Rita and Harold have surprisingly become one of those odd little Days of our Lives pairings viewers latch onto because they somehow feel both completely random and weirdly perfect at the same time. Rita spends her days keeping DiMera chaos from collapsing into open warfare, while Harold continues floating around the mansion like a deeply loyal phantom butler. Now, thanks to some increasingly hilarious fan edits online, the two longtime Salem side players are suddenly being treated like a full-blown supercouple.
Key Takeaways
- Maggie Carney reacted to Rita and Harold’s viral fan edits.
- Carney admits she expected fans to pair Rita with Rolf instead.
- Rita and Harold’s fake Toledo adventures amused Carney.
- Fans embraced Rita and Harold as an unexpected supercouple.
Carney Finally Addresses the Rita and Harold Craze
The official DAYS Instagram page shared a video with the caption, “Maggie Carney (Rita) has entered the chat. 😂 She has seen the Harold and Rita fan fiction photo edits, and let’s just say… she’s entertained! Tell us, where do you want to see them next?”
In the video, Carney was seated at the bar at the Brady Pub, joking that she and her character had never been there.
Carney sounded genuinely delighted by the whole Rita and Harold meme phenomenon popping up on social media. “Amazing! Blew my mind,” she said. “I had no idea. I thought that it would be Rolf [Richard Wharton] and Rita, but it’s Harold [Julian Barnes ] and Rita, and they’re so adorable,” she gushed.
She laughed about the beach wedding edits, bathing suit photos, and all the imaginary adventures fans apparently decided the couple had been taking together. She especially cracked up over the increasingly detailed fake lore surrounding the duo, including the idea that everything somehow takes place in Toledo.
“Maggie has never been to Toledo, even though I’m from the Midwest,” she joked, before talking about Rita and Harold constantly eating pizza with EJ (Dan Feuerriegel).
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Carney also loved the running gag that Rita monitors EJ’s food because “he has a lot of allergies,” calling that detail “brilliant.”
By the end of the video, she sounded genuinely impressed by how active fans made the couple seem online. “They’re so active as well,” she laughed. “I’m like, how do they have time to do all of these activities? They’re just like go go go.”
The fake Rita and Harold posts themselves are hilarious. One had the two of them strolling hand in hand down a tropical beach, like retirees who escaped DiMera drama and immediately signed up for matching cruise excursions, while another showed them having an oddly elegant candlelit seafood dinner that somehow made Harold look like he absolutely tips 40 percent and secretly judges the wine list.
Fans immediately flooded the comments, demanding more appearances from Rita and Harold. One fan wrote, “I’m here for the Rita and Harold supercouple story!” while another said, “We need more of her being funny and suspicious!”
And a different viewer admitted they “almost fell off the chair laughing” over the Toledo jokes, while several others begged DAYS to make both Rita and Harold regular fixtures in Salem.
