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This week, Steffy takes her plan to nab Bill for her own to the next level. As per her usual inappropriate shenanigans, Steffy will show up in Bill’s office with an offer of an already purchased lunch. Intrigued as always, Bill will accept. Steffy’s machinations will continue as she stages an “intimate” moment with Bill just as Donna is walking by playing I-Spy. Donna will run right to Katie with the news of what she witnessed and another fight between the Spencers will ensue. Katie leaves during the argument due to an important business meeting, but Big Baby Spencer will assume that she ran out on him again. The always ready, willing, and skanky Steffy will show up to offer her condolences. Bill may just be so upset that he will accept them! Is Bill willing to risk everything just to have sex with Steffy? If so, he seriously loses cool points with me.

On B&B this week, Katie discovered the truth about the Dare line via a confession from Brooke. Katie immediately shared the devastating news with her husband, Bill. After that, all hell broke loose. Heather Tom brought all her skills to the table, defending her sisters to her overpowering husband. I could see Katie’s heart ripping in two as she realized she had to choose between her hot ass husband and her family. She chose Donna and Brooke in the end, but her heart is still wholeheartedly with Bill. Kudos to Heather Tom. We can’t wait to see what happens next!

The drama has been brewing in LA this week with Katie becoming more and more suspicious with every design she saw from the Forresters’ new line, Dare. When Katie decided to corner Brooke and question her about the real motives behind the new line, Brooke cracked and told Katie the whole truth. Brooke then asked Katie to keep mum for now until they find a way to deal with Bill. However, the second $Bill walked into the office Katie told him the whole thing and all hell broke loose…

Bill was furious at the Forresters and the way they fooled his wife and tried to make a laughing stock out of them both. I think that wasn’t the only reason behind his anger. The Forresters didn’t only try to fool Katie, they tried to fool Bill himself, and they almost did fool him. If it weren’t for Katie, the Dare line would have made it to the runway, so it must have killed Bill to know he had been fooled.

Bill started off by telling Ridge how their plan would have never worked and I admit, Ridge was looking stupid there. Bill was being condescending and calm, but one smirk from Donna was enough for him to unleash his fury.

Bill exploded in anger, telling Donna is nothing to the company and that her and Brooke are nothing but jealous tramps. Now at that part Bill was both right and wrong. He was right about Brooke and Donna sleeping with almost every man, and about Donna being nothing to Forrester Creations. Since the day Donna married Eric she has does nothing but call him “honeybear” and drizzle honey all over him (thank God we never see the drizzling part). But even if those things are right, Bill had no right to say them. He should have known that Katie would never accept the way he talked to her sisters. After Bill was finished, he told the Forresters he will never fire them and “dared” them to quit.

After Bill and Katie left, Stuffy took Bill’s place and started putting all the blame on Katie. She started saying everything she could to make it look like it was all the Logans’ fault. Apparently Stuffy forgot that it was her own father and grandfather who stood by and watched the company fall instead of doing something to save that sinking ship. When she said that Brooke and Donna didn’t deserve to be President and Vice President, I knew she must have been high. Katie didn’t just give Brooke and Donna those positions, she first offered them to Eric and Ridge in an attempt to make the best of the horrible situation that was created. The only part were Stuffy was right is when she admitted that Brooke deserved a place in the company unlike Donna who has contributed with nothing.

Katie and Bill took their fight to the beach house, where she started telling him that he crossed the line with her sisters. Katie went on telling Bill those weren’t his employees and that nobody talks to family like that, but Bill wouldn’t take any of that and told her that her sisters can’t be part of their lives anymore.

I really love Bill with Katie, but Bill is putting Katie in a horrible situation by forcing her to choose between him and her sisters. But what’s great about this story line is that you can’t blame just one person for everything, everyone contributed to making a bad situation even worse!

Things are going to get very ugly this week when Brooke spills the beans to Katie and Katie spills the beans to Bill. Bill will confront those dastardly Forresters about their Dare line and the plan to take him down. Words will be said, and Katie will be forced to choose between her family and the husband that she loves and adores. Katie, the loyal sister as always, will walk away from Bill and their marriage after stern warnings from him not to. Will Bill go running to Steffy for comfort? Judging by this pic, Steffy might just get her man after all, but at what price?

