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BREAKING NEWS: Billy Flynn Leaves ‘Days of our Lives’ for New Role on ‘The Young and the Restless’
Three-time Daytime Emmy nominee, Billy Flynn, one of the finest actors on the soaps, is heading out of Salem with a one-way ticket to Genoa City in breaking casting news on Tuesday.
For ten years, Flynn has played the role of Chad DiMera on Days of our Lives and he will now make his debut on the top-rated, The Young and the Restless later this spring in what is said to be a brand new role.
The casting shocker was first revealed by TV Insider. In a statement from Billy Flynn, he expressed, “I am grateful for my years at DAYS; it changed my life in the best ways. I’ve always said these stories we tell are like doing a play, and I’ve spent the last 10-plus years playing this amazing character and telling one of the all-time great love stories. And now I’m excited for this opportunity and to test myself in a new way.”
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During his time on DAYS, Billy was often one-half of soap super couple Chad and Abby, as played by Kate Mansi and Marci Miller at different intervals during his run.
As he departs Days of our Lives, the series EP, Ken Corday wishes Flynn well and shared, “We support Billy as an actor and friend, and wish him nothing but continued success and happiness, personally and professionally. He will certainly be missed in Salem. Because of DAYS’ unique shooting schedule, which tapes nine months ahead of when the shows airs, Flynn will remain on the soap well into 2026.”
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That means, fans will be seeing double of Flynn as he begins his Y&R role which should see him on episodes within the next few months. Billy’s new boss, Y&R’s executive producer and head writer, Josh Griffith, shared on his latest talent acquistion, “On behalf of the entire company of The Young and the Restless, we look forward to welcoming Billy to the show. He will be a wonderful addition to Y&R’s stellar cast.”
Greg Rikaart, who currently plays Leo Stark on Days of our Lives, but who also has spent many years on The Young and the Restless as Kevin Fisher. took to his Instagram story, when the casting news broke and shared, “I love you, Billy Flynn and I am very excited for you, and also I will miss you and my Chadwick like mad.”
Michael Fairman TV will continue to update this story as developments and information come to light.
So, what do you think of Billy Flynn departing Days of our Lives and joining The Young and the Restless? Will you miss him as Chad? Excited to see what role he will play in his new soap home? Comment below.
It sounds like it was a potentially last-minute decision, as Billy Flynn participated in the 60th anniversary shoot. Billy Flynn is insanely talented, and while I’d rather watch The Young and the Restless over Days of Our Lives, it’s going from one less-than-stellar soap to another. But I will support him and look forward to seeing what he’ll do on a soap where a cast actually does show up to work.
I’m so excited! I quit watching DOOL years ago but he was always one of my favorites! Can’t wait to see who he plays!
This is a shock ! Have always loved him on days and it will interesting to see him on restless Restless is a show that could a good place for him so while he will be very missed at days I look forward to what he will bring to yandr
Well this sucks dragon ass. Guess we will never know if Abigail is alive or not now (she’s not in Hell, that much I know for certain)
Let’s hope Y and R can figure out a storyline for him.
Not very likely.
Is he the love interest for Summer, Claire or Victoria.
Summer I hope!!! I like Hayley Erin but she is an absolute bore on Y&R and Billy is so charismatic I personally feel like that would just be a flop and a waste.
That’s how I feel about Summer and I feel Victoria would be too old for Billy.
Not Victoria for sure!!!
Boo
I wouldn’t get my hopes up. Mr. Griffith is still learning how to write, and what he puts on screen isn’t even worthy of a kudo. Look no further than this website, how often do you see anything grabbing headlines from Y&R….you don’t. The ship is lost at sea, and nobody knows how to steer the ship.
Aristotle Dumas?
Maybe he will be a love interest for Sally, since Billy seems to be edging towards Phyllis.
