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Soap Opera Comings and Goings: Your Latest Casting News

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from the casts of The Bold and the Beautiful (BB), Days of Our Lives (DAYS), General Hospital (GH), and The Young and the Restless (YR)?

Soap Opera Comings and Goings

Here’s a list of the top exit and entrance news from all four daytime dramas. Find out if any of your favorite performers from yesteryear are returning to the shows you follow, or if any new actors or actresses have been cast in contract, recurring, or day player roles. Here’s the latest casting news from all the soaps.

The week of December 28, 2020

The Young and the Restless

Eva La Rue and Jason Canela reprise their roles as Celeste and Arturo Rosales on The Young and the Restless on Wednesday, December 30. The pair are back to attend Rey (Jordi Vilasuso) and Sharon’s (Sharon Case) New Year’s Eve wedding.

Meanwhile, Matt Katrosar, who played Chelsea’s masked abductor in November, is back as Paramedic Egan on Thursday, December 31. The actor is the real-life husband of YR star Melissa Claire Egan, who plays Chelsea.

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Days of Our Lives

Days of Our Lives reunites Sonny and Will when Freddie Smith pops in for a video chat on Wednesday, December 30. Look for Sonny to call hubby Will (Chandler Massey) so they can ring in the new year together.

The Bold and the Beautiful

Former Big Brother and Big Brother: All-Stars contestant Da’Vonne Rogers makes a guest appearance as a businesswoman on Monday, December 28. She’ll share scenes with Thorsten Kaye’s Ridge. Rogers previously appeared on the soap in 2016 as a florist.

Annie Abbott wrapped up her role as Florence Gray, Cyrus (Jeff Kober) and Martin’s (Michael E. Knight) mother. The actress held down the recurring role of Judge Janice Neiman on LA Law from 1984 to 1986.

Christopher May played Detective Talbot, the WSB agent who questioned Franco (Roger Howarth), Dr. Obrecht (Kathleen Gati), and Scott (Kin Shriner) about the missing Dr. Kirk (Christopher Cousins) in Geneva. Anne Beyer portrayed a fellow agent who accompanied Talbot on the investigation.

 
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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