Lisa Rinna is known for never turning down a chance to pull in another paycheck. Currently, she is filming for two networks shows in addition to the RHOBH filming that is currently underway. I’m really excited about her return to Days of Our Lives in the role of Billie Reed. I’ve been watching that show since I was in junior high living in an apartment outside of Chicago with my parents, at for a while my oldest sister and her three oldest kids. Mother would adamantly deny that she watched the soaps. But for about an hour there was nothing else on TV so she would watch one and then got hooked on the next one. I watched the other soap, Another World until it sadly ended. That was where I fell in love with Anne Heche. She played twins and it fascinated me. I was strictly forbidden to watch either soap, but the apartment was small and it was pretty difficult to keep me out of the living room where I pretended to be reading.
Even so, there are so many people who come and go on the soaps that I needed to brush up on how Billie fits into the two major family trees on DOOL. Billie is Kate Roberts daughter and Lucas’ half-sister. Austin Reed is her brother who has not been on the show for a while but still makes occasional appearances. She had a child named Chelsea with Bo Brady when she and Bo dated during a breakup of Bo and Hope. I do not remember Chelsea. Oh yeah, Chelsea was the driver of the car that killed Bo and Hope’s son. Zack. She has ties to the Kiriakis family due I suppose to Kate’s marriage to Victor. It seems Victor likes her as he got her a job in London.
In March 2012, a fully recovered Billie came to Salem, seemingly to help her mom run Countess Wilhemina Cosmetics. However, it was soon revealed that Billie was back working for the ISA and was assigned to get information on Stefano. Billie convinced her mom to let her move into the DiMera Mansion. But, Stefano was actually working as a CIA informant, so her investigation came to a halt. And, when Stefano and Kate’s relationship fell apart, Billie stayed in town to support her mom and work with her at Mad World Cosmetics. But Billie and Kate eventually grew apart. Frustrated with Kate’s scheming, Billie decided to take a new job in Europe. But, she made peace with Kate before she left. [Source]
Three other roles are rumored to be revived by DOOL Alison Sweeney’s Sami, Chandler Massey’s Will, and Louise Sorel’s Vivian. As much as I would LOVE Sami to be back, I seriously doubt Alison Sweeney will be back to play Sami. She has multiple movies and series with Hallmark. She puts out about several movies a year there. Perhaps someone else could TRY to play Sami, but I doubt it. Will is dead, and I don’t see how they can bring him back to life. But Louise Sorel would be welcome comic relief as Vivian. Vivian is a lot like Mamacita on Feud.
Billie has been back for six months before. She’s also come back for a two year run. There is no word on how long this gig is, but I hope she stays forever.
She is also filming an episode of The Middle for the shows final season. She will be on episode three playing a character named Tammy Brooks.
Now if we could only get Eileen back on DOOL to revive her dead character, the evil Kristen DiMera everything would be perfect!
Now for the part where you tell me you watch Days of Our Lives….
/waits
I don’t watch these soaps so perhaps I’m mixed up, but I thought I read that Eileen also returned to Days in June? And that her return to Days is the real reason she couldn’t do RHOBH, as she’s going to continue as Ashley on Y&R?
Someone who knows more about soaps can correct me, but I’m sure I read Days had a new show runner and the first thing he wanted was to bring Eileen and Rinna back so that they’ll be on-screen at the same time.
Oh yeah, I kind of remember that now. That is part of why Eileen didn’t come back to RHOBH.
I see from reading comments Alison Sweeney is coming back for a short stint. That girl is making bank at Hallmark.
I don’t see why dead Will is returning.
Never was a Days fan. I was diehard All My Children as that was my mom’s soap. I also used to watch Ryan’s Hope.
Omg me too ?
Aw, I loved Ryan’s Hope! Used to watch with my Mon when I was a kid. Love Kate Mulgrew! Don’t watch soaps anymore but good on Rinna for still being a hustla! It ain’t easy having such a long showbiz career. I admire her work ethic. Same goes for Eileen.
Maeve Ryan FTW! I still remember her asking everyone, “How ’bout a little Irish?”
I never watched the CBS soaps either. We were an ABC soaps lineup household, which meant “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” were my shows. During the summers, as this was back before VCR’s too.
I think OLTL was my favorite. Judith Light, no matter what heights her career hits, will always be Karen Wolek to me!
Oh, I have an ex-boyfriend who did summer stock with a then-ancient
Phoebe Tyler WallingfordRuth Warrick. He had some hilarious stories to tell!And going waaaay back, I remember watching “The Edge of Night” with my mother. I remember being fascinated with one woman whose character had a “split personality”, which meant she put on a big, black fright wig to chew the scenery. A taste for camp cultivated early!
I don’t think I’ve watched any (daytime) soaps since about 1983 or so though!
