Bold and the Beautiful: Katie’s New Designer is Ridge’s Scandalous Ex?

Bold and the Beautiful has Katie Logan (Heather Tom) wondering what to do next after Eric Forrester‘s (John McCook) collection was a big smash for Logan. But Katie is worried about being considered a one-hit wonder. Bottom line, she needs a new lead designer.

And as expected, Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) is trying to recruit Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) to come over to the company. And yes, that would give Katie a new line, and I’m sure Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone) would go along.

But that still doesn’t fix the lead designer problem. So, we’re going to talk about whether Logan’s new lead designer could be a blast from Ridge Forrester‘s (Thorsten Kaye) sketchy past.

Katie Needs A New Lead Designer on Bold and the Beautiful

So, right now, Katie’s trying to figure out what is next for Logan. And that’s when Liam brought up wanting Hope to leave Forrester Creations because he said they undervalued and underappreciated her the same way they did to Katie and others. So, Liam seems to be envisioning his wife coming over to Logan to do a line simply called Hope. So, while she would probably have to leave without any of the designs that Zende Forrester (Delon de Metz) and Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) have completed, I actually think that’s fine because they were not really Hope’s vision. That was something that was forced on her.

I think Liam, Katie, and Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) could sell this to Hope and she would bring her brother, Deke, with her as her designer and he has a whole pile of designs sitting around. So, bringing over Hope and Deke would be great, you know, but he is a relative newbie as a designer. He does not have the experience to be Katie’s lead designer. So I suspect that Bold and the Beautiful is either going to bring in a new character or they might bring back somebody who was a designer in the past on Bold and the Beautiful. So, I want to talk about a few of the options.

Designer Option #1: Sally Spectra Back to Bold?

First of all, there’s Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope). We got to consider her. I love Courtney Hope, but right now Sally is over in Genoa City. She’s running her own media company. She is newly pregnant and she just got engaged to Billy Abbott (Jason Thompson).

So, I doubt we are going to see Sally coming back on Bold and the Beautiful, although I do love the character. But there’s some other more feasible options. So, let’s talk about them. Be sure to stick around to the very end though because the last one we’re going to discuss is the nuclear option, the blast from Ridge’s scandalous past that Bill might use to blow up Ridge and punish Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) for hurting Katie.

B&B Designer Option #2: Clarke Garrison

So, another one to consider since Sally’s off the table would be Clarke Garrison (Daniel McVicar). He’s a veteran designer. He was over at Spectra Fashions. And he also worked at Forrester Creations. He later returned when Spectra Fashions became Jackie M. And if you were watching then, you may recall that Clarke was charming, a ladies man, and a schemer. He’s not been seen in years, so his return as Logan’s lead designer would definitely shake things up, but it wouldn’t be the most dramatic option.

Designer Option #4: Nicole Avant Returns to Bold and the Beautiful?

Another to consider is Nicole Avant (Reign Edwards). She is Maya Avant’s (Karla Mosley) younger sister. She came to Los Angeles looking to be a model. Nicole was also a little bit of a schemer and wound up as a junior designer at Forrester International, but that was years ago, so she’s had years of experience. So, she could pop back up and approach Katie about designing for Logan. That would shake things up for Zende, who is Nicole’s ex-husband. They divorced about six years ago. So, you know, she might come back to get some payback on Zende, but again, that seems like a long shot.

Bold Designer Option #5: Amber Moore

Another designer to consider is Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz). She started on Bold and the Beautiful as a gold digger and another schemer. And if you remember back in the day, Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) helped Amber get a job as a nanny for Eric and Brooke’s kids, Bridget Forrester (Ashley Jones) and Rick Forrester (Jacob Young).

And from there, Amber wound up romantically involved with Rick, who was years younger than her. Amber desperately wanted to be a fashion designer, and she wound up working at Forrester Creations and then later also went over to Spectra Fashions. She has been off of Bold and the Beautiful for many years.

The actress is still working as far as I know, and I’m sure Amber would make a big splash if she came back as Katie’s new designer, but I’m not sure how plausible that Amber is. Now, she would love to crush the Forresters, but the problem is Amber has a messy history with Bill and also Liam. And that’s why I think it is a long shot.

Designer Option #6: Jack Marone

Another to consider that would be a hard hit at the Forresters is if Katie hired Jack who is Nick’s son with Brooke. Now, if you remember, Taylor carried and gave birth to Jack, but didn’t mean to have Brooke and Nick’s son. So, there was an accidental embryo swap back in the day. Taylor was married to Nick, desperately wanted to have his baby, did in vitro, but wound up with Brooke’s egg. It was some kind of laboratory error.

So, when Nick was back last year, he and Brooke mentioned that their son Jack is in Paris and is working in fashion. I’m sure that Nick is salty that Brooke went back to Ridge and remarried him. So, I could see Nick encouraging his son Jack to go work at Logan with his aunt Katie to annoy both Ridge and Brooke. I think that is plausible, especially with Jack’s sister Hope likely going over to Logan as well, but I don’t think it would be the soapiest option.

The Nuclear Option – #7: Morgan DeWitt

Let’s talk about something that would be nuclear. A blast from Ridge’s past that would be a really dramatic twist if they brought her in as Katie’s lead designer. Let’s talk about Morgan DeWitt (Sarah Buxton). Back in the day, she came to Forrester Creations as a model. She had a fling with Ridge and got pregnant, but his mom Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) pressured her into an abortion. And after Ridge’s mom basically forced her to terminate the pregnancy, Morgan just went nuts. She hated Stephanie and she remained obsessed with Ridge.

So, Morgan came back to B&B in 2000 when Brooke hired Morgan to design for Forrester Creations. At the time, Ridge was married to Taylor, and Morgan came back on the scene still fully fixated on him. She played nice with Taylor while plotting to get pregnant by Ridge to replace the baby that his mom made her terminate. So, Morgan did actually get Ridge into bed, and she did get pregnant, but she miscarried. And Morgan went even crazier. She kidnapped Taylor at one point. And she kidnapped Steffy Forrester back when she was a kid. She tried to drown Ridge’s mom, Stephanie, and in the end, Morgan was arrested and sent to a mental institute.

Bold and the Beautiful: Bill Blows Up Ridge’s Life

Now, I doubt that Katie would actively recruit Morgan to bring in as her lead designer. All that being said, Bill def might do it. You know, they say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. So, could be that Morgan is still fully psycho but also an amazing designer, you know, and I think Bill would love to bring back a nightmare like her from Ridge’s past. All the things that Brooke and Ridge are saying that Katie, you know, stole Eric’s designs, all that kind of stuff.

And just the way that Bill feels like they mistreated his wife, you know, bringing in Morgan to Logan would be like setting off a nuclear bomb that would blow up Ridge and Brooke because I’m sure that Morgan would come in just as fixated on Ridge. And Sarah Buxton, who played Morgan, is still a working actress. So, I think this one’s definitely plausible. She’s a she-villain who in the scale of ranking bad girls isn’t quite as bad as Sheila, but she’s pretty darn close.