Deidre's own birthday in real life is Halloween. She has said in multiple interviews through the years that the possession was her favorite storyline (that would be the original possession storyline.) No idea what she thought about 2.0 under Carlivati.
But yeah I agree with everyone who posted that it would be nice to hear something different in her interviews.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by janea4old

5 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

I asked Claude

4 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

I still say Days could’ve made Paul’s existence a lot easier to understand if they had consulted Jason47

I'd bet on @JAS0N47 anytime.

8 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

I vaguely remember the flashback of Tori saying that she didn't tell John about Paul because he was a priest, but I always thought she also said that Paul was already a little boy when that was supposed to have happened

8 hours ago, carolineg said:

Perhaps the affair occurred in the Isabella/Rebecca gap instead?

yes to both

Here's Jason's birth order, but it's only births onscreen, with a few exceptions., so Paul's not mentioned.

https://www.jason47.com/days/daysbirths.html

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by janea4old

Well, Chat GTP disagrees with Claude and says Belle is older.

Well, it doesn't exactly clear anything up, so one of us would probably have to find episodes of Days 2015 and watch them again and I DO NOT volunteer as tribute. So I will just agree Paul is older than Belle lol.

I am pretty sure the show was a little wonky and vague with the details so we all can choose our own adventure on Paul's age and conception timeline.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by carolineg

59 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

Well, Chat GTP disagrees with Claude and says Belle is older.

I've never used AI for anything, and never plan to, but checking the records as I've done as a human since my first computer in 1995, I found these items just now:

4/13/15 transcript:

Paul (speaking to Tori): I know you were working here in Salem nine months before I was born. You must have met my father here. Is john Black my father?

John first learned he had been (and still was) a priest in September 1994. Kristen broke things off with him, and he met with Tony and Kristen as Father John in February 1995.

So I always took the Tori meeting to have taken place sometime in late 1994/early 1995, which would mean based on what Paul said to Tori in 2015, that he was born around the end of 1995, two years after Belle (October 1993).

Those are going by what actually happened on the show in real time.

Of course, with SORAS anything can change. Paul was already a famous MLB pitcher when he arrived in Salem in 2014, so if you give him around 3-4 years in the minors, and if he was drafted directly out of high school/not college, plus 2-3 years in the majors by 2014, then that backdates his birth to around 1990.

And with Claire graduating from high school in 2016, that means Belle gave birth to her in 1998, pushing her birth to at least back to 1982.

Of course Marlena today said she just arrived in Salem in 1976, and with Belle being born now in 1982 at the latest, that means she would have to have had DJ with Don and Sami/Eric with Roman all between 1976-1981! And then Belle with John in 1982.

That's why SORAS never works when you use actual dates (like Marlena in Salem for 50 years)!!