Table of contents for No. 326 in Soap World

A clifftop tug-of-war could prove fatal for Thomas and spell jail for Brooke, on upcoming episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful! It’s no secret she blames him for her daughter Hope’s baby dramas and subsequent marriage break-up, so when he accidentally plunges to his possible death, all fingers point right at the Forrester matriarch! There’s so much intrigue and scandal across all the daytime super-soap storylines, including an elaborate wedding scam crafted by the wicked Anna on Days of Our Lives. Local dramas Les Norton, Glitch and My Life Is Murder offer up tons of excitement, and there’s romantic shenanigans in Pearl Bay, with Ben professing his love for Laura, plus a secret son threatening a new love affair over on Ramsay Street! Check out all our updates on…

SEACHANGE TUESDAYS 8.45PM ON NINE To outsiders, it’s as plain as midday that Ben and Laura are attracted to each other, and on the precipice of falling in love! But no matter how hard they try, they just can’t admit the fact. Instead, they often spend their precious time overcoming the countless obstacles being thrown in their path. The latest is courtesy of the Annual Pearl Bay fishing competition, and accusations of cheating, as well as the spooky disappearance at sea of Fishing Club president Phil Tran! Presiding over the case, Laura (Sigrid Thornton) finds herself at odds with Ben (Dan Wyllie) when it’s discovered that Phil is actually alive and holed up with him at The Tropical Star Hotel! Ben is Phil’s only mate in town, and Laura worries…

Arriving in LA a few months ago to visit her daughter, Flo, Shauna Fulton received a “welcome” gift that’s proven toxic! A tormented Flo hastily confessed to her mum that she’d become entangled with Reese Buckingham and that he’d paid her to pose as a stolen baby’s birth mother so he could sell the child to an adoptive mother, and use the cash to pay off his gambling debts! Even more shocking, the baby was Beth, born to Hope and Liam Spencer, and she was now being raised as Steffy’s daughter Phoebe! Horrified, Shauna pledged to help her, but the stakes were raised as it emerged that Flo was Hope’s biological cousin from Shauna’s affair with Hope’s uncle Storm! After months desperately helping Flo (Katrina Bowden) to avoid the…

DAYS OF OUR LIVES ROBIN STRASSER (Vivian Alamain) Speculation has led to confirmation that Vivian didn’t die when Kate shot her! Revived by Rolf, Vivian’s new face is temporary as Louise Sorel was unavailable to reprise the part. Robin has stepped in for 15 episodes of mayhem. WILLIAM UTAY (Wilhelm Rolf) The mad scientist, best known for his death-defying cures, is alive and back in business! Which other “late” Salemites are lurking among the land of the ? DEREK RUSSO (Robert) On Monday, September 9, the DiMera thug is called upon to carry out more of the ghoulish family’s misdeeds. JOSH WINGATE (DiMera thug) Robert’s job is obviously too big for just one goon, so this unnamed enforcer is called upon to lend a hand. EMMERDALE TOM CHAMBERS (Clive) Con…

RESTLESS ROMANCE I think Y&R’s TRACI and CANE would make a great couple! She’s so kind and caring, always there for her family and friends. She’s been a very good friend to Cane, and helped him when he was going through his break-up with LILY. They’re so good for each other, these two! S. Dolamouski, Revesby, NSW THE SON SHINES I cannot believe how long the storyline between LIAM, STEFFY, THOMAS and HOPE went on for! They all played their parts extremely well – but I must give special credit to DOUGLAS as he’s a gorgeous and mature child and seems to be smarter than his father Thomas! I’m so happy for Hope as she suffered so much losing her daughter beth. But one thing that I am disappointed about…

* A suspected shark attack off the Bay escalates ZAC’s (Alex Tarrant) anxiety about associating with LILLIAN (Kate Lister)! * Plunged into debt, MIRANDA (Brooke Satchwell) devises a surefire way to raise money, but FIN (Darren McMullen, below with Brooke) is key to the plan’s success. * LAURA finds herself all at sea with an untrustworthy BOB – all too literally! * BOB and HEATHER’s (Kerry Armstrong) daughter JULES (Emma Wiseman), returns to Pearl Bay on a mysterious mission which could destroy her home town forever!…

LES NORTON SUNDAYS 8.30PM ON ABC Anybody would think dumping a body beneath the cement footings of a brand new handball court would render it concealed forever! Unfortunately for Sydney mobster Price Galese, murdered Doreen Bognor’s corpse rears right back up out of the concrete to send him insane all over again! Even worse, her insane twin Dolores is on a mad mission to avenge her sibling’s slaying and seize control of Price’s empire for herself! Reeling from the heavy losses he’s wearing from a horse race that Dolores (Rebel Wilson) fixed to bring him to his knees, Price (David Wenham) caves into pressure and attempts to brutally re-establish his position as the Boss of Kings Cross. He needs to do so in a helluva hurry, too, because the cops…

Bond villain, pirate leader, spaceship skipper… Toby Stephens has done it all! He won praise for his breakout role as the sinister Gustav Graves in 007 movie Die Another Day in 2002. Since then the versatile and charismatic actor has proven a deft hand in everything from English period pieces and crime dramas to the role he’s most acclaimed for, that of Captain Flint in pirate drama Black Sails. His latest big role is as Captain John Robinson in the reboot of 1960s TV sci-fi classic Lost in Space, in which he family through space after their vessel crashes. Stephens talks to Soap World about Lost in Space, the life of a pirate, being a Bond baddie and whether his mother Dame Maggie Smith watches his shows. Can I start…

