Days Of Our Lives
DAYS This Week: Rafe finds out about Sami and EJ's Grief-Sex! – Watch the Video!
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This week, Days of our Lives is punching their heavyweight story forward, when Rafe (Galen Gering) finally learns the truth that his wife, Sami (Alison Sweeney) had grief-sex with his arch enemy, EJ (James Scott), during the hours that little Johnny went MIA! The fallout could be huge!
So SAFE and EJAMI fans, what do you think should happen now? Rafe and Sami are shattered, perhaps Nicole (Arianne Zucker) and EJ, too! Couple all of this with the Rafe and Carrie (Christie Clark) connection, and Will’s (Chandler Massey) involvement in all of this and voila! Drama, Drama, Drama.
Watch the NBC promo for a sneak peek after the jump, as Rafe clocks EJ! And then let us know how you would like to see this all play out!
Beyond the Gates
53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations Announced: ‘The Young and the Restless’ Tops With 18, ‘Beyond the Gates’ With 16
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the full list of nominees for the upcoming 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, and it was CBS daytime’s The Young and the Restless and broadcast television newest soap opera, Beyond the Gates that racked up the most nominations with 18 and 16, respectively.
The full reveal on Tuesday follows the announcement of several major categories including Lead Actor and Actress on Monday via Extra and Entertainment Tonight and The View today revealing Daytime Drama Series and more.
The 53rd Annual Daytime Emmys ceremony is set to take place on Friday, October 30 at the historic Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California.
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In a statement, Adam Sharp, President and CEO of NATAS expressed, “We’re proud to honor the extraordinary talent and creative teams whose work continues to define and elevate daytime television, As the Daytime landscape evolves and new forms of storytelling emerge, we remain committed to recognizing the innovation happening across the industry.”
“Each year, the Daytime Emmy Awards celebrate the creativity, passion, and dedication that drive this vibrant community of storytellers,” said Rachel Schwartz, Head of the Daytime Emmy Awards. “Congratulations to this year’s nominees, whose work continues to entertain, inspire and connect with audiences every day. We look forward to celebrating their remarkable achievements in Hollywood this October.”
The Daytime Emmy Awards have recognized outstanding achievement in television programming and crafts since 1974, honoring work in a variety of genres, including daytime dramas, talk series, entertainment news, culinary, adventure, instructional and legal/courtroom programming.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Honoree, Gold & Silver Circle Inductees, and ceremony host will be announced at a later date.
Now below, check out the nominees in the daytime drama, talk show, entertainment news series and creative arts categories and congratulations to all!
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Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
Beyond the Gates
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Stacy Haiduk (as Kristen DiMera), Days of Our Lives
Karla Mosley (as Dani Dupree), Beyond the Gates
Michelle Stafford (as Phyllis Summers), The Young and the Restless
Heather Tom (as Katie Logan), The Bold and the Beautiful
Tamara Tunie (as Anita Williams Dupree), Beyond the Gates
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Eric Braeden (as Victor Newman), The Young and the Restless
Steve Burton (as Jason Morgan), General Hospital
Scott Clifton (as Liam Spencer), The Bold and the Beautiful
Thorsten Kaye (as Ridge Forrester), The Bold and the Beautiful
Christian Jules Le Blanc (as Michael Baldwin), The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Linsey Godfrey (as Sarah Horton), Days of Our Lives
Camryn Grimes (as Mariah Copeland), The Young and the Restless
Beth Maitland (as Traci Abbott), The Young and the Restless
Trisha Mann-Grant (as Leslie Thomas), Beyond the Gates
Amanda Setton (as Brook Lynn Quartermaine), General Hospital
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
Sean Dominic (as Nate Hastings), The Young and the Restless
Timon Kyle Durrett (as Bill Hamilton), Beyond the Gates
Michael Graziadei (as Daniel Romalotti), The Young and the Restless
Roger Howarth (as Matt Clark), The Young and the Restless
Mike Manning (as Bradley “Smitty” Smith), Beyond the Gates
Lawrence Saint-Victor (as Carter Walton), The Bold and the Beautiful
Outstanding Emerging Talent in a Daytime Drama Series
Braedyn Bruner (as Emma Scorpio-Drake), General Hospital
Al Calderon (as Javier Hernandez), Days of Our Lives
Alice Halsey (as Rachel Black), Days of Our Lives
Giovanni Mazza (as Gio Palmieri), General Hospital