Great news, and even better for you is that Eileen is back at Days for a while! I really hope they film together, I’d love to see a housewives reference!
I never got into Days. It was on when I was in school and the VCR hadn’t been invented yet. General Hospital was on after school so I’ve been devoted to that since 1975.
Rinna should be great on’ The Middle’ as the mom of Sue Heck’s wealthy roommate Lexie.
Good for her! Wish they could parody Vanderpump but maybe she isn’t that important anyway.
They do this about every 5 years. She usually lasts about 6 months, 9 if she’s lucky. As long as they drop the part where she works for law enforcement then she’ll have better chances of sticking around. Unfortunately, most returns on soaps nowadays amount to nothing more than publicity stunts. It’s a sad day to be a soap fan.
Tamara, as a fan of Days since six months after it began (and Another World!) I can assure you, Alison Sweeney is coming back. She’s filming now. Chandler Massey is coming back although it hasn’t been confirmed, at least that I’ve seen that he’s going to be Will. People seem to believe he will be though. I hate it when they bring people back from the dead. And Louise Sorel is coming back too! The new head writer seems to be doing everything he can to rekindle interest in the show and bring back viewers!
I watched Days of our lives ages ago and Another world. I watched Young and the Restless for years but stopped awhile ago. It got boring. It used to have great plotlines. I agree Lisa will be great as Lexis’s mom on the middle. I liked Daniella bobilla when she played Charlie Sheen’s daughter on Anger Management. It is still on here in Atlanta on the CW channel. Reruns I mean. Rinna is a good actress just like Eileen Davidson.
Sweeney did return, film, and wrapped not too long ago for this upcoming stint. Sami returns in October.
Yes Chandler Massey is coming back. His mom and I are friends. We’re neighbors and he went to school with my kids.
hmm – sorry , I don’t watch DOOL or Y&R. I am not impressed with LR at all. She spent all season “owning nothing”. Good that she is capable of backing up her yap up with “Harry, I’ve got this”
I’m inclined to flog some sense into you. Rinna is AWESOME!
Then I realize how much I rely on you, and I put down the flogger and hope you will see the awesomeness that is Rinna eventually.
I used to be her #1 fan – her honesty rocked the universe – then her second season in – she lost me.
I agree.
I hope I can find a way to watch this in the UK I do love some Lisa R. Thanks for the info dear Tamara x
A few years ago I was part of the Mother’s Day audience for the Ellen show. At the time it taped at NBC studios in Burbank. So the entire audience was herded from one part of the parking lot to the other. At one point we were near an employee entrance and up drives James Reynolds. I yelled “OMG, it’s Abe Carver!!!”, and all the other moms looked at me like I was insane. In my middle school days we had no cable, so that meant ABC, CBS, & NBC for summer viewing. The same for my husband’s house. When we started dating, we were still annoyed that our daytime viewing one summer was disrupted with the Iran-Contra hearings – on all 3 stations, and smack dab over that 1’oclock hour.
I was reading this via email notification not knowing what post the comment was on. I was confused and intrigued about your Ellen DeGeneres story. I was waiting to hear what goodies you got on the Mother’s Day show. Then you mentioned freaking out over James Reynolds and I’m like …who the fuck is that, this story is going nowhere.
THEN YOU SAID ABE CARVER!!!! And I was all right back into the story! I love Abe Carver! lol
Also I remember the Iran Contra hearings. I was an undergrad at Georgia and we would watch it in the student center between classes.
I might tune in to see Rinna as I always loved her Billie role. But otherwise, I have no idea what’s going on with the show. The last time I came across it, it seemed the new generation was the focus. Like Jack & Jennifer and Bo & Hope’s kids, and I couldn’t care less about those characters. I have not been a viewer since probably the mid-90’s. Now if Eileen AND Rinna are on together, I’ll be there. And if this is the case, I’d love for Erika Jayne to have a role too!
I was a casual DAYS viewer between 2000-2006. I have fond memories of the Salem Serial Killer storyline (up until Marlena was revealed as the killer).
Passions was great, as campy and outlandish as it was. A few of the cast members are now on DAYS, but they’ll always be Luis, Ethan and Theresa to me.
That being said, As the World Turns (ATWT) was my all time favorite show. I was devastated when it was cancelled in 2010…I have most of the last 5-6 years on tape.
I don’t think I’ve watched an entire (day or night) soap episode in my life except Melrose Place back in the day. So it’s all a bit foreign to me. But don’t viewers have a hard time suspending disbelief when actors appear as different characters on different shows at the same time?
No, Days of our Lives and Y & R come on at the same time on different channels I think. It’s a oone or the other thing. Eileen has played MANY roles on DOOL. It’s all very campy and tongue in cheek. Soaps are not meant to be taken seriously.