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Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: A Joyous Return & A Sad Goodbye

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 April 3, 2017

At long last Drake Hogestyn reappears as John on Monday, April 3. Look for the character, who last appeared on the soap in October 2016, to turn up in a fantasy scene with Deidre Hall’s Marlena.

A Martinez is making his exit as Hernandez family patriarch, Eduardo. The actor shared the news on his Facebook page, posting, “As Eduardo is taken ‘off the canvas’ on Days, I want to express my gratitude to all who’ve supported him – and me – over the course of these last eighteen months.

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It’s been an honor to come to Salem on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of a show I have followed and esteemed for more than thirty years.” He also reassured fans that his character “is not dead.”  Martinez made his Days debut in September 2015,

Scott Shilstone plays Wyatt on Wednesday, April 5.

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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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