R.J. Forrester

'''Ridge "R.J." Forrester, Jr.''' is a fictional character on the  The Bold and the Beautiful. He will be portrayed by Mace Coronel beginning in late 2013, taking over the role previously played by Jack Horan and Ridge Perkett.

Storylines
R.J. is the only child of Brooke and Ridge Forrester. During their honeymoon in South America in 2003, Ridge was kidnapped by his crazy former stepmother, Sheila Carter, and was presumed dead after falling into a furnace. His father's other son, his half-brother, Nick Marone, rescued Brooke and comforted her during her time of grieving and the two made love. However, Ridge turned out to have survived, leaving Brooke unknown which of the two men was the biological father of her unborn child. Two different paternity tests revealed Nick to be the father and Brooke annulled her marriage to Ridge and planned to marry Nick to raise their child together. However, unbeknownst to Ridge, Brooke, and Nick, the tests were both tampered by Sally Spectra, Jackie Marone, and Deacon Sharpe, as each of them had their own respective reasons to name Nick the father.

In June of 2004, Brooke went into labor when Jackie revealed that she had a third paternity test run and it indeed showed that Ridge was the biological father of her son. Brooke named her son R.J. (Ridge Forrester, Jr.) after originally planning to name him after Nick.

In 2008, R.J. and his sister, Hope Logan, were unintentionally left home alone all night and accidentally started a fire in the living room. The two incidents caused to get the attention of Child Protective Services and sparked a custody battle between Brooke and Ridge, who was getting help from his mother, Stephanie Forrester, but eventually, Hope and R.J. were returned back to Brooke's custody. In 2011, the Forrester family worked overtime to make sure R.J. would not find out that his mother went missing after her jet crashed in the Pacific Ocean while attending a press conference with Thomas Forrester in Sydney.

R.J. was last mentioned in 2012, after it was mentioned he was attending boarding school in Europe, where Ridge visited him after he left Brooke on their honeymoon. R.J. is expecting to return home from boarding school on Christmas Eve 2013, which he did so, but later returned to Europe. He returns for occasionally for family events.