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‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ is Setting Up a Next-Generation Rivalry and Fans Aren’t Feeling It
‘Bold and Beautiful’ sons RJ and Will clash over Electra, sparking a new rivalry mirroring their fathers Ridge and Bill Spencers legendary feud.
The Bold and the Beautiful’s Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) and Dollar Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) may want to take a seat because their sons are trying to pick up their enemy mantle and seem to be doing quite a good job. Their sons are at each other’s throats over a pretty girl and could outmatch their dads with their vitriol.
‘The Bold and the Beautiful’s’ RJ and Will Come to Blows
This rivalry has been brewing for months and tells fans that the more things change, the more they stay the same in this fashion house soap. Taylor Hayes (Rebecca Budig) and Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) were rivals for decades. Their daughters, Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Hope (Annika Noelle), grew up to be at constant odds over a man. Now, Brooke’s son, RJ (Brayan Nicoletti), wants Will’s (Crew Morrow) girlfriend, Electra (Laneya Grace), with their simmering animosity recently coming to blows in a big way.
When Electra and Will were on the outs, RJ made his move, but he couldn’t handle the idea of Electra moving on with Will, so he harassed her at the grand re-opening of Bikini Bar. When Electra walked away, Will took the chance to tell RJ how he felt about him bothering Electra by sucker punching his new enemy (also his cousin) and bruising RJ’s ribs. That one incident appears to be the spark that’s ignited a brand-new rivalry on a soap that thrives on them. Too bad it’s not going over well with fans.
“RJ should be front and center in the storyline involving his family instead the show decided to give us this unnecessary Jr version of Bill vs Ridge,” one Reddit user wrote.
Another fan chimed in with: “They could do so much more with RJ like explore a potential rift with Steffy given her beef with Brooke or find another way to recreate the Bill/Ridge rivalry (which is so obviously what they’re trying to do) without having him be an obsessive creep towards Electra.”
However, others see the similarities with another legendary B&B rivalry — Ridge and Thorne’s. As one fan put it on X, “I feel like Bold is trying to somewhat recreate the Ridge and Thorne rivalry over Caroline with this RJ and Will and Electra story. Except they are cousins not brothers.”
The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS and streams on Paramount Plus.
