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THIS WEEK On The Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy’s Back!
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After the gun shots, the divorce papers and more, Liam (Scott Clifton) reveals he wants to take over Forrester Creations, and Steffy Forrester re-enters the canvas as fan favorite Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy) make her return to The Bold and the Beautiful!
In this weeks promo from CBS Daytime, it appears Steffy asks Liam if he is glad to see her, which he clearly sees happy to see his ex! Are you looking forward to the return of Jacqui?
And what do you think about Rick’s (Jacob Young) behavior? Are you glad that Caroline (Linsey Godrey) signed divorce papers? Do you want her with Ridge (Thorsten Kaye)? Who do you want paired with whom?
Watch this week’s promo and then share your thoughts below!
General Hospital
‘General Hospital’s’ Cynthia Watros Honors Former ‘Titus’ Co-Star Stacy Keach Following His Passing
General Hospital star Cynthia Watros, who can currently be seen in on the ABC soap opera in the role of Nina Reeves, has had a enduring career in television. That included her time on the 2000-2002 Fox sitcom, Titus.
In Titus, Watros starred along with Stacy Keach as Erin Fitzpatrick and Ken Titus, respectively. After the November 10th news that Keach had passed away at 85 while living in Poland, Cynthia took to her Instagram on Thursday, November 12 to pay tribute to the great actor.
Watros expressed, “My first prime time show was along side Stacy. I loved him instantly. What an amazing talent and man.❤️”
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In Titus, Stacy played stand up comedian Christopher Titus’ heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, five-times-divorced father who frequently pulled cruel pranks and tried to toughen his kids up. Cynthia played by Christopher’s level-headed, big-hearted girlfriend trying to build a normal life with him. In fact, Cynthia’s role on the sitcom was first series regular role after her Daytime Emmy run of Annie Dutton on Guiding Light which ran from 1994-1998.
STACY KEACH’S WIFE ON HIS PASSING
Keach’s wife, Malgosia shared the news of the actor’s death publicly in a statement with PEOPLE. Malgosia expressed, that Stacy had, “a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.”
She added, “Stacy peacefully departed this world. He fought for so long, with extraordinary courage, determination and strength. He was a true warrior, facing his illness with the same remarkable spirit and resilience that defined his life.”
Małgosia continued, “Stacy was not only a legendary actor, admired and loved by audiences the world over, but also my beloved husband, my companion and the heart of our family. His passing leaves an immeasurable emptiness in our lives. But his extraordinary spirit, his unforgettable voice and the love he gave so generously will remain with us forever.”
Now, let us know do you remember when Cynthia made her sitcom debut in Titus? Share your thoughts via the comment section on Cynthia’s many TV roles and the passing of Stacy Keach in the comment section. But first, check out the very first episode of Titus with Cynthia Watros below!
Beyond the Gates
‘Beyond the Gates’ Emmy Winner Ambyr Michelle Wants to Compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’: ‘Pick Me’ (Exclusive)
Soap opera fans are always clamoring for when Dancing with the Stars reveals their cast each season, that they would include a familiar face from daytime drama, but it rarely happens, if ever, anymore.
Over the last several years, the series has leaned heavily into casting celebrities with massive TikTok or Instagram followers, which in turn, have helped this season and last have their best ratings numbers in years.
But, how about for next season’s cast of Dancing with the Stars, that it could include newly-awarded Daytime Emmy winner, Ambyr Michelle (Eva Thomas) of Beyond the Gates?
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LOVE OF DANCE TO LOVE OF ACTING
Michael Fairman TV spoke to Michelle about her dance background and if she would love a shot at lifting the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy during Wednesday’s November 11, livestream chat on the Michael Fairman Channel.
Ambyr explained to fans (who joined in on the live chat), how she began her show business career. “I started off as a dancer, first and foremost. Acting wasn’t really something I wanted to go after. I did plays when I was younger, but it was just something we did in school, but I really wanted to be a dancer. I moved out to LA to dance, and I fell out of love with dance, which was so weird.”
This year’s Emerging Talent in a Daytime Drama Series winner, added, “I was like, ‘What is going on?’ I moved all the way out here for dance. I found I was forcing myself to go to dance class, and I just didn’t have the passion for it. I was working at this restaurant at the time, and one of my coworker was like, ‘What about taking an acting class out here?'”
Next, Ambyr took the coworker up on the idea. “So, I took an acting class and I fell in love with it that day,” shared Michelle. “I was like, ‘I want to do this for the rest of my life.’ I thought, I would love to book a role, of course, as a dancer, but I think acting has a little bit more longevity.”
