Bold and the Beautiful: Hope & Zende Quit Forrester – Logan Steals HFTF?

Bold and the Beautiful features Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) really irritated that Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) put Hope for the Future on the back burner yet again

And soon, Zende Forrester (Delon de Metz) finds out what co-CEO Steffy decided. And he’s also not going to be very happy. So, Hope may be done, you know, just completely tired of being yanked back and forth.

And she may take action. So, we’re going to talk about whether Hope may jump ship out of Forrester Creations and head over to Logan and take Zende along with her.

Steffy Blindsides Hope on Bold and the Beautiful

All right, so this week we saw Steffy blindside Hope in the design office. As expected, Steffy and the other Forresters are clearly very salty about the Logan fashion show being such a smashing success for Katie Logan (Heather Tom).

So, Steffy came in hot and asked Hope if Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) invited her to the victory party for Logan to celebrate what Katie did to Eric Forrester (John McCook). And of course, Steffy was talking about how she doesn’t think they had permission or authority to use Eric’s designs. All the same stuff Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) have been spouting.

Bold and the Beautiful: Hope Sticks Up for Family

So, Hope defended her aunt Katie, but Steffy went off about Logan women always being selfish. She told Hope that Katie abused Eric’s kindness and how he’s full of regret. So, it sounds like Steffy is fully on the anti-Logan bandwagon again.  And what’s ironic is that Brooke is on that same bandwagon, when it comes to Katie at least.

Meanwhile, Hope insisted that Katie didn’t do anything wrong. And we all know that Eric was the one who insisted that he was going to design for Katie. But Hope also didn’t want to argue about it with Steffy. And Hope said she’s not getting involved. But I think that’ll change soon because Steffy is not sticking to the deal that she made with Hope.

Hope For The Future on Hold Again

If you watched this week’s episodes already, Hope told Steffy that she’s been waiting on the green light to move forward with basically pushing out the next collection for Hope for the Future. She said, “They’re all ready to go.” Hope said, “The collection is done. The designs are done.” Thomas and Zende signed off. But Steffy said, “Nope, it’s on hold.” And if you remember, Hope stuck around after they made her work with her ex-boyfriend and former stalker, Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson). And Hope stuck around after Forrester Creations made her fire her brother, Deacon. But Steffy may be about to push Hope too far.

So, Steffy told Hope they’re going to hold off on Hope for the Future because they need to focus on couture. She told Steffy that this feels deliberate and Hope can’t believe Steffy is doing this to her again after all the promises she made when they brought the line back. Steffy said, “Nope, it’s not personal.”

But Hope isn’t buying it because it’s very personal to her. Frankly, I’m not buying it either because it kind of feels like Steffy’s taking out her anger at Katie and is punishing Hope. Plus, we all know how much Steffy loves to cancel Hope for the Future. She’s done it so many times.

Bold and the Beautiful: Zende Hears the News

Also, this week, Zende is going to join the conversation with Hope and Steffy, and he looks none too pleased. Don’t forget, Zende has been working really hard on Hope for the Future with Hope. So, of course, Zende is going to be bummed to hear Steffy is shelving the line for the foreseeable future.

Hope May Consider Jumping To Logan on B&B

And later this week, we’ve got Hope and Liam over at the Spencer Mansion having dinner with Katie and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont). And that’s when things could take a big turn for Hope and her line. So, Katie’s telling them that Eric’s designs are beautiful, but it’s just one collection and she needs to figure out what’s next. I mean, kind of duh, Katie, shouldn’t you have already been thinking about that? Why has she been not thinking about it?

So, Hope and Liam kind of exchange a look when Katie says this. So, I got a feeling that Hope may start to consider whether she can trust Steffy or Forrester Creations to honor their commitment to her and her line. I thought it was kind of interesting when she was talking to Hope that Steffy thinks it’s okay for Eric to violate the terms of his contract with Katie and Hope actually brought that up.

She reminded her Eric signed the contract giving Logan those designs, but Steffy doesn’t care. He signed a contract. Meanwhile, she’s also ignoring what was promised in Hope’s contract. Yet, as she reminded Steffy, she is still sticking to her contract with Forrester Creations.

Bold and the Beautiful: Hope Reconsiders Her Future at Forrester

But that may change soon on Bold and the Beautiful. I don’t know if it’ll happen this week, but I feel like in May sweeps, I do suspect Liam is going to suggest that Hope bring her line over to Logan because, let’s face it, Katie needs a new collection and Hope needs somewhere to work where her line won’t be constantly sidelined and kicked down the road and kicked aside. Now, I can definitely see Liam backing this and urging Hope to come over to Spencer/Logan.

Hope Could Take Zende with Her

And another red flag is that Bill was just reminding Liam that Hope is a Spencer now and also an outsider at Forrester Creations. So, Liam may be excited for Hope to join the Spencer family company. She may be on the same page if Steffy keeps devaluing her. And that way Hope can hire Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) to come to Logan to work on her line like she wanted.

But I also don’t think Hope would up and leave Zende. I think Hope might extend an offer to Zende to see if he wants to come with her to Logan. He’s been sidelined a lot too. And if there’s not room for him on couture, you know, he might go with Hope. That would be dramatic.

Not Thomas, though. First of all, I don’t think he would ever leave Forrester Creations to work with the Spencers. Plus, I don’t think Hope would ever recruit Thomas. She would much rather have Deke and Zende. If you remember, Hope didn’t want Thomas back on her line at all.

Partly because of their romantic past, but also because they have just a different vision at this point. Hope prefers Deke’s designs and his kind of new edge, and she wanted to take Hope for the Future in a different direction.

Bold and the Beautiful: Steffy Faking?

So, I think Steffy would secretly be glad if Hope left for Logan, but acts outraged about it because she doesn’t like her and doesn’t want her around, especially not after what happened last year. And I’m sure the Forresters can repurpose Thomas, put him on couture or on the men’s line with RJ Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti)).

I do expect that the Forresters are going to want a branded Eric Forrester couture collection to remind the fashion world that Forrester is where Eric belongs and this thing with Logan was some kind of weird side trip, you know, to diminish it. They might do something.

I think this would be cool like a Generations collection with Eric and Ridge and Thomas. Three generations collaborating on one collection. You know, I would prefer it to be Thomas than RJ if I’m being real.

So, obviously, this would be done to make Katie’s Forrester collection look like old news, but I think Hope, Zende, and Deke could make a big splash at Logan, and Forrester would lose a line that was targeted at their younger buyers.

So, we could see Hope put Forrester Creations in her rearview just like Katie did. And don’t forget, Hope hated that Steffy canceled her line for personal reasons over that whole Finn Finnegan (Tanner Novlan) thing. So much so that Hope helped stage a coup to take Forrester Creations from the founding family.

So, if Hope is willing to steal the Forresters’ company over them kicking her line around, yeah, I think she would definitely walk away to go to Logan. And can you imagine how Brooke would react? She would probably accuse Katie of stealing her daughter along with Eric’s designs and the trademark.