“YOU’RE NOT A CEO ANYMORE” – Steffy and Eric Team Up to Kick Ridge Off the Board | Bold and Beautiful Spoilers

Hey everyone, it’s time to dig into the explosive drama unfolding at Forrester Creations—because if you thought the family power struggles had reached their peak, think again.

A storm is brewing inside the company walls, and this time it may leave Ridge Forrester standing on the outside of the empire he believes he controls.

For weeks, Eric Forrester’s longing to return to his life’s greatest passion has grown impossible to ignore. Despite ongoing recovery and lingering health concerns, the legendary designer has felt every tug of distance from the world he built with his own hands.

Watching Ridge run the company without him—making decisions, directing the future, and reshaping the creative landscape—has been nothing short of painful.

So when Eric finally gathers the courage to ask Ridge for a chance to step back into the design studio, he expects at least a conversation, if not encouragement. Instead, he is blindsided.

Ridge rejects the request immediately, stepping fully into his CEO authority. His words are stern, firm, and devastatingly final. He tells his father that returning to work is too dangerous, reminding him of the near-fatal medical crisis that nearly ended his life last year. Ridge frames it as concern—protection, even love—but the cold undercurrent is unmistakable. To Ridge, the torch has already been passed, and Eric’s era has concluded.

Eric tries desperately to reason with him, explaining that designing isn’t just work—it’s oxygen. Creativity has always been his anchor, the one remaining piece of himself that illness and age haven’t been able to take away. But Ridge remains unmoved, his eyes filled with determination and something darker: fear of losing control.

As Ridge dismisses him with the kind of finality no father ever expects to hear from a son, Eric’s heart breaks in a way no medical chart could ever measure. The pain of being pushed aside—not by circumstance, but by his own child—cuts deeper than anything he’s faced.

But Ridge has no idea who he’s about to provoke.

Because Steffy Forrester, his fiercely loyal daughter and equal co-CEO, catches wind of what he has done—and she is not about to let her grandfather be discarded.

Steffy has always respected Ridge. She has admired him, defended him, and followed him through some of the company’s greatest storms. But Steffy also carries Eric’s legacy in her blood. She grew up hearing his lessons about leadership, respect, and never abandoning the people who helped build the Forrester dynasty. And when she realizes Ridge has shut Eric out with no compassion, something inside her snaps.

She storms into Ridge’s office with fury blazing in her eyes. Ridge, calm and unshaken as always, tries to defend himself, insisting that he’s worried about Eric’s health. But Steffy sees right through him.

“You’re not protecting him,” she fires back. “You’re suffocating him.”

Ridge tries to shut down the confrontation, but Steffy refuses to back down. When she leaves, her hands are trembling—not from fear, but from outrage. She cannot stand by and watch her grandfather fade into irrelevance because Ridge has crowned himself king of the company.

That evening, Steffy visits Eric at home. What she finds shatters her. Eric sits alone, surrounded by faded sketches, tracing lines with trembling fingers as if trying to hold onto the last pieces of his identity. His voice cracks when he admits the truth: designing is the only thing he has left that feels like living.

He can accept aging. He can accept weakness. But he cannot accept being stripped of his purpose.

And that is when Steffy makes a decision that will change the balance of power at Forrester Creations forever.

She takes Eric’s hands, looks him in the eyes, and promises him that she will not let Ridge erase him. She vows to fight—not just for him, but with him. She proposes an alliance only a Forrester could envision: they will use her equal authority, her shares, and the company bylaws to override Ridge’s unilateral decision.

Eric’s reaction is immediate. For the first time in months, there is light in his expression. Hope. Determination. Fire.

Together, they set the plan in motion.

Steffy calls an emergency leadership meeting. Ridge walks in confident, unsuspecting—until he sees Eric standing beside her. There is a tension in the room so heavy it nearly suffocates the air.

Steffy stands tall and delivers the blow with razor-sharp precision: she is reinstating Eric as an active designer at Forrester Creations. And she has the legal authority to do it.

Ridge is blindsided. Shocked. Furious.

He accuses Steffy of undermining him, of destabilizing the company, even of endangering Eric’s life. But Steffy holds her ground. She tells him Eric has every right to contribute, that his talent is still unmatched, and that no one—not even Ridge—gets to decide when Eric’s story ends.

The argument escalates to the brink, until Eric steps forward with a strength Ridge hasn’t seen in years.

“I know my limits,” he says quietly, “but I also know my worth.”

The words hit Ridge harder than any boardroom battle ever could.

The truth is now unavoidable: Steffy and Eric have outmaneuvered him. And for the first time, Ridge finds himself standing alone, unsure whether he is losing his grip on the company—or losing his place within the family.

As Steffy and Eric prepare to unveil their first joint project, whispers ripple through the fashion house. A new era may be dawning, but whether Ridge will join it or fight it remains the burning question.

Will Ridge accept their bold alliance? Or will this ignite the most explosive Forrester family power war yet?

Stay tuned, Bold & Beautiful fans—because this storm is just beginning.