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3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 27, 2025: Hope gives Carter an answer
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Carter gets an answer to his proposal while Ridge presses Steffy for information in The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 27, 2025. More The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 26, 2025The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 23, 2025The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 22, 2025The Bold and the Beautiful recap for May 21, 2025 We begin today with a look at the engagement ring Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) has for Hope (Annika Noelle). He continues his impassioned speech to her, letting her know she's the best thing that's ever happened to him. He asks her to marry him, but she stays silent. Taylor (Rebecca Budig) finds Steffy (Lawrence Saint-Victor) in the office late. Taylor knows she's been taking care of Liam and cautions her daughter that there are only so many hours in the day. She offers to stop in and check on him now that Liam knows what's going on. Steffy hates keeping the secret from Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), who walks in at that moment. Liam (Scott Clifton) and Kelly (Sophia Paras McKinlay) are in the middle of an intense game of Go Fish. Kelly is so happy to have Liam staying with them and she never wants her father to leave. Liam looks distressed as he holds her so Kelly asks if he's sad. Finn (Tanner Novlan) walks in as Liam tells Kelly how happy she makes him. As he hugs her, Liam and Finn share a look. Steffy greets her father while Taylor says she's been looking for Ridge. Ridge says it's time for them to come clean and he thinks it has something to do with Hope. He wants to know what changed Steffy's mind about allowing Hope back to the company. Carter says he wants to start their happy ever after right away, but Hope says she thought they already had that. When he tells her to trust him, he realizes it's hard because of the betrayal. Hope knows he was sincere in his apology, but a proposal is a 'big step' that she's clearly not ready for. Finn asks who won the game? Liam says Kelly won again. Kelly tells Finn she loves having her father living with them. Finn diplomatically says Liam will eventually leave, as will she after she grows up. Liam says even when she's grown up, she'll never be alone. Steffy says she took a 'hard line' about the takeover, but her perspective shifted. Ridge says Hope said the same thing and Taylor says that's exactly what they all want. But Ridge won't let it go, he wants to know what the 'other priorities' are. Hope wasn't expecting a proposal so soon after reuniting. Carter says he would marry her on the spot if he could. Carter knows he broke her trust and promises he'll never let that happen again. But he wouldn't be there with a ring if he didn't think he could be the man she needs. Finn checks his phone and sees a text from Dr. Buckingham asking if Liam knows what he wants to do about treatment. Liam returns from putting Kelly to bed. They share a moment talking about the kids. Liam asks if Finn told Li about his condition, but Finn promises he hasn't said a word to anyone. Liam thanks him; he knows Steffy told Taylor but understands Steffy needed someone to talk to. Finn is happy to be there to help, telling him that he needs to focus on living, not dying. He knows it, as a doctor, a father and a husband. Liam says he was watching Kelly fall asleep and he knows he can't keep his secret from the kids for much longer. He doesn't know how to tell them that he's dying, but he has to figure out how to say goodbye to his daughters. Steffy doesn't want to give Ridge the wrong impression. She and Hope still have things to work out, but they are making progress. Ridge asks what they're going to do with Hope, prompting Taylor to ask if she's going to re-launch Hope for the Future. Steffy says that's a decision for her, Ridge and Eric. 'And Carter,' Taylor adds. She notes that Carter must be very happy having Hope back. Hope admits she's been thinking about having a life with Carter. She points out that she's never felt a man's full commitment to her and she doesn't want to settle for anything less. He promises all of that, and more. 'Just say yes,' he says. Ridge asks if Steffy knows anything about Hope and Carter getting back together. Steffy says she has concerns about Hope and Carter 2.0 after the coup, but ultimately she wants them to be happy. Finn says when the time comes, Liam will know what to say to Kelly. And Steffy can be there with him. Liam says Steffy has been his rock, but so, too, has Finn. He's been more than just a doctor, he's been a great friend and it is very comforting knowing Finn will be there. Finn tells Liam about the text and asks if he's thought about the treatment? Liam says he's hoping to make sure the kids are ok. He knows Steffy has Finn, so he's hoping Hope can have Carter. He knows Hope could have an amazing life with him if Hope will only say yes to it. Carter continues his plea for Hope to say yes. He says he can make sure he'll be the best stepfather he can be to Beth. And maybe they'll have a child of their own, which makes Hope laugh. He says he believes in their love more than ever and he promises that being her husband will always come first. He asks her again to marry him, and Hope says yes. 'Yes, Carter Walton, I will be your wife,' she says. They share a kiss and lots of laughs before he slides the ring on her finger. The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays on CBS and the following day on Paramount Plus. Check your local listings to see when it comes on where you are.
