Bold and the Beautiful recap for Friday, August 3, features Liam (Scott Clifton) who arrived at Forrester Creations and overheard them talking about Bill's (Don Diamont) shares now belonging to Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood). He remarked, "That's a hell of a wedding gift," but Steffy corrected him and told him that she didn't marry his father. She told him that she didn't love Bill the way a wife should love her husband, and she was now ready to start living her life alone. According to She Knows Soaps, she told him that she couldn't be in the middle of his indecision anymore.
In the meantime, Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) urged Hope (Annika Noelle) to join them. Bold and the Beautiful recap, via Soap Central, she said that it was about Hope too and that Steffy and Liam had had enough time to talk privately. Hope left at her mother's insistence. But Ridge was unhappy at his wife's interference. Brooke defended herself by saying that Hope needed to stand up for herself and asked him not to be angry with her. She said that at the end of the day, the choice would be Liam's. However, Ridge corrected her when he said that the final decision might come from Steffy because she had had enough of the situation.