Hope Logan


Hope Logan is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. The character was portrayed by several child actors since Hope's introduction in 2002, most notably Rachel and Amanda Pace. In 2010, the role was rapidly aged and recast with actress Kim Matula, who made her first appearance in January 2010. Matula departed the serial as a series regular in December 2014; she made several guest appearances in 2015 and 2016. As of 2018, the role is portrayed by Annika Noelle.
Introduced in 2002, Hope is the result of an affair between Brooke Logan and Deacon Sharpe, Brooke's ex-son-in-law. Upon Matula's casting, her main storylines revolved around relationships with former love interests Liam and Wyatt Spencer, and rivalry with Steffy Forrester, the latter of which mirrors the rivalry between their mothers, Brooke Logan and Taylor Hayes.

Casting

Between the years of 2002 and 2009, the character was played by child actresses, and appeared as a young girl around 5 years old by 2007. On December 4, 2009, it was announced that Hope was to be dramatically aged and portrayed by Kim Matula. Matula signed on as a contract character. Matula began taping The Bold and the Beautiful on November 19, 2009 and made her first appearance on January 11, 2010. On November 5, 2014, it was announced that after five years with the series, Matula would be departing the series. Matula taped her final scene on November 6 and made her final appearance on December 12. In March 2015, Soap Opera Digest reported news that Matula would make a return to the series, in a guest appearance as Hope. She is set to report to set on March 4, 2015, she aired on April 17 and 20, 2015. In February 2016, Matula was reported to make a guest return to the soap; she appeared on March 16, 2016.
In November 2017, Soap Opera Digest announced that actress Annika Noelle had been cast in the role of Hope; she made her first appearance on January 8, 2018.

Characterization

The young adult character of Hope was first described as "A polar opposite of what her mother Brooke once was, Hope makes no secret of her more traditional and reserved views on sex and marriage". Matula has described Hope as "Unlucky in love". Speaking about the character's dramatic aging and her storyline, head writer Bradley Bell stated: "Aging the character of ‘Hope’ to a teenager allows us to bring the next generation of ‘Logans’ to the forefront, as well as play a broader range of the ‘Forrester’ vs. ‘Logan’ story. ‘Hope’s’ presence at Forrester Creations, as well as in ‘Brooke’ and ‘Ridge’s’ home, sparks an intense competition between ‘Hope’ and her step-sister ‘Steffy’ as well as creates new conflict between long-time rivals ‘Brooke’ and ‘Taylor’ as each woman is determined to protect her own daughter."

Storylines

Back story

Hope was conceived during an affair between Brooke Logan and Deacon Sharpe. At the time, Deacon was married to Hope's half-sister, Bridget Forrester. Hope was born at the Big Bear Cabin and delivered by Stephanie. Deacon signed over his paternal rights in 2007 to Ridge Forrester when RJ and Hope were taken from Brooke when she was proven to be an unfit mother by Social Services, reported by Stephanie Forrester. Nick Marone was also a father figure for Hope when he was married to Brooke.

