The Bold and the Beautiful kicked off its two-week celebration of Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) with Stephanie and Eric (John McCook) awaiting test results at the doctor's office. When the doctor finally showed, she revealed Stephanie's cancer had metastasized to her liver and bones.

Eric seemed to be having a harder time handling Stephanie’s diagnosis than Stephanie herself. He became very upset when Stephanie told him she didn’t want to have chemo and radiation treatments when it wouldn’t cure her. Eric pointed out that it worked for her last time. Stephanie replied that the circumstances are now different. She won’t win this fight. The doctor gave Stephanie and Eric some more time, but before she exited, she told Stephanie to let her know when she had made her final decision. After the doctor left, Stephanie and Eric had a tearjerker of a conversation during which Stephanie said her mind was made up. READ MORE

Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) confronted Bill (Don Diamont) about Katie. She demanded to know what he’d done to make Katie (Heather Tom) so upset.  Brooke's blood pressure went through the roof when she found out Bill was responsible for getting Deacon (Sean Kanan) out of jail!

Katie admitted she didn’t know how she’d manage if Bill went to prison.  Katie and Bill then revealed Donna (Jennifer Gareis) had seen Liam (Scott Clifton) and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) having sex. READ MORE

The Young and the Restless’ Judith Chapman and The Bold and the Beautiful’s Kim Matula (pictured above) were among the soap stars who descended on the Official Daytime Emmy Awards Gifting Suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on June 22. See more photos from the 2012 Daytime Emmy Awards Gifting Suite after the jump!

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General Hospital’s Laura Wright, Sean Blakemore, Haley Pullos and Jen Lilley (pictured above) were among the soap stars and industry members who celebrated the 2012 Daytime Emmy nominees at the Daytime Emmy Nominee Reception on June 14 by the Daytime Emmy Nominee Reception presented by the Television Academy (or Academy of Television Arts & Sciences).

Held at the SLS Hotel, the reception helped kick off the festivities leading up to daytime’s biggest night on June 23. See more photos after the jump!

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Good news for fans of Eric Forrester. According to Soaps in Depth, John McCook has signed on the dotted line to extend his time on The Bold and the Beautiful for another three years. 

"I just signed a new contract with the show, for another three years," McCook reports. "I'm very glad about that, because a lot of actors my age are taken off contract and become recurring."

TV Guide recently revealed Jacob Young is reprising his role as Eric and Brooke’s (Katherine Kelly Lang) son Rick Forrester.

Race and racism are issues we still don’t talk about openly. It makes people uncomfortable, so we end up ignoring or talking around it. The controversy last year over whether or not racist language should be redacted from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn perfectly illustrated this. Rather than dealing with our complicated, racist past, some people decided to erase references to that past. But erasing will not change the fact that it happened, nor will it solve anything in the present.

On The Bold and the Beautiful, race rarely came into play until Eric's (John McCook) wife Donna (Jennifer Gareis) was reunited with the child she had given up for adoption as a teenager. It turned out her son Marcus (Texas Battle) was the product of a biracial union and he simply looked black. When he first appeared, Donna was conflicted about telling Eric and worried that it might end their marriage…only her reaction had nothing to do with race. Or so the show would have us believe.

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