Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: He’s Back on Set & She’s Leaving!

By Janet Di Lauro Oct 02, 2016 10:18 a.m. ET

Days of our lives coming and going

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 October 3, 2016
Good news for fans of Drake Hogestyn and John Black. The actor, who hadn’t been working since sustaining an injury in May, has reported back to the set. “Drake in studio today. Great that he’s back,” posted co-head writer Dena Higley on Twitter on September 27.

Nadia Bjorlin, who gave birth to a son in May, will be off screen for a while. The move coincides with her maternity leave several months back. Remember, the soap tapes some five months in advance. Her final air date as Chloe is Monday, October 3, but rest assured she will be back.

Also, this week, Ari Welkom appears as Aldo; James Kwong plays a detective; and Stab Fitch portrays a thug. All air on Tuesday, October 4.

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Janet Di Lauro

Oct 02, 2016 10:18 a.m. ET 3,609 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.