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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!
There was never any doubt that in watching the riveting and emotional scenes on General Hospital which featured Finola Hughes as a PTSD-driven and mentally tortured Anna Devane, that when the climatic moments in Anna’s story aired, that we would not be singing the praises of Hughes. Once again, Finola showcased why she is one of the soap opera genres greatest assets and actresses.
In the key scenes, Anna has had a complete breakdown as she has lured and cornered Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) on Mount Emerson, and even thought through how she would kill her and cover it up, all thanks to hearing the voice and seeing a dead man, Peter August (Wes Ramsey). It’s visions of Peter that keeps egging Anna on to pull the trigger on Britt while in her delusional state.
Before Britt realizes that Anna trapped her in meeting her in Mount Emerson, she is very confused as to why she was all the way out in the boondocks to talk about what happened to her brother, Cassius Faison. However, Britt soon learned that what Anna was about to do is personal, and not professional, as she pulls the gun on her.
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ANNA FIRES HER GUN IN GAME-CHANGING MOMENT
When Jason (Steve Burton) shows up to save the say, he tries to talk Anna off the ledge, begging her to not shoot Britt and make one of the greatest mistakes of his life. When Jason figured out Anna felt she needed to kill anyone related to Cesar Faison, he made her think twice, because that would mean, she also would need to end the lives of two of Maxie’s children, James and Bailey Lu.
Anna can’t stop seeing hallucinations of Peter pushing her to shoot Britt. Suddenly and completely overcome, Anna fires bullets straight in the direction of where she sees Peter as she declares this all must end tonight.
After the shots are fired, Anna realized what she had done and just sobbed and shook. It was a devastating and heartbreaking moment for longtime General Hospital fans to see the beloved Anna Devane, super spy, so lost. Anna explained to Jason, after he was able to disarm her, how she was being pushed to kill Britt by her visions of Peter.
EMMY-WORTHY SCENES FOR 2027
In another hankie-inducing moment, Anna just grabs Jason and breaks down in his arms. If these weren’t Emmy-worthy scenes, we don’t know what is, and it must be remembered by Hughes, General Hospital, and hopefully the voting body of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) when Emmy submissions and voting get underway in 2027 for the 54th annual Daytime Emmys.
From everything we noted above, to the sheer brilliance of her work, Michael Fairman TV names Finola Hughes, this week’s Power Performance of the Week.
Now let us know, do you agree with our pick of Finola? Were you moved to tears during the gut-wrenching scenes? Should Finola include these scenes in an Emmy submission in 2027, should she decide to compete for Lead Actress gold? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
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RATINGS: ‘General Hospital’ Shows Most Gains in Total Viewers Week-Over-Week and Up in Key Demo
The ratings are out for the week of August 24-28 for your favorite broadcast television soaps, and it was ABC’s General Hospital which added the most total viewers and planted itself firmly in third place in its battle with Beyond the Gates in the key demos of women 18-49 and 25-54.
According to Soap Opera Network, all daytime dramas were up year-over-year, and General Hospital was joined by The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful with gains in their total audience viewership, while Beyond the Gates was only slightly off pace for the ratings week.
Let’s take a look at what had viewers tuning-in, starting with General Hospital, who added +79,000 viewers. While still under the 2 million viewers mark (which they can hopefully return in the coming weeks) their overall tally was an average of 1, 935,000 tuning-in, while still up year-to-year +136,000.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
In addition, GH while actually down from the previous week in the 18-49 ratings share, they still out performed Beyond the Gates for third place. However, GH was firmly in third place for the 25-54 ratings share.
The stories that were featured for the week included: Anna’s (Finola Hughes) PTSD and struggle with painful memories tied to Cesar Faison, and her concocting a plan to get rid of Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) recording Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) threatening her, and later running into a severe threat from Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) regarding Kai (Jens Austin Astrup) and Drew’s (Cameron Mathison) shooting, and Drew enlisting Ava (Maura West) to gain leverage over Jack, which resulted in Ava drugging him, while Drew went snooping for the evidence Brennan had against him.
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THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Y&R remained in the top spot amongst all the soaps once again with 3,062,000 tuning in, and up +35,000 for the week, while year-to-year still showing strong gains at +231,000 viewers. However, while Y&R remained #1 for the 25-54 ratings share, it fell to #2 in the 18-49 ratings share behind The Bold and the Beautiful.
In story for the week, Nick’s (Joshua Morrow) sobriety in rehab was a focus, as was Victoria (Amelia Heinle) and Kyle Abbott (Michael Mealor) hitting the Jabot office couch and having sex for the first time, and Lily (Christel Khalil) and Billy (Jason Thompson) battling over control and ownership of Chancellor Industries.
