Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: A Jailbird Returns To Salem?!?

By Janet Di Lauro Sep 02, 2017 10:16 a.m. ET

Days of our Lives

Who’s coming and who’s going from Days of Our Lives (DOOL)?

Are any favorite performers from yesteryear returning to the daytime drama, this week, or in the near future?

Have any new actors or actresses been cast on the show in contract, recurring or day player roles? Are any well-remembered stars from other soaps, past or present, about to join Days of Our Lives fold in surprise new parts?

Here’s the latest casting news from the NBC soap.

The week of September 4, 2017

Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins reprises her role as Statesville prison inmate, Sheila, on Friday, September 8. The singer/songwriter/actress last appeared on the soap in January 2017, when she was threatening and eventually stabbed then fellow inmate Hope (Kristian Alfonso).

Aaron D. Spears’ stint as Commissioner Raines comes to an end on Thursday, Septem-ber 7. The actor debuted as a member of the Salem PD back in September 2016. Spears also recurs on The Bold and the Beautiful as Justin Barber.

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Janet Di Lauro

Sep 02, 2017 10:16 a.m. ET 3,603 articles

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.