Soap Opera
‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Fans See Red as Carter Walton Does the Unthinkable
Steffy Forrester pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with Carter Walton on B&B. Now Carter crosses a line, sparking fan outrage over his shocking betrayal.
The Bold and the Beautiful stunned fans last month when a very drunk Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and a very drunk Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) had a very drunken one-night stand on Eric Forrester’s (John McCook) office couch. Fans expected the requisite ‘Who’s the Daddy?’ plot to arise from that, and when Steffy found herself pregnant, things seemed to be proceeding right on soap opera schedule. Then, B&B threw a few curveballs.
First, Steffy knew exactly who the father of her unborn baby was the moment she saw two lines on her multiple pregnancy tests. Steffy and her husband, Finn (Tanner Novlan), had been living busy professional lives and hadn’t had time for intimacy recently, so Carter was definitely the dad.
Steffy insisted they tell their respective spouses the truth about their adultery and hope for the best, but Carter begged Steffy to keep things a secret. He even asked Steffy to just give him and Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) their baby and act as the egg donor and surrogate they needed to start a family. Steffy told him absolutely not. She would not be a human incubator and then lie about how the child was conceived.
Carter then ignored Steffy’s wishes and told Daphne that Steffy had agreed to be their surrogate right in front of Steffy so it would be hard to say no. That one act outraged fans, who couldn’t believe that Carter would do such a thing.
“Carter has now crossed a major line,” one fan said on X. “Taking away a woman’s choice? Not only to decide if she’s going to have the baby, but also to be a surrogate. This is wrong.”
“I have zero respect left for Carter,” another fan tweeted. “He is literally trying to steal Steffy’s baby. I hope she outs him and doesn’t let him bully her.”
Other fans felt that Friday’s episode was the last straw for Forrester Creations’ CFO. “Carter has been pissing me off for months, and he just really tried it for the last time. Wow,” they wrote.
Another fan summed up the thoughts of many as they described Carter’s character transformation, saying, “Carter is now the show’s gross villain.”
