Beau Haywood

**Beau** is a main character that first appeared in the Series premiere. He is portrayed by Eddie Cibrian.

## Throughout The Series

### Season 1

In Crazy, there is a bad storm hitting the Haywood ranch, when there’s a knock at the door. Tuck ends up answering the door, thinking that the lady at the door is their new nanny. Eventually, Beau, the father of the Haywood children, walks through the door. He’s followed soon after by a blonde girlfriend named Summer.

Bailey explains to Beau and the others how she was previously in a band and that she and her boyfriend Boone were singing at Tootsies. Which their band had been playing at that club forever. But the night before, Mr. Sam Gold, from Sam Gold Records came in to see her band. As it turns out, he is one of the biggest producers in country music. Unfortunately, he didn’t like their performance. The band blamed it on her and so they told her boyfriend, who is also in the band to fire her and replace her with a younger blonde version. Needless to say, she left them and went for a drive.

Eventually a tornado warning comes in and the kids go running into the basement. Beau follows and the door closes, leaving Summer out of the basement for a couple seconds until Beau opens the door for her.

Everyone’s trying to get Cassidy to come out, but she won’t. Her brother, Brody, freaks out after Beau voices how he feels like he can’t help her because she’s refusing to talk to anyone.

Cassidy takes off running up the stairs and out into the tornado. Everyone’s fighting but Bailey takes off after her. Beau follows a few seconds later, making it upstairs after Bailey has closed the door behind her.

The next morning Bailey comes down the stairs in a pajama top, sans pants and is looking for her clothes. Beau has washed her clothes and looking at the pile of clothes he’s folded.

Beau offers her the job just when Summer shows up. She’s ready to send Bailey on her way, but Beau has made the case for Bailey staying. He tells Summer that he has never seen the kids respond so well to any of the previous nannies like they did with Bailey.

In Teardrops on My Guitar, Bailey is setting in to be a nanny, even though she doesn’t have a clue as to what she is doing. Beau makes his way down the stairs and sees the spread that she’s laid out and is impressed.

No one knows where Bailey and Chloe are because her phone died, and when they finally make it home, Summer is there to “hope she doesn’t lose her job”. Beau is obviously pissed and fires Bailey for disappearing with Chloe and not telling him.

In Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign, the Haywoods are in the kitchen getting ready for the wedding of Summer’s little sister, but Chloe complains that it never hurt when Bayley did her hair. Beau reminds her that Bailey doesn’t work for them anymore because she was irresponsible and has bad judgement. Just as Beau tells them to stop talking about Bailey, Tuck asks the other if it’s just him, or does it smell like Bailey. He eventually realizes it’s Brody, who used Bailey’s perfume on himself. Brody explains that it was just a squirt from the bottle of perfume Bailey left behind, and that he only did it because he misses her. Eventually, the kids see Bailey in their house, who had used the spare key Beau gave her to take the rest of her stuff with her.

Beau is at a loss for words on what to do, doesn't know where to even begin. So he starts with Google because as he explains to Cassidy, he is a cowboy, and only knows about cowboy related things.

Bailey eventually asks for a word with Beau, and proceeds to say that she feels confident enough to get Cassidy to go to church. Beau isn’t so easily swayed after how badly she messed up the week before. Beau reluctantly agrees to let Bailey be in charge of getting Cassidy to the church.

The boys are at the church and Summer’s Mama just doesn’t know when to stop talking. Beau is trying to avoid her but of course he can’t.

Meanwhile, at the church, Beau is growing increasingly worried about Summer. He keeps texting her but she isn’t answering. Eventually, he runs into the janitor who is in tears and telling some sob story about the girl that he loves and how they can’t be together. Jimmy continues by saying that the girl he was in love with never told her family they were together. He says he doesn’t blame her because his ex feared she would get disowned by her family. As the conversation continues, Beau realizes it’s quite weird of a coincidence that Anne Murray’s 1980’s song, “Could I have This Dance”, was not only Beau and his late wife’s song, but also is April and Jimmy’s song.

As it turns out, Jimmy and April’s song is the same as Beau and his late wife’s song. He takes this as a sign. When April arrives Beau tells her not to make a mistake, and not to marry someone she’s not in love with.

In My Girl, Beau apparently is off his gluten free, dairy free, soy free diet that Summer had him on. He’s upset and he’s emotionally eating because he is going to have to replace his wife’s mare because she is no longer able to reproduce and that is the way that they make their money. But Melody, she’s one of the last things that they have from their Mom and Beau has from his wife.

Bailey is worried about Beau and wants to make sure that he’s okay. Whereas Cassidy tells her dad that he told not too long ago that she has to deal with her feelings and he again reiterates that he is fine.

While Beau is asking for a name for the horse.Beau reminds Brody that Jo was a good friend and that he needs to appreciate that.

