{"id":69957,"date":"2026-05-12T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=69957"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:20:07","slug":"days-update-wednesday-april-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/days-update-wednesday-april-22-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Update Wednesday, April 22, 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>At the hospital, Xander sees Sarah frustratingly end a phone call and asks if everything is alright. Sarah responds that she just needed to speak to EJ, but he&#8217;s at a meeting in Chicago. Sarah assumes Xander is there to see Marlena. Xander confirms he is and that he&#8217;ll be picking up Victoria later to take her to the zoo. Sarah says Victoria is excited about that and she&#8217;s glad that Xander is keeping up with his therapy. Xander says it&#8217;s a condition of their custody agreement and he takes that very seriously because he&#8217;d do anything to keep Victoria in his life. Xander gives his word that he&#8217;ll bring her home at the proper time so Sarah says she&#8217;ll see him later as he walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the Brady Pub, Roman tells Johnny that he knows the DiMeras are his family but he really wishes he hadn&#8217;t agreed to stay on at DiMera Enterprises. Johnny feels he has to deal with this lawsuit and promises he won&#8217;t get sucked back in to the DiMera way as he would resign before letting that happen. Kate walks up and greets them, so Johnny says he has to go and quickly walks away, leaving Kate disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Brady and Tate sit together in the Pub. Tate tells him about his visit with Rachel. Brady is grateful that Tate visits her as much as he does since it means the world to her. Tate says there&#8217;s something else he wanted to talk to him about. Tate informs Brady that he has finally come to a decision about college. Tate announces he&#8217;s not going to register for next semester at Salem U.<\/p>\n<p>Xander goes to Marlena&#8217;s office for his therapy session. Xander admits he&#8217;s eager to get through their session because he&#8217;s taking Victoria to the zoo this afternoon. Marlena is glad they are spending quality time together and knows that was a reason he wanted to do therapy. Marlena brings up Johnny thinking that Xander set him up to publish a plagiarized manuscript and asks if that&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel tells Lani that she&#8217;s grateful she showed up when she did because she couldn&#8217;t juggle running the Bakery and taking care of Trey. Lani says she&#8217;ll take any time she can with her favorite nephew. Lani asks what&#8217;s going to happen to the Bakery when Chanel goes on maternity leave. Chanel says she&#8217;s working on that and repeats that she&#8217;s just glad Lani showed up. They discuss plans to take their kids to the aquarium tomorrow and agree to talk later about when to meet up as Chanel then leaves with Trey. Kristen then comes in to the town square and is shocked to see Lani. They embrace as Kristen can&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s really there. Kristen says that Lani always shows up at the right time as her heart couldn&#8217;t take much more. Lani asks if she means because of Rachel being back in Bayview. Kristen says that&#8217;s part of it. Kristen wants to celebrate Lani being back as she asks why and how long she&#8217;s here. Lani responds that this is her home now as she and Eli are moving back to Salem. Lani apologizes for not calling sooner but the last few days have been crazy. Kristen tells her not to worry and calls it the best news she&#8217;s had in a very long time<\/p>\n<p>Johnny goes home to Chanel and asks how her day was. Chanel says it was fine and that Trey is sleeping after Lani helped her. Johnny says he&#8217;s glad Lani is back in Salem. Johnny brings up Chanel saying earlier that she was too busy to make a doctor&#8217;s appointment, so he made one for her.<\/p>\n<p>Brady questions Tate not going back to Salem U in the fall. Tate says that Brady said he was okay with that. Brady confirms he is as he&#8217;s not going to force him to do anything he doesn&#8217;t want to do and he understands a four year degree program isn&#8217;t for everyone, but he&#8217;s going to have to do something. Brady wants Tate to keep an open mind for his future and reminds him that he can always re-enroll if he changes his mind. Brady asks if Tate told his mother about this. Tate confirms that he called her earlier and she freaked out at first, but since she didn&#8217;t go to college, she ended up being supportive eventually. Brady asks what Tate has decided to pursue then. Tate responds that he