Ridge Forrester
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| Ridge Forrester | |
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| Nicknames | The Dressmaker (by Nick) |
| Address | The Logan Mansion, 200 N. Beston Place, Los Angeles, California |
| Date of birth | January 28 |
| Gender | Male |
| Parents | Massimo Marone Stephanie Forrester |
| Siblings | Nick Marone (paternal half brother) Thorne Forrester (maternal half brother) Felicia Forrester (maternal half sister) Kristen Forrester (maternal half sister) Angela Forrester (maternal half sister) (Angela deceased) Diana Carter (paternal half sister) |
| Married | Caroline Spencer (deceased) Dr. Taylor Hayes (divorced) Brooke Logan (married license declared null and void, when Taylor turned up undead.) |
| Children | Thomas Forrester Phoebe Forrester Steffy Forrester RJ Forrester |
| Romances | Morgan DeWitt Alex Simpson Heather Rhonda Lauren Fenmore Donna Logan |
| Occupation | Designer at Forrester Originals |
| Portrayer | Ronn Moss |
Ridge Forrester is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Ridge has been played since the show's beginning in 1987 by actor Ronn Moss.
[edit] The favourite Forrester son
Ridge is the eldest son of Eric (John McCook) and Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery). He has four younger half-siblings; Nick (Jack Wagner), Thorne (Winsor Harmon), Kristen (Tracy Melchior) and Felicia (Lesli Kay). Ridge is also the father of Thomas (Drew Tyler Bell), Phoebe (MacKenzie Mauzy), Steffy and R.J. Forrester (Preston and Trevor Shores), and is a father figure to Hope Logan, Brooke's daughter with Deacon (Sean Kanan)
In the beginning, Ridge was a "playboy", until two women, Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) and Caroline Spencer (Joanna Johnson), caught his eye. Caroline and Ridge were engaged to be married at the time. Brooke, who had began reading about Caroline and Ridge in the newspaper, befriended them. Caroline's father had never liked Ridge and, the night before the wedding, paid another woman to get Ridge drunk and sleep with him and take pictures while he was passed out. Brooke consoled Ridge. At the same time, she had become very friendly with Ridges' father, Eric. When Ridge again talked Caroline into marrying him, Eric consoled Brooke and they fell in love. She became pregnant with Eric's baby and they decided to marry. When Caroline died from leukemia, Brooke's heart once again went out to Ridge. Caroline's psychiatrist, Dr. Taylor Hayes (Hunter Tylo) advised Brooke to give Ridge time to grieve and then later pursued Ridge herself.
Brooke had become pregnant and went around telling everyone that the baby was Ridge's, which was later proven by a paternity test. Ridge was already then married to Taylor, and Ridge being Bridget's father took it's toil on their marriage, while Brooke and Ridge grew closer. When a plane crashed that Taylor was scheduled to be on, a grief stricken Ridge believed she had died in the fiery wreck. Brooke again comforted Ridge. Brooke was engaged to Dr. James Warwick (Ian Buchanan) and Ridge would not stand in her way. He told her that he did not love her and that she should marry James. As James and Brooke exchanged vows, Ridge rushed in, stopped the wedding and proclaimed his love for Brooke. Ridge and Brooke then married. As they honeymooned, they were happy, until a very much alive Taylor returned. Ridge was torn between the two women whom he supposedly loved deeply. When his marriage to Brooke was declared null and void, Ridge chose Brooke over Taylor, and divorced Taylor.
