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Sonny & Will's First Official Kiss on Days of our Lives – Watch the Video!
This Friday is the long, long awaited day that Salem’s Sonny (Freddie Smith) and Will (Chandler Massey) finally have their first official lip-lock! And to tease us, TV Guide has released exclusively this first look at what precipitates the kiss, and then the beginning of the make-out scene!
This now will apparently signal that the long-awaited romance is officially also moving forward, but according to TVG, fans will have to wait closer to November sweeps to see anything close to the guys hitting the sheets together, and yes, there is that one big elephant in the room, that we all, in true soap fashion, is going to come back and bite Will! He slept with his ex-galfriend, Gabi (Camila Banus)!
This week Michael Fairman chatted with Freddie Smith for a new feature for Frontiers LA, where the talented star talked about the scenes where his mother Adrienne disapproved of Will, which helps lead to this smooch. In addition, Freddie reveals where things may go in the coming months with Sonny and Will. So make sure to check it out here!
And now after the jump, the clip of Sonny and Will’s first “kiss”! Let us know what you think?
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DAYS Alum Tanner Stine to Appear in ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ Starring Nicholas Chavez
Another face familiar to daytime fans has already boarded Ryan Murphy’s limited series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story which stars General Hospital favorite, Nicholas Chavez (Spencer Cassadine) in the role of Lyle.
Tanner Stine who played Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) and Steve’s (Stephen Nichols) son, Joey Johnson on Days of our Lives will also appear in the series.
In ‘Monsters’, look for Stine to portray the role of Perry Berman, who was Lyle and Erik’s friend and former tennis coach. In the story, Perry found himself at the epicenter of the murder mystery when he had accepted a phone call from Lyle shortly before the brutal murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez.
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Other previously announced castings included: Cooper Koch (who plays Erik), Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as parents Jose and Kitty Menendez, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne, Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson, and Leslie Grossman as Judalon Smyth.
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In the series, the two wealthy brothers stand trial for shooting their parents in Beverly Hills, amid claims of self-defense after years of abuse, while prosecutors alleged that greed was the motives for the killing. Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story will debut later in 2024 on Netflix.
What do you think about Tanner Stine being part of the all-star cast for ‘Monsters’? Miss Joey on Days of our Lives? Comment below.
Breaking News
51st Annual Daytime Emmy Nominations Set to Be Announced
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences revealed on Wednesday via X, that this year’s 51st annual Daytime Emmy Nominations are set to be announced in full on Friday, April 19th at 12 pm ET/9 am PT.
However, four of the top award category nominations will be revealed on Thursday, April 18th across four entertainment news programs to kick things off.
Those include this Thursday episodes of Access Hollywood, E! News, Entertainment Tonight and Extra. Over the past few years, NATAS has often let the syndicated entertainment news program handle the duties of revealing the top actor and actress in a daytime drama series, but we shall see which categories the shows unveil this year.
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As previously announced, the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be presented in ceremonies on Friday night, June 7th on CBS (8 – 10 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+*.
The awards will be back at The Bonaventure hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where (the delayed due to the actors and writers strike) 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were held back in December of 2023.
Look for the full nominations to be posted right here at Michael Fairman TV and you can follow along on Friday on the Daytime Emmys social platforms as well.
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The Daytime Emmy Awards have recognized outstanding achievement in television programming and crafts since 1974, honoring work in a variety of categories, including daytime dramas, talk shows, instructional programming, hosting, culinary, and legal/courtroom programs. In 2021, NATAS and the Television Academy jointly announced plans to realign the Daytime and Primetime Emmy Awards to be organized by content genre, as opposed to program airtime.
The 51st Daytime Emmy Nominations will honor the work and achievement from the calendar year of 2023.
So, who would you like to see in the running for gold when the Daytime Emmy nominations in the key acting and show categories are revealed? Share your thoughts below.
Let the countdown begin! #DaytimeEmmys nominations are coming this Friday at noon ET, with a special sneak peek tomorrow on @accesshollywood @enews @etnow @extratv! pic.twitter.com/aL5PFYXBCL
— Daytime Emmys (@DaytimeEmmys) April 17, 2024
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Days of our Lives wins WGA Award for Daytime Drama Series
Sunday night, April 14th in concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City, the Writers Guild of America is handing out their 76th annual WGA Awards in the fields of motion picture, television, news media, and radio/audio.
In the Daytime Drama category, Peacock’s Days of our Lives was the winner, taking home its fourth WGA Award in this category in a row.
