Hopefully, Gwen doesn’t make peace with Leo 🙏🙏

 

Week of July 7- 11

image credit XJJohnson for JPI Studios via SOD (Link)

XJJohnson for JPI Studios via SOD (Link)



 XJJohnson for JPI Studios via Parade Magazine (Link)

via soaphub (Link)

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Week of July 7- 11

XJJohnson for JPI Studios via SOD (Link)

I see they're not wasting any time with Xander and Gwen 😂

Wow, Bonnie is back. She and Justin have been MIA.

On 7/4/2025 at 11:31 AM, janea4old said:

Week of July 7-11

images credit JPI Studios via soapcentral (Link) 

I remember following my Lumi baby Will's teen years.  Now I'm following my WilSon baby Ari's teen years.

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4 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Wow, Bonnie is back. She and Justin have been MIA.

I wonder if she ever got her settlement for falling down the elevator shaft...🛌

EJ's gonna have a lot of debt to off set if he buys Salem U Hospital.

On 7/1/2025 at 1:29 AM, AbcNbc247 said:

Thanks!

It would be a great way to revive the family; the Horton name barely exists anymore lol 

I want a new Nathan Horton, the other Horton doctor, raised alongside Sarah by Melissa.   -   (props to Melisa for raising two doctors; what did Neil do besides sending Sarah a pen?)

BTW, not a good look for Sarah to conspire with Stephanie after what she did to Nathan.🤫  (but, since Stephanie hasn't aged, Nathan doesn't need to either). Wouldn’t be a Horton revival without a little timeline forgiveness.

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22 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

I see they're not wasting any time with Xander and Gwen 😂

another Xander/Gwen photo added in with the pics of them above.

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Tuesday July 8

image from JPI via Michael Fairman (Link)

Photos for Tues. July 8:
https://soaphub.com/days-of-our-lives/spoilers-days/preview-gwens-back-plus-ari-stalked

Arianna/Rafe/Gabi/Leo/baby in various combinations at Hernandez home.
Javi and Leo taking the baby to Kayla at the hospital.

outside the pub:
Arianna and Kayla
Arianna and the thug who is following her because of Doug.

Leo encountering Gwen in the square.

Edit to add: mostly same photos but higher def:
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/photos/days-of-our-lives-spoilers-gallery-for-july-8-look-whos-come-back-home/

 

Edit again to add:
another view of Leo and Gwen in the square
https://www.soapcentral.com/days-of-our-lives/news-days-lives-spoilers-july-8-gwen-stuns-chad-julie-leo-panics

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Gwen returned at end of Monday July 7 episode, arriving at the Horton house wearing Alice's necklace.

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https://x.com/TVInsider/status/1942324471580266856

EXCLUSIVE: Emily O'Brien previews her #DAYS return and teases viewers should expect to see a very different Gwen Rizczech from the last time she played the character. https://t.co/CPCm9ZC5MH

— TV Insider (@TVInsider) July 7, 2025

Emily O'Brien interview with tvinsider

The title of the article is "Emily O’Brien Teases Her ‘Days of Our Lives’ Return as a More ‘Refined’ Gwen Rizczech"

TV insider seems to have made an error. Gwen apparently doesn't use the Rizczech surname anymore.

In the closing credits today July 7,  Emily is listed as "Gwen Von Leuschner",
and the core of the interview is about her returning to Salem wealthy.

https://www.tvinsider.com/1201024/emily-obrien-days-of-our-lives-return-gwen-rizczech-interview/

quoting excerpt: Now, she’s ready to step back into Gwen’s shoes, a character whose fortunes have shifted dramatically since her last appearance, thanks to a windfall from her ill-fated marriage to Dimitri von Leuschner (Peter Porte). “Gwen has always been scrappy and always trying to find someone to love her, someone to use,” she points out. “But now, she doesn’t need that. Now, she has everything except for love, so she’s sort of back to where she was, but with a full wallet.”

Expect to see a very different Gwen, who has changed in surprising ways. “The new writers have refined her,” O’Brien previews. “She went away and spent time with the elite, and now she has knowledge and status, so that’s been a different twist to come back and play her. She’s spending time with new characters, and it’s been fun to discover where everything is going with her now.” end quote

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Just as long as she doesn't make peace with Leo. 

https://bsky.app/profile/tvdeeva.bsky.social/post/3ltfhsp37qk2c

 

With Gwen back on the #Days scene, read what Emily O'Brien was allowed to tell me about THIS return & life outside of Salem back when she popped into #DOOL as Theresa this spring:

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— Deanna "TVDeeva" Barnert (@tvdeeva.bsky.social) Jul 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM

 

Here is an interview that Emily O'Brien did back in March.  It was mostly about her very brief return as Theresa for five episodes in March.
And about O'Brien's career doing motion capture.

https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/celebrities/emily-obrien-teases-theresas-and-gwens-days-of-our-lives-returns

But there is some here about her July return as Gwen:
Quoting excerpts 

 “The story is still so open-ended with her father, Leo and Dimitri, Xander, even, and all the people she’s affected,” 

“The love triangle with Peter Porte was just glorious,” she adds, referring to the storyline that saw Gwen’s gay bestie have an affair with her husband, Dimitri. “That little banter we had was so amazing. We felt like we were doing a sitcom. It was brilliant. I hope more of that is to come.”

will return to Salem this summer as a bit of a new woman. <snip>   “She went off to Alamania and got her hands on Dimitri’s money, and money can change a person,”  “She’s just been swanning around the world, traveling and spending, and when she comes back, she’s a little more refined. She also has this newfound power, because she has money that she can use as leverage to get whatever she wants, so there’s lots of room for story there.”

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