When a new paternity test revealed Eric as Bridget's father and not Ridge, Ridge called off the wedding. Brooke ran off to Barbados and Ridge followed to bring her back. Then the threesome played musical chairs a few more rounds. When Ridge caught Brooke kissing fashion designer Grant Chambers (Charles Grant) he proposed to Taylor the love of his life in front of Brooke at a fashion show. An angry Brooke ran off and married Grant. In order to get back at the Forresters, Brooke gave controlling interest of Forrester Creations to Grant. Grant became a tyrant and all of the Forresters hated him. Then somebody shot Grant. Grant knew it was Brooke's son Rick (then played by Steven Hartman) who had shot him, but he was accusing Ridge of doing it. When Grant went to Ridge and told him that Rick had shot him, Ridge pleaded guilty to the charge against him. Grant pleaded with the court to go easy on Ridge in his sentencing. Ridge was eventually let out on parole. After Taylor became pregnant with a child and told everyone that it was Thorne's, Ridge and Brooke finally married after Brooke was pregnant, only later to faked her miscarriage. When Taylor's baby's paternity was revealed and Ridge learned that Brooke who had always been a 3rd party in Taylor and Ridge's marriage known and purposely withheld information from Ridge. Ridge felt betrayed by his so-called bride, quickly had the marriage annulled, and remarried Taylor the love of his life, who had given birth to his son and first child, Thomas.
The parents kept their marriage together through thick and thin, because of Brooke never-ending train of crises needed Ridge to sort out her pitiful problems and her wiggling, jiggling and begging Ridge to end his marriage to Taylor has taken total on the couples marriage. Ridge and Taylor, became parents again in late 1999, this time to twin girls, Steffy and Phoebe. But problems surfaced; Morgan DeWitt (Sarah Buxton), Ridge's former lover and Taylor's friend, was expecting a child, fathered by Ridge as a result of an e-mail fiasco: Morgan sent an e-mail from Taylor's e-mail box giving Ridge permission to impregnate Morgan the oldfashion way. And Ridge was stupid enough to buy it. After Taylor learned of this, she and Morgan had a heated confrontation which resulted in Morgan falling down the stairs, causing her to miscarry, an event that sent Morgan over the edge. She then kidnapped Ridge and Taylor's daughter, Steffy, and made it look like she died in a boating accident. She then changed the young girl's name and passed her off as her own child. After Taylor discovered Steffy was alive, Morgan kidnapped Taylor as well, with the help of her friend, Dr. Tim Reid (Aaron Lustig). Morgan went after Ridge once again, but when he realized where his wife and child were he rescued them and had Morgan committed.
Months later, Ridge used Brooke's absence from Forrester Creations to take over the company for good. He almost succeeded, but Rick (then Justin Torkildsen) and brother-in-law Deacon Sharpe stopped him by telling Brooke everything. Ridge was then demoted from CEO of the company to his old position, head designer. Ridge could not stand his old position and at a board meeting, threatened that if Brooke didn't make him CEO again, he was quitting. Brooke refused his deal and ousted him from the company. He then injured his drawing hand severely during a fight with Deacon and Rick. The injury left him unable to draw. Ridge then turned to Massimo Marone (Joseph Mascolo), an old friend of his mother's, who was soon revealed to be his biological father, for help. Massimo made him heir to all of his fortunes and allowed Ridge the use of his company to help take revenge on Brooke for destroying his career.
When Amber Forrester (Adrienne Frantz) need help for her drug addiction and needed a place to stay, she turned to Taylor, who let Amber move in. This new relationship between the two women became problematic for Taylor and Ridge's marriage. Ridge hated most of his family, especially Rick and Amber, for "stealing" Forrester Creations from him. He thought of Amber as nothing but trash who shouldn't be in his home. While Amber was staying with Ridge and Taylor, she was kidnapped by Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown). After a failed attempt on Amber's life, Sheila then drove to Eric's house and held him at gun point. Taylor realized that Eric, the man she had loved once, could be in danger and went to him home to warn him, discovering that Sheila was already there. Taylor had almost convinced Sheila to put the gun down when Brooke walked in, and a struggle between the four of them erupted. Brooke and Taylor were both shot. Taylor hung on in a critical condition long enough to say goodbye to her family, before dying peacefully in her husband's arms.
