HUGE SALEM COUPLE O-U-T OUT!

King Reilly, the headwriter and creator, has announced today that mini-supercouple, Max and Abby, will be leaving the blog later this month. Darrin Brooks and Ashley Benson have both been released from their contracts. "It's really sad. Over the past 18 months, Mabby have had a lot of readers who were and are big fans of theirs. The blog put Max and Abby together in December of 2005 - LONG before the Mabby buzz began. They were the center of the blog for a long, long time."...explains the writer.

"They've lived through a lot in the year and a half the blog has been 'on-air.' But they will both be leaving the show. There have been a myriad of stories for them. They've run the gamut. And with Ashley having left the real DAYS, it seems like a good time to say goodbye."

Fans may remember on Smith Island when the Fury was terrorizing Salemites, Maggie locked eyes with Abby, and her pleas struck a chord within Maggie. With Benson's exit announcement four days before the last victim, this further fuels the speculation that Abby will be the Horton to meet his or her maker on Friday, May 25th when Maggie claims her most shocking victim. Will a grief-stricken Max be leaving Salem solo? "I cannot say! Readers will have to tune in Friday to see Maggie's final victim. I can tell you it's a shocker. And no, it's not Alice."...the writer says with a smirk.

The thirteen possibilities of the final victim have been marked on the side cast list panel by bold, black lettering. I will be randomly removing victim's names over the next three days, but I won't be announcing when I'm doing it or that I have done it. So, fans will have to keep checking in to see whose name has been unbolded and who has been spared from The Fury! By the time Friday afternoon rolls around, the list will be narrowed down the Final Four Possibilities, all of which are integral parts of Salem.

Brooks and Benson will both last air the week of May 28th.