I would love to be able to sit back on the couch at 4.30pm on week days so I can get my afternoon fix of soapy masterpiece The Bold and the Beautiful (Ten).

The Forrester family has certainly seen more than its fair share of dramas – love, sex, lust, death, extra-marital affairs, passion, alcoholism, murder, revenge, stalking, daughter-in-laws marrying husbands’ fathers. You name it, they’ve gone through it.

Since it debuted more than 20 years ago, the Bold had garnered a huge following of fans across the world and has to rate as one of the best soaps created by William J Bell and Lee Phillip Bell (The Young & the Restless).

Many people reckon you can miss months worth of episodes of shows like this and still catch up on the plot, but each time I do manage to tune into the Bold I’m surprised by just how long it takes to catch up.

The last time I watched it, Eric was married to Stephanie, but now he is chasing after Brook’s little sister Donna, who was engaged to Thorn.

Ridge, who is now in love with Ashley from Young and the Restless, still has feelings for Brook; Brook has feelings for both Ridge and Nick; and Nick is married to Taylor, who is pregnant to Nick.

But Bridget messed up in the lab and accidentally inseminated Taylor with Brook’s eggs, which were getting frozen in case she wanted to ever have more kids in the future.

Phew! Are you following me now?

This show is has all the ingredients of a quality Shakespearian play. I can’t wait to for my next fix …

— STAR DELANEY