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The Early and the Beautiful is Zende Forrester (Delon de Metz) pushed that much closer to his breaking point every day that he is at Forrester Formats. And his frustration boils over this week when RJ Forrester (Brayan Nicoletti) is again acting badly. This could prompt Zende to entertain Katie Logan’s (Heather Tom) offer.
Today we are going to talk about whether Zende is joining Logan and if that starts a battle between RJ Forrester and Zende Forrester in competitive junior lines.
Bold and Beautiful: Hope misses Zende
And now let’s get to it. So, at this point, we know that Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) really wants Zende to come Logan House. As she told Katie, Hope is eager to work with Zende again and wants to rebuild their friendship and personal relationship. And yes, Hope likes working with her brother, Deke Sharpe (Harrison Cone), but she also thinks that if Zende came in, it would streamline things. We also know because of Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) senior and Ridge Jr. that Zende is getting more tired by the minute at Forrester Formats.
Basically, Zende is undervalued by Ridge and others and Ridge has dismissed Zende’s very valid concerns about his career and his future at Forrester. And then we have Melissa Dylan (Sydney Bullock) trying to convince Zende to at least listen to Hope and give her a chance to explain why she left. Forrester Formats and basically abandoned Zende without warning him. Now, Dylan tried once already and it didn’t go far with Zende.
Dylan Press Zende on B&B
But then Dylan tried again this week to talk to Zende after he had another confrontation with Ridge. And Dylan again urged Zende to talk to Hope because, you know, they have a good vibe together. Now, Zende wanted to know why Dylan was so interested. And she told Zende the truth. All of it. Dylan admitted that Katie asked her to get Zende to talk to Hope and Katie. And then Zende told Dylan that he didn’t even know what to say to Hope or Katie.
But now it seems that Zende is at least considering talking to Katie and Hope. And that’s when things are going to get wild. I believe that Katie is going to make an amazing offer to Zende that would be very difficult for him to refuse, especially since Ridge has been dismissing the fact that he promoted RJ over Zende for reasons that seem to be purely personal, ie nepotism.
In the end, I expect Zende to walk. And if it goes out of it Forrester Formats since Ridge can’t convince him to stay, I think we’ll see Zende over at Logan House. And if he makes the switch officially, I feel that Zende is going to lead the youth line.
Bold and Beautiful: Hope & Zende Reunite
Now, I’m sure Hope and Zende will collaborate online together. And at the same time, I also think that Dylan is going to be fired from Forrester Formats once Ridge and Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) find out that she helped recruit Zende for Logan House. And I think that Will Spencer (Crew Morrow) is going to insist that Katie needs to hire Dylan. So, she might be the muse for the youth line.
Whether it’s Zende or Deke designing it, I think we’ll see both Zende and Dylan as two new faces getting hired at Logan House between now and the November sweep. Even though Katie is against hiring Dylan, I think Will is going to hold out that Katie will keep her end of the bargain since Dylan delivered to bring Zende to the table.
And Will already told Dylan that she should come Logan House after seeing her struggling on Logan’s couch the other day. So, I could definitely see Will pushing Katie if Dylan comes through with Zende. And this week, Dylan proves her loyalty to the Spencers.
Bold and Beautiful: Dylan on board
And from there, it doesn’t matter who runs the youth line at Logan House. I expect Dylan to collaborate on it as the muse. Maybe she’ll do some artwork on it since she’s an artist. Currently, Katie and Hope have not talked about a youth line because they are focused on the next Hope collection with Deke, but I am sure that Zende is going to tell Katie about the RJ line. I don’t think Zende is going to tell Katie and Hope with the intention of spying, but Zende will say, more with the intention, “This is the main reason for my frustration.”
And once Katie hears that Forrester Formats doing a youth line, you know, she’ll want to set one up at Logan House to compete with them. Ridge and Brooke are so worried about it that they can’t handle competition from Katie’s debut. Meanwhile, she jumps in and is ready to compete with Ridge’s company that has been around for decades. They shouldn’t be afraid of Katie and Bill Spencer’s little company. So, I suspect that Zende could be the main designer for Logan House with his talent and experience and the time he has been in the fashion industry and at Forrester Formats.
Zende Mentors Deke on B&B
And then I think Deke will turn to Zende for guidance on the line of hope. We could see Katie and Zende agree that Deke has the right energy to design a youth line because he has this incredible talent. But Deke is new and inexperienced. It must be directed. And of course, Zende is the perfect person to do that.
So, instead of just making him the lead designer, I suspect that Katie Zende could be made the art director or creative director altogether. Logan Housewhich is a big step up from a master designer. It is as high as you can get. So, Ridge may be surprised to learn that Zende is very high at Logan House.
And Deke and Hope may indeed be looking to Zende for advice. Now, I think Hope would be fine with that and we know Deke would love to learn from Zende. From there, I think we would have Hope and Zende working together and maybe Deke and Dylan could work together on the youth line.
Zende in control of heavy
And Zende is in charge of the whole operation as creative director, which means at the end of the day, I think we’re going to see a youth line at Logan House and then that youth line at Forresterwhoever designs them. And I suspect it will be RJ versus Deke. But zoom out to the bigger picture. It’s kind of Katie and Zende against RJ and Ridge and Brooke on Bold and beautiful.
That’s the big picture. RJ feels full of himself. I think Zende is going to be at a position level far above what RJ is at Forrester. It sends a clear message about what Katie thinks of Zende’s value as the best designer in her company. But Ridge was relegated to the bottom responding to a newbie.
Ridge only has himself to blame on B&B
And this becomes one more thing the Forresters have done wrong. Ridge is neck deep with RJ Ridge driving people away because of their company culture. And if Melissa Dylan is over there collaborating on the youth line, I’m sure Electra Forrester (Laneya Grace) is going to be pissed. She sees this as yet another betrayal by Dylan.
And of course, Brooke sees this as Katie betraying her again and just like a monster. And I would suspect so Logan House the line of the youth could tempt them Forrester Formats youth line because Zende was right about it.
He told Ridge that RJ and Electra weren’t the right ones to run it just because they work well together. Zende said RJ just doesn’t have the experience to run a line. And I think that is going to be proven right. And then it really becomes an all-out war between Logan House and Forrester Formats.
