Days of Our Lives Spoilers (Jan 19–23): Brady’s Ultimatum & Dimitri Framed!
Wednesday, January 14th
Chad is listening to Leo. He’s a sounding board for some advice.
Obviously, he wants Javi back, but now Dimitri has kissed him.
This is interesting because Leo also just did some bro-bonding therapy with Xander and Tequila. So I wonder if Leo is going to be hung over when he and Chadwick are talking.
He may encourage Chad to tell Javi about the kiss, but little do they know Dimitri already did that.
Holly asks her best friend Ari to join a sorority with her.
Now, we know Holly soon goes blonder and gets snarkier — and is being nasty to her boyfriend and her BFF Ari.
So is Holly gonna turn into a Stepford sorority sister?
Gwen questions Kristen. Gwen may need details to set Dimitri up to look like the crypt kidnapper, so she can get him locked up and keep all the money.
I bet Kristen will have no issue helping Gwen take down Dimitri.
Sophia ropes Rachel into helping her escape.
She again is going to pretend to be Sophia during bed check, and Rachel already helps Sophia by stealing a fat stack of cash from Daddy Brady’s wallet.
Sophia claimed she needed a new cell phone. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe she wanted the money for something else.
We’ll see.
Brady’s talking about Basic Black with Tate.
Brady may just be reminiscing with Tate about John Black’s legacy and that company — or he may be asking Tate to consider taking an internship at Titan to work within Basic Black and try to keep John’s company alive.
Maggie would probably push for that even if Xander pushed back.
Thursday, January 15th
Sophia is wearing a black hoodie, sneaking around Horton Square.
Maybe she is looking to buy a cell phone, or maybe she has more devious deeds in mind — because Ari sees her.
And you know, this is a friend that is supposedly catatonic, yet she’s creeping around Horton Square when she should be locked up in Bay View.
So I wonder if Sophia will attack Ari, run off, pretend to be lost — we’ll see.
She’s pretty good at lying on her feet.
Maggie goes ranting to Julie this week, most likely about Xander firing Brady.
I also wonder if Maggie will tell Julie that she senses there’s a blossoming romance happening between Sarah and Brady.
Jeremy has some advice for Rachel.
I wonder if Jeremy is going to go visit Bay View — maybe tutor Rachel, who’s his student — maybe drop off some classwork.
And I do wonder if Jeremy will advise her to be careful around Sophia.
Jeremy knows the consequences of being a troublemaker, and he may advise Rachel to stay on the straight and narrow.
Sarah blasts her ex-hubby Xander.
I’m sure she’s going to think that he had no right to fire Brady.
I expect Xander to justify that it’s for business reasons, but I doubt Sarah buys it.
Brady opens up to Marina.
I think he’s probably going to tell her what the therapist at Bay View said: that he’s got to make both Rachel and Kristen understand, without a doubt, once and for all — he is never, ever, ever getting back with her mom.
Stephanie gets congratulations from her bestie, Jada.
I wonder if Stephanie’s going to ask Jada to be maid of honor.
Stephanie is probably also going to fill Jada in on the stalker situation, the dark web, and the threats.
Steve and Alex wanted to take this to the cops, so Jada is the perfect person to talk to — but she may hand the case off to Shawn Douglas Brady.
Friday, January 16th
We’ve got Cat trying to break in somewhere.
Likely it’s the lab, because Rafe is supposed to be headed by the end of this week to Alammania to question Vivian about the CCTV footage that was coming from the crypt and being sent all the way to Alammania.
Rafe told Cat that she should try and get into that lab while her boss EJ is out of town in Italy.
It’d be interesting if she gets in and just finds her brother, because he is working down there.
Javi gets some upsetting news.
I wonder if Leo admits that Dimitri kissed him and he felt something.
Unless the bad news is that Sophia has snatched baby Trey.
I do expect that is coming.
Gwen gets the third degree from Leo at the end of this week.
It looks like Dimitri has already told Leo that he is pretty sure Gwen kidnapped him.
Not only does Leo not care at this point that she kidnapped Dimitri — in fact, he wants Gwen to go back and repeat that crime again.
Leo is telling Gwen:
“Please make Dimitri disappear once and for all.”
He wants his happily ever after with Javi, and I think he knows Dimitri is going to be an ongoing problem.
Chanel has a heart-to-heart talk with Theo.
She may tell him some of her frustrations with Johnny over this high-risk pregnancy.
They may also talk about whether Theo intends to go back to DiMera as CEO.
Obviously Abe wants Theo away from the DiMeras, but we know from the big winter promo that Theo is going to be standing strong with all of them.
Johnny has a tip for Rafe.
I wonder if Johnny knows something that might help Rafe with the Alammania excursion — maybe some info on EJ.
Week of January 19th through the 23rd
Just real quick before I get into the action for this week — if you haven’t heard yet — four cast members were fired.
Four actors came back from their Christmas break to find out they were canned.
It’s two couples:
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Carson Boman (Johnny)
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Raven Bowens (Chanel)
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Leo Howard (Tate)
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Ashley Pizzas (Holly)
They were all axed from the show.
Now, they film nine to ten months ahead right now, so we’re not going to see these exits till like October or November of 2026.
No firm exit dates yet. Check back tomorrow for more details on their firings — we’re going to have a whole video on it.
Brady wants to figure out what is next.
Is he going to bartend at the pub, do some volunteer work, maybe spend more time with Rachel at Bay View?
Liam may be hiding a dark secret.
I think Sarah’s going to follow up on how he got that cut on his hand, because it seemed very suspicious.
Stephanie, Alex, and Steve get ready to set that trap for her stalker — but we know their plan is not going to go very well.
Stephanie’s going to wind up kidnapped from the hospital when Alex and Steve are not there watching her, because they probably think she’s safe at work.
Plus, Shawn’s going to wind up shot — and the groundwork for all of this is being set up right now in this storyline.
Kristen may help Gwen get rid of Dimitri in exchange for some dirt to use against EJ.
Now Gwen’s thinking about framing him for the kidnapping, but they could always just give him to Rolf.
Brady is likely going to start with Kristen to make it clear he won’t ever be with her again and ask her to help convince Rachel — but I don’t know if Kristen’s going to play ball like that.
Belle and Chad’s dinner date is coming soon.
Plus, EJ is going to be back from Italy to find out how badly Gwen has screwed up in his absence.
I do wonder if he took a long way home and dropped into Alammania himself looking for info on Peter’s possible accomplice.
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