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Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: A Brady’s Shocking Return & A Brady’s Shocking Exit

By Janet Di Lauro
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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 January 7, 2019
Kyle Lowder is back in Salem as Rex Brady, when the character returns from visiting Mimi (Farah Fath) and their daughter on Friday, January 11. Lowder, who’s under contract with the soap, will be heavily involved in storyline with Linsey Godfrey’s Sarah.

Laura Kai Chen resurfaces as Melinda Trask on Thursday, January 10 in scenes with Kate Mansi’s Abigail.

Bye-bye Ciara… at least for a while. Victoria Konafel is exiting the soap as Hope’s (Kristian Alfonso) daughter. Look for the character to leave town on Thursday, January 10 and head to South Africa to visit her longtime friend, Theo. But don’t fret, the actress will be back onscreen in February.

Days of our Lives (DOOL) airs weekdays on NBC. Check your local listings for airtimes.

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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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