B&B WILD SPECULATION! Hope Logan Is LOUDLY Plotting Her SECOND Coup and This One Is About to Backfire Spectacularly

HOPE LOGAN IS BUILDING ANOTHER COUP THAT WILL BACKFIRE HARD

TL;DR: Hope Logan is back at Forrester Creations and already orchestrating her second coup on The Bold and the Beautiful, this time weaponizing Brooke against Steffy to claim the co-CEO throne. The problem? The Forrester siblings are about to combine their shares and hand Steffy the kind of majority that makes a coup impossible.

A Daughter With a Track Record and a Very Short Memory

Hope Logan is barely back in the Forrester family’s good graces. The last time she got bored with the way the company was being run, she manipulated Carter Walton into staging a full-blown coup against Ridge Forrester and Steffy Forrester, nearly burned the building to the ground, and walked away with everyone’s trust in tatters. Now, with Hope For The Future on pause and Steffy redirecting resources to couture, Hope has decided she has another brilliant idea. And it involves her mother.

Brooke Logan has been quietly venting about feeling like a mascot at Forrester for weeks. Hope heard her. Hope absorbed it. Hope filed it away. And then Hope went to work, pressing on every soft spot until she got Brooke to admit out loud what she had not even let herself think. That Brooke deserves to be co-CEO. That Steffy should answer to her. That Eric and Stephanie ran the company together and so should Ridge and Brooke. The pitch was not Brooke’s idea. It was Hope’s idea, dressed up in Brooke’s grievances, served back to her like a gift.

Brooke Walks the Pitch Right Into Ridge’s Lap

Cut to today. Brooke is at home reminding Ridge about everything she has done for Forrester Creations, every fashion show she has built, every front page she has earned. They could be the ultimate power couple, she purrs. King and queen. Steffy would still have a seat at the table, of course. She would simply answer to them. Ridge, who has never met a Brooke pitch he could resist, grunts thoughtfully. They kiss. It is exactly the opening Hope needed.

Over at the cliff house, Steffy is venting to Finn about Hope taking everything personally, wondering aloud if Hope For The Future is even worth the trouble anymore. She is one bad mood and one wine refill away from cleaning house. She has no idea her stepmother is currently negotiating her demotion.

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Liam and Katie Are Already Circling the Carcass

Of course, Hope Logan is hedging her bets. Across town in the Forrester office, she is also telling Liam Spencer that she convinced Brooke to ask for the co-CEO spot, framing herself as the loyal daughter who simply wants her line to thrive. Liam, who has been working overtime to drag her over to Logan, is now watching her play both sides of the chessboard with the kind of skill that should terrify him. Meanwhile Katie Logan is at Logan telling Donna Logan that Hope is finally ready to stop bowing down to Princess Steffy. Donna is appalled. Donna calls it a recipe for disaster. Donna is the only person in this entire storyline reading the room correctly.

The Uno Reverse Coup Is Loading

Here is where it goes sideways for Hope Logan. The ownership of Forrester Creations is concentrated in four hands. Eric Forrester holds 37.5 percent. Steffy holds 37.5 percent. Ridge holds 20 percent. Thomas Forrester holds 5 percent. Any coup that comes through Ridge alone is fragile, because Ridge is one Brooke argument away from changing his mind on a Tuesday and changing it back by Friday. The Forrester siblings know this. Thomas knows this. And the second Thomas catches wind that Brooke is angling to oust his sister and install herself in the corner office, he is handing Steffy his 5 percent so fast it will leave skid marks on the boardroom floor.

That puts Steffy at 42.5 percent. Pair that with Eric, who has spent the entire Logan war watching his legacy get treated like a yard sale, and the alignment is unmistakable. Steffy becomes the largest individual shareholder by a wide margin. Eric backs her every move. Ridge’s 20 percent suddenly does not matter, because the Forresters do not need Ridge to vote with them. They already have the room. Brooke can pitch all the queen energy she wants. The board is locked.

The Fallout: Hope Set This Match Herself

When this backfires, and it will backfire, Hope is going to have nowhere to go. The Forrester siblings will know exactly who lit the fuse, because everyone knows Brooke does not move on her own these days. She moves when Hope pulls the strings. Steffy will not forgive twice. Eric will not forgive twice. Thomas, who has been waiting for an excuse, will not forgive at all. Hope For The Future will not be paused. It will be canceled. Hope Logan will be quietly escorted to a smaller office and asked to keep her ideas to herself.

And then? Liam will be standing at the door with a Spencer name badge and a winning smile, ready to walk her over to Logan, where Katie is waiting with open arms and Donna is shaking her head. Hope thought she was running the boldest play in fashion history. She was actually writing her own exit, in pen.

Do you think Hope is about to torch what’s left of her standing at Forrester, or is Brooke too smart to take this pitch to Ridge a second time? Tell us where you land in the comments on our Facebook page.

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@soapoperamag This moment has lived rent-free in my head! I truly thought this was a turning point for #RidgeForrester and he finally saw what we all see. But, alas, he's currently making out with Brooke and considering trying to fire his daughter to give his wife a promotion. Sigh. #BB #BoldandtheBeautiful ♬ original sound – Soap Opera Magazine