he was sent to boarding school, so why shouldn’t she strike back? Bill tries to point out again, that Katie is going to lose her sisters. But, a defiant Katie fires back, “If they can’t accept me for who I am … so be it!”

Next, Bill says he doesn’t buy it and becomes very emotional calling his wife, “my Katie”.  However, now in a puddle of tears, Katie says those words can’t fix everything. Seeing he is not getting anywhere, Bill walks towards the door and says, “I will hate being apart from you, but I’ll do it for you.”

He vows to never stop fighting for them. Katie’s says, “Goodbye, Bill.”  The music swells, Bill exits, and Katie crawls into a ball on the couch in a dramatic overhead shot to end the episode.

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WEDDING BELLS?

In the same episode, it should be noted that Taylor (Rebecca Budig) asked Deacon (Sean Kanan) to re-propose to her, and this time she accepted.

It looks like Taylor or Deacon are headed down the aisle at some point, but not so fast, because Sheila (Kimberlin Brown) was flirting with Deacon, and she won’t take this news lying down.

Check out the emotional scenes featuring Heather Tom and Don Diamont below.

Now weigh-in: were you touched by the moments when Bill left his house to give Katie the space she says she needed over her feelings of betrayal by her husband and her sister, Brooke? How does this all end? Will Katie end up destroying everything in the process on her way to the top? Will she have a mental or physical crisis in days to come? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section.

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DANCING WITH THE STARS: A Shocking Elimination on Grammy Night Leaves Ballroom Silenced

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In what could only be the stunner of this season of Dancing with the Stars, the Tuesday night, November 1o episode saw one of the heavy favorites Jenna Dewan and pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy eliminated right before next week’s all-important semi-finals for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.

Week 9 was Grammy night, where the contestants performed routines related to the Grammy Awards with songs that have either won or been nominated for the music industry’s highest prize.

After each couple performed their usual routine, they had to dance a second time vs, another couple doing the same dance style. Only Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson earned immunity from having to participate in it.

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THE RESULTS

When all was said and done during the results portion of the show; the following couples were deemed safe and will dance another day: Shum Jr. and Johnson, Amber Glenn and Pasha Pashkov, Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach, Maura Higgins and Mark Ballas, and Connor Wood and Rylee Arnold.

That left former Y&R actress Tatyana Ali (ex-Roxanne) and Jan Ravnik and Dewan and Chmerkovskiy in the bottom two. It was then revealed that Jenna and Val would be going home. The ballroom fell silent and Dewan said her “thank you’s “in the most gracious way about her dance journey.

Dewan is a dancer, having worked professionally with the likes of Janet Jackson (who also popped up in a special message to her former back-up dancer in the episode) while currently being an actress, and appearing as a series regular on The Rookie. Chmerkovskiy has been controversial figure all season especially after being suspended one week after comments made towards judge Carrie Ann Inaba.

BREAKING THEIR SILENCE

This begs the question: did America want the couple gone, because they had an unfair advantage with Dewan’s dance prowess, or did the show want the couple booted off too?

Later, Jenna and Val broke their silence on the elimination to Extra. Chmerkovskiy shared “It’s’ definitely a sad result. I thought we had a great season.” Dewan admitted, “I know this was a particularly tough week for a lot of the online noise … but I know that we went out there and had the best time of our life.”

Val is married to pro dancer, Jenna Johnson, who remained in the top slot on the leaderboard during the competition with Harry Shum Jr. However, she also had a bad week breaking her nose in rehearsal!

Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET and next day on Hulu.

So were you happy, or sad to see Jenna and Val voted off of Dancing with the Stars? Of the remaining couples who do you hope make it from the semi-finals to the finals and hoists the Mirrorball Trophy? Weigh-in via the comment section.

 

 

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‘The Bold and the Beautiful’s’ Heather Tom Delivers the ‘Power Performance of the Week’

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Six-time Daytime Emmy winner, Heather Tom, while not taking the gold at the recent Daytime Emmys for Lead Actress, which would have been a record-breaking victory for an actress; should be prepared that in 2027, she has to be near to a lock take that award home!

