Soap World #286

The romance-a-round continues for Liam and Steffy on The Bold and the Beautiful when he decides it’s time to claim her back from Wyatt. Will Steffy fall for her former lover once again? She’s one of our favourite cover girls and soon Katherine Kelly Lang may be our neighbour if she decides to buy a house in Australia. A Place To Call Home returns to our screens and we give you a sneak preview of what’s ahead for the folks of Inverness. And while most of us are glued to the TV watching the Olympics in Rio, Home and Away fans are counting the days until the soap returns so we can find out just which of our favourites survives the plane crash. Also lots of great prizes to win…

B&B Mystery: Where’s Ivy ? * Fans are in a frenzy over Ivy Forrester’s apparent disappearing act on The Bold and the Beautiful. Ivy and her portrayer, Australia’s ASHLEIGH BREWER, haven’t been seen on the soap in several months and viewers are wondering if she’s been quietly dumped from the canvas. Despite the fact that Brewer is still credited in the show’s opening title sequence, worried fans have begun a social media campaign wanting answers, using the hashtag ‘Where is Ivy?’ to generate support. At press time, B&B had made no comment regarding Brewer or Ivy’s status on the show. Hello, Daniel   Last seen in 2013, former favourite on The Young and the Restless MICHAEL GRAZIADEI (Daniel) has been lured back to the soap for a limited run. The…

The brothers are on the verge of coming to physical blows when Bill intervenes and makes matters worse. Resigned to the fact that Steffy isn’t walking away from her marriage any time soon, Liam has finally taken the high road and promised her and Wyatt that he will respect their marriage. Nevertheless, his love for Steffy remains as intense as ever and deep down he is confident that he will win Steffy back one day. In the interim, every sighting of Wyatt (Darin Brooks) and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) together gnaws away at a fragile Liam (Scott Clifton), whose anger over Wyatt being her husband secretly simmers beneath the surface. Upon learning that Wyatt wants to use Steffy as the face of a new social media campaign to promote Spencer…

Ridge confesses that he feels like an outsider in his own marriage as well as at the company he leads. The day that Ridge has been dreading has arrived. He’s finally accepted that Thomas is Douglas’s biological father and that it was wrong of him to deny Thomas contact with the baby. Ridge knows he’s achieved nothing more than placing unreasonable strain on their father-son relationship as well as his own marriage to Caroline. Admitting his remorse, Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) apologises to Thomas (Pierson Fode) for lying about Douglas’s paternity and treating him like a pariah for so long. He declares that he’s now Douglas’s grandfather and walks away, watching unseen as Thomas shares private time with the baby and Caroline (Linsey Godfrey). Recognising the developing bond between his wife…

HOME AND AWAY ON SEVEN What was meant to be a grand romantic gesture turned into a shocking nightmare as Tori’s big birthday adventure went disastrously wrong, in the Home and Away Olympics cliffhanger. The disaster has left the lives of a number of key Summer Bay favourites hanging in the balance after a romantic adventure flight to celebrate Tori’s birthday crashed. Just who survives the horrific accident will not be known until after the Olympics, but insiders confirm that at least one favourite resident will not make it out alive, possibly two. This accident will mark a turning point in the recent dramas that have engulfed TV’s favourite seaside community, which has endured the loss of a steady stream of fan favourites. It now seems we are now about…

Jenny just can’t get the image of Gabe and Riley kissing out of her head. WINNERS & LOSERS RETURNS AFTER THE OLYMPICS ON SEVEN After a blissful start to married life, Jenny and Gabe’s relationship is now on shaky ground. They were already having problems when a drunk Gabe kissed his business partner Riley. Now that Jenny knows, there are tough times ahead for both Jenny’s marriage and her friendship with Riley. It will take a lot for Jenny (Melissa Bergland) to get past Gabe’s (Nick Russell) indiscretion. She had been struggling with Gabe’s success with his in-demand tech company NextJen. While Gabe was entering an exciting new world of networking, parties and media attention, Jenny had lost the buzz she got from her own job, leading her to question…