First Bill and Sheila, and Now This! WTH Is Going On With Bold & Beautiful?!?
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Have we completely lost it, or has the show?
Fans of The Bold and the Beautiful are kind of used to watching with a look of stunned disbelief. The show has, after all, had Thomas mack on a mannequin, killed and resurrected both Finn and Li in a matter of weeks, allowed Ridge to pull a wife-swap on the advice of a pinecone, paired Bill with Sheila (?!?) and gave the madwoman a Get Out of Jail Free card because of… reasons.
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But now hell must be freezing over and pigs must be flying, because the show has decided that Deacon, an ex-con living in a hovel since he returned to the canvas in 2021, has managed to “scrape together” the funds to buy Il Giardino. Come again? How did the waiter even scrape together the funds to buy a plane ticket to Italy to convince the owner that his ideal successor was a con artist with a rap sheet as long as the restaurant’s menu?
“Ridge isn’t a bad tipper if ya give him extra breadsticks.”
Credit: Howard Wise/JPI
If Sheila had come through with the dough, we’d get that. It should’ve raised all kinds of red flags with the IRS, but at least we’d understand how Deacon could afford to purchase a business. It would also add up if Deacon had borrowed the money from heiress daughter Hope or her mom, Brooke, who’s always had a soft spot for him.
Nope. Deacon just “scraped together” the moolah. Apparently, there was more change in his sofa cushions than we ever imagined. And if that’s the case, if this kind of lunacy can go on, anything is possible, right? Forrester Creations could rush into production a new line of culottes. Ridge could return not in the way that we anticipate but declaring himself celibate. Brooke could be haunted by slap-happy Stephanie. Taylor might even treat a patient!
Then again, considering Deacon’s bizarre history, maybe this twist isn’t even the weirdest. Review his checkered past in the photo gallery below.
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Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
1/24
<p>… so don’t you go buying what this picture is selling. <em>The Bold and the Beautiful</em> told us everything that we needed to know about Deacon Sharpe when it introduced the cad in 2000: Rather than step up and be a father to Little Eric, his son with Amber Moore’s late cousin Becky, he incited a bidding war over the child between the Forresters and the Spectras.</p>
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2/24
<p>Deacon was so put out when Amber chose Rick Forrester over him — we know; <em>imagine</em> her picking the rich, decent guy over the money-grubbing ne’er-do-well! — that the scoundrel whisked off a smitten Bridget Forrester for a quickie wedding in Las Vegas, then took the young woman’s virginity while her family listened in over the phone. <em>While. They. Listened.</em></p>
Image: Jesse Grant/JPI
3/24
<p>Horrified at Bridget’s pick for a starter husband, mom Brooke took it upon herself to try to convince Deacon to divorce her. But once she got a gander at the bad boy’s abs, their intense conversation devolved into pillow talk, after which the discount Casanova agreed not to tell the world that she was having her son-in-law’s baby — hi, Hope! — for a price, of course.</p>
Image: Jesse Grant/JPI
4/24
<p>In 2003, Deacon appeared to be turning his life around. Not only did he kick the bottle for the sake of his and Brooke’s daughter, Hope, he fell in love with fellow alcoholic Macy Alexander. Alas, his new beginning had the unhappiest of endings. After he helped Macy relaunch her singing career, she was <em>Phantom of the Opera</em>’d to death by a falling chandelier on the night of her big comeback.</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
5/24
<p>Following Macy’s untimely demise, Deacon pretty much went through lovers the way we do potato chips. First, he carried on with Massimo Marone’s wife Jackie behind the tycoon’s back. And yes, it had to be behind his back; Mojo wasn’t always so accommodating as to cover his eyes like this. Next, the libidinous louse crossed over to <em>The Young and the Restless</em>, where he…</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
6/24
<p>It didn’t much matter to Deacon that old flame Amber had fallen in love with Daniel Romalotti. The rat fink wanted to make her his bride, and that was that. So he blackmailed her into an “altared” state and hoped that she’d grow fonder of him over time. Spoiler alert: She did not, as he could have predicted if only he’d gazed even in passing at her expression. Mind you, Deacon was <em>still</em> just getting warmed up.</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI (3)
7/24
<p>Though Phyllis Summers was no fan of the himbo’s — see illustration — she also wasn’t <em>totally</em> immune to his charms. So one fateful evening, while on the outs with significant other Nick Newman, she shagged Deacon in a back alley. (Don’t judge; she didn’t own a hotel at the time.)</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
8/24
<p>One fateful evening, while on the outs with significant other <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Nick Newman</span> J.T. Hellstrom, <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Phyllis Summers</span> Victoria Newman shagged Deacon. Hey, at least it wasn’t in a back alley.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
9/24
<p>Victoria was ashamed enough to have done the nasty with lowlife Deacon. But to make matters worse, he also got mixed up with her mother, fellow tippler Nikki Newman. And by “mixed up with,” we mean that he blackmailed her into marriage, which is kinda the only thing he likes better than seducing women who are upset with their husbands and/or boyfriends.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
