{"id":69645,"date":"2026-04-11T01:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=69645"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:38:01","slug":"days-update-thursday-april-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/days-update-thursday-april-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Update Thursday, April 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;font-size: large\">Days of Our Lives Update<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dayslogo.jpg\" alt=\"Days of Our Lives logo\" width=\"235\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style3\">Update written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/biojoseph\/\">Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philip and Maggie talk at Titan. Philip says he understands if she doesn&#8217;t like his idea. Maggie says he&#8217;s earned some leeway with her with his dedication and remorse. Philip says there&#8217;s still a lot going on and much of it is his fault. Maggie says bottom line is he&#8217;s family and so is Bonnie, which begs the question of what are they going to do about her damn book.<\/p>\n<p>Justin and Bonnie are at home at the Kiriakis Mansion as Bonnie is signing copies of her book and talking about how excited she is for tomorrow&#8217;s book launch party. Bonnie thanks Justin for waiting to read it until it had a real cover and everything. Bonnie asks what he thinks. Justin responds that he doesn&#8217;t want to say. Bonnie guesses he didn&#8217;t like it. Justin says it&#8217;s not that, but it reminded him a lot of Stephanie&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel and Paulina watch over Trey after getting him to sleep. Paulina suggests Chanel take a nap too but Chanel says she&#8217;s too wound up. Paulina is sorry that Sophia turned up at the adoption hearing. Chanel admits she was so scared of losing Trey again. Paulina encourages that he&#8217;s officially theirs and no one can take him from them. Chanel can&#8217;t believe of all people to thank for saving the day, it would be EJ.<\/p>\n<p>At the DiMera Mansion, EJ texts Theo to ask if he&#8217;s still coming by as he has something important to show him. EJ looks up at the portrait of Stefano and then Johnny arrives. Johnny says he just wanted to come by and thank him for everything he did in court to keep Sophia from interfering with the adoption. EJ says he&#8217;s his father, so it&#8217;s the least he could do. EJ guesses that&#8217;s not the only reason he&#8217;s here and asks what&#8217;s going on. Johnny admits it&#8217;s DiMera and that he&#8217;s in trouble, so he thinks EJ is the only one who can get him out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Theo meets Gabi in the town square. Theo mentions reading the latest article on Gabi Chic&#8217;s overseas expansion and congratulates her, calling it impressive. Gabi asks what she can do for him. Theo responds that it&#8217;s actually what he can do for her. Theo slides her a folder and says Gabi Chic may be independent again, but overseas she&#8217;ll be dealing with a lot of logistics. Theo feels she needs to partner with a company that can handle it all. Theo says he knows every company will be coming her way, so he wanted to throw DiMera&#8217;s hat in the ring first since he&#8217;ll be returning as CEO. Gabi questions if he can really keep her costs that low. Theo assures he can and calls it the best deal for her. Theo adds that it still might be an uphill battle on getting Gabi Chic because one of the people he will be battling is Philip, but remarks that he&#8217;s never minded a little competition.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie asks Philip why Kate would escalate the plagiarism matter to legal without consulting them. Philip says it might be their saving grace since they can&#8217;t make their next loan payment, but if DiMera are forced to pay up, they might can swing it. Philip points out that Maggie has read both books and sees the similarities. Maggie argues that Johnny doesn&#8217;t want to settle and even if they won in court, the loan payment would be long past due. Philip feels there has to be a way to speed things up. Philip then asks about suing Bonnie personally but Maggie says absolutely not. Philip argues that if they don&#8217;t, she might not have a roof over her head at all.