Like his father Victor, family is the most important thing to Adam. And since he’s been back in Genoa City, he’s been motivated to reunite for good with his sons Christian and Connor. They’re currently being raised by Nick and Chelsea respectively, but that certainly hasn’t deterred Adam from suing Nick to gain full custody of Christian. While that case plays out in the courts, Adam (Mark Grossman) seeks to take Connor from Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan). Aware that the boy would love nothing more than for his parents to reconcile and live as a family, Adam’s pleased when Chelsea allows them to reconnect, but all civility frosts over when he asks her to let Connor live with him. He wants to be a fulltime father, but that makes Chelsea…

FLOOD OF EMOTION RIVIERA STREAMING ON SBS ON DEMAND Disposing of her stepson Adam’s corpse proves tricky business for Georgina Clios when she’s caught in a torrential rainstorm while carrying out the devilish deed. Drying off back at home, Georgina next encounters a human hurricane in the form of Adam’s mother Irina, who increasingly suspects that the woman, who infiltrated her family when she wed Irina’s ex-husband, is involved in her son’s disappearance. Shadowing Georgina’s every move Irina hires a private detective to look into Adam’s whereabouts, and sees red when a body washes ashore. Forcing the gruesome details of his demise from Georgina, Irina must make a difficult choice to save her family. As the pressure gets to her, a truly horrifying twist prompts Georgina to face up to…

Angelina Jolie “When I was little I was told I was different. And I felt out of place – too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, not good at fitting in and then one day I realised something: different is good! So, don’t fit in. Don’t sit still. When somebody tells you you’re different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud... cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.” Tom Cruise “Because I grew up in so many different places, I was used to rumours about me. You know, I didn’t have the right shoes, I didn’t have the right clothes. I even had the wrong accent... Now I demand a lot of myself and I want to learn. I…

I’m so glad this whole PHOEBE-is-BETH saga has come to an end! It was dragging on way too long. I’m so happy LIAM and HOPE are back together with their daughter. They should never have been apart in the first place. But I do feel bad for STEFFY. Losing her “daughter” so dramatically like that, being snatched away from her after caring for her for almost a year! I wonder what will happen to THOMAS now? Will he still try and split Hope and Liam up? I doubt he’ll end up going to jail for killing EMMA. The Forresters have a way of avoiding jail time in the past. I think Thomas needs to go away for a long time – maybe back to Paris. He should probably take his…

HOME AND AWAY MONDAYS TO THURSDAYS 7PM ON SEVEN Ryder’s charming and cheeky personality has been well-hidden of late as his normally carefree and happy-go-lucky life has taken a turn for the dramatic. Almost overnight, his once-solid romance with Raffy broke down after she felt rejected by him, in favour of his new job at Salt. Hope for the pair’s reconciliation is fast fading, and with Raffy leaving town, Ryder will be left rudderless for awhile. That all changes when Ryder (Lukas Radovich) runs into Jade (Mia Morrissey) – a teen new to Summer Bay. He’s at once smitten by the mysterious beauty and, as she settles in, getting to know him and Bella (Courtney Miller), they have a lot of fun and hit the beach. Ryder’s keen to show…

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL WEEKDAYS 4.30PM ON 10 When it comes to their respective children, and their serially messy love-lives, Brooke and Ridge have never been able to see eye to eye. Whether it’s Brooke’s daughter Hope or Ridge’s daughter Steffy marrying Liam, or Hope in a quickie wedding to Ridge’s son Thomas, the Forresters just can’t agree to let their offspring sort out their own problems. Brooke always believes Hope’s in the right; Ridge insists that Steffy and/or Thomas behaves impeccably. With Thomas (Matthew Atkinson) now exposed as an obsessive tyrant who has wilfully spent months evilly manipulating and, even killing, to keep the secret that Hope (Annika Noelle) and Liam’s (Scott Clifton) “late” infant Beth is actually alive, Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) is intent on punishing her…

* ADAM (then Michael Muhney) and SHARON were married 10 years ago. After developing mental health issues when she divorced JACK (Peter Bergman) and rebounded into an affair with her former husband NICK, Sharon became a kleptomaniac and had a fling with BILLY (then Billy Miller). Falling pregnant, Sharon had no idea whether Nick or Billy was the baby’s dad – and ended up in Fairview Sanitarium on the verge of a breakdown. Giving birth to FAITH while in psychiatric care, Sharon was unaware that Adam stole her baby and gave it to ASHLEY (Eileen Davidson), who miscarried her own child when Adam shoved her down a flight of stairs. Riddled with guilt over what he’d done, Adam consoled and bonded with Sharon, and they fell in love. In a…

After all these seemingly endless months of wondering if HOPE, LIAM and STEFFY would ever discover that BETH was alive and living as PHOEBE, the denouement didn’t disappoint. Every castmember involved in the story has given powerhouse performances, as Scott Clifton’s Liam was overcome by the realisation that his little girl wasn’t dead; Annika Noelle’s Hope struggled to believe that her miracle was coming true; and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood’s Steffy was heartwrenching as she gave into the devastation of losing the child she loved as her own. Now the heavy drama of seeing justice and revenge carried out is underway and, once again, the arc is involving long-sidelined characters such as RIDGE, BROOKE, ERIC, QUINN and BILL in the fallout. Bring it on!…

1 He used to go out with Alanis Morissette. He was the inspo for two of her songs and featured in one of her vids. Ironic – or is it? 2 Dash worked as a doorman for the building in Manhattan where Ralph Lauren lives. 3 The actor’s background is Czech and British. 4 He’s married to singer Valeria Mason and they have two kids. 5 His nickname is “Diz” and he’s in a band called Diz and the Fam. 6 Dash is also a photographer and snapped the shot of Alanis that she used on her “Thank U” single. 7 Dash has Tourette’s Syndrome. He’s been medicated to help manage the condition and acting has also been beneficial – in fact, he swears by it! 8 Dash grew up…