2010–2014

After the character was dramatically aged, Hope is almost raped by a photographer, Graham Derros. but she is saved by Nick and Aggie Jones. As high school graduation approaches, she meets Oliver Jones, a DJ who becomes her first serious boyfriend. Instantly, the assertive Steffy takes an interest in Oliver and tries to lure him away from Hope and engineers a series of events designed to humiliate Hope. At a Forrester fashion show she tampers with a sign by removing the letters 'p' and 'e' out of Hope's name to create a sign that reads "Ho Logan". Then, at Hope's graduation party, Brooke has sex with Oliver, thinking it's her husband Ridge behind the mask; this is revealed by a video which Steffy put together. Despite unresolved feelings and never getting a chance with Oliver again, Hope forgives her mother.
Hope meets Liam Cooper, who was soon to be revealed to be the son of Bill Spencer Jr., Hope & Liam forge a friendship but there is something more there which Oliver, her ex-boyfriend sees whenever they are together. Hope & Oliver had broken up after he had accidentally slept with her mother which hurt her greatly. Liam and Hope fall deeply in love. Their love grows despite Oliver trying to win back Hope by making her jealous, by being in a relationship with Amber Moore. Then their relationship faces hardship when Amber falls pregnant after supposedly raping Liam, and Liam is thought to be the father during the whole pregnancy. She manipulates the situation every chance she gets and causes problems for Liam and Hope. Hope finds it difficult to deal with Amber having Liam's child & decides she must move on but the baby is born and it is quite evident the baby is not Liam's, turns out to be Marcus' baby instead.
Liam and Hope reunite and he proposes to her. However, she wanted to use this as a way to promote her fashion line, so their wedding was planned for months ahead. Hope tells Liam she wants to wait to consummate their relationship after marriage, of course Steffy manipulates Liam every chance she gets. She decided she wanted him even though he was with Hope and was jealous after he saved her from drowning because his father rejected her and went back to his wife Katie. As Hope focuses more on her work, Steffy again finds an opportunity to manipulate Liam and he kisses Steffy. After witnessing the kiss, Hope takes off her engagement ring and leaves it at Liam's house. Heartbroken, Liam takes the ring and proposes to Steffy, who accepts. Liam and Steffy travel to Aspen, where they are married. Then Thomas set his eyes on Hope which Steffy very much encouraged. They shared a kiss despite Hope's unresolved feelings for Liam. Thomas whisks her away to Mexico upon Steffy's encouragement so he could get her mind off of Liam. Both couples accidentally end up in Mexico. Thomas proposes to Hope upon Steffy's encouragement again and she briefly acknowledges that she might not be ready at the time, but she tells him no that she is in love with Liam.; she tells Thomas, 'I feel safe with you' unbeknownst to his and Steffy's manipulations and intentions. Liam and Steffy are staying at the same resort also, and once Liam finds out, he goes after Thomas and Hope on a ATV chase, chasing Hope. Then Steffy gets her own ATV & goes after Liam and is injured after falling off her ATV while trying to get to Liam. She ends up in the hospital and everyone flies down and Bill decides to manipulate the situation because he knows that Liam is still in love with Hope and is about to leave Steffy to be with the woman he loves. Bill wants to keep Steffy near and perpetuates a lie about Steffy's health. Of course Liam finds out about the lie eventually and leaves Steffy in the end. Katie had gotten suspicious and uncovered the truth. Bill even locks her in a tower to keep her from telling Liam and Hope about what Bill had done because he and Steffy had been trying to keep Liam and Hope apart.
Liam, feeling gutted and betrayed by Bill and Steffy, immediately leaves to find Hope. He finds her on the rooftop where he proposed to her and tells her that he loves her and that he wants to be with her to give their relationship a true chance without manipulations. When they later confront Bill with what they know and what they want from him, Bill refuses to give in, reminding Liam that Steffy is his wife and that he doesn't support his attempt to reunite with Hope. Liam, however, does not take that as an answer, making up his mind that his marriage to Steffy is over. Despite her pleading that they can get through this rough patch, Liam ends his relationship with Steffy and chooses to be with Hope. After she leaves, Liam goes outside where Hope is and reveals his left hand, which has no wedding ring on it. Brooke, worried that Steffy may try to pull a scheme to keep Liam, arranges for a wedding for Hope and Liam in her home, convinced that her son Rick would seduce Steffy into signing the annulment papers. Steffy refuses, and demands a full, legal divorce. Fearing again that Steffy would somehow scheme Liam into staying with her, Brooke insists that Hope take her relationship with Liam to the next level. The night did not go as well as Hope had wished, and she ended up traumatized. Brooke showed up early the next morning to see how the night went and found Hope in tears. Her mother then suggests that Hope needs to start seeing a sex therapist to help her with her trauma and so she can be with Liam.