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie tells Justin that she was inspired to write romance from reading Stephanie&#8217;s book. Justin says that is very clear. Bonnie questions the way he said that and insists her book is completely original. Justin says she&#8217;s not questioning her mind, but he sees a lot of similarities in the plot and many passages. Bonnie suggests he&#8217;s just too close to it and insists there&#8217;s nothing wrong. Justin says he&#8217;s not a writer, but he is a lawyer, and he&#8217;s afraid she may have a huge legal problem on her hands.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny tells EJ about Bonnie being summoned and that he should&#8217;ve gone straight to DiMera&#8217;s lawyers. EJ tells him that he did the right thing coming to him and promises that by the end of it, Kate will be begging for mercy. Johnny doesn&#8217;t know that they need to go all scorched earth on them but he appreciates EJ having his back. Johnny says that Theo is about to retake the reins and he did not want to leave him with any mess, hoping he&#8217;d already have a solution by the time Theo came back. EJ encourages that he will. Johnny asks if he really thinks they can win this. EJ responds that everything is a roll of the dice in front of a jury, but plagiarism is hard to prove. Johnny asks what their gameplan and strategy is. EJ says he will have to examine a side by side but suggests they could say Bonnie&#8217;s work is a parody. Johnny says it sounds promising. EJ first asks how Johnny came about publishing the book in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel tells Paulina that after all the pain and suffering that EJ has caused, she never thought she&#8217;d feel anything but hate for him, but questions how she could not be grateful after what he did yesterday. Paulina says she&#8217;s as grateful as she is that EJ shut down Sophia but argues that one kind gesture does not erase all the terrible things he&#8217;s done. Chanel agrees but says the hearing reminded her that EJ is part of her kid&#8217;s family whether she likes it or not. Paulina then questions if she&#8217;s considering letting EJ back in to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie tells Philip not to put that out in the universe as they will find a way to make the payment. Philip argues that they need to face facts that they don&#8217;t have the money and the clock is ticking, so they need to consider all options. Maggie says she draws the line at going after Bonnie and adds that Bonnie and Justin will consider it enough of a betrayal when they find out about the lawsuit. Philip says he has to swing by the Salem Inn to take care of some things. Maggie hopes he knows what he&#8217;s getting himself in to as Philip then exits the office.<\/p>\n<p>Justin wants to show Bonnie what he&#8217;s talking about. Bonnie says not right now but Justin insists it&#8217;s important. Bonnie thinks he&#8217;s making something out of nothing. Justin then brings up a page from Stephanie&#8217;s book and that in Bonnie&#8217;s book, she wrote almost the same thing. Bonnie says she just used a thesaurus. Justin is afraid of her being sued and can&#8217;t believe no one at DiMera caught this. Bonnie insists that they would have if there was a problem. Justin tells her that it does open DiMera Publishing up for litigation and they could be sued. Justin adds that Titan could also come after her personally. Bonnie argues that he wouldn&#8217;t let his family do that. Justin suggests stopping it before it gets there by getting ahead of it. Bonnie asks what to do. Justin says they return the advance and tell both parties that any plagiarism was inadvertent and pull the book before it hits shelves. Bonnie says he has to be kidding and refuses to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny admits to EJ that he never read Stephanie&#8217;s book and just knew it was a huge seller, so when he got Bonnie&#8217;s manuscript, he pushed it through without giving legal enough time to do due diligence. EJ argues that those lawyers are paid a lot to prevent a situation like this. Johnny blames himself for rushing them for his own selfish reasons because he wanted to leave his mark on DiMera before he left and make Stefano proud, but all he did was leave the company in shambles. EJ tells Johnny that he&#8217;ll be fine. Johnny asks where he&#8217;s going to work after this and questions who is going to hire him after this, worrying that he&#8217;ll be a joke in the corporate world. EJ encourages that he did an excellent job running DiMera and he does not believe this situation is in any way his fault.