Ambyr Michelle (as Eva Thomas), Beyond the Gates
Arielle Prepetit (as Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne), Beyond the Gates
Outstanding Guest Performance in a Daytime Drama Series
Jasmine Burke (as June Hughes), Beyond the Gates
Jeff Kober (as Cyrus Renault), General Hospital
Eva LaRue (as Natalia Rogers-Ramirez), General Hospital
Christopher Sean (as Paul Narita), Days of Our Lives
Ray Wise (as Ian Ward), The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Writing Team for a Daytime Drama Series
Beyond the Gates
The Bold and the Beautiful
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
Outstanding Directing Team for a Daytime Drama Series
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Casting for a Daytime Program
Beyond the Gates
General Hospital
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series
3rd Hour of TODAY
The Drew Barrymore Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Live With Kelly and Mark
TODAY With Jenna & Friends
The View
Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin & Ana Navarro, The View
Kelly Clarkson, The Kelly Clarkson Show
Tamron Hall, Tamron Hall
Jennifer Hudson, The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sherri Shepherd, Sherri
Outstanding Entertainment News Series
Access Hollywood
Entertainment Tonight
Extra
Outstanding Daytime Personality (Daily)
Mona Kosar Abdi, Derek Hough & Terri Seymour, Extra
Cassie DiLaura, Denny Directo, Kevin Frazier, Rachel Smith & Nischelle Turner, Entertainment Tonight
Scott Evans, Zuri Hall, Kit Hoover & Mario Lopez, Access Hollywood
Star Jones & Corey Jovan, Divorce Court
Outstanding Arts and Popular Culture Program
Beyond the Gates: Welcome to the Neighborhood — An Entertainment Tonight Special
Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Working In the Theatre
Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Daytime
Beyond the Gates, Episode 103
Have Guitar Will Travel World
The Kelly Clarkson Show Episode 5033
Let Frankie Cook,” Getting the Band Back Together
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Outstanding Technical Direction and Video for a Daytime Program
Beyond the Gates, Episode 104
The Bold and the Beautiful,” Episode 9511
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade”
The Jennifer Hudson Show, ” Episode 4041
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade”
Outstanding Hairstyling and Makeup for a Daytime Program
Beyond the Gates, Episode 103
General Hospital, Episode 15719
The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Episode 5033
The Young and the Restless,” Episode 13273
So, what do you think of the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy nominations? Who are you happy to see receive a nomination and who do you think was snubbed? Weigh-in via the comment section.
Monday on Entertainment Tonight, the second set of nominations for the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced which included the highly-coveted Outstanding Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series – Actress and Outstanding Daytime Talk Series.
ET followed suit after Extra announced the nominees, as previously reported, in the Outstanding Lead Performance in a Daytime Drama Series – Actor and Outstanding Daytime Talk Host.
Now, five leading ladies of the soaps are vying for the gold for Lead Actress and the category marked the first-ever nominations for CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates when two actresses made the final cut. Only General Hospital is not represented among the actresses this year after Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis) took home the trophy last year.
Photo: NATAS
THE FIVE LEADING LADIES OF THE SOAPS ARE …
The 2026 Lead Actress nominees are: Stacy Haiduk (Kristen DiMera), Days of Our Lives, Karla Mosley (Dani Dupree), Beyond the Gates, Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Summers), The Young and the Restless, Heather Tom (Katie Logan), The Bold and the Beautiful, and Tamara Tunie (Anita Dupree), Beyond the Gates.
This marks the first Daytime Emmy nominations for Karla Mosley and Tamara Tunie. In addition, this marks the first-time in her career that Stacy Haiduk had received a Lead Actress nod after two Supporting Actress nominations.
Meanwhile, Michelle Stafford had previously won 3 Emmys – 2 for Lead Actress and 1 for Supporting, but this recognition makes it her 11th overall nomination.
Heather Tom currently is tied for the most all-time Daytime Emmy wins with One Life to Live alum and General Hospital guest star, Erika Slezak. The B&B star has 19 nominations throughout her career.
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DAYTIME TALK SERIES
In the Outstanding Daytime Talk Series category, the nominees are: 3rd Hour of Today, The Drew Barrymore Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Live with Kelly and Mark, Today with Jenna and Friends and The View.
