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Days of Our Lives Comings and Goings: Three MAJOR Returns Rock Salem

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from Days of Our Lives? 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 September 16, 2019
Get ready for a trio of Salem returns. Bryan Datillo resurfaces as Lucas Horton on Friday, September 20. The character is back to visit his ailing mother Kate (Lauren Koslow), who’s in critical condition in the hospital. Dattilo’s last appearance on the soap in June was due to another medical emergency, his son Will (Chandler Massy) being on the brink of death.

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Chrishell Hartley is back as Jordan Ridgeway on Tuesday, September 17, when her character is surprisingly released from Bayview sanitarium. She was last seen in February when her mentally unstable character was admitted to the facility for treatment.

Also set to pop back onto the scene is Olivia Rose Keegan, who last appeared as Claire Brady in July. The soap’s fall promo teaser shows Jordan coaxing Claire into causing some mischief in Salem. Days of our Lives (DOOL) airs weekdays on NBC. Check your local listings for airtimes.

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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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