USA Today
19-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
SEC, Big Ten stacking College Football Playoff deck would be so pathetic and unnecessary
As the SEC and Big Ten debate how to stack the College Football Playoff deck, their actions are as pathetic as they are unnecessary. SEC, Big Ten are home to incredible football programs. Why should they need preordained CFP bids? Aren't they good enough to earn the bids on merit? SEC, Big Ten leaders reportedly considering an expanded playoff with bids preassigned to conferences. If you've played Candyland or Go Fish with a toddler, you know they rig the rules to help them win. Maybe, they haven't learned how to lose gracefully, or they're accustomed to getting their way. Eventually, they grow up and realize nobody wants to play with a cheater, and, anyway, games are more fun if they're not rigged. The folks running the SEC and Big Ten apparently never learned that. They're acting like 4-year-olds while steering the College Football Playoff's future, debating how they can rig the bracket to reduce their chance of losing. It's weak, and it's pathetic, and, if they keep it up, they might find that the audience grew tired of their immature gamesmanship and lost interest in the product. The 12-team playoff – a postseason format forged from a mindset of fairness and created with painstaking compromise – will last for one more season. After this 2025 season, control of the College Football Playoff shifts into the hands of the SEC and Big Ten. Those two conferences will reshape the playoff as they see fit. Petulance guides their actions. Playoff expansion to 14 or 16 teams is under consideration. This would be gluttonous, considering the first team left out of the 12-team bracket last season finished with four losses, three of which came against teams with a combined 21-18 record. But, many of us already made peace with the 12-team playoff serving as a pitstop en route to something bigger. So, fine. Go ahead and expand. The more pitiful development is how the bids in this reformatted playoff would be assigned. At least half of the bids within a 14- or 16-team playoff would be reserved for the SEC and Big Ten before the season even kicks off, in one format the conferences are exploring, according to reporting by Yahoo! Sports. The idea within a 14-team format would work like this: Four automatic bids for the Big Ten, four for the SEC, two apiece for the ACC and Big 12, one for the Group of Five and one at-large bid. Call this the 4+4+2+2+1+1 format. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Or, in a 16-team format, tack on an additional two at-large bids for three at-large bids total. Either format would reduce the CFP selection committee's role in selecting the most deserving teams. In other words, the SEC and Big Ten would begin the season knowing that, no matter how their teams fare, their two conferences would account for no fewer than 50% of the playoff bids. And, so what if one of these conferences experienced a down year? No problemo, thanks to the built-in security blanket of preassigned bids. What a farce. As for teams in other conferences, well, they'd be playing Candyland against immature children demanding that their pieces be placed halfway to the finish line before the first card flips. WHO'S NEXT?:The six coaches with best chance of winning first national title MONEY MATTERS:Revenue at the root of College Football Playoff expansion Stacking College Football Playoff deck unnecessary move The incredible petulance of this plan is trumped by how unnecessary this is. The SEC and Big Ten don't need to stack the deck to be fairly rewarded. They built the two best conferences, housing incredible programs, backed by enviable war chests. The product speaks for itself. If a 16-team were in place last season, the SEC would have snagged six bids, based on the final College Football Playoff committee rankings, followed by the Big Ten (four), ACC (three), Big 12 (one), Group of Five (one), plus Notre Dame. In other words, bid distribution would have looked a lot like what the SEC and Big Ten mull preordaining. The SEC and Big Ten fearing that the playoff selection committee would treat their teams unfairly without automatic bid protection bases itself in paranoia rather than reality. Historically, the committee smiles upon teams from those two leagues. The Big Ten and SEC teamed up to snag nearly 60% of the bids in the first 12-team playoff. Nothing wrong with that. They earned those spots on the field. Why are they so afraid they can't earn a lion's share of the bids in the future unless they jigger the rules? Should SEC be rewarded for its history? An SEC acolyte might argue the conference's history supports it receiving postseason protections. An SEC team won the national championship 13 times in a 17-year span from the 2006 through 2022 seasons. Then, Big Ten teams won the last two national championships, and the Big Ten supplied half of the CFP semifinalists in two of the past three years. The SEC's run of dominance, in particular, proved impressive in its longevity, but the postseason in other sports rewards present success, not the history books. The MLB playoffs don't reserve a spot for the Yankees just because they own 27 World Series titles. They used to prove its elitism with performance rather than demanding postseason representation based on conference affiliation, before the season started. Hijacking the playoff seems like a reckless way to build audience. If you're a Texas Tech, Oklahoma State or Washington State fan, why passionately engage in a sport in which power- and money-hungry leaders disrupted rivalries via conference realignment, and now the SEC and Big Ten want to manipulate the playoff, too? These two leagues successfully seized control after threatening to collect their toys and go start their own playoff, unless everyone agrees to play by their rules. What a shame for college football's playoff, because games played with a stacked deck quickly become stale, as anyone who's played Candyland with a 4-year-old knows. Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network's national college football columnist. Email him at BToppmeyer@ and follow him on X @btoppmeyer. Subscribe to read all of his columns.
