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THE GOLDEN BACHELOR: Gerry Chooses The Final Three For Hometowns: Are You Happy With His Picks?
When the dust settled on Thursday night’s episode of The Golden Bachelor, three women were sent home, and three remained. The ones still in the running for the final rose have made it to the coveted hometowns, where next week, Gerry will meet their families.
As viewers have seen, the rose ceremonies are more of gut-punch for the contestant vying for love then on traditional episodes of the ‘Bachelor’ franchise. Gerry, the ‘Golden Bachelor’, is consistently aware of how devastating it must be for the women to learn he has not chosen them to continue in his journey to find love later in life.
The women, many of whom haven’t felt the yearnings of falling in love for the first time in years, also appear more heartbroken, making this reality series much more touching than its usual counterparts.
On this episode, Faith gets a one-on-one with Gerry. The date cemented Faith in Gerry’s heart as one of the frontrunners. That was most true while on the boat, following their helicopter ride … to the boat! There, Faith admitted some details about her past. She told Gerry, “I lived a lot of time alone, like a homeless teen. I didn’t have a mother and a father. That kind of childhood made me think, maybe there’s something in me that’s not whole.”
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Faith went on to share that the trauma from her childhood has followed her throughout her life, including when it comes to the men she’s dated. But with Gerry, she can see a relationship with a man who is emotionally open and healthy. Gerry loves hearing that and she gets a rose.
On the group date with the remaining five contestants, Gerry wants to see their ‘inner-child’ so he takes then to the Santa Monica Pier for games, rides and chats. Leslie, has been struggling through the whole episode for the deep feelings she has developed for Gerry and is worried it may not be enough to get her through to the hometowns. She even tells him her fears.
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After the group date, Gerry informs the women, he can’t give out the group date rose. He needs more time to think about his feelings and who he wants to include in the all-important hometowns. That means, at the rose ceremony, Gerry will give out the last two roses.
Ellen, who has professed her love for Gerry to him, is about to be blindsided. Leading into the episode, the producers of the show edited a promo which led viewers to believe that when Gerry says “You’re my girl” it was to Ellen, but it was not! She further sticks her foot in her mouth talking with Gerry on the group date: “I am absolutely falling head over heels in love with you. I can’t wait to have my children, my best friend Roberta meet you. I know they would adore you as much as I do.”
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Now it comes down to the rose ceremony. A tear-filled Gerry gives out roses to Leslie and Theresa. That means, that Ellen, Sandra and Susan are sent home. Gerry asks Ellen if he can walk her out. As they sit in front of the SUV, before it takes her away, Gerry tells her that this was “the most difficult decision” of the night to send her home. However, he just had to make the right decision for his future. As a parting statement, he says to Ellen, “I hope you stay positive. Because that’s you.” Ellen has had enough and says, ‘she’s gotta go.’
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Inside the SUV, Ellen shares, “I just thought he was the one. This experience has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have a lot more optimism about love and the possibility of finding love at this stage in my life.” If they decide to do a ‘Golden Bachelorette’, Ellen might be the perfect choice!
So, who are you rooting for to be the woman Gerry chooses for the final rose? Are you hoping it’s Theresa? Leslie? or Faith? What did you think of Ellen’s elimination? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
As much as I liked Ellen, she became a bit needy and showed desperation in the end. Always better to show interest but keep some independence as well.
Funny, these are the three I like the least, especially Theresa, the big mouth that ran and told Gerry about that other woman telling her to ” zip it” because she confided everything she and Gerry did and how he came to her room to talk and console her. She didn’t tell or confide in her out of meanness or bragging, just had a big mouth .
Just adding that prolonging the agony is not helping. He’ll be stuck with one of these women, glad it isn’t me making the choice. Don’t care for any of them, least of all Theresa.
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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Steffy Tells Carter She’s Pregnant, But He Has a Way ‘Out of This Situation For All of Us’
After taking a second pregnancy test on the Friday, September 12 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) freaks out ever more when it come back positive, too. Leading her to shriek, multiple times over, “Oh my God! Oh my God! I’m pregnant!”
As previously reported, CBS and The Bold and the Beautiful have already confirmed that in the story, the baby Steffy is carrying is Carter’s (Lawrence Saint-Victor) which kicks-off their 40th season of storytelling. However, could there be a twist down the line that it’s really Finn’s (Tanner Novlan)?
On Friday’s episode, Carter gets a text from his wife, Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) telling him she wants to talk more about surrogacy later, since she cannot carry Carter’s child, and the couple was exploring ways for them to have a baby. Suddenly, Carter flashes back to waking up next to Steffy on the couch in the office after they had sex the night before in their drunken stupor.
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CARTER DEVISES A PLAN
Then, Steffy comes whirling into the office demanding to talk to Carter right away. Steffy is informing Carter that she has to tell Finn about their night together more than ever! A confused Carter asked her what changed, when they agreed to keep their one night together a secret? Carter tells her if she reveals what happened between them, it will tear about all of their lives.
Carter thinks nothing will come of their “mistake” if they keep their mouth shut. Steffy responds, “You’re wrong.” She goes on to explain that she’s pregnant! That declaration stuns Carter and we fade to black.
However, it was the preview for the action next week on The Bold and the Beautiful, that aired at the end of Friday’s episode and is now all over B&B’s social media that is the real tell-tale sign of where this story is heading.
