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Soap Hub Performer Of The Week For Days of our Lives: Kristian Alfonso

This weekend marks the initial Soap Hub Performer of the Week — which will be an ongoing series of articles in which an editor pays…

By Diane Brounstein October 18, 2020

Soap Hub Daytime Legends: Top 10 Soap Opera Villains Of All Time

No one puts the drama into daytime better than a really diabolical scoundrel. And the medium has had many of them during its long tenure.…

By Janet Di Lauro October 09, 2020

Days of our Lives Dilemma: Things That Make No Sense In Allie’s Rape Story

On Days of our Lives, Allie broke down and told Nicole that her baby was conceived after a night when she’d been heavily drinking, took…

By Alina Adams October 08, 2020

Days of Our Lives Baby Daddy Secret: What We Know About Allie’s Big Reveal

After abandoning her newborn son, Allie Horton is back on Days of our Lives. Now comes the fun part — addressing her baby daddy secret.…

By Janet Di Lauro September 20, 2020

Days of our Lives Instigator Sami Brady’s Top 10 Diabolical Plots

Nobody schemes and manipulates better than Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney) on Days of our Lives. She recently pulled out all the stops to get custody…

By Janet Di Lauro September 17, 2020

Soap Opera Families We Miss: Days of our Lives’ Anderson Family

The Hortons have always been Days of our Lives’ first family. But long before the Bradys, the DiMeras, or the Kiriakis clans became regular Salemites,…

By Leona G. Barad September 02, 2020

Three Days of our Lives Love Options For Rafe When He Returns

Days of our Lives had been flirting with a Hope and Rafe reunion. There’s only one problem, actress Kristian Alfonso is leaving the soap, while…

By Janet Di Lauro August 31, 2020

Days of our Lives Speculation: Will Allie’s Baby Get A Name?

On Days of our Lives, Allie has fled Salem, leaving her baby boy behind with a note asking Nicole and Eric to raise him. Sami…

By Alina Adams August 19, 2020

How Days of our Lives Can Survive Victoria Konefal’s Exit

One week, Ciara and Ben were exchanging “I Do’s” and planning a forever together. A few short weeks later, came the news that half of…

By Janet Di Lauro August 10, 2020

Days of our Lives Speculation: Will The Soap Recast Eric?

With Greg Vaughan announcing that he’s leaving his role as Eric on Days of our Lives, let the games begin for fans wondering who will…

By Alina Adams August 09, 2020

5 Highlights That Made Ciara and Ben’s Day of our Lives Wedding So Special

“Cin” made if official, when Ciara and Ben tied the knot in a picture-perfect ceremony on Days of our Lives. Then things went kaboom –…

By Janet Di Lauro July 28, 2020

Days of our Lives’ Young Cast Is Leading the Daytime Pack

When it comes to young talent, Days of our Lives may be leading the daytime pack. The soap currently has a trio of ingenues who…

By Janet Di Lauro July 26, 2020

Days of our Lives Without Kristian Alfonso: 5 Things We’ll Miss About Hope

After a nearly four-decade run as Hope Williams Brady, Kristian Alfonso is exiting Days of our Lives. Unwilling to accept being pulled from the show…

By Janet Di Lauro July 20, 2020

Abigail Times Two: Days of our Lives’ Strategy to Keep Her Onscreen

One popular character. Two powerful actresses. Days of our Lives has found a way to utilize that unique formula to make sure Jack and Jennifer’s…

By Janet Di Lauro July 19, 2020

Should Days of our Lives Recast Hope Since Kristian Alfonso Has Left?

When Kristian Alfonso announced that after playing the role of Hope Williams Brady on and off for 37 years she would be leaving Days of…

By Alina Adams July 19, 2020

Days of our Lives: Top 5 Moments From Lani and Eli’s Wedding

Despite three interruptions, Lani and Eli’s long trek to exchanging “I Do’s” finally happened on Days of our Lives. It has been a bumpy road…

By Janet Di Lauro July 12, 2020

July 4th Soap Wish: Days of our Lives’ Maggie Declares Independence From Victor

Did this Days of our Lives romance really ever make sense to anyone? Maggie (Suzanne Rogers) was a poor, formerly crippled farm girl (with a…

By Alina Adams July 04, 2020

Days of our Lives Brady Made a Huge Mistake; Here Are The Reasons Why

On Days of our Lives, Brady let Kristen go on the run with their newly returned daughter, Rachel, so that she wouldn’t have to stand…

By Alina Adams June 28, 2020

Rating the Days of our Lives Newcomers: How Good Is The New Allie?

Lindsay Arnold has barely been on the job two weeks as Allie Horton, Lucas (Bryan Dattilo) and Sami’s (Alison Sweeney) teenage daughter. However, the young…

By Janet Di Lauro June 28, 2020

How Bryan Dattilo’s Return Has Reinvigorated Days of our Lives

The return of Bryan Dattilo as Lucas Horton has totally reinvigorated Days of our Lives. From the moment he barged into the DiMera mansion and…

By Janet Di Lauro June 24, 2020

Four Top Actors Whose Returns Could Help To Revive Daytime Soaps

Between the lack of new episodes and America’s anxiety over and preoccupation with COVID-19, the daytime soaps could suffer a serious downtrend in viewership in…

By Janet Di Lauro June 12, 2020

Xander From Days of our Lives: How He Went From Thug To Leading Man

Xander Kiriakis’s litany of crimes could fill a police station’s roster of wanted posters. From international diamond smuggling to kidnapping Nicole and Holly to shooting…

By Janet Di Lauro June 09, 2020

Soap Opera Families We Miss: Santa Barbara’s Powerful Capwell Family

When Santa Barbara premiered in 1984, it was a different kind of soap opera. Sure, it had all the features of a typical soap: personal…

By Leona G. Barad May 15, 2020

Days of our Lives Is Messing With Abigail’s Sanity Again: Bad Move?

Kate Mansi’s latest Days of our Lives stint is coming to an end, which means the soap’s writers were tasked with scripting another exit for…

By Janet Di Lauro May 14, 2020

Another World Scandal: George Reinholt and Jacqueline Courtney Fired

One of daytime’s biggest scandals occurred on Another World in 1975 when actors George Reinholt and Jacqueline Courtney were unceremoniously fired from the show they…

By Leona G. Barad April 29, 2020

Soap Supercouples: The Romance of Days of our Lives’ Steve and Kayla

Steve and Kayla – “Patch” and “Sweetness,” the Beast and his Beauty. This Days of our Lives coupling proved that love does indeed have the…

By Garren Waldo April 27, 2020

Sunset Beach: Before These Five Actors Became Primetime Stars

When primetime darling Aaron Spelling dipped his producing hat into the daytime pool in 1997, the man behind Dynasty, Charlie’s Angeles, and The Love Boat…

By Keith Loria April 23, 2020