Inside Ridge & Brooke’s Epic ‘B&B’ Romance With Thorsten Kaye & Katherine Kelly Lang

It was love at first sight on The Bold and the Beautiful in 1987 when Brooke Logan locked eyes with wealthy playboy Ridge Forrester at a party. It didn’t matter that he was engaged to sweet Caroline Spencer — Ridge and Brooke became the show’s destiny duo. “We’ve been soulmates ever since we met,” says Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke) of the “Bridge” dynamic. “Brooke’s been in love with Ridge forever. In her mind, that’s always going to be the love of her life.”

Lang has played the role since the first episode on March 23, 1987, and appreciates that the couple has remained a throughline of the show for the past 37 years. “I think because it started from the beginning, and it was such a dynamic relationship and very intense feelings for the characters as well as for the viewers, and they just took to it,” Lang reflects. “There was a lot of chemistry there; it was the young love, and it was the opposites attract — I was kind of the girl from the other side of the tracks, and he was the rich, Bel Air millionaire/billionaire living in Beverly Hills and in fashion.”