Trivia / The Bold and the Beautiful

• Breaking News Interruption: The September 8, 2022 episode of this show was interrupted on the East Coast for the news of Queen Elizabeth II's death.
• …But I Play One on TV: In response to rabid fan hatred, Scott Clifton (Liam) had to publicly state that he despises Liam's serial cheating habits in an attempt to get angry fans off his back.
• The Cast Showoff: Many cast members have demonstrated considerable singing talents, to the point where the cast staged a full concert in the Netherlands. This concert was then written into the show. Sadly, Ridge did not get a chance to sing "Baby Come Back".
  • They also did a "variety show" episode back in 1990 which featured many characters on stage. Thorne, Macy, Eric, Sally, Ridge, Nick, Rick, Amber, Kimberly, Phoebe and Maya among others all have sung on the show at one time or another.
  • Thorston Kaye is hilariously good at acting drunk, which is why Ridge is so often seen drunk in comparison to the other characters.
• Completely Different Title:
  • In the Scandinavian nations, the show's title is simply Glamour.
  • A somewhat downplayed example with the German title, which is Reich und Schön (Rich and Beautiful). However, the show did briefly air under the title Fashion Affairs in 1988, before gaining its current one in 1989.
• Defictionalization: Room 8, the web sitcom that Maya and Carter starred in during a 2013 storyline, was produced as a web series in Real Life that was streamed on CBS.com's B&B webpage.
• Fake Nationality:
  • German-born actor Thorsten Kaye as American-born, Los Angeles-based designer Ridge Forrester. Much like with The Young and the Restless' Eric Braeden with his U.S.-born character Victor Newman, Kaye has a thick German accent... whose presence is odd, since the character didn't have an accent when Ronn Moss played the role from the show's debut in 1987 until 2012.
    • Ridge spent a year in Europe. Maybe that's where he picked it up.
  • Also Canadians Jennifer Finnigan and Jacqueline MacInnes as Americans Bridget and Steffy Forrester, respectively.
  • And now German-born, Australia-raised (from age 10) Ingo Rademacher as American Thorne Forrester, who is also not making much effort to hide his accent.
  • Inversely, there's Utah-born Kiara Barnes as the British Zoe Buckingham. Subverted with Adain Bradley, who plays Alexander "Xander" Avant (also a Brit, and Zoe's initial love interest); Bradley was born in Kansas, but moved overseas to York with his family when he was two months old, and his mother is a Real Life Brit. Funny enough, in March 2019, as part of a bet to see who could lose theirs first, Zoe and Xander both dropped their British accents in favor of American ones to fit in in their new country, albeit in a far too quick manner than other foreign nationals who have shedded their accents in real life.
• Hostility on the Set: Hunter Tylo (Taylor Hayes) and Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter) were once good friends (they and their husbands frequently hung out together, and are rumored to have even engaged in swinging) but had a falling out when Brown took Tylo's husband Michael's side when the two separated, openly supporting him in the ensuing divorce and custody battle. Things escalated to the point that each woman had a bodyguard with them on set, claiming that the other had threatened them. Possibly because of their issues, by the time their characters were both brought back in 2021, Brown was the only one of the two actresses who returned to play their character: rather than asking Tylo to return as Taylor, Krista Allen was cast instead.
• Outlived Its Creator: The soap opera is still on the air even after the passing of its co-creators William J. Bell in 2005 and his wife Lee Phillip Bell in 2020.^note One of their sons, Bradley Bell, took over as B&B’s showrunner (replacing both William and Lee) in 1995 and as its head writer (replacing William) two years beforehand.
• Real-Life Relative: After Heather Tom (who took over the role of Katie Logan in 2007) gave birth to her first child in 2013, her Real Life son Zane Alexander Achor was cast in the role of Will Spencer III, Katie's son with "Dollar Bill" Spencer.
• The Other Darrin: Standard Operating Procedure on soaps, the latest being Ingo Rademacher replacing Windsor Harmon as Thorne Forrester. This turned out to be short-lived; after only a few months Rademacher departed to return to General Hospital as Jasper Jax. One remarkable recast involves Hope Forrester; the character's original portrayer as a teenager/young adult, Kim Matula, and the actress who later replaced Matula in the role, Annika Noelle, look quite similar in appearance. Anyone watching the show during Matula's turn as Hope who watched Noelle take over the role could easily mistake the two actors for sisters or twins.
• Teasing Creator: The writers of the show intentionally had Tanner Novlan hide the fact that his character wasn't actually written off until Finn's surprise return in May 2022 due to his contract, simply just humorously telling the writers to hide themselves away for the time being.
• Wag the Director: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, though sympathetic in her reasoning, has done this atleast twice in regard to her character's portrayal, Steffy Forrester. She has made it clear to Bradley that she did not want her character to be seeking the attention in a Love Triangle, and instead want to the center of one. The second time was during a Love Triangle between Steffy, Finn, and Liam, and her character was supposed to willingly cheat on Finnegan; JMW was not okay with this and instead had her character do it because she was impaired rather than willingly.
• Word of Saint Paul: Casey Kasprzyk stated in an interview somewhere that Hayes Finnegan is the biological son of Jonathan Finnegan, and that the writers had absolutely no plans of making any plot twists about it.
• Written-In Infirmity: After Linsey Godfrey (Caroline Spencer) survived an auto-pedestrian accident in February 2015, in which a car veered onto the sidewalk she was walking at near Olympic Boulevard and Granville Avenue in Los Angeles, briefly pinning her beneath it, her character Caroline was written out as having gone to New York City to visit her two mothers (her namesake of which, played by Joanna Johnson, died off-screen due to leukemia). The severe ankle injuries Godfrey suffered in the accident were incorporated into her character's plotline when Caroline returned to the canvas in April, the events of which correlate with the events of Godfrey's Real Life accident, with several subsequent episodes focusing on Ridge trying to help Caroline through her recovery.

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