In the last few months Michael Fairman TV has named her weekly performances as Power Performance of the Week, and for the week of November 2-6, she has done it again!

How did she earn the honors? Well, quite simply, this version of Katie Logan that is being written and portrayed beautifully, has given the character infused live, a backbone, a woman so tired of being put-upon and wronged, that she is firing back in such major ways that her own family doesn’t recognize her behavior.

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KATIE AND BROOKE HAVE A SEISMIC SHOWDOWN

Longtime viewers of The Bold and the Beautiful can make a very compelling case that the behavior is justified. Then, on the November 4 episode, Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Katie have another major confrontation. Katie is irate that Brooke phoned Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) in an effort to help Bill get through to her to back off the way she is destroying Forrester Creations, in what appears to be Katie’s poaching of the design team, and her ramped up vendetta against Brooke.

However, let’s not forget, Brooke and their sister, Donna (Jennifer Gareis) disowned Katie from the family just a few months ago too! Now in this showdown, Katie rips into Brooke after Brooke attempts to reason with her. Brooke even pulls out the “Stormy” card, reminding viewers that Katie has Storm’s heart. She snipes, “Do you really think he’d be proud of you right now?”

In that moment, Katie chokes up and is struck by that statement, but defends her actions and says Storm would be proud of her. Brooke goes in on if Storm would approve of the way she has gone about building her Logan fashion house design team, which to many seem like cutthroat tactics, Brooke even tells her “Bill is worried.”

Katie snaps after that comment and begins to show her disgust and emotional wounds from how Brooke slept with Bill years ago, especially when she goes in on the the text message Brooke sent to Bill and the use of a stallion emoji. Brooke claims it meant nothing, but Katie shuts her down and shuts her up! Reminding her sister, how she destroyed everything.

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KATIE NEVER FORGOT HOW BROOKE SLEPT WITH BILL

Brooke reminds Katie that she had postpartum depression at the time, and she “pushed” her and Bill together. Katie begins to cry, “How could you not know something was profoundly wrong?”

Katie says while she was suffering, Brooke was off in Aspen having sex with Bill. She says of her sister, “You take what you want, and it doesn’t matter who gets hurt and whose life gets destroyed.” She then snipes what was her sister’s excuse the second time?

Then, in the masterful moment in the performance, as sister Donna walks into the showdown, Katie warns Brooke to not EVER talk to her again about morality, or ever accuse her of stealing anything from her, when “You are the master!”

BROOKE’S PAST WILL ALWAYS BE THROWN IN HER FACE

Next, Katie throws down the line Stephanie Forrester called Brooke all the years of their feud, “You are just a slut from the valley.” She punctuated it to both her sister, “We all know she’d sell her soul for a little male attention.'”

Katie tells Brooke she will never apologize to Bill, adding, “And I will never forgive you for this. I am so done with you, and if you’re going to stand next to her (aimed at Donna), then I am done with you too.” As the scene came to its conclusion, Katie told Brooke and Katie to, “stay away from me, stay away from my family, and stay away from Bill.”

Throughout all the scenes, Heather Tom displayed why she is one of the fiercest actresses in daytime drama. This storyline has afforded Tom the opportunity to show all of Katie’s inner rage built over years as she finally lets it out on those who wronged her. For anyone who has been made to feel the weaker sibling in a family, Tom is showing the cause and effect of what can happen to someone after years of feeling put down.

For all the reasons stated above, Michael Fairman TV names Heather Tom our selection for Power Performance of the Week. You can check out part of Heather’s emotional turn in the video clip below.

Now let us know, do you agree with our pick of Heather Tom for the Power Performance of the Week? What do  you think about how Katie is being written in this storyline? Do you think Heather has secured the Lead Actress Emmy in 2027? Weigh-in via the comment section.

 

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