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The always helpful and selfless Max
Holden told Todd that Blair was not pregnant when she married Todd.
Todd snapped and went mad, nearly raping Blair, until she reminded
him what he did to Marty Saybrooke. Todd
came to his senses and stopped, but for Blair, marriage number two was
finished. Then Blair
discovered she was pregnant again. When
Todd learned that Blair was carrying his child, he and Blair reconciled
and remarried. This time they
had a beautiful ceremony at St. James Church with their friends and
families present. After the
wedding, Todd went to Ireland to find Marty Saybrooke.
He wanted to resolve his conflicts with Marty and sent her home to
her dying friend Paloma. Todd
stayed on the isle of Inishcrag to help Marty's lover Patrick Thornhart. Todd, who was wearing Patrick's coat, was mistaken for
Patrick and was shot, thrown into the trunk of a car, and driven off a
cliff. When Todd was last
seen, he was lying on an Irish beach with his eyes wide open.
Blair, pregnant with Todd's baby, and
grieving over her loss, took out her anger on Marty, blaming her for
Todd's death. Blair plotted
to destroy Marty's life. Blair's
Plan "A" was to even the score by seducing Marty's lover,
Patrick Thornhart.
In January 1996, Blair gave birth
to a daughter, Starr. Blair
started to foment her plan to seduce Patrick.
That summer, after a very romantic dinner Patrick succumbed to
Blair's charms and they made love on the floor of Todd's penthouse.
A mysterious figure watched in the shadows.
Todd Manning looked on in stunned silence at the sight of his
"widow" and the man who had caused his "death" coupled
in the heat of passion. Todd
left the penthouse, and kept his return to Llanview a secret from everyone
except Viki. Determined to
cause Blair as much pain as she had unknowingly caused him, Todd
kidnapped, their baby girl, Starr. Todd
finally returned her and revealed to Blair that he was alive.
Blair was overjoyed that Todd was home, but this happiness was
short-lived as Todd vowed to pay her back for her infidelity with Patrick.
Todd resumed his position as
Publisher of the Sun, and set out to make Blair's life a living hell.
Todd fought with himself because he was torn between wanting to end
their marriage and trying to resist his strong attraction to Blair and
give her another chance to prove her love for him.
When everything seemed perfect for them to reconcile, Blair learned
that she was pregnant with Patrick's baby from their one nightstand.
To compound their estrangement, Blair
discovered Todd was responsible for having kidnapped Starr and she left
him. Blair and Todd began a
bitter custody battle over their daughter.
Both Blair and Todd had strong feelings for each other, but were
too stubborn to admit it.
Starr became seriously ill and was
diagnosed with aplastic anemia, needing a bone marrow transplant in order
to survive. Todd and Blair
launched a public campaign to find a compatible donor and decided to move
back in together and present themselves as a united couple for the sake of
appearances. With all of
their energy focused on saving Starr, Todd and Blair's resentments started
to thaw. They were on the verge of a complete reconciliation when fate
stepped in again and turned their world upside down.
Blair prepared for the procedure in
which her unborn baby's bone marrow would be extracted and used to treat
Starr. But before the
procedure could take place Blair and Patrick were in a car accident caused
by her cousin, Kelly Cramer. Blair
lost her unborn baby, and Starr's potential bone marrow donor.
Fortunately, Starr's life was spared Alex Olanov proved to be a
compatible donor. Starr was on her way to a full recovery, but Blair was
seriously injured in the crash and suffered a stroke while in the
hospital. She was taken to
Philadelphia for surgery and recuperation.
The crash had serious long-term
effects on both Todd and Blair. Blair
held Kelly responsible for the death of her baby Brendan and for Todd
being able to steal Starr while Blair was in the hospital.
The cousins started a feud with Blair being the agitator.
She was determined to make Kelly pay for killing her baby.
They carried out their grudge match all over Llanview and both
chalked up hefty dry cleaning bills as they acted out their animosity.
Their rivalry was embodied in the
person of rich, handsome, single Ian Armitage.
Blair needed money, a lot of money to fight Todd for custody of
Starr. Once again, she found
it easy to love or at least marry a rich man.
Blair's only impediment was Kelly and Ian's budding relationship. Ian had strong feelings for Kelly, but Blair made it very
difficult for him to resist her seductive charms. In the end, Ian chose Kelly instead of Blair, but he died
when his plane crashed in Ohio during a blizzard.
Blair tried to cash in on Kelly's inheritance from
Ian so she would have enough money to fight Todd for Starr's custody, but
she had another obstacle in her way, Tea Delgado.
To keep Blair from getting Starr, Todd had made a deal with his
lawyer Tea Delgado. Tea got
five million Todd Manning dollars and all she had to do was marry him and
present the picture of a happy, normal, stable family for the court.
Tea maximized every opportunity possible to make
Blair look unbalanced. At a
charity auction, Tea went too far in baiting Blair and her temper flared
up at Tea, resulting in Tea crashing through a second story window.