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THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
B&B is continuing to be inch closer to Y&R for the top spot, separated by a little more than 300,000 viewers. For the ratings week, the series posted a total audience of 2,719,000 adding +31,000 eyeballs overall, and like Y&R, is up year-to-year in its performance.
The CBS soap now , now in its 40th season is +217,000 from the same time last year. In the key demos, The Bold and the Beautiful was in the top spot for the women 18-49 ratings share and number two for women 25-54.
In story, the major threat to Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Daphne’s (Murielle Hilaire) marriages continued as Steffy and Carter swore they would not tell their spouses that the two had a drunken hook-up. But as viewers know now, Steffy is pregnant!
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BEYOND THE GATES
Beyond the Gates tallied an average of 1,611,000 total viewers for the week, up +72.000 year-over-year and down slightly in tune-in for the week losing just -36,000 viewers. The CBS soap came in fourth place in the key demos for the week behind General Hospital, with whom they are often trading places for the third spot.
In story, after Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett) was released from the hospital, Hayley (Marquita Goings) stuck to her plan, doubling down on poisoning him and even getting caught in a major lie or meeting with Randy (Maurice P. Kerry), as Vernon (Clifton Davis) may be on to her machinations.
The ratings report is generated from Nielsen (Live+Same Day Big Data + Panel) for the week of August 24-28, 2026
So, what did you think of the performance of General Hospital for the ratings period? Which daytime drama has you most likely to tune-in each day? Which has you tuning-out? Let us know what’s working, or not working for you in story, via the comment section below.
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Kelly Sullivan Gives High Praise to ‘General Hospital’s’ Maura West Recalling When Ava Shot Connie (Exclusive)
It was just over 13 years ago on General Hospital when Ava Jerome (Maura West) shot and killed Kate Howard/Connie Falconeri (Kelly Sullivan) in an effort to keep her quiet from revealing that Derek Wells was actually Ava’s back-from-the-dead brother, Julian Jerome (William deVry). It’s a crime that somehow Ava never has quite paid for either.
The episode back aired on August 13, 2013 and viewers had to say goodbye to Kelly Sullivan who played Kate and her alter, Connie. In the story, just before she died, Kate/Connie scrawled the letters AJ in her own blood, initially making the PCPD and Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) think that it was AJ Quatermaine (Sean Kanan) who did the deed.
Now, Sullivan recalled sharing scenes with the three-time Daytime Emmy-winning West, during a live conversation on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel. Kelly was the special guest talking about her recent return to the soaps in her new role as The Bold and the Beautiful’s Darcy Dylan.
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MAURA WEST
Speaking of her final GH scenes and working with Maura West, Sullivan gave her then GH co-star major props. “If you’re going to be shot by somebody (on the soaps), you want to be shot by Maura West, c’mon!”
Maura West debuted back in May 2013 as Ava, and Sullivan remembered when the As the World Turns favorite began on GH. “I remember when Maura West first arrived at GH. She walked in with this cute little bob (hairdo) and she’s just delicious,” shared Sullivan.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Kelly revealed more about Maura, adding “I think she’s amazing! I remember right before I left the show, someone suggested, and I would still love to do this with her, if she ever want to, but someone suggested that they wanted to direct the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire with Maura and I, where I would play Stella and she would play Blanche! Wouldn’t that be great?”
Speaking of the Ava/Connie showdown scenes, Sullivan expressed, “On television and on General Hospital specifically, Maura West is able to play a character who does the most horrendous things and you still care about her and that’s the mark of a really great actor. In other words, you’re able to be liked in the midst of the most horrendous things, and as a performer not shying away from that, and to just have the courage to do what’s on the page (in the script).”
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KELLY SULLIVAN PARTING THOUGHTS AS SHE LEFT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Kelly also shared her sentiments when she walked off the set of General Hospital after her run back in August of 2013. “I really was honored. Every day I would go to work and I would say a little prayer, which is I want to do justice for my character, explained Kelly. “It’s between me and my character. I get to walk this path with her and to leave the show on that note, which is, I left every out there. I just gave it my all and again what an honor it was to play Kate/Connie.”
You can catch the full conversation with Kelly where she talks about her time on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless where she played Sage Warner and now The Bold and the Beautiful below.
So, do you remember the Ava and Connie scenes where Ava shot and killed her? What did you think of Kelly Sullivan’s sentiments about Maura West? Share your thoughts via the comment section. But first, watch the reveal where Ava recalls murdering Connie below!
‘General Hospital’s’ Finola Hughes Delivers the ‘Power Performance of the Week’
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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 !!!