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A SHOT AT THE LEN GOODMAN MIRRORBALL TROPHY
When the talked turned to if Ambyr would consider or be interested in appearing on the ballroom dance competition series, she piped up with, “I would love to do Dancing with the Stars! Pick me!”
As those in the live chat rallied around this idea, it made us think, Ambyr could be the first contestant from Beyond the Gates, and someone representing the soaps. It checks off so many boxes! To which Ambyr replied, “That would be beautiful.”
You can check out the full conversation with Ambyr below.
So, what do you think soap fans? Can we make sure Ambyr’s name gets in front of the producers and casting director for next season’s Dancing with the Stars? Would you like to see her in the competition? If so, who would be your dream pro professional dance partner for her? Let us know in the comment section.
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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B&B has been great lately. Love the current storylines & cast. I’ll be glad to see how Steffy is without Hope in the picture.
I can’t wait for Steffy to show up and I absolutely love the pairing of Ridge and Caroline! Linsey and THorsten are dynamite together. Unexpected pairings are sometimes the best ones and this is definitely the case with Caridge. Brilliant move by the writers and even more brilliant if they actually keep them together for the foreseeable future.
Boooooooooooooo, don’t take the focus off Rick, don’t bring this triange from hell back.
Ditto.
I haven’t watched long enough so I have no clue who steffy is other then Liams ex. I do Not like Caroline and Ridge. Seems kinda creepy to me. He’s better with Brooke or Katie. Caroline seems way to young for Ridge
Ridge was married to Dr. Taylor Hays they had 3 children together Thomas, & twin girl’s Steffy & Phoebe. Thomas is in Paris, Phoebe died, Steffy was named after her grandmother Stephanie Forrester (Eric’s wife). Steffy never liked the Logan women being a part of Forrester & she always blamed Brook for the break-up of her parents. She dated Liam, got pregnant, married him and lost the baby. Liam wanted to make the marriage work but when Steffy found out she could never have children she took off for Paris & divorced him. Liam went back with Hopeless. Later after seeing a doctor she found out she could have children again & came back to Liam who rejected her to be with Hopeless. Hope all this helps!
OMG I am so happy she’s back. What a beautiful actress. I think she should take over Forrester Creations, Although I love Jacob Young(Rick) and I think he’s doing a bang up job someone needs to dethrone him & Steffy would be perfect. Eric needs to get his butt back and put Rick in his place, Caroline needs to stay with Ridge maybe even start their own company with Steffy taking all the staff that don’t want to work with Rick, leaving Rick with the sinking ship. At the very least let him acknowledge that he can’t run the company.
I am thrilled that they are bringing Steffy back!! However, I don’t want Liam running Forrester, I think Steffy should get the company back again for her family. I really don’t see why they would have Liam having any interests like that concerning the Forrester family company. I’m ready for Steffy to clean house!!
I’m glad that they had Caroline sign the papers but I do not see this Ridge relationship lasting. Seems silly. But I am happy that they finally made her stop begging him back. Her character is way to strong for that.
As far as character pairing, I’m thinking Ridge will go back to Brook or someone other than a girl that is young enough to be his daughter. I want Carter with Myrna’s sister. Caroline needs to be independent for a while, Rick needs serious help, Katie and Bill, and im not sure if I want Steffy to go back to Liam but who are we kidding Steffy doesn’t really need a man.=)) Liam and Ivy are very BORING but I love the characters maybe if the writers could livin them up a bit and they might be ok. But those are my opinions. I really love this show, watch it religiously. Huge FAN!!!!!!
I’m glad Caroline signed the papers as well but they put so much focus on the papers, like Ridge saying (twice) don’t sign them without your lawyer seeing them. I wonder if Rick in his serious state had his lawyers print something like “Caroline agrees to design only for Forrester” just to keep her away from Ridge? Why would they put Liam in charge when Steffy is coming back? She’ll mop the floor with Rick & his Maya. Not to mention since she’s been named after her grandmother she’ll take that picture over the fireplace & break it over Maya’s head. Watch out LOGANS STEFFY’S back.
I LOVE STEFFY… sadly her time here will be short…
Liam swooping in to say he wants to run Forrester is beyond insane….he barely has “worked” at Spencer Creations… never mind RUN FC… these storylines are just getting ridiculous!
Rick needs to seek medical help for his “issues” or to grow up quick..
Caroline needs to be by herself to rid herself of the toxicity…. Maya needs a reality check and Brooke should tell her to get her ass out of this mansion and ERIC’s bed….gross ( its your dads bed)
Ridge…well I just think he’s much too old for Caroline… hate to think that means he is stuck with Brooke but it’s not a good fit….
