Five Things That Happened On September 12 In Soap History

In 2014, Billy Flynn (l., with James Scott as EJ DiMera) made his Days of Our Lives debut as Chad DiMera. When Flynn first auditioned for the role, he recalled to Soap Opera Digest in 2014, he didn't know that the part was a recast. "For the first half of [the audition process], the character's name was Fletcher. I'm assuming they knew it was going to be Chad the whole time, but they read a lot of different people. It wasn't until my screen test that they told me the character was Chad." He tested with Kate Mansi, who was then playing Abigail Deveraux. "It was nice because from the very first moment, we had a lot of chemistry, so it made it easier," he said.