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@JAS0N47 I just stumbled on this index to SOD and SOW interviews with DAYS actors. page 1 of 2: https://jason47.com/days/sodfeatures1.html page 2 of 2: https://jason47.com/days/sodfeatures2.html Just curious, when was the last time it was updated? also, I noticed this: When I'm reading page one, it says "for page 2, click here" ; but when I click on that, it goes to a "not found" page. And when I'm reading page two, it says "for page 1, click here" ; but when I click on that, it goes to a "not found" page. I had to google to find working URLs for each of the pages, which I linked above.

There was an event yesterday (after? ) the "red carpet" event. Sony and Peacock execs were there, as well as all four of Ken Corday's children. Photos: Link to five pages of gettyimages

Three of the mystery people in the original photo were spoilerish, so I cut them out of my copy. (not a big deal) The woman between Deidre and Corday is Ken Corday's daughter Kimberly Corday. Kimberly has a fashion design business but has appeared at DAYS events a couple of times in the past few months. I don't think she's an actor -- she seems to be there as part of the Corday family -- I don't know why exactly.

Thanks for the photo. You wouldn't have known, but there are some spoilerish things in it. No worries, you just wouldn't have known. Not a criticism. Just something the show didn't hide. I'm replying to your post with the original pic behind the spoiler tag. Here is the same photo but cropped to show just the central portion without the spoilerish persons on the edges. You can still see Suzanne and Deidre.

Nadia Bjorlin (Chloe, DAYS) is working on something called "Veronica and Julian", apparently filming in New York. Same project has Kyler Pettis (Theo Carver on DAYS, Nov. 2015 - Jan. 2018). This is the director or producer: Otoja Abit (website link) https://www.instagram.com/p/DQxe2HqkfBb/ Nov. 7, 2025 nadiabjorlin A picture of a picture…. #NYC #latenights #VeronicaAndJulian @kylerpettis @blakedaflake @renesrivera

VIDEO of GV chatting with the cast and the hair-and-makeup staff: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQu2OVJktFm/ Nov. 6, 2025 theonlydaphneeduplaix and colbynatasha When the new kid on the block @thegreg_vaughan asks @colbynatasha about her story line. Opinions go flying! Might I add, we take our stories real seriously over here lol #BehindTheScenes of #BeyondTheGatesCBS

I was gonna say, that didn't sound like Mac on that clip.

For comparison, a press day in August: Kimberly Corday, RSW, Deidre, and Noel Maxam. (Kimberly is 33 years old per jason47 KenCorday bio https://www.jason47.com/days/staffbios.html )

The woman between Deidre Hall and Ken Corday ... looks sort of like Ken's daughter Kimberly Corday, who has occasionally been on the DAYS set in recent months. (just visiting the set with her dad, and also present at some events, but apparently not acting? ) But I could totally be wrong, so this is just speculation that it's her.

( *speculating only* ) ... the two girls in front might be nuCharlotte and nuRachel? a slightly SORASed Charlotte DiMera? The currently-airing Rachel Black (Alice Halsey) is now filming as Laura Ingalls on remake of Little House on the Prairie, so this might be the recast?

I don't understand why it's "information overload". In my opinion, it's useful info if the sites state that the actors are appearing in a specific number of episodes, since some posters have expressed interest in the returns. Some of my posting history is way too detailed, and I acknowledge and apologize for that. But in this case, it's just a list that I copied from another site.

Most of the returns are short ... per combined info from from soapoperaNews.net (Link) and from Janet Di Lauro at soaphub (Link) As seen in Friday Nov. 7 episode, Richard Wharton has returned as Dr. Wilhelm Rolf. Returns starting week of November 10th: Alison Sweeney as Sami Brady returns on Tuesday Nov. 11. One site says she airs throughout the week. The other site says she is featured in three episodes. [likely that's because she's named in spoilers for three episodes] Greg Vaughan as Eric Brady - slated to air in three episodes. Roark Critchlow as Mike Horton for two episodes. Maree Cheatham as Marie Horton for two episodes. Per Maree Cheatham’s facebook page (Link), she appears Monday Nov. 10 and Friday Nov. 14. Stephen Schnetzer as Steven Olson (Julie’s brother) for one episode. Melissa Reeves continues as Jennifer Deveraux. Matthew Ashford returns as Jack Deveraux. (length of visit not specified). Chandler Massey as Will Horton for two episodes. Bryan Dattilo as Lucas Horton for two episodes. Christopher Sean as Paul Narita and Colton Little as Andrew Donovan return for two episodes Per the promo for week of Nov. 10, Stacy Haiduk reappears as Kristen DiMera. (length/amount of appearances not specified). Lamon Archey and Sal Stowers return as Eli Grant and Lani Price-Grant, Length of return not specified. (Per my own observation of lots of behind-the-scenes images and videos, it *seems* like Eli&Lani will be having an ongoing/continuing/intermittent return? )

