This is so funny I cant believe people will actually buy Guy Wilson playing Will. They should have paired Sonny with someone else or better yet not fired Chandler Massey. It will end in tears very quickly

Only time Will tell if this works out…im WILLing to give the new ‘GUY’ a chance! Be patient folks! And have a Happy New Will! lol

Looking forward to the new incarnation of Will. For the negative attitudes, soaps have recasts. It’s part of the continuing story aspect of the genre. Some recasts work. Some don’t. Some of the greatest roles in soap opera history have been recast and owned and defined by their replacements:
Jess Walton as Jill on Y&R
Erika Slezak as Victoria on OLTL
Victoria Wyndham as Rachel on AW
Mary Beth Evans as Kayla on DAYS
Jill Larson as Opal on AMC
John Ingle as Edward on GH
Constance Towers as Helena on GH

Let’s give this new “Guy” a chance.

Saw the photo of the NuWilson, the pic looks awkward, they don’t look like a couple, they look more like brothers… Sorry to say this..but it will never parallel what. Chandler and Freddie has done to the role.. 🙁

Sammy: Chandler wanted to leave and was willing anyway to just let his contract with Days finished itself out. But it was a wrong call for Chandler to speak about him wanting to leave publicly too soon as he’s character is still driving story and the show had yet to even start a casting call for his replacement at the time. I’m sure he didn’t even approach Ken Corday on wanting to leave. As with any profession, you don’t do that behind your employer’s back.

He was let go earlier just as he finished shooting his scenes in the final episodes for the year several months ago which are now being aired at the moment. As scripts may have already been written long before they were shot, any last-minute rewrites to allow the character to exit for a certain amount of time might prove detrimental to whatever stories Will is involved with (i.e. Nick’s “murder”).

But it’s really unlike what happened with the Chad Duell-Drew Garret recast issue in GH as well as that other recast issue with Drew Tyler Bell-Adam Gregory in B&B where in those cases, the reason why both Drew Garret and Drew Tyler Bell were let go, when both never had any sentiments of leaving their respective shows, was that the TPTB wanted to give their respective characters a new direction in story (but there was certainly more to there though).

And hey, if there’s anything good coming out of this is that Chandler can resume his studies in university. It’s not always do we get to see young actors have an opportunity to finish school so he should count himself lucky.

As a gay man I am just happy to see a gay couple on a Soap, I love soaps and have since I started watching GH in 1993 and DAYS in 1995. I was 13 when I started watching GH. I lost faith in Days when RILEY started writing it again and quite watching in 2004 during the MELASWEN fisaco. JILL FARREN PHELPS and GUZA just dropped the Lucas coming out story and it was a huge disappointment to me. I started watching the whole DAYS reboot and I couldn’t get into. However, in the last month I have watched edits of the Will Storyline and I think Days did the best coming out of a character on any show. It was told so beautifully and I adored the relationship between Will and Marlena. My grandmother was the same way, my mom and dad finally came around but my grandmother was there for me when no one else was and she never came out and said it but she told me “I LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT” and always remember that. Later, on we could talk about it and she was so accepting and loving. So that resonated with me. I said all of this to say this. I will give Guy a chance because I love that two gay men are on the front burner on a soap. It’s about time people like me are represented on soaps and I appreciate it so much I will continue to watch. I have endured recasts on GH and I got through them. I really had a hard time when we lost Julie Marie Berman on GH but I have warmed up to Emme Rylan and I thought it was so sweet that Genie said at the PALEY CENTER that she wanted to play her mother when they both were on Y&R. So it is hard to accept but I will try my damnedest because Chandler choose to leave. And I hope everyone else will do the same. I really am a huge supporter of soaps. I am so glad they are getting a resurgence and I plan on watching Days live in the New Year. I tried to get into Y&R by watching Katherine’s Memorial but it have Jill Farren Phelps mark was all over it and I didn’t think it was done very well. And B&B I have no connection to it (my granny watched Y&R) so I have never been able to get into it. So once again as I said, I love soaps. I think they are AMERICANA and I hope that they will be around for many years to come. We have lost so much. I loved ATWT and they gay storyline they did and then it was cancelled. But I still feel Will’s was executed the best of them all. So anyways, thanks for letting me share my thoughts. I really love Micheal’s site and I thank him for his enthusiastic approach to soaps. HAPPY NYE to everyone!

These obsessive stans give soap fans a bad name

Well here we are in the 3rd month, Will and Sonny are getting ready to walk down the isle. Why do I feel so ashamed of it now? I vowed to give this nuWill a chance, how much longer do I have to wait before there is a spark to the relationship? There is no chance that true fans of DAYS will belive these two are even friends let alone a couple. Furthermore, we have come to know Freddie as this cool worldly knowledgeable guy, he would never get with this version of Will. The storyline was ‘Believable” now it is just a sad pathetic attempt at gay viewers.