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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: 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.

Katherine Kelly Lang

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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.

Heather Tom

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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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