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Days of our Lives Comings and Goings: Family Reunites, Villain Out

Viewers can look forward to a family reunion on Days of our Lives, while a villain departs.

By Janet Di Lauro
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There’s a sweet family reunion on the Salem horizon. Check out the latest comings and goings casting news from Days of our Lives? Find out if any popular stars from yesteryear are returning to the soap, if any newcomers are coming aboard in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, and if any of your favorite performers are exiting the Peacock soap.  

The Week of December 16, 2024

The Greene clan gets some prominent screen time this week. Jonah Robinson is back as Mark Greene. The incarcerated doctor interacts with Dan Feuerriegel’s EJ DiMera on Wednesday, December 18. On the same day, he also shares reunion scenes opposite his TV family members, AnnaLynne McCord’s Cat, Louis Tomeo’s Aaron, and Kennedy Garcia’s Felicity.

Madelyn Kientz returns as Sophia Choi on Thursday, December 19 and Friday, December 20. She’ll have powerful scenes opposite Leo Howard’s Tate Black. 

Karole Foreman airs as the judge presiding over Philip’s (John-Paul Lavoisier) case against Xander (Paul Telfer). 

James Read is out as Clyde Weston…at least for now. The villain fell into a coma after being shot by Catharina (Susan Elana Matus) and undergoing surgery to save his life. Read had portrayed Clyde since 2014.
Janet Di Lauro
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Janet Di Lauro is a contributing editor at Soap Opera Digest and a writer at Cynopsis.com and Soap Hub.com.
She has been writing about daytime and primetime television for over 30 years.
Prior to her current gigs, Janet ran ThoughtCo.com’s Days of our Lives website. She has built a career in daytime television coverage that has spanned over 30 years and includes a stint as the West Coast editor of Soap Opera Weekly magazine from the publication’s debut in 1989 through 2010. In addition, she was the features editor of Daytime TV magazine and editor of Soap Opera Stars magazine during her publishing years working in New York.
Based in California, Janet has interviewed daytime’s biggest stars, past and present, from Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso (Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives”) to Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children) to Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital) to Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless). In addition to her daytime work, she served as a contributing editor on the tween publication Pixie and was a feature editor on Reality Check magazine.

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