Taylor was about to go on her second attempt in this whole online dating thing. Apparently, she thinks she might get lucky if she was all dressed up. Taylor stopped by Jackie M and picked up a dress that all I can say about is: “meh”. Later when she got to Insomnia to meet her date, she was surprised to find that the “Whipster” was her date. I LOVED the writers for making Taylor say the obvious, which is that she keeps running into people she already knew. Even though “Whaylor” was one of my many possibilities for Taylor, I have to admit, I didn’t expect to like them this much. They had very good chemistry together, and I can see myself falling in love with them already.

The writers did a great job of not forgetting that Jack is a big part of this whole surrogacy thing. When Taylor was at Jackie M, she ran into Bridget & Nick and congratulated them about Sandy. They discussed the how and when in regards to breaking the news for the MIA Jack.

Justin was interrogating Bill at the beach house about the whole fiasco with Stuffy. I have to admit up to this point I still had my doubts about Bill’s true feelings for Katie. But, after he told Justin that he loved Katie and would never hurt her, I bought my ticket to the Dollar Bill Express and am a happy passenger!!

Katie had Stuffy on the hot seat at the office asking all kind of questions about what she did with Bill and WHY she did it. After Stuffy told her what happened and that it was a stupid mistake, Katie didn’t buy that it was all just an innocent mistake without any agenda behind it. She believed that Stuffy was going after Bill as a way of hurting Katie like she had hurt the Forresters. So after saying all that Stuffy, Katie finally pulled a “Trump” and gave her the three magic words “You Are Fired”…

This latest development between Katie and Stuffy can find its way to affect everyone else, including Bridge. So will Katie firing Stuffy be the thing that breaks up Brook & Ridge this time??? Only time will tell.

On Friday’s eppy I was surprised to watch B. Bell revisit the disaster that is Stuffy and Rick’s “relationship”. However, I have to admit with Rick looking so hot recently I found it to be a very sweet scene when he told Stuffy he missed her and wanted to go to Lakers game with her. I am not saying I’d be rooting for “Reffy” but am ready to have Rick back in a real story line, even if it involves HER.

More of the Sandy/Agnes mystery was brought to light. I am more sure now than ever that Sandy been raped or abused in someway in her past. All the camera flashes bothering her and Whip saying that she used to love being in front of camera makes me think, modeling gone wrong??

Lots of people (including myself) see that Bell is writing Stuffy as a Brooke Logan in the making. Since Brooke has been behaving scandalous-free for quite some time now, I am glad to have Stuffy proudly step in. Not to mention the irony of Stuffy being the Saint a.k.a Taylor’s daughter…

Now to the best part of Friday’s eppy: After Brooke had a very sudden change of heart and convinced Bill not to say anything to Katie, Stuffy came into the office and started talking to Brooke. When she said Katie’s name, Brooke FINALLY snapped at her, saying that she knew what she had done. I’ve been waiting for this confrontation since Stuffy hooked up with Rick and ruined Brooke’s marriage months ago, so it’s safe to assume that I am very happy with this and can’t wait for Monday!!

Not much went down in LA today… Katie had some hot morning sex with Bill in his office before she left for some real work at FC. Seriously who would leave A.G to go work?!

Rick was looking super yummy today, he ran into his infamous ex Stuffy at the office and told her that one day she would be as happy as Katie is with her new hubby. Little does he know Stuffy already knows how it is like to be with man like Bill.

Sandy had another weird experience of flashback, this time along with the repeated flashes of camera, there were loud voices of women laughing. This made it seem like Sandy or “Agnes” might have been involved with the wrong crowd at sometime in her past, and that’s what forced her to change name and keep a low profile, but this still wouldn’t explain why she wanted to be a surrogate so bad.

Brooke continued on her “dig up Bill’s dirt” mission, storming into his office demanding an explanation of how his necklace found its way to in-between the cushions in Big Bear. Brooke was downright badass with Bill today, when he wouldn’t fess up, she threatened to go confront Stuffy and right there $Bill cracked and promised to tell her the whole truth this time.We sure missed THIS Logan!