took a cool exercise physiology class that he loved which made him realize he wants to become a certified personal trainer. Brady relates to having one of those himself and then reveals to Tate that he&#8217;s decided to become a licensed private investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and Roman walk to the park as Kate talks about being sorry that Johnny is upset about the lawsuit since she agrees that it&#8217;s an unfortunate situation. Kate insists that she did not set him up. Roman points out that Johnny seems pretty convinced that she did. Kate says that Johnny is young and inexperienced, so maybe he&#8217;s not mature enough to admit he made a mistake. Roman questions if Kate is saying there would be no evidence linking her or Titan to Johnny publishing that book. Kate confirms that is what she&#8217;s saying because there is none.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena reminds Xander that anything he says in therapy remains confidential while Xander argues that it&#8217;s manipulative to ask a question like that as therapy when she&#8217;s really asking for her own purposes. Marlena feels his answer will determine if the therapy is working, so she asks if he was lying to Johnny, Roman, and Maggie. Marlena reminds him that if he&#8217;s lying to her now, it will break the conditions of their therapy. Xander says he doesn&#8217;t need reminding so Marlena asks for his answer. Xander responds that he has nothing to say and assumes that means Marlena is dropping him as a patient, but she says no. Marlena points out that Xander has done worse things so this is not a dealbreaker. Marlena decides they will move on by asking how things are going with Gwen. Xander says he believes things are going fine. Marlena notes that he sounds unsure. Xander brings up that EJ kicked Gwen out of the mansion today. Marlena questions how that is relevant. Xander reveals that if Gwen is no longer living on DiMera ground, spending so much time with her isn&#8217;t quite as appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Tate tells Brady that it&#8217;s so great that he&#8217;s taking the job at Black Patch and congratulates him. Brady thanks him and says it means a lot that he&#8217;s supportive. Tate says the same of Brady supporting his decision to leave school. Tate adds that he will not be slacking off this summer as he already has a job lined up which surprises Brady as he asks if that means Tate is quitting the Pub. Tate clarifies that he got a second job as his martial arts instructor asked him to help teach at the dojo. Brady says that&#8217;s great and he&#8217;s happy for him. Tate thanks him and says he&#8217;s really lucky the opportunity came up. Brady asks how Holly feels about all of this exciting news. Tate admits that he hasn&#8217;t told her yet as he was going to wait until finals are over, but he&#8217;s not sure that will be the best time either since Holly has been stressed since Sophia got out of Bayview. Tate asks if there&#8217;s any word on the fingerprint analysis. Brady says the lab hasn&#8217;t finished analyzing it yet, but with any luck they will be able to bring Sophia to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Roman tells Kate that he hates to question her honesty but he&#8217;s confident she would do anything for her family and brings up Philip being her son with Titan as Victor&#8217;s legacy. Roman says she works for Titan and questions if she had the choice to protect her family or his. Roman points out that she did it before when her son kidnapped his daughter and she had no trouble keeping that to herself. Kate argues that was not the same at all. Roman agrees that was worse and talks about how Sami was in a situation where she didn&#8217;t know if she would live or die and Kate knew but never told him. Kate argues that by the time she found out, Sami was already home, safe and happy with Lucas. Roman says she wanted to protect Lucas so when she had to make a choice, she chose to protect her own family. Kate declares that Roman would do exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen and Lani sit together in the town square. Lani says she&#8217;s done talking about herself and wants to talk about Kristen and Rachel. Kristen talks about Rachel hating being in Bayview and how she&#8217;d do anything to get her out. Kristen suggests they get together tomorrow so she can see Lani&#8217;s twins. Lani says she would love that but she just made plans to go to the aquarium with Chanel. Kristen asks if Eli and Johnny will be joining them. Lani tells her that Eli is still wrapping things up in DC for a few days while Johnny is working from home, so Chanel wanted to get Trey out of the house. That seems to give Kristen an idea as she comments that Lani and Chanel will have fun.