Live. Full details here: https://michaelfairmantv.com/e-creatorcam-red-carpet-coverage-days-of-our-lives-60th-anniversary/2025/11/04/

For many many years, DAYS had an annual free "Day of Days" fan event, on a Saturday near the November 8th anniversary. It used to be held at "Universal CityWalk". For decades, there was *always* a Day of Days in November that fans could attend. Even during Covid, they had virtual "Day of Days" events that were very well thought out and produced, and had things where fans could log in and participate. In 2023, it was in *October* at a Peacock venue, which messed up schedules for a few actors already committed to other events that weekend, but was well-attended otherwise. Apparently DAYS had some agreement to do the event at a Peacock venue, and the Peacock venue was available only in October that year. (NBC, Universal, and Peacock are all the same company; but they wanted to promote Peacock, I guess). In 2024, Day of Days was still at the Peacock venue, but back to being in November. There was some controversy about how the lines to get autographs were very long and disorganized in 2024, which is somewhat usual -- but was apparently much worse in 2024? In 2015, the 50th anniversary of DAYS had a book tour in many cities over several months; the regular November "Day of Days" fan event; and in the evening of Day of Days, there was one of the largest parties ever, with alumni cast and crew going back all the way, with many of the actors singing and dancing on stage until late at night. It was amazing and I'm glad I got to see video clips of it. An all-time great party in the history of parties! In 2025, the 60th anniversary of DAYS has no "Day of Days" event that fans can attend. No party. Nothing. From social media, it looks like there was a tiny party on set this week for cast and crew -- with balloons and a coffee caterer. Actors were thanking the coffee company in their IG stories. Over the past few weeks, Days has periodically had a few actors speaking on the show's IG account about the history of Days, but that's the extent of the promotion of the anniversary. For the fans in 2025, there will only be the live Nov. 8th "red carpet event" that can be viewed via "E" on its "CreatorCam". ("E" is owned by NBCUniversal, same as Peacock, etc). The only fan participation opportunity was if you had submitted questions ahead-of-time to the DAYS ig account -- questions that you wanted the host to ask the actors. Info here on how to watch: https://michaelfairmantv.com/e-creatorcam-red-carpet-coverage-days-of-our-lives-60th-anniversary/2025/11/04/

To be honest, I didn't recognize the name Peter Stormare, so I looked him up. I have seen him in only one thing: In the film "Chocolat", he played the bartender who was an abusive husband. He was really great at portraying a horrible person. I know almost nothing about videogames. My ex used to play the Zelda series; but back in those days, they had no voice actors (dialogue was text on screen). I might recognize some of the music since the games were played for hours every day. The only videogame voice actors I know about are soap actors who also do voices: Christopher Sean, Courtney Hope, Clyde Kusatsu, Victoria Grace, and Emily O'Brien. (I know this is part of their careers, but I have not paid attention to the names of the videogames they voiced). A one-day cameo by Peter Stormare to promote a videogame -- that won't interest me in the videogame. But hey, I get it. Soap fans have diverse interests in other parts of their lives; so I get that some GH viewers know Stephen A. Smith from ESPN or know Peter Stormare from Call of Duty. Even though I don't watch "Big Brother", I understand why its alumni sometimes have cameos on Y&R or B&B. It's marketing, and part of show biz. I don't mind it. Speaking of marketing, on BTG, they do product placement of Tide and Febreze, and that's kind of fun! But, what's far more important is that I appreciate the Procter&Gamble business ethic. I already use Tide, and I am actually considering buying some Febreze just to support P&G.