Hopefully Billy will bring energy, mystery, intrigue and romance to GC. Summer needs to get out of her bitch phase and stop pining over Kyle. The only previous character I can think of him portraying would be Ryder Carter, who is Lucy’s biological uncle and brother of Daisy. Daniel needs some storyline, so the return of these devious twins could be interesting, though I cannot recall if they are even alive. Now hopefully they can start working on the younger generation since everyone is in their mid-thirties, closer to 40s, and getting closer to the age of not having children. The only little babes/toddlers are Aria and Dominic. Time to fill in the 20s with Reed, Mattie, Charlie, etc.
When he leaves, can he take Cat with him? I watch Y&R so I’ll see him there. I think Days will be okay.
Billy deserves so much more than Days gave him in recent memory. The Kat is Abby, wait, no she’s not storyline was abysmal.
I’ll miss him like crazy and will def check him out on Y&R.
I’ll be SO GLAD when we finally get rid of the horrible writing of Ron Carlivati. I put this solely at his feet.
Excited for this casting move, but I’ll be cautiously optimistic given Y&R’s u fortunate track record of wasting massive talent from other shows (Trevor St. John, Maura West, Cynthia Watros, and Cady McClain immediately come to mind).
Cynthia Watros left of her own accord; she was a recurring player and landed a leading role in a primetime series, so that’s why Cady McClain came in as her replacement.
It sounds like it was a potentially last-minute decision, as Billy Flynn participated in the 60th anniversar
I’m sad he is leaving and we never got an Abby return but I will have to say Cat was pulling on my heartstrings. I have watched Y&R for a few years so I am awaiting his new character. He is an awesome actor. I have met him in person on a Days Tour and he is so great. I also got to meet him and Abby together in Atlanta. Great people!
I’m going to miss Billy Flynn as Chad. He was good father and I wanted him and Kay to get together and his kids would get to love her too. This Chad had a great chemistry with EJ too. He was the calm sibling in the Dimeras. I don’t know if I will watch now and why couldn’t he play both roles like Bonnie’s husband does and play on rental hospital too. So in April the kids will be grown up and where are they going too. I’m sad and not happy sorry not sorry.
More casting news from Days of Our Lives, and for now, the soap opera seems to be breaking their new additions to Salem via their Instagram account. Now comes word and picture on August 24, that General Hospital and The Young and the Restless alum Brytni Sarpy has joined DAYS!
The Peacock soap opera’s Instagram account, showed a photo of Sarpy standing in front of her dressing room in the hallways of Days of Our Lives’ studios. The caption read, “Someone new is checking into Salem… Welcome Brytni Sarpy to the Days of our Lives family! Stay tuned.”
The casting of Sarpy comes on the heels of the announcement of Sydney Malakeh coming to the show in September, and earlier this year General Hospital favorite, Sofia Mattsson (ex-Sasha Gilmore, GH) joining the show in a mystery role when she began taping back around the end of March of this year. Now Sarpy is the “mystery role” category too!
In addition, the Days of Our Lives social team dropped a video ditty of the cast spoofing Love Island, where Sarpy appears as the new “bombshell” of the villa. Other cast members such as Rob Scott Wilson (Alex), Abigail Klein (Abigail), Casey Moss (JJ), Sal Stowers (Lani), Paul Telfer (Xander) and Linsey Godfrey (Sarah) pop-up in it too, among others.
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SOAP HOPPING
Soap fans first met Sarpy when she played Valerie Spencer, the niece of Luke (Anthony Geary) and Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) on General Hospital back in 2015. She made her final appearance on the series back in 2019 to join the cast of The Young and the Restless in the role of Elena Dawson.
Elena was introduced as a love interest for Devon Winters (Bryton James). She later cheated on him with his cousin Nate Hastings (Sean Dominic). Elena began to be back-burned by 2023 with Sarpy’s last on-screen appearance in Genoa City in November of 2024.
Due to Days of Our Lives nearly year in advance tape schedule, viewers will have to wait till sometime in the early summer of 2027 to see Brytni’s arrival in Salem.
So, happy to see Brytni Sarpy has landed another soap role? Now that she is at DAYS, who you think she might be playing and paired with? Put on your casting director hats and let us know via the comment section.
