Days of Our Lives fans ‘concerned’ for show’s future as they wonder ‘why everyone is leaving’ the cast
DAYS of Our Lives fans have become concerned for the show’s future after recent cast exits.
Viewers have started to notice a pattern in how many stars are leaving the show and are wondering what’s going on behind the scenes.
While soap fans are no strangers to comings and goings with the casts of their favorite shows, DAYS fans are worried that it’s been a little heavier on the goings lately.
To start with, Marci Miller‘s legacy character, Abigail Deveraux, was killed off the show, sending the show into a whole murder mystery storyline and effectively ending Abby and Chad DiMera’s love story.
Soon after that, fans said goodbye to Sal Stowers and Lamon Archey, and their respective characters, Lani and Eli – otherwise known by their couple name, Elani.
Lani was written off the show with a jail sentence in Maryland, after she recently confessed to killing her biological father, TR.
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Lamon’s character, meanwhile, left Salem with their kids, Jules and Carver, and moved to be closer to where his wife Lani’ll be serving her time behind bars.
Along with the three who have already exited in recent weeks, two more are set to depart on Friday.
Victoria Konefal, who stars as Ciara Brady, is leaving the show, as well as Robert Scott Wilson, who plays Ben, the other half of her onscreen couple, Cin.
While DAYS writer head writer, Ron Carlivati, teased to Soap Opera Digest that Robert may be returning down the line, Victoria’s time has come to an end.
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One nervous fan tweeted about all the cast exits: “As a long time #DaysofOurLives fan & avid viewer, I’m worried about this show.
“Losing Abigail, Lani, Eli, Ciara & Ben. @carlivatiron it’s time to do some recasts.
“Yes we love the actors that played them but we love the characters! Don’t replace these characters w/ new characters.”
Another wondered: “How will losing #Chabby and #Elani at the same time impact #Days?”
A fellow DAYS viewer added of the latest exiting couple: “And #Cin!”
“Days is really suffering by losing Abigail, Lani, Eli, Ciara and Ben in such a short span of time,” wrote a fourth upset fan.
A fifth fumed: “Bye Bye Ben and Ciara and bye bye Days too many good people leaving and with Abby dead, i just don’t see the point in watching.”
Writer Ron explained of why Victoria’s leaving the show: “She really just wasn’t available on a regular basis.
“And in the way our show works and how you have to schedule people, it just became less feasible to keep her in that status.”
Especially when dealing with writing for a couple, like Ciara and Ben, he said “you need these people to be on contract.”
Lamon revealed to the same outlet that this issue is what led to his departure, as well.
While he didn’t necessarily want to leave the series, he said DAYS had problems with keeping him on in the status he was in.
As the actor has also been starring on The CW’s All American and keeping his eyes open for other opportunities, he only wanted to be on the soap part-time.
That ended up not being enough for the show.
Lamon told his agent that he “didn’t want to do a contract anymore” with the soap but would be “down to do recurring.”
He continued: “I just didn’t want to be tied down and not have the freedom to pursue other jobs, play other characters.”
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In the end, the actor said, “it was something [DAYS] couldn’t deal with.”
“They ultimately made the decision that they couldn’t keep me on recurring status and that was that,” he added.