EXCLUSIVE: Emotions have been running high on the set of the long-running soap Days of Our Lives.

According to multiple sources, there has been shock, disbelief, disappointment and anger among cast and crew following the outcome of an internal investigation into misconduct allegations against longtime Days of Our Lives director/co-executive producer Albert Alarr.

https://deadline.com/2023/07/days-of-our-lives-misconduct-investigation-albert-alarr-1235417732/

 

Just now, te. said:

I'm shocked that they, I don't know, just get rid of Alarr? Surely, his contract can't be that airtight?

Hell, in general an issue with daytime is that the same people just cycle through the shows again and again and again...

Which is why this continues to go on at these shows. Few are left who know how to maintain this kind of production cycle, and few new people are allowed to be trained or cultivated in writing or production if they're not close friends or family (because these are in fact seemingly very lucrative positions for a creative in the post-Netflix era, and the existing veterans want to preserve their own income), and then the networks or owners don't care about the soaps at all beyond them filling a timeslot. So we have this.

Can someone go through the list of people who were dropped? Though with days so far ahead some of those people aren’t technically off screen yet right?

Just now, Michael said:

I feel a little icky speculating on such upsetting situations for the victims, but I'm pretty sure (based on a lot of context clues) that the actress in the love scene is Martha Madison. She wiped Days from her socials a few months back and seemed to be going off-contract, and it didn't seem to make any sense.

You're right. I didn't mean it to come off that way when I asked, but we do have to remember that both the males and females whose stories were shared in the Deadline article are victims.

27 minutes ago, Errol said:

Anyone up for a game of clue? Some of these allegations are so specific it's hard not to point out who was allegedly targeted.

Which male non-contract actor (likely contract afterward) got a haircut even though their character hadn't been seen for a while and could cause such a stir?

Bryan Datillo?

I assume Jamey will respond to this serious issue via a series of Dynasty-related memes.

I mean, one of the actresses is blatantly Camila Banus, so that's hardly hard to guess considering she's more or less walked twice now. I wonder if this is why Kristian Alfonso also took the opportunity to leave abruptly post-covid.

1 hour ago, Errol said:

Sony investigated after a complaint was filed in March because DAYS itself doesn't have an HR department to handle such matters, and the current owner of the show's studio space doesn't have anything to do with it.

Despite conducting the investigation, I do agree with @dragonflies. Do they even care? Doing their job (investigating) doesn't necessarily mean they care to do anything about it, hence why it's shocking the final report didn't come out and still hasn't come out.

Of course, Sony is only their distributor. They're not part of the producing team. But, still they should be able to put considerable pressure on Corday Inc. Is it usual not to have HR?

4 minutes ago, Errol said:

You're right. I didn't mean it to come off that way when I asked, but we do have to remember that both the males and females whose stories were shared in the Deadline article are victims.

I think it's pretty natural to want to make sense of stuff like this, especially when we see these people on our screens every day. And there's a relatively respectful way to speculate without being crass ourselves, tagging actors in tweets, etc. So I hear you!

8 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Of course, Sony is only their distributor. They're not part of the producing team. But, still they should be able to put considerable pressure on Corday Inc. Is it usual not to have HR?

Per the story, NBC previously handled HR when the network owned the show's studio space. It seems that HR matters reverted to Sony when NBC sold the lot and it became Burbank Studios. Otherwise, nope. Not usual not to have HR but I think it mostly depends on the size of the company. B&B and DAYS are the only shows not wholly owned by a major studio/network, so it's not surprising either of them wouldn't have their own HR departments as I'm pretty sure CBS handles B&B's HR matters leaving DAYS to rely on Sony.

1 hour ago, Errol said:

Per the story, NBC previously handled HR when the network owned the show's studio space. It seems that HR matters reverted to Sony when NBC sold the lot and it became Burbank Studios. Otherwise, nope. Not usual not to have HR but I think it mostly depends on the size of the company. B&B and DAYS are the only shows not wholly owned by a major studio/network, so it's not surprising either of them wouldn't have their own HR departments as I'm pretty sure CBS handles B&B's HR matters leaving DAYS to rely on Sony.

Okay, that makes sense. Unfortunately my impression is that Ken Corday is your basic bump on a log. 

Sarah Joy Brown has been trying to get someone to do something about a director who assaulted her, where that director is now up on a big movie, or was before the strike. She hasn't even been able to get a reporter interested, I don't think. 

It's just a crying shame how much this crapola goes on. 

A part of the article that might have slipped by some people that I'm curious about is who the actor was that put his hands on crew member.

@te. Yes, my first thought was KA's leaving so abruptly. I always thought something was off. 

I wish they hadn't included such specific details about the actress with the sheet incident. She is a victim and now sees it in print. The could've done a better job of cloaking better.

Hollywood enables exactly the kind of behavior it claims to abhor yet they're never really held accountable. There's far too many instances of bullying, sexism, ageism, toxic work environments, harassment, etc. Awful. I feel really bad for the cast and crew. They already have to do some much with so little.

I remember DF (EJ) did a podcast when he first joined the show and he said he was told by Albert that he needed to lose weight and get into shape.

I wonder if it was Alarr's decision to get rid of their own PR people.