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina questions Chanel if she&#8217;s considering letting EJ back in her life. Chanel points out that Johnny told her he&#8217;d like to have some type of relationship with his father and after he stepped up for them, she agreed to consider it. Paulina admits that she and Marlena recently talked about how trying to keep EJ from his grandson is a lost cause. Chanel agrees and suggests that&#8217;s why she&#8217;s considered opening that door just a little but Paulina disagrees and tells her that she needs to shut that door completely and lock it tight. Chanel thought she just said she talked about Marlena. Paulina says that was before the adoption hearing and argues that EJ shows up to do a favor but you don&#8217;t realize that by accepting his help, it&#8217;s like making a deal with the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi tells Theo that he&#8217;s given her a lot to think about, but choosing a partner won&#8217;t be an easy decision. Theo hoped they could keep personal feelings out of this since it is business. Gabi remarks that he&#8217;s sounding more like his uncle every day. Theo knows his family hasn&#8217;t set the bar high when it comes to doing good in the world, but says he&#8217;s going to change that. Theo declares that it&#8217;s going to be an amazing ride and he wants her to be on it, but Philip arrives interrupting them as he greets Gabi with kisses. Theo says he was just leaving. Philip invites him to stay for a round of coffee but Theo declines and says he&#8217;s late for a meeting. Theo says goodbye to Gabi and quickly walks away. Philip asks Gabi what that was about.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny thanks EJ for trying to make him feel better, but says he&#8217;s the one who found Bonnie&#8217;s book and convinced DiMera to publish it. EJ remarks that it sounds like the book found him. EJ asks if he really believes it was a convenience that Xander asked him to meet at the Pub, took Bonnie&#8217;s book out of his briefcase and just happened to step away. Johnny says he had to deal with a text message and it happens all the time. EJ asks why Xander called that meeting. Johnny says it was to allow him to stay longer at DiMera. EJ points out that it was long enough to publish Bonnie&#8217;s book and talks about they claimed to have never read it but then turn around to slap him with a lawsuit. EJ insists that it was all setup and planned. Johnny argues that they wouldn&#8217;t do that to him and talks about Kate, Maggie, and Philip all being so good to him. EJ says that was since they were at odds. EJ declares that at the end of the day, Johnny is a DiMera and a Kiriakis wouldn&#8217;t think twice about using him to save their company. Johnny declares that he&#8217;s then even more of an idiot than he thought he was if they laid out a trap and he walked right in to it. Johnny feels that he&#8217;ll be a laughing stock and a complete embarrassment to his family. EJ argues that he&#8217;s done nothing wrong and his family is right here. EJ declares that he&#8217;s here to help him and they are not going to get away with this as they are going to fight and win. Johnny thanks EJ for his support. EJ responds that he&#8217;d do anything for him as they hug. Johnny then exits the mansion. EJ then gets a text from Theo that he&#8217;s on his way.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel assures Paulina that she&#8217;s going in to this with her eyes open and that she knows exactly how EJ operates, but if Johnny wants to have a relationship with his father, it&#8217;s not her place to tell him that he can&#8217;t. Paulina asks even if it means protecting her family. Chanel points out that EJ protected her family yesterday. Paulina argues that it wasn&#8217;t out of the goodness of his heart and was just so that she will owe him, insisting that EJ can&#8217;t be trusted. Chanel says she knows and that opening up to EJ a little does not mean they are completely letting their guard down. Chanel gets that Paulina hates EJ, but brings up how she supported Theo when he wanted to embrace his DiMera side, so she asks why it&#8217;s so different for Johnny and where this is all coming from.<\/p>\n<p>EJ visits Lexie and tells her that she is about to have a very special guest.