Brody eventually comes down and sings a song that he wrote for Jo. Meanwhile, Bailey and Beau are fighting over who is gonna tell him.

Bailey tells Beau everything is fine. She brought out the forget about it lemonade. Beau continues to say that he doesn’t want to talk about it or anything at this moment. Bailey breaks into song. Beau keeps telling her that he’s fine and eventually yells at her, which results in Bailey stopping her singing.

She keeps saying she knows, but he tells her she doesn’t know how hard it is. Eventually Beau breaks down that she doesn’t know what it’s like to lose your best friend. She lets him speak and tells him he’s a great Daddy.

He says she’s the worst nanny ever, but she’s got a heart the size of Texas. In that moment, Beau lets down his walls and lets his kids know that he hasn’t been okay, but he will be.

Unfortunately, when the whole family gets to the barn, they all end up seeing Tuck and Jo kissing inside the barn.

In Blue, two months have passed and Beau is over Brody and Tuck's arguments and wants this to be solved once and for all. According to Beau, they need to win something. He’s going to take them to the range and make sure that Brody wins.

But the snoopy Dad that Beau is, when Cassidy’s texts keep going off, he reads her messages.

Brody and Tucker are still fighting over the kiss between Tucker and Jo. Beau says they aren’t handling it right, so he's taking them to the archery range, where he will solve the issue. Beau says that he knows that Brody will win.

Beau wants to know why Cassidy is there and Bailey comes in and explains.

Upon meeting LeAnn Rimes, Beau tells her that looking at her closely, she looks a lot like his deceased wife Melody.

In Summer Lovin', Summer wants Beau to sleep over at her place. But he’s not ready, and goes on to blame it on the children. Of course he’s a liar and a chicken shit. Summer puts down an ultimatum, she wants to know that she’s wanted and loved. She tells Beau to stop her if she’s made a mistake but he doesn’t.

Bailey is trying to get Beau to see the light. Bailey asks him if he’s talked to the kids about staying out, but he doesn’t want to talk to them about his life.

Beau and Bailey move into the other room to talk, and he admits that he doesn’t want the kids to hate him. She tells him that the kids want him to be happy and that the kids could never hate him.

At the family meeting time, Beau walks in like he’s a ringmaster in a show; nervous and sweating and of course Cassidy calls him out. Beau talks about growing and the kids just want to know what he wants. He wants to reassure them that he still loves their Mama, but he’s gonna sleep over and lies by saying that he’s going to Alabama. Cassidy calls him out on his lie because he’s a bad liar.

Later, Bailey calls Beau to let him know that Cassidy is onto him.

Beau lies to Summer that the kids were okay with him spending the night out. He leans in for a kiss, but Bailey calls Beau and interrupts. She’s freaking out over the lie as she’s not good at them. He says that unless someone's bleeding or something is on fire to handle it herself and not call. Beau further blames her for getting him into it, and says that it’s her time to cover for him.

Bailey calls Beau and leaves a message.

At Summer’s place, Beau gets annoyed that Bailey wasn’t able to keep his white lie a secret from his kids. When Cassidy is nowhere to be found at Summer’s, Bailey begins to worry until Cassidy reveals that she hid behind the truck cause she knew Bailey would come to Summer’s searching for her.

Cassidy asks why they lied, but Beau wants to know why the boys told each other and their sisters. While Beau is looking for someone to blame, Cassidy just wants to know why he would lie to them in the first place.

Beau tells Cassidy that he was afraid that the kids would think that he was disrespecting their mama’s memory. He shoulda been honest. Cassidy tells him that she just wants him to be happy, they all do.

In the end, Cassidy does tell Beau that it’s a sin to have relations before marriage. Summer then tells Beau that Cassidy does have a point.

In You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, Beau walks in and Chloe tells him that she got the lead in the play. and he’s excited. The kids also tell him that Bailey also placed in her top five. Beau wants to take them all out, and Bailey wants to rub her winning face in Boones' face, so she wants to go to Tootsie’s. Beau goes on to say it's comforting to be back in the place that Bailey spent 9 years of her life preparing to take care of his kids.

Chloe asks Beau why he’s eating so much, and he tells her that Summer put them on a break and he’s sexually frustrated. She’s asking all sorts of questions and Beau answers til he can’t anymore.

When they get back home, Beau says to all the kids to stay out of it. He says she’s grown and can make her own choices. Cassidy is trying to get Beau to get involved but he’s insistent that they don’t.

But Tuck insists that he has told them before that when someone gets in trouble, you get involved. But Beau states that is only about family, but the kids counter that by saying that Bailey is family. But in the end, they can’t go and get Bailey, and they will just have to let her do her thing.

When Bailey gets home she catches Beau at the table, binging a cake. He eventually asks Bailey if she thinks that Summer is agonizing over missing him.