The DAYS winning writing team consisted of Head Writer Ron Carlivati Creative Consultant Ryan Quan and Writers Sonja Alar, Jazmen Darnell Brown, Joanna Cohen, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Cheryl Davis, Kirk Doering, Christopher Dunn, Jamey Giddens, David Kreizman, Henry Newman, Dave Ryan, and Katherine D. Schock.
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The team from Days of our Lives bested the only other team in the category from General Hospital, which consisted of former GH head writers: Dan O’Connor, Chris Van Etten Writers Ashley Cook, Emily Culliton, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Shannon Peace, Stacey Pulwer, Dave Rupel, Lisa Seidman, and Scott Sickles.
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As previously reported, a show spokesperson for Days of our Lives shared that the episodes submitted for the competition were #14663, #14678 & #14679, and mostly centered around the death, and the funeral of Victor Kiriakis played by the late John Aniston.
This week, DAYS head scribe, Ron Carlivati, confirmed that, and told Michael Fairman TV on the decision of the scripts the team submitted: “I like to have some humor, but it was also the funeral, and then there was Sarah (Linsey Godfrey) giving birth, and then Vivian’s (Louise Sorel) crashing the reading of the will.”
You can follow along with the live updated list of all the winners from tonight’s WGA ceremonies here.
Michael Fairman TV will have more on DAYS WGA Award win as it becomes available.
So, what do you think of Days of our Lives winning the WGA Award writing award for a Daytime Drama series for the fourth year in a row? Comment below.
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This is such a turn-on to see. I love “WilSon” together. My fave couple since ATWT’s Nuke (Noah+Luke) and Ruke (Reid+Luke). I’m so loving their budding relationship. As a gay man, it’s nice to see such a beautiful story be written with such reality and respect. Thank you DAYS for introducing your LGBT-friendly storyline!
Please, oh, please! Do not go down the well-worn storyline path of Gabi discovering she is pregnant. there are far more interesting obstacles to this romance than that cliched chapter.
Will’s story has been written so well, and the actors here are very good. This plot is one of the reasons I came over to Salem when ATWT, AMC and OLTL left the airwaves. I keep up with all four remaining daytime dramas, but DAYS is the last one in which I became invested. Stories with humanity, please! … not so much silly unfocused spy intrigue.
I agree! Less “big event” tactics and more character driven stories are what make DAYS so special at its heart, especially for stories like this one.
As for the Gabi huccup, I’m hoping that it will be Will sleeping with her itself will create a hurdle for Wilson, and not a pregnancy. Though I wish they didn’t take this route in the first place, if the tension is *just* that Will had sex with Gabi, I’ll live. But if Gabi gets pregnant as a result, I think DAYS will be very sorry.
And to that kiss, muy caliente! Sweet and gentle but passionate. More, more!
Totally agree with about the Gabi stuff. A hurdle is okay, it’s drama and it keeps everyone onscreen. A pregnancy? Overdone and would ruin the dynamics of this relationship and lose viewership most likely!
I agree. Gabi being pregnant will ruin the show’s ratings even more/
Sorry but this brought tears to my eyes! I am so happy and they are so cute and sweet together.
I agree!!! Very, very, very touching!!! My favorite storyline right now.
That kiss is amazing! The chemistry there between Will and Sonny is unbelievable. I hope the show allows them to have a real romance with a real love scene. I am encourage with what Camila and Blake said. Crossing fingers and toes.
I love Sonny & Will together!!! they have mad chemistry. I’ll even forgive Chandler for looking on the verge of laughing in a lof ot his scenes — he’s still so frigging adorable and talented! Hope Days gives us more and please, please don’t have Gabi pop up preggers. PLEASE!
They really do have a lot of chemistry. I really hope they are endgame.
Yeah, I hope Days doesn’t pull the rug out from under this couple. These two light up the screen! Love both actors involved and I like the outside forces if it means seeing more of Justin & Adrienne too (even if I disagree with everything Adrienne says!) This is a promising and original story for a change.
I love this so much! One of my two favorite couples, the other being EJole.
Ejole is garbage don’t even speak about this please !
EJami is garbage. Look at everything they did to each other. EJole is the best.
Any love is good love.
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it was very tender… but i do not watch “days”…. it me, oliver fish will always be the best gay soap character.
