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Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: An Interesting New Character Comes to Salem

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from Days of Our Lives? Here’s the latest casting news from the NBC soap.

The week of December 26, 2016

Vivian Jovanni is exiting her role as Ciara. She made her Days premiere in October 2015. According to the actress, the decision was mutual between her and the show. Look for Ciara to be written off the canvas, at least for a while…

Charles Shaughnessy returns as Shane on Monday, December 26.

Real Andrews is back as Jade’s father Hal on Wednesday, December 28 in scenes with Paige Searcy (Jade). Steve and Ava’s long lost son, Tripp, is reportedly headed to Salem. Lucas Adams will make his daytime debut in the role, airing in early 2017.

Also in the new son department, Lamon Archey, is joining the soap as Eli, Valerie’s handsome offspring.

Word is he is the child she conceived with ex-love David Banning, which makes him Julie’s grandson. Archey played Mason on The Young and the Rest-less from 2013 to 2014.

Dot-Marie Jones wraps up her stint as Chillie, this week.

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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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