Bold & Beautiful Rewrites the Past Just in Time for Deke and Hope’s Tense Rendezvous
The Bold and the Beautiful just rewrote its own history, flipping a major detail that could upend Hope and Deke’s future. With Deke’s meet-up with Hope looming, fans are bracing to see where this risky reset leads.
So, The Bold and the Beautiful just pulled a classic soap move: a retcon big enough to mess with the family tree and the dating pool at the same time. It centers on Deke and Hope, and yeah, it could shift where both characters sit in the show's lineup going forward. Fans are curious, some are irritated, and everyone wants to know why the math suddenly stopped math-ing.
The reunion that set this off
The show recently put Deacon's son, Deke, in the same room with his sister, Hope, for the first time since Deke returned as a young adult. Viewers have been waiting for this because it might finally address the age-related weirdness the writers slipped in with Deke's comeback.
About that age gap...
Originally, Deke was born in 1999 to Deacon and Amber's cousin Becky, making him three years older than Hope. Soap fans are used to SORAS (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome) reworking ages to fit storylines, but the latest shuffle is... aggressive. Hope has been aged into her 30s, while Deke is suddenly in his early 20s. That's not just a tweak; it flips their dynamic and the show's own history, and fans definitely noticed.
Why the change? The un-subtle answer
The working theory in the fandom: Deke was de-aged to place him with the show's younger tier, which conveniently lines him up with Remy's age. Translation: possible romance incoming. It makes sense if you're building a new pairing, but it also feels like a big swing when there were other ways to feed the younger set without rewriting birth certificates.
- Originally: Deke was born in 1999 to Deacon and Becky (Amber's cousin), which put him three years older than Hope.
- Now: Hope is in her 30s, Deke reads early 20s. That shift effectively reverses their age order.
- Fan reaction: confusion and side-eye at the history bend, with some thinking it was done just to pair Deke with Remy.
- Alternatives fans floated: age up other legacy kids instead, like Nick and Brooke's son Jack (born 2007), or bring back/age up Bridget and Owen's son, Logan, who has shown up in earlier storylines.
The inside baseball of it all
SORAS is common, sure. But de-aging a character to this extent is unusual, and it lands differently when it reorders family dynamics and long-memorized timelines. That's why fans are not just curious, they're worried about where this leaves Hope and Deke in the bigger picture.
What to watch for next
The hope (no pun intended) is that this new Deke-and-Hope interaction gives the writers a chance to actually explain the change onscreen, or at least hint at the rationale. Either way, the show clearly wants Deke hanging with the younger crowd, possibly with Remy, and that seems to be the point of all this. If they're going to justify the retcon, this week would be the time to do it.