The station I watch DOOL on runs shows a day ahead of NBC, so I this show today so it is not news for me. I must credit DOOL
Sorry I hit the worng computer key before I finished my thought and it submit my comment before I was ready. I must credit DOOL for writing an intelligent and realistic storyline for believeable gay characters. Unfortunely I think Gabi will end up with child, it may be predictible but I don’t see Sonny being too upset at Will for sleeping with Gabi when they were not together yet. It wasn’t cheating, so the obstacle will have to be something bigger, so either pregrancy or social disease- take your pick-this is soap opera after all
Although the comments here and on other boards all indicate that Will and Sony SL on DOOL is nice and well portrayed; I am afraid to start viewing this SL. Gay and lesbian SLs mostly end up in disaster; at least I can’t think of a single American show where the gay or lesbain SL ended on a happy note. It was a total debacle and waste of precious invested time when my all time favorite gay Sls Luke and Reid, and Luke and Noah bit the dust in the end on ATWT. Even after two years, I am still mad and angry at Chris Goutman and Jean Passanante for their horrendous travesty towards the 3 gay characters while giving every straight couple their HEA. May be I am not geared and wired for unhappy endings of any kind. So, if DOOL does decide to go against the norm and for once give a gay SL a HEA, then I will watch the Will and Sony SL once its completed in its entirety. I know that watching a rewatch is not as exciting as watching as and when it airs, but it is a far better option than waste of time on something where there is no certainty.
Finally!
That is about as deep and loving as it gets. And I love the way Will pulls Sonny in. They have incredible chemistry. Keep it up, DOOL!!!
The kiss is sweet and long overdue. I have checked some of WilSon’s story over the past year but I haven’t let myself get too invested since it seems like these shows always disappoint more often than not. I am a big Nuke fan and I sincerely hope Days gives fans what they want to see. And no one wants to see Gabi pregnant! That would kill the positve momentum of this story IMO.
This was a really sweet scene. Looking forward to more.
It’s nice that Sonny is so understanding and patient … I hope this relationship works out. If Gabi is pregnant, ugh.
I look forward to the day when scenes like this aren’t “news” but an everyday occurrence. We’ve come such a long way from MELROSE PLACE camera pull aways and the “controversial” THIRTYSOMETHING bed scene – but it’s 2012 and I’m glad to see that DAYS is finally catching up with the rest of TV (and the world).
I cannot watch another soap opera no matter how cute the gay boys are. As a Luke and Noah fan, once was enough pain and trauma. But I’m happy that there are gay characters on daytime tv. Everyone should be positively represented. I just hope DAYS does the story justice.
Agree 100%. After Luke and Reid, and Luke and Noah debacle on ATWT; I would not invest my precious time on something which is usually known to end in disaster in American shows and movies.
I THINK THIS IS DISGUSTING! PROMOTING GAYNESS ON DAYTIME TV?? EWW! DEFINITELY DONE WITH DAYS FOR THIS REASON. IT’S GROSS AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT! WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY??
It is because of such intolerance that this world is full of turmoil. I am a staunch and practicing Christian and straight, but I strongly believe that each human on this earth is important and has a right to live the way he or she choses to. My gay friends have never come in the way of my faith. If you do not want to watch, that is your choice, but please don’t throw stones on people in the name of religion. For the record, Christians are no saints; a very large number of them divorce, cheat, are unfaithful and play games at the drop of a hat. Now you would not want to promote those on TV, would you?
I didnt enjoy the kiss between the boys at all,but Im not into that kinda thing.
I think it might have been the intent to have Gabi pregnant at some point but, as WilSon is so well-liked that may end up being one of those things that kind of disappears. Like the story of Victor helping to steal Maggie’s eggs for Daniel’s mother. And when it was finally resolved, it was real quick with almost no effect on Maggie and Victor’s relationship, not for any length of time. And the thing with Adrienne’s disapproval of Will. That lasted for all of a week and now she couldn’t be happier for both of the boys. I do not think Will and Gabi are the “mystery duo” who gets married – in fact, if Gabi is pregnant I think it’s going to end up being Nick’s as I think Nick and Gabi are going to get together. If the Will and Gabi “secret’ keeps going I think that’s going to just be the fact that they slept together. Will and Sonny are the best couple on the show. there hasn’t been one like this that was a romance with music only played for their scenes (the solo guitar) since Steve and Kayla from way back when and “If your heart comes out tongiht.” I really hope the writers don’t screw up this relationship for Will and Sonny.
It’s about time!
Wilson are adorable.