Eric needs to get home, take down his “GONE FISHING” sign and get the heck back to work before these incompetent idiots tank his legacy.
Lastly back to Liam for a second, I realize they are trying to get him to grow a backbone and I am all for that…but he does not know a damn thing about running a company.
Why on earth would Liam take over Forrester… that’s way out there, imo.
Glad Steffy’s back… pity his current gf. Happy Caroline signed the divorce papers, but don’t really want her with Ridge. I don’t think she really wants Ridge. Ridge is just a dog.
I’m not really a Steffi fan, but I do prefer her over Liam’s current girlfriend (Ivy), she’s beyond annoying. I’m glad Caroline signed the divorce papers so she can move on with Ridge, who has no shame when it comes to putting the moves on other peoples wives. If Caroline is that weak, she definitely doesn’t belong with Rick. Everyone may think Maya is a gold digger, but how many gold diggers go around telling everyone her true motives for being with Rick, she hasn’t denied wanting to be part of a prominent family and live a life she could only dream about. I believe she truly loves him and I hope Rick really see’s that and can forget about that silly, so easily seduced, Caroline. P.S. Rick firing that gun has opened up a new can of worms, I can’t wait to see where the writers are going with this. Crazy!
Glad Steffie is back. Caroline is too young for Ridge who is a mess in anyone’s language. Liam needs the challenge of taking over Forrester. Never been a fan of “Pretty Boy Rick”.
Glad to see Steffy as Jacqui Mac rocks the show. I hope with Hope gone for now, we can erase the laborious exercise that was the Hope-Liam-Steffy then known as the Hope-Liam-Wyatt triangle. What a waste. Hastily shifting plots and allegiances. Makes it all unwatchable as these characters seem not to believe in love save for the concept. I cannot believe if there are all these sudden and upsets and fast-starts to marriages and babies (who all die by miscarriage). Please, Mr. Bell, take stock of your talent, the history your father created, and craft some suspenseful stories that build romance for longer than a minute (same for the marriages that result), put our characters in danger from time to time, and make us not want to miss a minute. Thank you!
I love the character of Steffy, and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood is a great young actress. Her scenes in 2013 when she lost her and Liam’s baby were phenomenal, and JMW should have gotten an Emmy for them. Since her departure, the show has been way too focused on Hope, essentially replacing the Steffy/Liam/Hope never ending triangle with Liam/Hope/Wyatt. Now that Hope is gone, I wish Steffy could stick around for more than just a short-term story arc, and maybe bring Thomas and Taylor back to LA too. But at least she is coming back for a little while, I really miss her presence, way more than I miss Hope.
Quick gripe: why does Liam want to take over Forrester Creations?! He barely even works at Spencer Publications, and if anything, it would be Steffy, Ridge, Bill or even Brooke taking control of the company, not Liam. That makes no sense to me.
I agree with you that Liam would not be able to take over Forrester, I think it was a heat of the moment comment. He is upset the way Rick has been treating Ivy and Caroline. You are right it makes no sense. Either does Brooke coming back for one day and calling the shots
Would love to see Ridge and Caroline together, just to put Rick over the edge.
Love that Steffi is coming back, she has been missed.
Wish Brooke would go back to Italy permanently. No men left for her, they are all taken. Who will she steal next?
I agree, Let Caroline & Ridge get together. Baby boy Rick needs a kick out of the company that he can’t run to begin with & he’s proven that already. I didn’t think Liam could take over the company but if he’s running it with Steffy (who ran it before) and they have enough percentage of the company with Ridge’s percent’s as well (and Ridge will give his daughter his percentage points to get rid of that baby). it could work.I can’t get over Brook today & how she tried to take over.She thinks Ridge owes her??? How many affair’s did she have. He was right saying (great parenting) I think Caroline may just be the one to settle Ridge down.
I think Ridge and Brooke cancel each other out on who is the worst parent, who has slept with the most people, had the most affairs Etc. Even in the world of soaps their compass is far off center…. Caroline and Ridge are more father-daughter then lovers weird, Ridge needs to remember how he felt when Steffy had her fling with Bill Spencer, and all the nasty things he said in regards to that even though in the end it was just to get FC back in the family. Not to say the next few weeks on B&B s h old be interesting.
Thrilled to have Steffy back on the canvas. It gave me a reason to start watching B & B again. She is one of a a kind !!! I quit watching when they turned a romantic male character worth investing in (Ridge) into a hollow inspid child. Professing his undying love to one woman and a month later doing the same to a little girl. This character has lost any credibilty and is NOT worth wasting time watching. Thank goodness for the FF funtion on my DVR. Hoping to see Steffy and Liam together !!!!!! Happy Valentines Day !!!