The Bold and the Beautiful is set to debut the soap’s first-ever all-female episode this month.
Heather Tom, who plays Katie Logan Spencer, will write, act in and direct the first all-female episode in the series’ history, Deadline reported on Friday, March 21. The Women’s History Month-themed episode, which will air on March 27, 2025, will star Tom as well as Rebecca Budig (Taylor), Annika Noelle (Hope), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke), Jennifer Gareis (Donna) and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Steffy).
“Brad Bell actually came to me and said, ‘This is your 35th year. You’ve been writing and directing. You’ve also been acting the whole time, and I think that it would be amazing if you did all three in one show,” Tom told the outlet. “I was like, oh, that’ll be interesting! So logistically it was just, well, let’s figure out how I can be on stage acting in the scenes and then directing those scenes. I thought it was very important and agree that it should air during Women’s History Month because it’s historical.”
The episode will primarily focus on the existing mother-daughter relationships on the show.
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“The mother daughter relationships are so interesting to me and so formative,” Tom explained. “And now this is going to make me cry because I lost my mother last year. I wanted to kind of pay homage to her because I certainly wouldn’t be here without her literally and figuratively. So I got a little bit of her in there with Katie and Donna, who are sisters who lost their mom.”
The episode also fits into the preexisting plot from this season. “It does fit within the story of where they are in the series,” Tom added. “We considered doing something that was more of a standalone, but Brad felt, and I agreed that it needed to just kind of flow with the story and it made sense.”
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Before she joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful, Tom starred on ABC’s One Life to Live. She also spent another 13 years starring as Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless.
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To date, Tom is also the only female actor in television history to win an Emmy in all three performer categories: Younger, Supporting and Lead Actress. She has also received 19 nominations throughout her career.
She has been doubling as a director since 2016 and has previously directed several episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful as well as of Dynasty, The Young and the Restless and Good Trouble.
