Five Things That Happened On October 4 In Soap History

In 2010, Camila Banus debuted as Gabi Hernandez on Days of Our Lives. The actress was the second one to play Gabi, succeeding the role's originator, Gabriela Rodriguez. Banus had previously played Lola Montez on One Life To Live. On the occasion of her 10th anniversary in 2020, Banus declared to Soap Opera Digest of her time as Gabi, “I’m really proud to be playing a Latina on daytime television for 10 years. Portraying Gabi Josephina Hernandez to the best of my abilities, being able to go in there and meet so many amazing people and learn from so many people, but also to carry just Latinas in general for little girls that would be able to watch the show and say, ‘There’s somebody on there who looks like me and speaks Spanish,’ means a lot. It’s really nice to carry that for Latinos in general, for being somebody whose mother is from a really terrible communist regime in Cuba, who came to this country to become a better person and provide for her family, and for me to be the first generation is really amazing.”