The Bold and the Beautiful: The 10 Biggest Cheating Scandals on the Soap

Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) are the latest duo from The Bold and the Beautiful to cheat on their partners, putting their respective marriages to Finn (Tanner Novlan) and Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) at risk. But they’re far from the only ones on this soap who have strayed from the person they were supposedly devoted to. From one-time dalliances to ongoing affairs and even some that resulted in children, here are B&B’s 10 biggest cheating scandals.

Brooke and Ridge

Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) may have been married to Eric (John McCook), but still harbored feeling for her ex — and Eric’s son — Ridge (then-Ronn Moss). And when Brooke created the BeLieF formula for Forrester Creations, instead of celebrating the achievement with her hubby, she had sex with Ridge right there in the lab. Brooke had also been intimate with Eric in that time frame, leading to a classic “Who’s the Daddy?” conundrum — and a paternity test left everyone believing that Ridge was baby Bridget’s father. It took a full four years for all parties to find out that Eric was actually the bio dad.

Eric and Lauren

Lauren (Tracey E. Bregman) regretted calling off her budding romance with Eric so that he could remarry Stephanie, so she seduced the groom-to-be. An oblivious Steph invited Lauren to the wedding, but she was in for an unpleasant surprise during the ceremony when a still from a Lauren/Eric sex tape made its way into the officiant’s bible (thanks to Sally Spectra). Humiliated, Stephanie called off the wedding — and called Lauren a lying whore!

Deacon and Brooke

Deacon (Sean Kanan) was married to Bridget (then-Jennifer Finnigan) but started carrying on an illicit affair with her mother, Brooke, resulting in her pregnancy. Brooke married Whip (Rick Hearst) and tried to pass him off as her baby’s father, but Bridget learned the truth anyway — and in a particularly gutting way: through a baby monitor that was transmitting Brooke and Deacon’s discussion about their tawdry circumstances! Betrayed by the two people she trusted the most, Bridget disowned her mom and served Deacon with divorce papers.

Nick and Katie

After receiving a heart transplant, Katie’s body began rejecting the new organ, and her family worked to make her last days special and check items off her bucket list. Katie’s niece, Bridget, offered up her husband, Nick (Jack Wagner), as Katie’s date for a recreation of the high school prom the dying woman had missed, and even sent them on a cruise to Catalina. Bridget thought this would be an innocent excursion — but Nick and Katie wounded up making love! Katie didn’t die (Bridget found a miracle cure) and Nick and Katie were forced to reveal their infidelity when Katie found out she was pregnant.

Bill and Brooke

Katie’s postpartum depression after nearly dying while giving birth to Will led her to push Bill toward her sister, Brooke, believing her son needed a mother if something happened to her. But what began as Katie’s misguided attempt to protect Will turned into a full-blown betrayal when Bill and Brooke fell in love and slept together. Their affair remained secret until Taylor exposed Brooke’s pregnancy by Bill — and subsequent miscarriage — at Brooke’s birthday party, blowing the scandal wide open in front of their family and friends. Bill eventually won Katie back, but his connection to Brooke remained a constant threat to their marriage, and years later, Bill and Brooke crossed the line again, prompting Katie to walk away from her husband once more.

Steffy and Bill

Steffy fell into bed with her father-in-law, Bill (Don Diamont), after finding out that her husband, Liam (Scott Clifton), had kissed Sally (Courtney Hope). After discovering she was pregnant, she got a secret paternity test and was relieved that the baby was Liam’s — but he found the test in her purse, forcing her to ‘fess up to sleeping with his dad. An enraged Liam spat that their life together was a lie and walked out on his sobbing wife.

Liam and Steffy

When Liam spied Thomas kissing Hope, he went to Steffy’s for a shoulder to cry on. Though she was in a relationship with Finn, comforting an increasingly drunk Liam led to the exes hitting the sheets. They both felt guilty the next morning, and Liam felt even worse when he found out Thomas had actually been kissing a mannequin that looked like Hope, and not Hope in the flesh! They tried to keep their infidelity quiet, but when Steffy became pregnant, they were forced to come clean to find out whether Liam or Finn was the baby daddy. (It was Finn.)

Quinn and Carter

Quinn (Rena Sofer) was feeling lonely and rejected when her hubby, Eric, began withholding sex from her. She found a sympathetic ear — and body — in Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor), and they began carrying on an affair. Brooke found out what was happening and exposed Quinn’s infidelity — just as she and Eric were renewing their vows in a Carter-officiated ceremony! A disgusted Eric threw Quinn out of the house, fired her from Forrester and pursued a divorce. Then, in a particularly unusual twist, Eric forgave Quinn and, suffering from erectile dysfunction, invited Carter to continue fulfilling his wife’s carnal desires!

Hope and Thomas

Liam was wary over how closely his wife, Hope, was working with her ex, Thomas (Matthew Atkinson), on Hope for the Future — and with good reason, as Hope found herself growing very attracted to her former hubby despite his past manipulations of her. While in Rome, she gave in to her feelings and passionately kissed Thomas — and Liam, who had flown there to surprise Hope, saw the smooch! This set off quite the chain reaction: Liam kissed Steffy and demanded a divorce from Hope, she removed her wedding ring and hit the sheets with Thomas — and Brooke caught them in bed.