"Yes, you heard right," Stephanie (Susan Flannery) bellows on the catwalk to the surprised journalists and an even more shocked Jackie (Lesley-Anne Down). "The new owner of Forrester Creations is nothing more than a cheap whore!" "It's as though someone threw a bucket of ice-cold water in Jackie's face," Lesley-Anne told us in an exclusive interview from Los Angeles. "She and Nick are quickly dethroned and Jackie falls hard.

It's something that happened over 30 years ago, something that Stephanie accidentally found out and is now using as ammunition to get Forrester Creations back.

It's Jackie's most humiliating moment so far and everything is taken from her."

Susan adds: "Viewers must realise that Stephanie is a scorned woman – and a scorned woman is a dangerous woman. She has nothing to lose and will do everything in her power to get Forrester Creations back in the Forresters' hands.

When she accidentally hears about Jackie's dark secret, she realises it's the best weapon at her disposal to kick Jackie and Nick out of Forrester Creations' back door. And that's exactly what happens." Sort of...

The past
Viewers have known about Jackie's shady past for a while now. During his therapy sessions with Taylor, while deep under hypnosis, Nick unearthed memories of his mother's "activities" behind closed doors and recalled what she did while he was asleep in the room next door!

He told Taylor on Friday 21 March that his mother was a prostitute. "She took money for sex from Captain Jerry Kramer! She was a whore!"

Stephanie happened to walk by and hear the revelation and she decided to use the information for the Forresters' best interests. She contacted Kramer and lead him back to Los Angeles under the false pretense that his friend Jackie wanted to see him again. She convinced him to take part in the Forrester Creations fashion show – with one goal in mind.

A hard fall
On Thursday 24 January, Stephanie and Jackie's hatred for one another reached boiling point and the two ladies got into a scuffle. Stephanie wanted her son Ridge and his ex-wife Brooke to be a couple again, and Jackie wanted her son Nick and Brooke to end up together instead.

There were some nasty words said and a couple of hearty slaps exchanged and then Stephanie knocked Jackie off the balcony of the first floor at the Forrester residence. Jackie was seriously injured and sunk into a coma.

When the truth came out that Stephanie was responsible for the nasty accident, Nick wanted to drag Stephanie and the whole Forrester clan to court, to lock her up once and for all. But there was a settlement offer on the table: the Forresters could give their fashion house, Forrester Creations, to the Marones.

It was a bitter pill for Stephanie Forrester to swallow but the Forresters ended up signing it away. Obviously Stephanie immediately threatened her revenge and swore she'd get it back.

Backlash
But Stephanie's shock revelation doesn't work out the way she planned. Her plan boomerangs as the press turn on the Forresters for their "inhumane behaviour" and "megalomania" because they're using something that happened more than 30 years ago as ammunition.

Even Captain Kramer thinks it was the lowest thing someone could do. He tells Stephanie on Tuesday 1 April: "I may have done some lousy things in my life but when it comes to nasty, I can't hold a candle against you."

Things aren't going to go much better for Jackie and Nick, though. The Marone directors call an emergency meeting after the flop of a fashion show and they fire Nick as CEO, which is exactly what the Forresters wanted.

Sadly for them Nick has other plans. He sells all his shares in Marone Industries and on Thursday 3 April he buys out Forrester Creations!

"Stephanie's plan backfires badly," Susan tells us. "When her husband Eric hears about it, he loses his temper. He orders Stephanie out of his office but before she's gone, Jackie grabs him and kisses him – something that makes Stephanie see red.

If she ever found out that Jackie and Eric have a relationship, she'll be a broken woman."

"I definitely think Jackie's going to try and get back at Stephanie," Lesley-Anne teases over the phone. "One of the pawns in her plan for revenge is Eric Forrester. She'll definitely try to seduce him because it'll be just the thing to make Stephanie Forrester crack."

NB!
If you don't want to know what the future holds for Forrester Creations and the Marones, stop reading now.

The Forresters decide to create a whole new company called Forrester Originals. Nick hears about their plans and visits all the Forrester buyers and convinces them only to buy from Forrester Creations and not from Forrester Originals.

On 7 May Forrester Originals holds its first fashion show but not one buyer shows up! Eric's forced to cancel the show and the Forresters have to think of new ways to distribute their new range – and fast!

The burning question is: Will Jackie and Nick Marone always have control of Forrrester Creations? Naturally we here at tvplus know what's going to happen... but we're not giving that info up just yet!