Cary Christopher (Thomas) announced that he left Days a while back but is still airing.

https://www.facebook.com/carychristopherofficial/posts/pfbid02komSyNMgMY2oZquT3EzjaYbo5q12VL61bteyhQ7a4Ay9j7gWCHVCaq6kb1kGYMDfl

(He included many photos within his facebook post at that link)

Cary Christopher 
October 17, 2025

Yes it is true 🙁 I left Days of our Lives several months ago because I booked a role as a series regular for a new show coming to Amazon Prime in 2026. 
Days of our Lives was such a dream set to work on.  I started on this beloved soap when I was just 4.  How lucky am I that I got to call it my home for almost 6 years!? I have been so blessed to always be busy working but because of that I couldn’t be in two places at once and I had to leave the show to go work on other projects.  I will always hold a lot of memories from being on Days and Billy Flynn and I got to share a nice goodbye.  Billy- you were the best tv dad a kid could have. It always was so great working with you and learning from you.  And thank you, Days fans!! You all are the best ❤️
Here are some photos over the years 📸📺⏳
(I can't say where Thomas's story leads, and I don't know! so you'll have to continue to tune in! I'm next on as Thomas DiMera on Oct 22nd and Oct 31st)
Next up for me- Weapons will begin streaming on HBO Max next week if you missed it in theaters! In two weeks you can catch me guest starring on Chicago Med. In 2026 / 2027: the live action series of Spider-Noir will be coming out, I'll also be in Lanterns, and you can watch me as Justin in the family drama It's Not Like That
#carychristopher #daysofourlives #television #childactor #actor

Edited October 18Oct 18 by janea4old

Not surprising. That kid had a major role in Weapons and was impressive.

This makes it even more annoying that they're recasting Chad, instead of letting him and the kids leave town and resting them.

Billy Flynn's Y&R character -- the recast CaneAshby with an onscreen pseudonym of "AristotleDumas" -- was planned and written in to begin appearing earlier in 2025; but they had to hold off on Flynn's first  tapedate/airdate at Y&R, so that Flynn could finish out something for DAYS.  This made the other Y&R characters discuss "Aristotle Dumas" for months before he appeared onscreen. (Josh Griffith's scrambled writing at Y&R).
This has been verified in several reputable articles with quotes from Flynn.

Anyways, how this affects DAYS:
Based on Billy Flynn's known first tapedate and first airdate at Y&R,
and Conner Floyd's first tape date at DAYS (from an instagram showing his DAYS dressing room door on his first day),
there's about two months in between Flynn-Chad and Floyd-Chad.

With DAYS' overall production schedule having such a huge tape-to-airdate gap of many months, it's hard to know if DAYS blocktaped various things to make a longer or shorter gap between the two Chads.

If there was no adjustment, then the character of Chad is rested for approximately two months between the two actors. (February 2026 and April 2026).

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Back on topic for the DAYS character Thomas -- it will be interesting to see if Thomas and Charlotte do go visit Jack & Jennifer in Boston -- and if they return (recast) to Salem with nuChad or if they reappear in Salem later on but SORASed.

Edited October 18Oct 18 by janea4old