Peter Bergman, regarding his role on "Pluribus", interviewed in Toronto by Jeevan Brar of thetvwatercooler.com https://x.com/JeevanBrar/status/1986872368925475267

Martha Byrne's husband, a former cop who had been convicted of spying for China, is pardoned by Tr*mp. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/trump-michael-mcmahon-pardon.html Copy of same nyt article without paywall https://archive.is/yCjDY “This is a family that has really been put through the wringer for five-plus years,” Mr. Lawler said. He credited the former police officer’s wife, Martha Byrne, an actor who appeared in a popular soap opera, with generating support for the pardon. On social media late on Thursday, Ms. Byrne, who wrote a book about the case, posted a video of herself dancing to the song “Y.M.C.A.” at what appears to be a Trump rally.

of the soaps I've watched, this was the worst retcon of all. so horribly offensive.

Europeans see some of Mamdani's policies as normal, not radical (free transit, free childcare. rent control) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal

@JAS0N47 has the info here https://www.jason47.com/days/vaulttidbits.html

These views from thetvwatercooler.com are somewhat better resolution. Their posts have several stills and videos of different sections of the large group photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/DQsgDsJEfjn/ https://x.com/JeevanBrar/status/1986235079710978407 https://bsky.app/profile/thetvwatercooler.com/post/3m4wr35ntbk2a

Just found this 1969 article about Helen Funai https://neglectedvenus.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/helen-funai/

That's another Y&R rewrite. Originally, in 1980, the cult leader was the Asian (or Asian-American) woman "Sumiko", played by Helen Funai. That's who aired onscreen when Nikki and Paul were in the cult. The 2014 rewrite was that the cult leader was the white male "Ian Ward" played by Ray Wise.

Transcript of Mamdani victory speech https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet, over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name, as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers only to the few. New York, tonight you have delivered. A mandate for change. A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford. And a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that. On 1 January, I will be sworn in as the mayor of New York City. And that is because of you. So before I say anything else, I must say this: Thank you. Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past. You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in a new era of leadership. We will fight for you, because we are you. Or, as we say on Steinway, ana minkum wa alaikum. Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city, who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties. To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst hospital on Thursday night. A New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city. It’s about people like the woman I met on the Bx33 years ago who said to me: “I used to love New York, but now it’s just where I live.” And it’s about people like Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall, who still has to drive his cab seven days a week. My brother, we are in City Hall now. This victory is for all of them. And it’s for all of you, the more than 100,000 volunteers who built this campaign into an unstoppable force. Because of you, we will make this city one that working people can love and live in again. With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every hard-earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics. Now, I know that I have asked for much from you over this last year. Time and again, you have answered my calls – but I have one final request. New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count, held it because we cannot afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much. We are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn. To my campaign team, who believed when no one else did and who took an electoral project and turned it into so much more: I will never be able to express the depth of my gratitude. You can sleep now. To my parents, mama and baba: You have made me into the man I am today. I am so proud to be your son. And to my incredible wife, Rama, hayati: There is no one I would rather have by my side in this moment, and in every moment. To every New Yorker – whether you voted for me, for one of my opponents or felt too disappointed by politics to vote at all – thank you for the opportunity to prove myself worthy of your trust. I will wake each morning with a singular purpose: to make this city better for you than it was the day before. There are many who thought this day would never come, who feared that we would be condemned only to a future of less, with every election consigning us simply to more of the same. And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn. New York, we have answered those fears. Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do. Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru: “A moment comes, but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new. So let us speak now, with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood, about what this new age will deliver, and for whom. This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt. Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal childcare across our city. Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come. This new age will be one of relentless improvement. We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered. Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on. Excellence will become the expectation across government, not the exception. In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another. In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours, too. And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than 1 million Muslims know that they belong – not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election. This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about. For years, those in City Hall have only helped those who can help them. But on 1 January, we will usher in a city government that helps everyone. Now, I know that many have heard our message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them. As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game any more. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us. Together, we will usher in a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up. We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed. New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them. A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme, and let us build a shining city for all. And we must chart a new path, as bold as the one we have already traveled. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this. And yet, if tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price. Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party, and too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they’ve been left behind. We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great. Our greatness will be anything but abstract. It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month knowing the amount they’re going to pay hasn’t soared since the month before. It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for, and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of childcare didn’t send them to Long Island. It will be felt by the single mother who is safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough that she doesn’t have to rush school drop-off to make it to work on time. And it will be felt when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning and read headlines of success, not scandal. Most of all, it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back. Together, New York, we’re going to freeze the rent together, New York, we’re going to make buses fast and free together, New York, we’re going to deliver universal childcare. Let the words we’ve spoken together, the dreams we’ve dreamt together, become the agenda we deliver together. New York, this power, it’s yours. This city belongs to you.