Finn staying silent about Hope could have major consequences on Bold and the Beautiful

If you were a Sinn fan hoping Finn filled Steffy in on Hope's seduction attempt in the dressing room, he disappointed on Tuesday, July 23's episode of The Bold and the Beautiful. While they were hugged up in the CEO office, Steffy asked what kept him from coming to see her earlier. The show went to commercial and when we returned to them, Finn skipped right over her question and asked how she was doing.

To me, it was unclear whether Steffy clocked how he avoided her question, but I certainly noticed. He didn't tell her about Sheila being let go by the police as well. She found out via text from Ridge. When he was questioned on why he didn't say anything, Finn said he was torn but didn't quite elaborate beyond that though, to be fair, he didn't get a chance to because Steffy started panicking.

Finn's silence, however, could come to bite him down the line. Hope was quite open with the good doctor about her attraction to him. She's positioning herself as his confidante when it comes to his birth mother. And, as we saw in her talk with Brooke today, she's begun to delude herself into thinking that Finn is too good for Steffy with the implication being that he should be with a woman like her. I doubt she's done trying to tempt him.

What's interesting about this storyline is that it has the potential to turn into a rehash of the mannequin plot with Thomas. While Hope isn't hallucinating that a lookalike doll is coming on to her or wants her romantically, she is ignoring the fact that Finn isn't into her. Even when she daydreamed about their conversation in the dressing room, she didn't clock his obvious offense at what she was doing. At this point, she's seeing what she wants to see and hearing what she wants to hear.

She's acting wildly out of character which does happen on soaps when plot is put before characterization but it's not that she's pursuing Finn that has alarm bells ringing for me. It's how she's been doing it. Hope is usually more subtle and doesn't typically try to use her "feminine wiles" to persuade her object of desire. There's also a severe lack of impulse control happening along with some wild looks that have me wondering if The Bold and the Beautiful writers might have her tip her toe into the pool of obsession or wipe this away with a medical issue like Thomas' blood clot during the mannequin storyline.

If so, Finn is in trouble though not physically. I mean emotionally. I doubt he'd get caught up with Hope, but I do think staying quiet about her advances could land him in a compromising position that Steffy walks in on. All it would take is one misunderstanding to disrupt their marriage like what happened to Lope when Liam caught Thomas kissing the mannequin and thought he saw Hope cheating on him. The storyline led to Steam having a one night stand and Steffy unsure of whether she was pregnant by Liam or Finn.

While it's doubtful that the soap would tread that specific outcome again just with the roles reversed, it's definitely possible that she could leave Finn over it. Not just because of the kiss, or what may have you, but also due to Finn staying silent about Hope's feelings, his continued conversations with Hope about Sheila, and the fact that he and Steffy are rarely on the same page when it comes to his birth mother. She feels unsafe already, if she's got to work through whatever weirdness is going on with Finn and Hope, too, that could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

We'll definitely be keeping up with this storyline on The Bold and the Beautiful. Stay tuned to Hidden Remote and follow us on X!