“We’re proud to honor the extraordinary talent and creative teams whose work continues to define and elevate daytime television,” NATAS president and CEO Adam Sharp said in a statement on the nominations. “As the Daytime landscape evolves and new forms of storytelling emerge, we remain committed to recognizing the innovation happening across the industry.”
The rest of the nominations will be revealed tomorrow on Tuesday July 14 starting on The View and then the full list of nominees in both the main and creative arts will be released by NATAS. The 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards are slated for October 30th in Hollywood, California.
So, what do you think about the women who are vying for the Lead Actress Daytime Emmy? Happy with who got in? Who do you feel got snubbed? What do you think of the nominees for Daytime Talk Series? Weigh-in via the comment section.
It’s Daytime Emmy nomination week, and as previously reported things kick-off on Monday, July 13 when Entertainment Tonight (7pm ET) will announce the nominees for Lead Actress category and Daytime Talk Series for the upcoming 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards. In addition on Monday, Extra (7pm ET) will reveal the nominees for Lead Actor and Daytime Talk Host.
On Tuesday, The View (11am ET) starts things off with their announcement of Daytime Drama, Entertainment News program and Outstanding Daytime Personality-Daily. That is followed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) full reveal of all the categories beginning at 12noon ET/9am PT on their website and their official social handles on X and Instagram.
Then, Tuesday night at 8pm ET/5pm PT join Michael Fairman as he hosts his 12th annual Daytime Emmy Nominations Special 2026 live on You Tube’s Michael Fairman Channel where he will chat with some of the just announced nominees as we celebrate the hard work of the men and women in front of the camera who will be going for gold.
WHEN ARE THE DAYTIME EMMYS?
This year, the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be handed out on October 30 in ceremonies in Hollywood, California (Venue yet to be revealed). At that time, as like last year, both the major categories and creative arts will be presented. There is no word yet on a broadcast partner for the annual celebration of daytime programming, or if it will soley be streamed on NATAS’ watch.theemmys.tv and various apps and platforms.
WHO WILL BE APPEARING ON THE DAYTIME EMMY NOMINATIONS SPECIAL 2026?
Throughout Tuesday, keep an eye on Michael Fairman TV’s social media handles on X, Facebook and Instagram, for updates of who will be expected to appear on our live show.
If you have a question or comment for one of the nominees, or on the nominations, we can encourage you to join us in the live chat on Tuesday night.
So, who are you hoping lands a nomination from Beyond the Gates, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Bay, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless? Let us know via the comment section. More Tuesday!
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Days has been awesome the past few days!!! I cannot wait for the s#$% to hit the fan!!! Loved the confrontation between Sami and Marlena today; so typical and true to the characters and history. Love, love, love! Now it’s 2:00 est and there’s nothing on…I guess I can find something outside to do. LOL.
good,every time I see her giving rafe a lecture on how hurt she is ,I want to reach out to the t v and strangle her ,she gets me so mad.what she did is far worse then a stupid kiss he gave carrie, which would piss me off to ,but not if I was doing the you know what, with someone else ,that just so happens to be my ex,hello,who is she to get all high and mighty,well , thats going to be a must see t v.
Days is definitely keeping my interest. Rafe and Sami are good together.
But I sure would like to have One Life to Live back. I so wish NBC would pick up One Life.
I agree about OLTL. All of the reality/talk shows on all of the networks in the afternoon are awful. OLTL would be an improvement over any of them.
It should be interesting, whatever happens. Thought Sami was going to be pregnant and then have to go through a paternity test with the truth coming out that way.
True. I thought that Sami would be pregnant as well. I just cant wait for EJAMI to get back together. EJOLE are soooooooooooooooooo boring, I want to tear my hair to shreds. Arianne Zuker is a good actress but lately her pairing with James Scott has brought her down. In fact most storylines are boring on DAYS. This storyline has perked my interest though.
I can’t stand Rafe and Carrie together. I hope they don’t go anywhere with that storyline!!
I dont like them together either ,but what sami did to rafe ,there is no way ,If I was him,that I would stick around with her.I would go back to the apartment, pack all my things, then get a divorce lawyer ,all in the same day.
