Bold and Beautiful’s Hope and Thomas Are Caught in the Act and Other Big Moments From July 13

In 1981, Robert Scorpio’s (Tristan Rogers) trusted colleague, Brighton O’Reilly (Billie Hayes), was shot dead on General Hospital. (The culprit? Victor Cassadine.) Rogers told Soap Opera Digest in 2019, "The character I wish stayed on the show longer was Billie Hayes, who played O’Reilly. She was only meant to be on the show for a day and we managed to stretch that out for about three or four weeks. The pairing was so unusual and we got along so great together."

In 2005, General Hospital’s Lucky (Greg Vaughan) proposed to Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst), telling her, "I want to give you happiness, security. I want to give you all the love that I have to give every day for the rest of my life. That's all I ever wanted. Elizabeth, will you marry me?"

 

In 2009, a back-from-the-dead Phillip Chancellor III (Thom Bierdz, with Jeanne Cooper, c., as Katherine Chancellor and Jess Walton as Jill Abbott) came out to his family as gay on Young and Restless as he tried to explain why he had allowed them to believe he was dead for decades. "I was never gonna be the man that you wanted me to be," he told his mother and grandmother. "I would never make you happy. I wasn't gonna be the son or the heir that you wanted, because Phillip Chancellor III couldn't possibly be gay."

In 2015, Days of Our Lives's Abigail (Kate Mansi, l.) panicked when Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) confirmed her pregnancy. The cause of her angst? She didn't know whether Ben or Chad was the father. It took a while for the truth to come out, but ultimately, Chad was proven to be the biological pop of her son, Thomas, who was born in November of 2015.

On Bold and Beautiful in 2023, Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) — who at the time was still married to Liam Spencer — succumbed to her attraction to Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) and had sex with him (more than once!). Hope admitted to Thomas that she had never felt this way before, and surprised herself by being with him given that she was "technically still married." She lamented that she was hurting Liam, but proclaimed that she wanted Thomas and couldn't resist him any longer. Thomas teased that Hope had fallen for the bad boy (him), and she replied that he was a former bad boy. As they fell into each other's arms for another round of lovemaking, Hope's mom, Brooke, arrived at Thomas's door. Finding it unlocked, she went inside and called out for him. She spotted Hope's keys and became alarmed. She raced upstairs and flung open the door to Thomas's bedroom, discovering her daughter in bed with Thomas! She gasped and cried out, "Oh, my God! What are you doing?"