A phone beeps and Beau thinks that Summer called, but it’s Bailey’s phone with a text from Boone making sure she got home ok. Beau says the family won’t dive into her personal life, even though Bailey dove into his. Though Bailey apologizes for getting involved, she mentions that she got involved cause she cares.

Beau wants to know why Summer is “a church going” girlfriend, after they’ve already slept together. Bailey says that Summer stopped giving “free samples'” in hopes of getting the entire box. Beau takes that as she’s manipulating him. Beau in turn states that it’s just like what Boone did to her. Boone played on her heart strings because he knew beforehand that she had gotten the top five and he played her heart. Bailey realizes that she was manipulated too and sits down to eat some cake with. Beau.

The next morning, Beau says he was wrong to get involved. and asks her to not tell the kids. Bailey asks if she looks good enough to kick Boone out and he says it is a good dumping outfit. Bailey tells him to change and he says no, he’s not going to Summers.Instead he is going to run off his frustration.

Which ends up being the same song Bailey sang to Cassidy in the barn when they first met. They are giving Bailey a pep talk. Which leads to Bailey says that her heart gets in the way of her head. When the girls hug her to cheer her up, Bailey says Beau was right. Which leads to Beau being outed that he got involved.

In Back in the Saddle Again, Beau tells everyone that he doesn't want a birthday party. However, Baily and the kids have other ideas, as Bailey decides to take it upon herself to throw her boss a suprise birthday party.

It later revealed that years earlier, Beau once sold a saddle that he loved. Brody has found one that is on sale and is like the one he sold. Only it’s $1,200 bucks and that is way too much for the kids.

At home, Bailey walks in and her tone gives away she’s done something. Beau asks her about it, but she doesn’t answer. Instead she distracts him with ugly looking voodoo doll on the table. Which ends up being a Boone doll that sings her a song he wrote for her.. Beau then says that may be the reason she hasn’t said yes.

Bailey starts talking about love and how Summer should be going to the dinner. Beau reminds Bailey that Summer manipulated him. Bailey in turn says it's because she wants to know where she stands and that Summer wants to move forward. They compare their relationship issues and Beau says he’s not ready for marriage.

Moreover, Beau says it’s not fair to continue the relationship with Summer and goes to text her. Bailey says not to end it before his birthday, seeing as how he may regret it.

Bailey heads back to the bank and walks into Summer’s office to see her wrapping the gift for Beau.

At the surprise party, Beau is overtaken by the kids present and they then tell him that they couldn’t have done it without Summer.

WhileSummer is crying in the bathroom with mascara running down her face, Beau sees her and he says that she’s beautiful. She says she’s sorry she embarrassed him, but states that she just doesn’t know how to communicate her feelings.

But does tell him that she is willing to wait for him after they say they are crazy about each other. While he is not ready for marriage, Beau tells her that he’s ready to take a step forward and takes off his wedding ring and puts it away.

In You Matter to Me,Beau finds My Girl out of her stall and puts her back in. In the same moment, Summer calls to see Beau’s hand without the ring on it. He freaks, cause the ring is on his hand, he hasn’t told his kids about it, and so he drops the phone so he can quickly take it off.

When Boone and Bailey leave for the reception, Beau comes running in. He needs the kids’ help, because something is wrong with My Girl. She’s sick and the vet is on her way.

Later, Bailey walks in on Beau telling the kids that he wouldn’t blame Bailey for quitting after the way that they acted today.

In Bless the Broken Road, when Beau comes down, Chloe looks at him and says that they are going to be orphans.
When it’s time for Bailey to leave, Cassidy says that she’s not coming. Bailey doesn’t want to leave without talking to her, but Beau tells her to go. He will make sure that Cassidy is there.

When the family arrives and Cassidy is there. Beau had to tell Cassidy that she’d be grounded if she didn’t show up.

Meanwhile, Summer is looking at Beau all weird because he’s still wearing the ring. Eventually, Tuck spills to Jo that Brody likes her.

Beau and Cassidy are dancing and he’s trying to help her through. Cassidy doesn’t want to lose Bailey and doesn’t understand why everyone always leaves. She thought that they made Bailey happy. Beau does what he can do to make her understand, but tells her that sometimes you have to let people go so that they can follow their dreams.

Summer runs to tell Beau what happened. He instantly runs to help Bailey.

Beau tries to comfort her, but she tells him over and over again, that she can’t do it. She can’t perform. She needs Dylan to tell the producers that she can’t do it, and he hesitantly tells her okay.

When he tells Dylan, he goes into manager mode. But Beau explains to him that it is bigger than he knows. Her heart is broken and at his age, he may not get it. But it’s how she feels.

When Bailey takes the stage, she can’t manage to sing. But the kids started it for her and she is able to go through it. Summer claps but when she turns to Beau, she sees the way he is looking at Bailey.

## See Also

Cassidy HaywoodDylan HaywoodBooneSummer