All this accomplishes though is getting Hope hooked on anxiety pills and when she passes out at the Forrester pool, he starts to worry and then she and Liam go to Aspen for a ski trip which Steffy ends up there too, she accidentally runs into her on the slopes and she confesses to Liam that she is hooked on the pills she is taking. At first he questions their future and in the heat of the moment he ends up kissing Steffy because she is crying because she doesn't want an annulment and is sorry he has hurt her. Then he goes and finds Hope and makes up with her and then they decide that the wedding is back on.
Once the divorce becomes final, Liam and Hope went to Italy at Brooke's insistence to remarry. Bill tries to shanghai the wedding by bringing in Deacon Sharpe, which causes Hope to be late to the wedding and Liam to think that she had once again walked out on him. He turned to Steffy for comfort and asked her to leave with him and marry him again. Hope went to Liam's hotel suite, however, and Steffy hid in the bathroom while Hope told Liam what happened. Steffy insisted that Liam go ahead and marry Hope, so the wedding went off without a hitch. Once back in the States, Hope saw a video of Steffy and Liam kissing and falling into bed together on Hope's wedding day and out of that hurt, refuses to sign papers making their marriage legal in the US, wanting another wedding. Liam agrees, and Hope plans another wedding at the Forrester home.
On the day of their re-do wedding, however, Liam arrives drunk, on the back of Steffy's motorcycle with dyed hair and a tattoo after a night out with Steffy, which is exactly what she wanted to do, cause a rift in their relationship, she planned the whole scheme hoping for these results. Outraged by Liam's continued reliance on Steffy, Hope calls off the wedding and her relationship with Liam. Thomas and Hope then becomes friends. While Hope is apart from Liam, he turns again to Steffy for comfort and he thinks he's in love, deciding to give her a chance since things fell apart with Hope. Finding out that Liam and Hope had been lied to by Rick about what went on the night before their wedding, Hope once is hurt by manipulations and lies. Once again, to try to stop Steffy from being with Liam, Brooke sets up a commitment ceremony on Liam's property without his knowledge while Liam is telling Rick that he thinks his future with Hope is over and calls Steffy, but Brooke has the priest from Italy to tell Liam that he can marry him and Hope. Steffy, however, finds out that she was pregnant several days earlier and waited to tell Liam about it until after he made his choice on which woman he wanted to be with. But she finds out that he has chosen Hope is going to marry her so she runs over to Liam's house to find him and tell him she was pregnant. After finding out that Steffy was pregnant with his child, Liam decided that they needed to be together because he wants to raise his child full-time since he didn't have a dad growing up. Devastated, Hope found solace in Oliver, who finally somehow admitted he still had feelings for her, particularly by showing her the Chinese symbol for "hope" he got tattooed on his leg for her. Hope is touched, and she decides to give him a second chance since Liam was giving Steffy a second chance because of their child.
On the professional front, Hope steps down as spokeswoman for her line, Hope for the Future, and approves Rick's decision to hire Maya. During Steffy's pregnancy, she ignores warnings of riding her motorcycle which results in an accident, causing her to lose the baby and become infertile. After Steffy learns of her infertility, she tells Hope she is leaving for good and that Liam is now Hope's, not telling Hope or Liam the real issue. She and Liam go to Bear Cabin together to talk. While on a walk, she sees a naked stranger taking a shower. She takes a photo of him, only for him to turn around and see her. She runs away and he chases her. She then falls and is knocked unconscious. The stranger then carries her to safety and when she wakes up he kisses her. The mysterious stranger turns out to be Wyatt Fuller. After doing some digging, she learns he is the son of Bill Spencer, Jr., therefore the half-brother of Liam. Wyatt and Hope get closer after Liam flies off to see Steffy, asking Steffy why she left the way she did. Steffy rejects him and Liam comes home and proposes to Hope, who accepts. Wyatt moves in with Liam, but when Liam catches him kissing Hope, he punches Wyatt, and after a fight between Bill and Wyatt, he moves out, but Hope later selects Quinn and Wyatt's jewelry business to accompany 'Hope for the Future'. When Liam finds out, he convinces Hope to try and break the contract. Hope asks Eric to do so but he doesn't agree, knowing that it is a personal reason for wanting to end the contract. So the contract stands, much to Liam's dismay, and Hope and Wyatt fly to Mexico to get the Hope Diamond for the line, which makes problems for Liam.