Today after catching him in a big fat lie, Brooke was determined to find out why Bill lied about having been in the Big Bear cabin and what he was trying to hide. He tried to dance around Brooke’s question but she of course wouldn’t take that from him and continued cornering him until he finally caved and admitted being in the cabin with Stuffy… And again she kept pushing him until he told her the whole truth that Stuffy had kissed him and they went to the cabin to just talk about it. BUT was that really the whole truth??

I don’t think so, because when you think about it we have seen their little cabin meeting and there was no arguing or anything, so how would Bill lose his necklace there?! Of course it might have just fell off, but somehow that sounds too innocent for soapland. So the question now is, have we really seen ALL that happened in Big Bear that night or was there some dirty stuff which Bill&Stuffy decided not to share with anyone and not even us??? For me, I believe Bill and Stuffy had sex that night and knowing my Logan, I know she won’t stop until she finds the whole dirty truth!

Also today we got some Sandy action, she stopped by Jackie M after Bridget asked her to and after Bridget introduced her to everyone as their selfless surrogate, Sandy had a bit uncomfy run-in with Whip. He kept asking her about why she changed her name and then a very upset Sandy told Whip to drop it and not to tell anyone that they are family. Again today Sandy behaved very weird around Nick, acting like he didn’t even exist, her talk was all directed to Bridget. After she got in the elevator, Sandy had a panic attack.

Owen was looking yummy today standing with only a fig leaf for the Adam & Eve ad campaign, Thank you Whip!!

On Friday $Bill and Katie said their “I dos” and became Mr. & Mrs. Bill Spencer. The wedding venue was a simple public park next to the Logans’ valley home. At first I thought this wedding was going to be a cheap ass wedding in a crappy park but I have to admit I was wrong. I liked the outside shooting B&B did for the wedding and the set was beautiful and very well done.

Then there were the dresses. The bridesmaids’ dresses were a bit too much for my taste. I liked the color but the flower-ish thingie was BAD. Both Brooke and Donna had their hair up, but I have to say Donna’s hairdo was so bad. Brooke’s was ok, still not her best look.

On to the bride! Since it’s a Spencer/Logan wedding and with Ridge designing the wedding dress, we thought Katie was going to walk down the aisle in one unique dress that every woman in LA would die to have. When Katie finally showed up at the wedding, with Stephen giving her away, I was shocked to see her in a very simple dress with simple hairdo. Then I realized that it makes sense because this is Katie Logan we are talking about. Katie never was much of a fashionista like her sisters, so I can understand Ridge thinking she would want her dress to be simple. Now the only thing I did NOT like about Katie’s look was the strand of pearls in her hair.

As for guests, I thought Beth and Karen both looked very beautiful. Karen was so beautiful she made me wish Johanna Johnson would join the show again and give us one new triangle with Brooke/Ridge/Karen. Wishful thinking I know!!

Even though some didn’t like Bill in the all white suit, I particularly loved it and thought he was looking hot, as usual.

Back to the wedding venue. The whole park thing wasn’t doing for it me until Katie said her vows to Bill. She showed how much the place meant to her, right outside her bedroom where she used to sit for hours alone staring at a future she was not sure about. Then I fell in love with the idea. It was Katie’s moment and she chose to enjoy her victory and prove to herself that she took her life from where she used to be all alone to now being surrounded by the people she loves and marrying the man she loves. That’s why I loved the ending of the episode with “This Is My Now” by “Jordin Sparks” playing. The song was a great choice for Katie Logan and the short shots of the young Katie were beautifully edited from Heather Tom’s early days on the sister CBS soap Y&R…

Congrats to the happy couple and best of luck to them (they are going to need it). Especially if the rumors are true about Bill having a skeleton coming out of his closet to haunt him soon… Did Katie just make the biggest mistake of her life???

Thanks!

Kristel

I make no apologies for my adoration of Heather Tom, but I have to ponder what the hell she must be thinking while acting out her scenes as Katie on B&B as of late. It’s bad enough that Katie is now a full on Logan through and through, but now this! I decided to tune in to today’s episode only to turn it off within the first two minutes. Who is writing for this show right now? This particular scene must have been written by a man and here is why: Brooke, Donna, and Katie. Jumping up and down in slinky pajamas with drinks in their hands….enough said. Only a man could write that scene and think that it wouldn’t be a complete and utter failure….