Joshua Hoffman at the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 7, 2024.Photo:Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty
Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty
The Bold and the Beautifulalum Joshua Hoffman is recounting the story of how he once “saved” a couple’s honeymoon from disaster — and it’s a saga worthy of a soap opera!
On Sunday, Feb. 23, the 25-year-old actor, who starred inBoldas Ridge “RJ” Forrester Jr. from April 2023 to October 2024, shared a video on hisInstagramin which he delivers a long — and exaggeratedly dramatic — monologue while standing outside in nature.
Dressed in jeans, a denim jacket and sneakers, Hoffman leans toward the camera and begins his tale: “This is a story about the time that I was marooned on the East River during a New York February…”
As emotional piano music starts to play, he explains that he was working at a jet ski tour guide business in New Jersey at the time and his job was to keep an eye out for “anything that might derail the tour.” He says that one day, a “really sweet newly married couple” showed up for a tour while they were in the middle of their honeymoon.
Making a dramatic gesture with his fingers, Hoffman recalls that the couple were " this close" to almost canceling their water tour of Manhattan due to the 30-degree weather and “extremely choppy waters.” However, the husband, knowing that his wife “had been dreaming of this because she saw it in some movie,” insisted they carry on with their tour.
But, as Hoffman continues to recount, the husband said he wasn’t ready to call it quits on the tour just yet and wanted to push on as he was keen to see Governors Island. Then, things went from bad to worse for the beleaguered bride.
Joshua Hoffman’s Instagram video.jmhoffman/Instagram
jmhoffman/Instagram
“The bride’s freaking out. Why is the bride freaking out?” Hoffman narrates. “Because her jet ski’s broken and she’s stuck in the middle of the Hudson [River] and she’s terrified of falling in the water.”
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TheShatter the Glassstar says his boss at the tour guide company then told him to trade places with the bride. “So I did,” Hoffman recalls. “And then they were gone and I was on a broken jet ski in the middle of the Hudson with nothing but my coworker and one piece of rope.”
Hoffman says he and his coworker attempted numerous times to tie the broken jet ski to the working one, but it either caused the broken watercraft to start to sink or the other jet ski to break down. The actor remembers that the waves started pushing the pair dangerously close to a cement wall along the river’s edge.
Joshua Hoffman in a promo photo for ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’.Courtesy of The Bold and The Beautiful/Howard Wise/jpistudios.com
Courtesy of The Bold and The Beautiful/Howard Wise/jpistudios.com
After he and his coworker tried everything they could think of to remedy the situation, it suddenly occurred to Hoffman that there might be a hook on the underside of the jet ski. “I reached under but I knew I couldn’t reach that far unless I got in the water,” Hoffman says, while making a hand gesture to signify it was a far from appealing option.
He then explains, “For those of you who don’t know, they find dead bodies and toxic trash and parasites in the river, which was great, which I was really excited about.”
In the end, the soap star reluctantly jumped into the water and was able to hook the broken jet ski to the working one. He and his coworker then triumphantly headed back to their job site in New Jersey. However, the story had one final, unfortunate twist.
“We get back and I got yelled at for taking too long and then they fired me from a job that I really needed financially at the time,” he tells the camera.
“But hey, you know, I would do anything for someone else’s honeymoon memories. Wouldn’t you?” he concludes the video, with a big smile and a laugh.
source: people.com