Hope and Liam get engaged, but when Hope receives a goodbye video Liam made for Steffy, it creates tension between them. Liam, thinking it was Wyatt that sent the video, later finds out it was actually Quinn, and Liam quickly informs Hope. Confronting them both, Hope finds out that Quinn did send the video, but Wyatt had no idea of it until the Hope Diamond reveal. Hope forgives them both. She later ends her engagement to Liam when she is feeling insecure about Liam always falling for Steffy's manipulations. They soon reconcile, but Hope wants to wait before they get married. Aly Forrester, who has a crush on Liam, sends him a picture of Wyatt and Hope kissing at a photoshoot. Liam decides to confront Hope about her refusal to marry, demands that they do so and that she cut all professional and personal ties with Wyatt and Quinn Artisan Jewelers. Hope chooses Liam over Wyatt and Eric reluctantly agrees to break the contract. Wyatt tries desperately to change Hope's mind but she won't, confessing to her mother that she had never met Liam & fallen in love with him, then Wyatt might have had a chance. On the day of the wedding, Hope gets a note to go see Liam, but she finds him with Steffy at the cabin. Knowing that Steffy is back from Paris, and guessing she would be back to fight for Liam, Hope decides to rehire Quinn, and she and Wyatt go to Hawaii together. Liam follows soon after to explain to Hope that Steffy had informed him that she is now able to conceive again, and that it was Quinn who once again interfered with their relationship. He then asks her to marry him immediately. Hope declines and ends her relationship with him, finally choosing Wyatt over Liam. Their happiness is short-lived when it is revealed by Liam that Wyatt took the Hope diamond as a P.R stunt, before the real jewel thieves had intentions to steal it. It almost ends their relationship completely, but Hope decides to give Wyatt another chance, much to Liam's dismay. Hope then endures a pregnancy scare, and with Liam's persuasion about making the right decision for her life before getting pregnant or married, she dates both brothers, agreeing that she will choose who she wants to spend the rest of her life with at the end of it.
Finally, Hope chooses Liam and they become engaged. Quinn becomes outraged when Hope ends things with Wyatt, and threatens both Liam and Hope's lives. When Quinn tries to kill Liam once and for all, Wyatt and Deacon Sharpe save him. Wyatt declares his support for Liam and Hope's relationship. Because of this, Liam and Hope decide to rehire Wyatt at Forrester Creations. Wyatt inherits the Hope for the Future Diamond after Ricardo Montemayor dies. He gifts it to Hope, which causes friction between Liam and Hope, and the two brothers. When Liam demands Hope give it back to Wyatt, Hope refuses, and publicly declares at a press conference that she is keeping the diamond. Wyatt and Rick decide to take Hope and the diamond on a promotion tour, starting with a photo shoot in Paris. Hope asks Liam to come with her, or meet her there to marry her. But Liam, still angry, does not know if he will go. Hope tells him to meet her at 3pm the next day after the photo shoot if he wants to continue their relationship. Wyatt begs Hope not to marry Liam, though she insists that she and Liam belong together. Liam misses his deadline with Hope, who then leaves with Wyatt on the Spencer jet. Wyatt takes her to Bill's yacht in Monte Carlo, where he insists that Liam wasted all of his chances with Hope, but that he will always be there for her. Wyatt proposes to Hope using the HFTF diamond, and Hope accepts and marries Wyatt. Out of the hurt she feels at that moment, Hope decides to marry Wyatt and give him a chance of making her happy although she still loves Liam but she feels like if he really wanted a life with her, all these obstacles would not keep getting in the way. However, about a month later, Hope gets an urgent call from Liam. She finds out that Quinn orchestrated her and Wyatt's marriage by pushing Ivy off the Seine causing Liam to miss his chance to be with Hope. After confronting Quinn for her role and Wyatt for defending his mother, though she also feel sympathy for him, she had already married Wyatt and felt she should honor her commitment and then she found out that she was pregnant with Wyatt's child. She explains that she doesn't want her child to grow up with multiple fathers and have a complicated relationship like she did. She ended things with Liam for good and told him that she wanted to give her marriage to Wyatt a chance now with the baby on the way. This is all changed when she suffers a miscarriage, because Wyatt's mother Quinn had caused a lot of problems for her with her aggressive way of intruding in her life. She was relentless in meddling and being way over the top with what she wanted and not being sensitive to what Wyatt and Hope wanted in their life and the baby mostly. It got so out of hand that finally she had to get a restraining order on Quinn. Quinn had grown quite obsessive with the baby & Wyatt. Finally when Quinn was not invited to the baby shower, she went ballistic and tells Liam that she will always love him. Hope visits Brooke in Milan, Italy, and does not return to L.A. with Brooke to get over the loss of her child.
In 2015, Brooke attempts to stop Deacon's wedding to Quinn by getting Hope to talk to him via a video message on her tablet. Hope tells Deacon that Quinn is evil, but he marries her anyway. In early 2016, Liam is kidnapped by Quinn, and Steffy calls Hope, thinking that she may have information on Liam's whereabouts. She tells Steffy that she hasn't heard from Liam.

