Apparently, Ms. Dylan has staying power. When The Bold and the Beautiful introduced the character over the summer as Hayes’ art-school

teacher, we thought that she was just passing through. But then the show brought Sydney Bullock back this fall and revealed that — quelle

coincidence! — her character was the one who ran over Luna, the ill-fated menace to society who’d once threatened her at gunpoint.

 

 

And now? The actress has been signed to a contract by the daytime drama, Soap Opera Digest reports. On the surface, the move is a curious twist since Dylan’s ties to the canvas are tenuous at best. Even pal Electra wanted to hasten her unhoused friend’s departure from beau Will’s guest room upon (rightly) sensing that the co-ed has a bit of a crush on the junior-varsity hunk.

But right over the horizon, a big storyline awaits — and a new love interest to boot. With Brayan Nicoletti replacing Joshua Hoffman as R.J., the Forrester heir is sure to catch Dylan’s eye. Or R.J. could make a play for Electra, to whom he isn’t blood-related (since dad Ridge is biologically a Marone, not a Forrester). Then we could wind up with a Dylan/Will/Electra/R.J. quadrangle — in essence, the Wyatt/Hope/Liam/Steffy storyline all over again.

For years, Bold & Beautiful legacy character Thomas Forrester has shuffled along from one questionable situation (a May/December fling with Amber Moore) to another (an eyebrow-raising romance with a mannequin) to another (the parent trap that got him booted from Forrester Creations in 2022). And for years, we’ve asked ourselves why. He’s rich and handsome and talented. Why does he seem to be as drawn to misbehavior as we are to an open bar?

Today we’ve figured out the answer. When Thomas was born on January 7, 1998, he was already a part of a whopper of a lie. Upon learning that she was expecting, Taylor (then Hunter Tylo) tried to inform Ridge that he was going to be a father… but found him in the arms of her constant rival, Brooke. In a vulnerable state, Taylor allowed herself to be convinced by Ridge’s brother Thorne to let everyone believe that he was the babydaddy. He’d get Taylor, Ridge and Brooke would get each other, and everyone would live happily ever after.

Needless to say, it didn’t quite work out that way. Once Ridge discovered that Brooke and Thorne had conspired to pass off his son as his nephew, he pulled a wife swap so fast that the fridge at the Forrester mansion wasn’t even out of leftover hors d’oeuvres from one wedding before he went through with the next ceremony!

In the years that followed, Thomas’ life settled down… Hmm. How to put it. Not one bit. If one sister (Steffy) wasn’t being kidnapped by psycho Morgan DeWitt, the other (Phoebe) was recoiling in horror from the revelation that she and Mom had had the same boyfriend. Add in the period during which Taylor was “dead” — thanks to merry murderess Sheila Carter — and you can start to understand why Thomas might have turned out a little… off.

To his credit, Ridge and Taylor’s only son has attempted to turn over a new leaf. The trouble is, it never seems to stay turned over. After a brain bleed convinced him that it was a good idea for him to mack on sometime stepsister Hope Logan, he tried to focus on being an upstanding friend to her and an admirable father to Douglas. Unfortunately, once again, his baser instincts got the better of him, and he plunged headfirst into another cauldron of hot water.

Despite Thomas’ one-step-forward-two-steps-back approach to life, he seems to be in a good place now. There’s just one problem: That place is Paris! And why? That, we can’t figure out. Thomas needs to be in L.A. if only to irk Liam with his presence alone — and challenge Hope to keep her hands off. He needs to be in L.A. to weigh in on the fact that grandpa Eric was put out to pasture. He needs to be in L.A. to make Daphne realize that Carter is far from her only romantic option.

What do you think? Shouldn’t Thomas be not only back at Forrester Creations, back in the mix at Forrester Creations in L.A.?