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi tells Philip that she and Theo were just talking business and asks why he&#8217;s not at the office. Philip says he needs to speak to the Salem Inn about checking out. Gabi asks why. Philip says he was thinking about their talk earlier about how they spend all their time in a tiny hotel room and need more space, so he asked Maggie if he could move back in to the Kiriakis Mansion. Gabi says good for him but he&#8217;s Victor&#8217;s son so he shouldn&#8217;t have to ask. Philip adds that he also asked if someone else could join him there. Gabi asks what he means. Philip then asks Gabi to move in with him. Philip knows it&#8217;s a bit of a surprise but they&#8217;ve been seeing each other for almost six months, so he thinks he&#8217;s proven how solid they are. Gabi doesn&#8217;t doubt where they stand, but if everything he&#8217;s been saying is true, the mansion might not belong to their family much longer. Philip says he&#8217;s not putting that out in the Universe and that they will find a way to make the payment. Philip believes he&#8217;s showing his dedication by moving back in to the house. Philip knows it&#8217;s a risk but he believes in them too and he wants his home to be her home. Philip asks if Gabi will take this leap of faith with him.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny goes to Titan where Maggie tells him that he just missed Philip. Johnny remarks that he&#8217;d be less likely to restrain himself if he was talking to him. Maggie says she just found out about the lawsuit which Johnny doubts. Maggie says she intends to find out more about it. Maggie assures that he&#8217;s position in Titan is safe and they are happy to have him back. Johnny responds that now he knows why she was so excited to see him go and had no problem loaning him out to the competition. Maggie questions what he&#8217;s implying. Johnny says he&#8217;s calling it like it is and declares that her family set him up.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie tells Justin that he can&#8217;t pull her book as she didn&#8217;t put all that work in to it just to have no one read it. Justin knows it&#8217;s heartbreaking but it&#8217;s a much better option than losing a lawsuit. Bonnie argues that she did not copy a single word. Bonnie admits One Stormy Night may have been on her brain while writing but insists that she didn&#8217;t steal anything on purpose. Justin says it&#8217;s about the degree of similarity. Bonnie declares that she&#8217;s not pulling the book, end of story. Bonnie states that her book launch party is tomorrow and she&#8217;s going to be there, but if Justin doesn&#8217;t believe in her then maybe he shouldn&#8217;t be there.<\/p>\n<p>Theo meets EJ at the DiMera Mansion. EJ thanks him for coming. Theo says he doesn&#8217;t have a lot of time as he has to get to work. EJ says he will cut to the chase and presents him with a gift box. Theo opens it and it&#8217;s a briefcase. EJ says he wanted him to go back to work in style. Theo says he could use the upgrade and he appreciates it, but he could&#8217;ve had it delivered. Theo asks if there&#8217;s another reason he asked him to stop by. EJ admits there is something he needs to show him, or rather someone.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel questions why Paulina is dead set against EJ being around her and Johnny at all. Paulina says she&#8217;s sorry and just had a lot on her mind. Chanel asks if it&#8217;s about the important decision she had to make a few weeks ago and the tough choice she said she was praying for guidance about. Paulina responds that it actually is.<\/p>\n<p>EJ brings Theo down to the secret room. Theo isn&#8217;t sure he wants to know what EJ is up to. EJ assures that he does and what he&#8217;s about to see is about to change so many people&#8217;s lives for the better, especially his. Theo says he doesn&#8217;t understand. EJ says he will soon. EJ tells Theo to brace himself as he may not believe his eyes. EJ then brings Theo in, where he is shocked to see his mother Lexie in the hospital bed. Theo grabs EJ, questioning what he did. EJ understands he&#8217;s in shock but says he will explain. EJ tells Theo that this is the culmination of everything Stefano worked towards, victory over death itself, as he neve gave up on trying to bring Lexie back to them. EJ assures Theo that it is really Alexandra DiMera Carver and they&#8217;ve been taking excellent care of her. Theo realizes she was in the pod at the clinic. EJ states that he believes she will live again soon and tells Theo that it&#8217;s okay to talk to her. EJ tells him that what they have here is nothing short of a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel knows Paulina couldn&#8217;t get in to details but asks if she made her decision. Paulina responds that she did and she went with her conscience instead of her heart, so she just has to wait and see how it all plays out. Paulina says she needs to get to her office. Chanel asks if she&#8217;s sure she doesn&#8217;t want to talk. Paulina says she can&#8217;t right now and needs to go. Paulina adds that she&#8217;s so glad everything worked out for Trey. Chanel tells her to take care of herself and she loves her as Paulina then exits. Chanel then picks up Bonnie&#8217;s book One Rainy Afternoon and sits down to see what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n<p>Justin tells Bonnie that he&#8217;s just trying to protect her. Bonnie doesn&#8217;t want his protection and just wants him to be proud of her. Justin says he&#8217;s always proud of her but Bonnie argues that he&#8217;s not and that he thinks of her as a phony and an impostor. Philip and Gabi arrive as Bonnie storms out and Justin chases after her. Philip welcomes Gabi to the Kiriakis Mansion, joking that they offer complimentary fireworks like that.