While mourning the loss of Taylor, Ridge let the family feud die down, and turned to them for comfort. He also received comfort from Brooke and psychiatrist Tricia Quick (Tamara Davies), a friend of Taylor's. Taylor had called her from her deathbed and asked her to be there for Ridge and the children. Brooke and Ridge became very close again. To give Ridge something to focus on other than the death of this wife, Eric challenged Ridge to a fashion duel in Italy. Ridge accepted, and both Spectra and Forrester Creations went to Italy to battle on the runway. After a time, Ridge began to fall in love with Brooke again and they married, but when he was presumed dead, Brooke made love to Ridge's half-brother, Nick Marone. After Ridge returned home alive and well, Brooke was faced with a dilemma once she learned she was pregnant. Believing that Nick was the child's father, her marriage to Ridge was annulled, and she prepared to marry Nick.
Ridge, devastated by Brooke's rejection, was determined to get her back in his life. After making sure that Nick and Brooke's wedding didn't happen, Ridge managed to talk Brooke into a reconciliation, and they soon learned that Brooke's baby wasn't Nick's, but Ridge's. They wed again, planning to spend the rest of their lives together. Ridge was then shocked to discover that Taylor was, in fact, still alive.
Ridge now faced a new dilemma - he now had two women calling themselves Mrs. Ridge Forrester. His marriage to Brooke was soon revealed as invalid due to Taylor's reappearance, but Ridge could not decide which woman he wanted to be with. After Stephanie had a FAKE heart attack, Ridge and Taylor renewed their vows at the hospital, almost a shotgun wedding manipulated by Stephanie, but Ridge was furious with Stephanie after learning that she had faked the heart attack to manipulate him. He remained with Taylor, but when Taylor confessed to both a kiss with Hector Ramirez (Lorenzo Lamas) and The Big Bear Boink with James years ago, Ridge told her that their marriage was over because he couldn't forgive the way she had treated Brooke over the years, despite being guilty of worse things. After he and Taylor had their marriage annulled, Ridge began pursuing Brooke in earnest, but Brooke insisted she was loyal to Nick, who had recently separated from her daughter Bridget (Ashley Jones).
Massimo, in favor of Ridge's union with Brooke, attempted to break up Nick and Brooke by framing Nick's mother (and Massimo's ex-wife) Jackie Payne (Lesley-Anne Down) and having her sent to jail, saying that he would have her released only if Brooke left Nick for Ridge. Nick and Brooke stood strong and remained together, and were eventually able to get Jackie out of jail themselves.
Ridge even went so far as to bringing Brooke's dad back in town to show her a man who had done even worse things to her than he himself had done. Brooke was so shocked of Ridge's home-cooked psycobabble that she told both of them to leave her house and took sedatives in order to sleep. Ridge followed her upstairs and raped the drugged out half unconscious Brooke.
When a depressed Ridge had a heart attack, Stephanie had a change of heart about Brooke and begged her to reunite with Ridge, if for no other reason, to save his life. Brooke went back to Ridge, but when he recovered she let him down gently and married Nick.
A relationship developed between Ridge and Donna (Jennifer Gareis), Brooke's sister. However, he never let go of his love for Brooke, and neither did she. Eventually Ridge and Brooke reunited after Nick and his mother, Jackie, took total control of Forrester Creations in lieu of Stephanie going to prison for alledgedly assaulting Jackie in an argument where she fell over the balcony and landed in a coma. Brooke was disgusted with Nick's cruel treatment of the Forresters, and it was she who initiated her and Ridge's new-found love for each other. However, a strain was put on their relationship when Rick (now Kyle Lowder) returned from Europe and began a flirtation with Ridge's daughter, Phoebe. Ridge considered Rick to be too old for his daughter, and Stephanie also had reservations. Brooke, however, was more understanding of the relationship and allowed them to continue to see each other, unbeknownst to Ridge. When Ridge discovered that Phoebe was still seeing Rick, he became physically agressive toward his stepson-to-be. Brooke was furious with Ridge for manhandling her son, and warned him that if he ever laid another finger on Rick, he would lose her.