10/24
<p>Nikki wasn’t paroled from her unholy union with Deacon until it was revealed that Victoria hadn’t offed her sometime stepmother, Diane Jenkins, Mom had, but it had been in self-defense. Except that no, Nikki hadn’t done it, either, it had been Paul Williams’ off-her-rocker sister, Patty. Or so we think. Honestly, by the time this plot was done twisting, we were so over it, Mr. Kitty could’ve done it for all we cared!</p>
Image: John Paschal/JPI
11/24
<p>After Deacon was sentenced to serve prison time — pick a crime, any crime, he committed it — Bill Spencer handed him a Get Out of Jail Free card in exchange for his help derailing Hope’s Italian wedding to the zillionaire’s son, Liam. As if anything was going to keep those two apart for long! (You probably don’t need us to tell you that that’s Kim Matula as Hope above… but it is.)</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
12/24
<p>For a brief, strange time, Deacon found himself at the center of a love/hate triangle with Brooke and Quinn Fuller, neither of whom could usually decide whether they liked or loathed him. In the end, Quinn won — if you could call it a victory — when she and Deacon tied the knot. For less time than it takes us to binge a season of <em>The Great British Baking Show</em>, but still. When he returned to L.A. after visiting Hope in Europe, he discovered his estranged wife…</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
13/24
<p>Sure, Deacon wanted an annulment from Quinn. But it was nonetheless a shock and a half for him to find her shacked up with an amnesiac Liam (who actually bought that their names were Adam and Eve, the poor thing). Desperate to keep Deacon from upsetting her happy home — no matter how fictional it was! — Quinn went so far as to push him off a cliff. “Consider that a divorce,” she somehow refrained from quipping in her best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.</p>
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14/24
<p>… Deacon returned yet again, only to be told, “Go to jail, do not pass GO, do not collect $200!” for using his would-be widow for target practice. It was as if he was biologically incapable of being the kind of father that Hope truly deserved (and so often had needed).</p>
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15/24
<p>By the fall of 2021, we hardly recognized Deacon without the shadows of prison bars across his face. Had he finally (!) learned from his mistakes? <em>Any</em> of his mistakes? Or was he about to disappoint Hope (now Annika Noelle) anew?</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
16/24
<p>Though it turned out that Deacon <em>had</em> turned over a new leaf, he made the disastrous mistake of palling around with walking bad influence Sheila Carter, who was always leaving nearly dead bodies in Il Giardino’s back alley for him to clean up.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
17/24
<p>In 2022, <em>Young & Restless</em> revealed that Deacon wasn’t nearly as upset about Diane Jenkins’ untimely demise as he’d appeared 11 years prior. Mainly because he’d helped her fake it so that she could run away from Genoa City and everyone there who hated her. In other words, everyone there.</p>
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18/24
<p>Thanks to Sheila’s shenanigans, Deacon convinced himself for a moment that he had a snowball’s chance in hell of rekindling his romance with babymama Brooke. It was a lot like the way that Taylor Hayes convinced herself for a moment that this time, Ridge Forrester was going to not only turn to but stick with her.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
19/24
<p>Deacon was horrified when he discovered that the nine-toed redhead that he’d bedded wasn’t a rando named Lina but merry murderess Sheila. But not so horrified that he didn’t risk being sent back up the river by letting the wanted woman hide out in his hovel.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
20/24
<p>Despite being an impoverished waiter with a criminal record, Deacon managed to find enough change in his sofa cushions to buy Il Giardino. Maybe it was cheaper than it otherwise would’ve been after Sheila had shot son Finn Finnegan and daughter-in-law Steffy Forrester in the back alley.</p>
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21/24
<p>Deacon was free and clear of Sheila when she became engaged to filthy-rich Bill Spencer. But the weird thing was, he didn’t altogether <em>want</em> to be free and clear of her. So they schtupped behind her fiancé’s back until Deacon finally delayed his secret lover’s great escape for long enough to deliver her to the tag team of Bill, Ridge and the feds.</p>
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22/24
<p>In the aftermath of Sheilagate, Deacon helped the madwoman… Wait, <em>what</em>? First he assisted in the effort to get her jailed, then he got her <em>sprung</em>? “Dude, WTH?” we were dying to say (and “H” wouldn’t have been the last letter, either!). Naturally — ’cause at that point, why not? — he got engaged to L.A.’s Lizzie Borden.</p>
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23/24
<p>As any sane person would, upon learning of Deacon’s commitment to Sheila, Hope wondered aloud — and <em>loudly</em> — whether her old man needed to be committed himself… to a mental hospital. But wouldn’t be dissuaded, not even by his daughter’s refusal to let him play a part in her or his grandkids’ lives so long as he was with Sheila. At least at <em>first</em> he wouldn’t be dissuaded.</p>
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