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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS: Victor is Shot; Ray Wise Delivers Tour De Force Performance

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The Young and the Restless over the last year or so, has given viewers major episodes where the action stays within the “A” storyline and does not venture out of it, and on the Wednesday, January 29th episode, the top-rated soap stayed with the story. In it, Ian Ward’s reign of terror reached a stunning climax, and Ray Wise reminded us all why he is one of the best to ever play a truly dangerous, rotten to the core, and deeply-troubled man.

The entire episode featured an epic face-off between Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Ian Ward with his gun-toting antics, anger, cruelty and his madman agenda. As the scenes play out, Ian recalls how Victor’s goons woke him up and brought him to the ranch. So, he views his gun merely for self-defense, as he had no clue whether the Newman family would attack him, assault him or kill him.

Victor tells Ian that he is a “sick man.” Ian won’t talk and make any deal with Victor until the entire Newman family is called and shows up in the living room including; Adam (Mark Grossman) and Abby. Ian announces he is taking down the entire clan and points his gun at Nick (Joshua Morrow) demanding Victor getting everyone to the house now. Ian wants to get the party started. So, Nikki, Claire (Hayley Erin) and Victoria (Amelia Heinle) are summoned downstairs.

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Ian goes completely off the rails on how he loved Jordan (Colleen Zenk), and blames Claire and the Newmans for her death. He screams, at the very least, “There will be justice for Jordan!” Nikki says she doesn’t deserve justice after hurting her and killing her friend and that Jordan was pure evil, just like him. Claire tells Ian that her aunt only pretended to love him to get what she wants, she was using him, she didn’t care about him. Ian says Claire needs to be punished for Jordan’s death.

When Adam arrives, he walks in on a terrorizing scene, and sees Ian, who harkens back to when they were partners in crime. Victor asks Ian again if they can make a deal. Ward assumes he’s offering money. Victor says he would give up his whole empire to save his family. Then, Ian asks if Victor would give up his own life to save his family. Victor says he would happily do so.

Victor gets up from his chair and tells Ian, that just the two of them should go for a ride off the property to discuss the money he will give him. Ian refuses. Victor offers him a fortune, but Ian doesn’t care about the money. After Ian goads Nikki about Abby being Victor and Ashley’s child and not hers, and Victor admitting Abby’s not showing up, because he never called, Ian becomes even more unhinged.

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Next, Ian tells Victor to pick who dies first. “No one dies but me,” Victor responds, and calls Ian a coward. Then, Ian fires a bullet at Victor. Now wounded, Victor somehow manages to attack Ian and the two have a fight on the couch with the gun going off and a bullet hitting Ian, who is also badly bleeding. While Nick holds a gun on Ian until the police and the paramedics arrive, Victoria and Nikki try to keep Victor awake so he does not lose consciousness.

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As far as bad guy’s go, there really is none better than Ray Wise, and this could have been so completely over the top, yet somehow Wise has us believing just how scary, menacing, twisted and disturbed, Ian Ward truly is. Wise’s lengthy career, which includes his turn as Jamie Rollins on Love of Life, and Leland Palmer/Killer Bob on Twin Peaks and of course, Y&R’s Ian, prove that he is such a masterful performer.

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Now the question becomes, what will happen to Victor? Is this the end of the line for Ian? What did you think of Ray Wise’s performance on today’s episode of Y&R? Let us know in the comment section. In case you missed it, here’s a clip below.

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I absolutely love Ray Wise – he could recite a nursery rhyme and I would watch!
There are some villains that you don’t care what heinous acts they do because of their portrayer – Ray Wise is one.

Linden Ashby is another.

Unfortunately, we have to lose them from our screen.

But, but but Ian opened his eyes in the ambulance. I guess he’s not done. The paramedics are either idiots ( can’t tell if someone is dead??????) —-or, they are part of Ian’s well—planned scheme.

not the paramedics, the writers. just like nikki is with victor in the ambulance….what…..he’s lost a ton of blood, he is not stable….but put nikki in the back with victor and leave the paramedic up front???

The whole damn thing is very disappointing and nerve wracking . They’ve ruined the whole SL as far as I’m concerned, especially Claire’s part in it all.

Ray is fantastic. I have enjoyed his return and his collab with Jordan.

Ray Wise MUST get an Emmy nom for Outstanding Guest Performer in 2026. He should just use yesterday’s episode as his Emmy reel. He was brilliant!!

It was dumbfounding watching today’s episode. Victor nearly fatally shot, and there are his kids and grand kids, sitting around, casually having some coffee, so relaxed….what the heck is wrong with this show??? Only at the end you see Nick and Adam driving every nonchalantly to the hospital. Y&R upper management, your head writer doesn’t know how to write!!!

Y&R has never aired down here in Hell, but I’m a fan of Ray Wise’s past work, especially when he played ME on the old CW show “Reaper”.

A good show that was canceled far too soon.

Can’t you get it on UTube either?

I just wish they could have given us a real and truthful story. Is Jordan really dead, how about Ian opening his eyes? I don’t like leaving a story so doubtful and up in the air like this has been.

So we know Ian and Jordan will return ! Rays performance was a tour de force but what’s with Clair,the actress has to go just delivers the lines half asleep! She needs to watch Camryn grimes who was amazing

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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’

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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.

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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?

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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.

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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: Steffy is Shaken to the Core, ‘Oh My God! I’m Pregnant!’

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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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