PEOPLE Bold & the Beautiful: Three Decades of Love, Lust & Drama!

By The Editors of PEOPLE

In this new, photo-packed collector's edition, Peopletakes you inside the world's most-watched soap opera for its 30th anniversary. Featuring new interviews with the current cast and the show's producers, whose family was the model for the glamorous Forresters. Go on the set and get a behind-the-scenes look at 30 years of feuds and fashion, right up to the latest surprising love triangle. Plus: All of Brooke's marriages (and splits); the most shocking twists; weddings; runway shows; memorable guest stars (Betty White!); and the hottest Bold men.

• Language: English
• Publisher: People
• Release date: Mar 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781683300663

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BELL

By The Decades

THE ’80s

Big hair, don’t care! B&B launched in 1987, taking advantage of the decade’s over-the-top fashion trends. Ratings were soon as huge as the shoulder pads

GOING BOLDLY WHERE NO SOAP HAD GONE BEFORE This original cast photo featured patriarch and matriarch Eric and Stephanie Forrester (John McCook and Susan Flannery, front right) with Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) smack in the center—where the much-married vixen has been for 30 years!

The scariest moment in my life is when I hit page 1 of scene 1 of script 1, Bill Bell told the Chicago Sun-Times about co-creating The Bold and the Beautiful. He needn’t have worried. His Bold creation hit the runway with all parties in place: the confident, sometimes arrogant paragons of business (the Forrester and the Spencer families), the jealous social climbers (the Logans) and the scheming wannabes (Clarke, Margo, Sally). The first episode opened with Eric Forrester and his sons Ridge and Thorne launching a new Forrester Creations collection, with scantily clad models, music blaring and Ridge wondering aloud if his father had ever made it with his assistant Margo. (Answer: No. Unbelievable!) It was instantly apparent that this was not your grandmother’s soap opera. Brooke Logan soon set her sights on Ridge, who was inconveniently engaged to Caroline Spencer. So she sabotaged their love, sending Caroline into the arms of Thorne. Problem solved! Except that after hearing that Ridge had crawled into bed with Caroline as an adolescent prank, Thorne downed a bunch of painkillers and shot Ridge in the head! Stephanie covered it up, Ridge consoled himself with Brooke, and the stage was set for 30 years of sibling rivalry, hatred between the Forrester and Spencer clans and Brooke’s bottomless need for a man—any man, but preferably a Forrester man. And any Forrester man, that is, as long as he’s Ridge.

PATERNITY PUZZLE Margo (Lauren Koslow) blackmailed the married Clarke Garrison (Dan McVicar, left) for $100,000 to raise their secret son Mark, then further lined her pockets by wedding wealthy Bill Spencer Sr. (Jim