B&B SPOILERS
In a scene airing next week, Carter says to Steffy, “I have a way out of the situation for all of us!” This comes on the heels of Daphne telling Carter she wishes she knew someone who would be their surrogate. So, putting two and two together, it looks like Carter will come up with the idea to pass Steffy and his baby off as the surrogate child of Carter and Daphne.
Look no further than the official B&B spoilers for episodes airing Monday, September 14- Friday, September 18 and the teaser lines of the Steffy/Carter baby drama to back that up below.
Monday, September 14, Steffy’s news complicates things even more with Carter, while on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Daphne is hopeful she and Carter will be able to find a surrogate and Carter rushes to stop Steffy. On Wednesday, September 16, Carter makes a passionate plea. and by Thursday, September 17, Daphne can’t believe Carter’s suggestion. Then come Cliffhanger Friday, September 18, Steffy is caught off guard.
So, what do you think how it look to be Carter who originated plan to keep the truth from ever coming out, that he and Steffy had sex, and the best way to do this is for Steffy to be the surrogate for Carter and Daphne’s child? How complicated will the cover-up eventually get? Will Steffy fall in love with the baby making this whole thing untenable for her? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section, but first check out B&B’s video teaser for next week’e episodes below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Jason and Britt Reach an Impasse; Is This the End of Their Relationship?
On the Friday, September 11 episode of General Hospital, Jason (Steve Burton) and Britt’s (Kelly Thiebaud) relationship becomes strained to potentially the point of no return.
Things take a turn when an unglued Britt having been traumatized by almost being killed by Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) asks Jason to back her up with the PCPD when she reports Anna for attempted murder.
However, Jason told Britt, he can’t. Jason shares that he does not believe Anna would have gone through with shooting her. Therefore, Britt was not in any real imminent danger. Britt is flabbergasted and hurt that Jason is refusing to tell the police what he actually witnessed for himself on Mount Emerson.
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BRITT WANTS BACK UP FROM JASON
Jason counters that he can’t believe that Britt would want Anna punished. or sent to prison, or a mental facility after the trauma she endured while being locked up and mentally tortured while at Wyndemere.
He asks Britt, “How could you even say that you want her locked up or prosecuted for what she did when you knew she was being held prisoner and you did nothing to save her?” Britt is stunned by Jason’s response.
Coming up, official General Hospital spoilers share that on the upcoming Monday, September 14 episode, Jason confides in Carly (Laura Wright), while Britt is stung. In the video preview that aired at the end of the Friday, September 11 episode for this coming Monday, Britt says to Jason, “You don’t believe me. Do you?”
General Hospital head scribes, Chris Van Etten and Elizabeth Korte previously teased in their fall preview of the soap, “Britt and Jason have come a long way and fought a lot of enemies to be together. But the most stubborn obstacle to their happiness isn’t without, it’s within. Decisions Britt made to stay alive while under Cullum’s thumb will come back to haunt her and may prove too difficult for this unlikely couple to survive.”
So, what do you think will happen? Will Jason and Britt break-up over Britt’s lies and Jason’s unwillingness to report Anna’s crime against her? Do you want Jason and Britt to go their separate ways? If they do, will Britt become romantically involved with Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) ? If so, who do you pair Jason with? Anyone? Weigh-in via the comment section.
On today’s Thursday, September 10 episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) discovers she’s pregnant, after taking a home pregnancy test, that will launch a new story arc that will remain front and center for the show in the months ahead.
The life-changing story kicks off the B&B’s 40th season which officially began on September 8. In it, Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) is the biological father of Steffy’s unborn child from their drunken night together when both endured turbulent times in their marriages.
Previously, Carter had trouble with Daphne (Murielle Hilaire), when she initially walked out on him, because she could not carrying his child. Meanwhile, Steffy broke up with Finn (Tanner Novlan) while in Monaco over Finn’s mother Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) showing up, who once tried to kill her.
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Fast-forward, Carter and Steffy made a pact that no one will ever need to know about their drunken night together, but now with Steffy becoming pregnant it changes everything. Making matters all the worse, Daphne views Steffy as her best friend, in fact, Daphne and Carter have been talking about having a child via surrogacy. While Finn had showed the couple how to start the process of finding a surrogate, Daphne felt just choosing a random person to carry Carter’s child is so impersonal. She would rather have it be someone she knows.
It does not take a scientist to predict … that somehow Steffy will carry the baby pretending to be the surrogate, when she its biological mother, and along the way, the questions become, does she keep the whole thing somehow a secret to herself? Doe Carter find out at some point? Stay tuned to see how this story reveals itself.
At its root, this is a major storyline for Wood, who has already won three Daytime Emmy Lead Actress Awards in her 18 years with The Bold and the Beautiful. In that time, her character of Steffy has experienced multiple pregnancies, given birth to two children, Kelly with Liam (Scott Clifton) as the father, and Hayes with Finn as the father, and endured a miscarriage.
So, what did you think of Steffy getting confirmation she is pregnant and looking mortified when she found out? What will she do next? Will she tell Carter? Will Daphne come to Steffy to ask her to be her surrogate, which Steffy may think will be the answers to her prayers, only for the truth to come out later, or falling in love with the baby since its hers to be begin with? Share your thoughts and theories for this major story for Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, via the comment section.
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