2018–present

Hope returns to Los Angeles in January 2018, at Ridge's request, to surprise her mother. She makes her intentions known of returning to Forrester and potentially relaunching the Hope for the Future line. When Hope meets Sally Spectra, she finds out that Liam and Steffy's marriage is in trouble and so she visits Liam to offer her support and friendship. Hope learns of Steffy and Bill sleeping together and confronts Steffy. However, Hope supports Steffy and Liam, and she tries to fix their marriage. Hope later starts to fall in love with Liam again, and wants Liam to leave Steffy because of her ruining their relationship in the past and her betrayal with Bill.
Bill manipulates Liam to believe that Bill and Steffy are involved; Liam leaves Steffy and their daughter, Kelly, and proposes to Hope. The two almost marry, until Wyatt reveals that Bill set up the whole thing. Liam decides to give Steffy another chance for the sake of Kelly, but Hope soon discovers she's pregnant, from the one night she and Liam spent together before their aborted wedding. Steffy catches Liam and Hope making out behind the scenes of the Hope for the Future fashion show and she breaks up with him; Steffy steps back and gives Liam to Hope because she can no longer be involved in a triangle for Liam's heart and she needs to do what is best for Kelly. In August 2018, Hope and Liam wed in front of their friends, families, Steffy, and Taylor and were finally together like they had always wanted to be. They blissfully awaited the birth of their daughter & basked in the happiness they had always longed for.
In January 2019, Hope and Liam are devastated when their infant daughter Elizabeth 'Beth' Avalon Spencer is stillborn. It is revealed that Dr. Reese Buckingham stole Hope and Liam's daughter Beth Spencer and gave them a stillborn baby girl. Reese later brought baby Beth Spencer to his apartment and his friend Flo pretended to be the birth mother. Steffy adopted the baby and named her Phoebe after Steffy's late sister. Hope holds Phoebe for the first time and has a connection to her. Steffy then worries about Hope when she starts to get too conformable with Beth. After Steffy takes Kelly and Phoebe to Paris for Hope and Liam to work out their marriage, Hope and Liam's marriage starts to crumble. Hope later meets Wyatt's ex-girlfriend Flo, and learns that she was Phoebe's birth mother and is looking for her biological father. The Logan family learns that Flo is Storm's daughter revealing that Hope and Flo are cousins. Happy, Hope welcomes Flo into their family and in the Forester Company. Thomas Forester returns to L.A with devastating news, about Caroline passing away. Afterwards Thomas starts to have an obsession with Hope and manipulates Caroline's death by writing a fake letter saying that Douglas needs a mother and wants Hope to be that mother figure for him. Also uses Douglas to convince Hope to be with his dad. Which lead to Hope and Liam getting an annulment, and wanting to fulfill Caroline's wish. However Hope tells Thomas that she is marrying him for Douglas, not him. When Hope and Thomas are married, she still loves Liam, but wants to move forward with Beth being gone. However Hope feels unconformable with Thomas's advances and not wanting to have sex with him.
When Hope is about to go on her honeymoon with Thomas, Douglas reveals to Hope and Liam that their daughter Beth is alive. Hope believes that Douglas is just confused, and goes on her Honeymoon with Thomas. Their Honeymoon is cut short when Hope still refuses to have sex with Thomas and Thomas receiving a call from Douglas. Thomas and Hope goes back to L.A at Forester's, and Hope locks the office door. Liam storms in the office to tell Hope that Douglas is telling the truth about, Beth is alive and Flo lied to them. Hope tries to process Liam's information, but Thomas breaks down the door, punches Liam, and grabs Hope to the helicopter. Hope tries to calm him down and asks Thomas to tell her the truth about Beth. Thomas lies to her, and tells her to forget about Beth. Liam sprints and attacks Thomas. After Thomas trying to escape to the helicopter, Liam has him in a headlock and forces Thomas to tell Hope about keeping Beth away from her. When Hope realizing that Thomas could not look her in the eye, she finally realize that Beth is alive. Thomas then punches Liam again and escapes to his helicopter. Hope and Liam cry and hug each other, and Liam says that their daughter was here this whole time, and Steffy had her, but Steffy did not know about Beth. Finally, Hope and Liam go over Steffy's house and Hope holds her daughter Beth for the first time, realizing she is alive. When Hope asks how Steffy had their daughter Beth. Liam reveals that he overheard Thomas and Flo arguing at her wedding with Thomas and Thomas says that Hope cannot know about a secret.