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie tells Johnny that she doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about. Johnny brings up that she and Philip went to bat for him with Xander, insisting he extend his stay with DiMera until Theo recovered, and he thought that was an act of kindness. Maggie says it was. Johnny questions it just being a coincidence that Xander left him with Bonnie&#8217;s novel and Kate encouraged him to go for it. Johnny argues that they dangled it in front of him because they needed the cash and banked on him making a rookie mistake. Johnny guesses when they blindsided DiMera with the lawsuit, they&#8217;d jump at the opportunity to settle but they aren&#8217;t going to. Johnny gets that they are desperate but argues that a move like this could ruin his reputation and entire future, so there&#8217;s no way in hell that he&#8217;s letting them get away with it. Maggie admits the timing is curious but says that&#8217;s not how she does business and she will prove it to him once he&#8217;s back at Titan where he belongs. Johnny wishes he could believe her, but he doesn&#8217;t, and he can&#8217;t see himself working at Titan ever again as he then storms out.<\/p>\n<p>Theo says he always dreamed about seeing his mother again. EJ apologizes for keeping him in the dark but says he had to wait until he was sure the experiment would be successful. Theo asks if it will be. EJ says he can&#8217;t make promises but he&#8217;s optimistic as all signs are positive. EJ tells Theo that for now, no one else can know about this, not even his father.<\/p>\n<p>Philip guesses not much has changed since last time he lived in the Kiriakis Mansion as it&#8217;s all drama, all the time. Gabi asks if he&#8217;s sure he wants to move back in. Philip says only if she&#8217;s still sure she wants to join him since she can change her mind. Gabi assures that she won&#8217;t and that a little drama won&#8217;t scare her away as they kiss. Philip decides they will go pick out their room and head upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny goes home where Chanel tells him that Trey is still asleep but is bound to wake up soon. She notices Johnny&#8217;s demeanor and asks what&#8217;s wrong. Johnny responds that Titan just screwed him over and there&#8217;s no way he can go back there.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie calls Kate and leaves a message that she needs to see her right away.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny informs Chanel that apparently Bonnie&#8217;s book is too similar to One Stormy Night and now they are facing a lawsuit. Chanel says she only got a few chapters in and felt like she&#8217;s read it already. Johnny complains that they played him. Chanel wishes she picked it up sooner and could&#8217;ve flagged it. Johnny assures it&#8217;s not her fault as it&#8217;s his mess and now he has to clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>EJ asks Theo if he can trust him with this secret. Theo doesn&#8217;t understand why they can&#8217;t tell Abe since he has a right to know. EJ argues that no one was supposed to find out until he was sure it could work as he didn&#8217;t want to get people&#8217;s hopes up or risk anyone interfering. Theo asks why tell him now then. EJ responds that he may need to make a decision before Lexie opens her eyes. Theo asks what he means. EJ says they both know how Lexie feels about the family business and Theo being CEO of DiMera would be her worst nightmare. EJ says he wanted to give Theo the chance to decide where in life she will find him and to have the opportunity to make changes. 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Philip says he understands if she doesn&#8217;t like his idea. Maggie says he&#8217;s earned some leeway with her with his dedication and remorse. Philip says there&#8217;s still a lot going on and much of it is his fault. 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