Pending a full psychiatric evaluation, Todd was granted full
custody of Starr. Blair was
devastated to lose her little girl.
Blair was eventually given visitation rights to
Starr when she provided Todd with a much-needed alibi when he was
mistakenly suspected of raping a nurse, Barbara Graham.
When Todd and all his "personalities" left town in 1998,
Blair got custody of Starr and a 49% share of The Sun Newspaper.
Before Kelly and Max's double wedding with Asa and
Renee, Blair and Max had sex. While
Blair was hiding out afterwards she overheard Renee telling Asa about the
baby they had years ago and whom she had given up for adoption.
Blair and Max schemed to learn the identity of the
missing Buchanan before Asa and Renee did.
Max intercepted an e-mail to Nora with information about Asa and
Renee's son. Max and Blair
flew to Las Vegas to follow up on their lead.
Max and Blair tried to scam Esther Hoffman, the nurse who helped
Renee deliver her son, but she turned the tables on them and tried to
blackmail them for a million dollars.
Max and Blair came through with the cash that Esther demanded and
were shocked to learn that the Buchanan heir was someone they knew.
Blair and Max got married in Las Vegas, but were
forced to live apart in Llanview to keep their marriage a secret from Asa.
They wanted to Max to have Asa's money so they could provide
financially for Max's children, if he died suddenly.
Max had been diagnosed with a supposedly inoperable and fatal brain
aneurysm and he was completely tapped out after using all his money to pay
off the children's kidnappers.
Max had tried once before to con Asa into thinking
he was his son, but now Blair and Max knew who the Buchanan heir was and
were able to successfully fake the DNA test using genetic material from
Asa's real son (who turned out to be Ben Davidson).
Blair worried about Max's aneurysm because he
refused to see a doctor. Blair
began to question Ben for information about the treatment of aneurysms
while Asa warned Max to stay away from Blair.
Asa and Renee shared the DNA test results with Max that
"proved" he was their son. Thinking that she was doing what was
best for Max, Blair asked him for a divorce.
Max promised Blair that he would get Asa and Renee's blessing on
their marriage, refusing Asa's offer of $250,000 to stay away from Blair.
Blair later forged Max's signature on the agreement because she
wanted him to use the money to have surgery on his aneurysm.
Asa caught Max and Blair together and offered Blair the same deal
to stay away from Max. Max
was crushed when Blair agreed to take the money.
Blair and Max thought their scheme was going
smoothly, until Esther Hoffman suddenly arrived in Llanview demanding one
million dollars in exchange for her continued silence. When
Max and Blair failed to raise the money, Esther offered to sell Sam the
information she said would destroy Asa. Sam gave Esther a check for one million dollars, but she
choked to death on an olive in her martini before telling Sam that Max
wasn't Asa's son. Just when
it looked like Esther was out of the picture and they could relax, it
turned out that Esther had blabbed the whole scam to Skye Chandler, who
neatly stepped into the breach and started to blackmail Blair and Max.
The Buchanan-Holden marriage took a distinct turn
toward the dysfunctional when Skye found out that not only was Max conning
Asa about being his son, but that he was also faking brain damage after
his surgery because Renee had found out that he was not really her son.
When Skye became too much of a threat to Max, he started to sleep
with her and made her think he had genuine feelings for her.
When Blair discovered the affair, she became a woman scorned and
acted like the She-Devil Asa has always said she is.
Asa took great delight in tormenting Blair over
Max's affair. He even invited
Skye to the country club for a Buchanan family dinner. Max
came to Blair's defense, but she was so hurt and angry she followed Skye's
into the ladies room and tried to flush Skye's head in the toilet. Skye retaliated later by drugging Blair and chopping her hair
off! Blair gave Skye some of the famous and easy-to-get Llanview
truth serum. Blair retrieved
the document Max had given Sky where she confessed that she was
responsible for scamming Asa and Renee and destroyed it. Blair's
patience wore thin and her pride was bruised.
She demanded that Max choose between her and Skye.
When Max refused to kick Skye out of the mansion, Blair walked out
on him.
Max came crawling to Dorian's house, to beg Blair
to come back home and reconcile. Blair
played up her feelings of love for Max, all the while plotting the
ultimate revenge against him for hurting her so much.
She got flirted with a computer expert to create a computer virus
that would come out with an internet announcement to the world that Max
Buchanan is a total fraud. Max
bought her story, even about wanting to give him and Asa a new Buchanan
baby. Lately, Blair has
mellowed on her revenge against Max and she is now worried about the
repercussions from her scheming. When she found out that her ex-husband, Todd Manning had
become a computer guru while he was gone (remember Llanview's New Year's
Eve problems? Guess who!!!)
she has been forced to make a deal with the Devil Himself, to try and stop
the virus from coming out.
Blair's life may be making a radical change in
direction, depending on what kind of help Todd gives her… Will
she stay with Max or will conspiring with Todd rekindle their feelings? |