Liam asks Wyatt to talk to Flo about her daughter Phoebe, and Flo accidentally revealed that she never had a baby to Wyatt. After what Douglas had told them about Phoebe being Beth, Liam called the hospital in Vegas where Flo supposedly had Phoebe, and it turns out that Flo was never was a patient at the hospital in Vegas, there was no medical records of her being there according to Flo's supposed doctor. Also Flo revealed to him and Wyatt that Dr. Buckingham owed some people for a gambling dept and needed to pay them or they would kill his daughter Zoe. Liam goes on reveal that a woman was also Dr. Buckingham's patient lost her baby which was stillborn in Catalina. When Hope passed out after giving birth to Beth, he switch the babies. Hope learns that she hold the unknown woman's stillborn baby, believing that Beth was dead. Liam says that Taylor told Reese that Steffy was looking to adopt a sister for Kelly and Reese told that there was a woman who is willing to adopt, in which Flo comes in. Liam then tells Hope that Taylor did not know about Phoebe being Beth and that she gave Dr Buckingham a lot money in cash for their daughter. In shocked and crying, Hope asks Liam who else knew about Beth. Liam says that Zoe knew but did not want her dad to get arrested, Xander, and Emma. However Liam reveals that Emma found out when Zoe and Xander was arguing and was on her way to tell Hope the truth before she died. Finally Liam warns Hope that Thomas knew about Beth around the time they got an annulment and that he was chasing Emma and crashed her car in a ditch. Hope apologizes to Liam, and vows to leave Thomas for his deceit. When Steffy returns Hope and Liam tells her about Flo not being Phoebe's birth mother and that Phoebe is Beth. Hope and Steffy argue about Beth and that Steffy still wants to keep her, but realizes that Hope was robbed of being Beth's mother and decides to give Beth back to Hope and Liam, much to Steffy's sadness. Afterwards Hope and Liam go to the cabin and Douglas arrives. Hope lets Douglas knows that she is happy that she has her daughter back, and that she thanks him for telling the truth. Also she tells Douglas that she will still take care of him.
Hope and Liam have a celebration on having Beth back with their family. While going back to the cabin Flo is there. After putting Beth down, Hope confront Flo about her betrayal, and tells her that she would never forgive her for keeping her daughter away from her for months. Hope and Liam talks with Justin about reversing the adoption and to serve Thomas annulment papers for his deceit. Hope later contacts Thomas to confront him on keeping Beth away from her, manipulating her grief, and using Douglas and announces that they are getting a divorce. When Hope is getting the rest of Beth's things from Steffy's house, Thomas shows up and wants to convince her to not end their marriage. Hope does not want to hear him, and tries to leave but Thomas grabs her. Hope breaks free and runs outside but Thomas tries to tell her that if he would had told the truth she would leave him for Liam. Hope tries to get out of his grip to tell him that it is over between them. Brooke worried about her daughter, arrives to the Steffy's house gets Hope out of Thomas grips. When Thomas tries to apologies, Brooke pushes him out of the way and Thomas accidentally falls over the cliff.
At the hospital Hope angrily wants Thomas to wake up so that he can face the consequences of his action, Thomas then awakens. Thomas tells Detective Sanchez that his fall was an accident in front of Brooke, Ridge, Liam and Hope. Also he apologizes to Hope for lying to her and hopes she can forgive him. Hope, Liam, and Beth are at the cabin, and Hope tells Liam that she will never forgive Thomas for keeping Beth away from them, and believes that he only told Detective Sanchez that Brooke pushed him by accident in hopes to get back in her good graces. Liam tells her that they still got a lot of time with Beth, and to only worry about the present.