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Few foreign soaps glued Kenyans to their television screens like The Bold and the Beautiful, which was popularly just referred to us The Bold. Okay, before The Bold, there was The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, Sunset Beach, Lady of the Rose, The Rich Also Cry, Knots Landing and the biggest soap of back in the day, Dallas.
Few soaps though could hold a candle to The Bold that revolved around the intense romance between Ridge Forrester, Brooke Logan and Dr Taylor Hayes. Kenyan women ate, drank, slept and fantasised about Ridge, the chisel-jawed hunk and the two hot women fighting for his attention.
The Bold had an absurd story line that hardly seemed to change. When it was first screened here in the mid-1990s, the early episodes showed Brooke Logan, the soap's tenacious vixen marrying Ridge Forrester, the Forrester family's blue-eyed boy. Two years earlier, Brooke was married to his father. Then die-hard fans watched in disbelief as Brooke wed Thorn, Ridge's brother in 2007!
That was the year The Bold marked 20 years, meaning someone born in 1987 grew up and got to know playboy Ridge and his bevy of blonde bombshells through primary and secondary school and college!
This Kenyan born when The Bold started began dating as the story saw viewers follow Eric Forrester, Ridge's father, marry Brooke after divorcing Stephanie Forrester, Ridge's mother. Brooke and Eric eventually got two kids, but divorced and Eric reconciled with Stephanie!
This unbelievable story line made it the world's most-watched soap opera with an estimated 26.2 million viewers who were hooked to the lives of the wealthy Forresters, their affairs, scandals and betrayals.
But the cast of The Bold are in that stage the 'Gmail generation' calls 'ku-beat', meaning their skin is not as well-toned as when the soap made its debut and effect of age is already more than just visible.
The core stars of The Bold
Ronn Moss (Ridge Forrester), 63
Catherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan), 53
John McCook (Eric Forrester), 71
Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester), 75
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