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Sydney Malakeh Joins the Cast of ‘Days of Our Lives’ in Mystery Role: Who Do You Think She’s Playing?
There’s a new gal coming to Salem, or is she new and a recast? That’s what inquiring minds from Days of Our Lives fans have been trying to figure out since the Peacock soap opera dropped an Instagram video heralding actress‘ Sydney Malakeh‘s arrival in Salem.
The soap did confirm that viewers will first see Malakeh on the September 9 episode. In the video, Malakeh is seen going set to set from her dressing room and in to the halls of Days of Our Lives studios.
What we do know id that Sydney has been acting professionally for 6 years and had appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Apple TV’s Shrinking and the HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Plenty of Malakeh’s DAYS castmates jumped into the comment thread with positive emojis symbols or written excitement including: Paul Telfer (Xander), Linsey Godfrey (Sarah), Sal Stowers (Lani), Conner Floyd (Chad), Eric Martsolf (Brady) and Christie Clark (Carrie) and more now that fans will finally see her on-air. Since Days of Our Lives tapes 10-11 months in advance, Sydney would have started taping the show sometime back in 2025.
DAYS fans think perhaps because the actress’ name is Sydney that she might be playing the grown-up daughter of Sami and EJ. That character hasn’t bee on the canvas since 2021.
So, who do you think Sydney Malakeh might be playing on Days of Our Lives? Drop your casting director thoughts via the comment section below.
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Peacock Hikes Subscription Rates for Fourth Time in Four Years; ‘Days of Our Lives’ Fans Sound Off
While recently the streaming service Peacock reported turning a profit for its first time since its infancy, now comes word that the company is raising their prices for all customers, and in some cases it stared today on August 18.
The news of the subscription rate increases marks the fourth time the NBCUniversal streaming platform has done so in four years. So, on August 18, Peacock is increasing the prices for new or returning subscribers and customers, while current subscribers will see the rate increase on or after September 17 depending on their billing cycle when they initially signed up.
Here is the new pricing to follow along: Peacock Premium (which includes ads) will be $12.99/month, up two dollars from $10.99; Peacock Premium Plus will be $19.99/month, up three dollars increase from $16.99; and the Peacock Select tier (which includes current and past seasons of NBC and Bravo shows but excludes movies, live sports and Peacock originals) will increase a dollar from $7.99 to $8.99/month.
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SUBSCRIBERS CONTINUE TO PAY MORE ACROSS THE STREAMER LANDSCAPE
It was back in June that the streamer reported that aid subscribers were up to 48 million adding a 2 million net gain during Q2 in of 2026. The subscription price hikes are rampant now in the entertainment streaming industry where over the last two years for example, Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV, Paramount+ have all raised their fees to consumers.
Peacock’s tier-levels feature not only Days of Our Lives, but reality hits such as The Traitors and Love Island USA, Bravo series, and a vault of Saturday Night Live, Law & Order, The Real Housewives franchise, and Below Deck episodes as well. Pecock Premium and Premium Plus subscribers have access to sports and live events, as well.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES SUBSCRIBERS HAD A FEW CHOICE WORDS FOR PEACOCK
As Days of Our Lives fans know, the soap opera moved from NBC to the streamer back in September of 2022 after 57 years on broadcast television. When the news hit X on the price increase, DAYS fans had a lot to say about it. Here are just a few of the comments below:
“I can’t believe Peacock and can’t come to a deal with Cordya to air old episodes of #Days. That alone would bring a ton of subscribers,” to If Peacock actually cared about #Days of Our Lives, gave the show the budget it needs for better sets, cameras, background actors and enough time to tell proper stories, I wouldn’t mind paying more. If the money actually showed on screen, the higher price would be worth it,” to “I will continue to pay for a Peacock subscription as long as #Days is on it, but did we know there was another price increase coming?” and more.
So, what do you think of the new price hike increase to watch Days of Our Lives and your other favorite shows and events on Peacock? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
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