LOL Days “BORING” No way.
you must be watching B&B 🙂
Sami and mama today was great,I was hopeing mama-dearest would bitch slap Sami.
AS/Sami has always been at her best acting with BD/Lucas Horton :0
I would have loved to see marlana ,smack sami,I kept waiting for her to say ,I know what you did.days is not boring,it was classic soap opera today.its the stuff that makes you tune in tomorrow,cant wait till 1 oclock.
I’m so excited about this, Sami and Rafe have always been the most boring couple in Days history… can’t wait for that farce of a relationship to be over and just in time for Sami’s soulmate Lucas to pick up the pieces. I think this will be a bump in the road for Ejole but they were technically separated when EJ & Sami did the nasty & i think their love & this new baby Nicole is expecting will bring them back together, stronger & better than ever! Ejole & LUMI!!!! it doesn’t get better than those two couples!
It’s not OLTL, but I am trying to get into it. It’s hard starting to watch a new soap and knowing nothing about the characters. I realize you can read about their history online, but it isn’t the same as watching their history and emotions develop over time. At least based on a recent NY Times article, NBC seems committed to continuing soaps, unlike ABC. Maybe the executives at NBC are smart enough to understand many people cannot stand talk/reality programming.
If NBC seems to be committed on keeping the soaps on that channel … Abc should learn a lesson from NBC… I still say put OLTL on another channel becaues ABC doesn’t appreciate OLTL and The talented acting & the wonderful stories that goes with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not sure that will happen………… STILL MISS OLTL!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m septical about NBC wanting to keep Days regardless about what that guy said on the New York Times this past Sunday. The ratings of Days are bad and the only reason why it’s still around is most likely because it is under contract with NBC until 2013. If NBC really wanted to keep Days (as what that guy from the NY Times article pretend) then how come they have not renewed yet Days through 2014 (the stipulation on the contract with Sony has an option that allows NBC to renew Days until 2014).
If NBC renews again Days , then I’ll believe that the network is truly commited to the genre. But right now, I have the bad feeling that NBC wants to exit the industry just as much as ABC. Remember this is the network that has murdered Passions, Another World, Sunset Beach and Santa Barbara. So I have no reason to believe that NBC would renew Days in 2013, especially if ABC cancels GH.
I see your point. I didn’t realize NBC had already killed so many soaps and has only one left. You are probably right. NBC may not turn out to be any different than ABC.
I’m septical about NBC wanting to keep Days regardless about what that guy said on the New York Times this past Sunday. The ratings of Days are bad and the only reason why it’s still around is most likely because it is under contract with NBC until 2013. If NBC really wanted to keep Days (as what that guy from the NY Times article pretend) then how come they have not renewed yet Days through 2014 (the stipulation on the contract with Sony has an option that allows NBC to renew Days until 2014).
If NBC renews again Days , then I’ll believe that the network is truly commited to the genre. But right now, I have the bad feeling that NBC wants to exit the industry just as much as ABC. Remember this is the network that has murdered Passions, Another World, Sunset Beach and Santa Barbara. So I have no reason to believe that NBC would renew Days in 2013, especially if ABC cancels GH.
You got that right..! My God, NBC has murdered FOUR soaps, and it started with them. We need a soap opera network Heather.
As of today 02/23/12 Days of Our Lives crossed a line with Will kissing a male. Im not old or old fashion but this was wrong. There is just certain things that should not be on Days and this is one of them. Its about respect for the viewers and having certain values. I do believe that Ken Corday said with the new writers the show would return to its “CORE VALUES” ,, Please tell me this is not a preview of whats going to happen!!!!!!!!!!!! I have lost so much respect for Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please let Sami and Rafe stay together.
Finally! Carrie and Rafe and Lumi will be together. Hopefully EJole reunites after this!
I hope rafe and Sami stay together. They are so cute. It’s so wrong for Carrie and rare to be together. It’s her sisters husband. Carrie is so wrong she first sleeps with Austin then sleeps with his brother Lucas . Then she sleeps with Lucas brother mike. And now she wants her sister husband . Talk about keeping I in the whole family. When will she find her own man and quit sleeping withnpeoples relatives . The writers gave her a bad role model it’s imoral.
I do not want to see Sami and EJ together period. I want Sami and Rafe together forever with no more interruptions.