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel questions Johnny making an appointment for her with Sarah. Johnny argues that she had such a busy day and is always taking care of everyone else before herself, but Chanel gets upset and angrily asks why he would disrespect her like that.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena asks if Xander is saying he&#8217;s using Gwen and sleeping with her to snoop around the DiMera Mansion. Xander says it&#8217;s not only that as he is very attracted to Gwen but snooping around the mansion was a big added bonus. Xander feels like Marlena might not approve, but she completely supports any attempt to bring down EJ and asks if he&#8217;s right. Marlena decides they are out of time and can pick that up at their next session. Xander thanks her for her discretion while Marlena thanks him for his honesty as Xander then exits the office.<\/p>\n<p>Roman assumes that was Kate confessing. Kate says it wasn&#8217;t, but that Roman is right that she would do anything for her family. Kate points out that they are married so his family is included in her family and she would hope her family is included in his, as they are now one family since they pledged themselves to each other in marriage. Kate asks Roman how she can fix this and what she can do or say to convince him that she only wants the best for Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>Brady calls Sarah and says he just wanted to check in. Sarah says her day is busy as usual but it&#8217;s good to hear his voice. Brady asks if she wants to get together after her shift. Sarah responds that she would love that.<\/p>\n<p>Tate walks through the town square. Sophia sees him and starts to walk away but Tate stops her and says they need to talk.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny apologizes to Chanel. Chanel argues that they don&#8217;t even know if something is wrong with her while he&#8217;s acting like she&#8217;s on life support, insisting that it&#8217;s common to get breast lumps during pregnancy. Johnny knows she wants to believe her health is perfect, but if something is wrong, the sooner they catch it the better and if nothing is wrong, they can relax. Chanel asks when the appointment is. Johnny says it&#8217;s in the next 15 minutes and says they can check on their baby with an ultrasound. Chanel asks about Trey since she just put him down for a nap. Johnny says he&#8217;s already called the babysitter and asks if they can just go. Chanel agrees to just get it over with.<\/p>\n<p>Xander goes to the DiMera Mansion where Kristen is pouring a drink in the living room. Xander didn&#8217;t realize anyone was in there while Kristen didn&#8217;t realize he had free access to stroll around. Xander says that Harold let him in and claims he left an ear bud in Gwen&#8217;s room. Kristen tells him that EJ wouldn&#8217;t want him snooping around and she doesn&#8217;t either. Xander asks why she would think he was snooping around and what ever gave her that idea.<\/p>\n<p>Roman tells Kate that the only way to fix this is to drop the lawsuit against DiMera. Kate responds that she would if she could but it&#8217;s out of her hands now, arguing that it would be open season against them if Titan didn&#8217;t respond to protecting their intellectual property. Kate says she hates that Johnny is involved but claims the lawsuit is bigger than their personal relations and has taken on a life of it&#8217;s own. Kate states that once DiMera published Bonnie&#8217;s book, there was no turning back.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena joins Brady at the Brady Pub for lunch. Brady is glad she could join him while Marlena jokes that she has to find him to keep up with all the news. Brady tells her that Rachel loved the card she sent her in the mail. Marlena says she&#8217;s so sorry Rachel is in Bayview and wishes things went differently. Brady knows Marlena feels somewhat responsible but says she shouldn&#8217;t because it&#8217;s not her fault. Brady adds that he has some good news and announces he&#8217;s going to be working with Steve as a private investigator to put the Black back in to Black Patch.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia asks what Tate wants to talk about. Tate says it&#8217;s more that he&#8217;s going to talk and she&#8217;s going to listen. Tate tells Sophia to stay away from Holly because she&#8217;s making her life miserable. Sophia argues that it&#8217;s more that Holly needs to stay away from her and complains about all the horrible things Holly has said about her at school behind her back and to her face. Tate asks for an example. Sophia tells him that just the other day, Holly told ther that she wished she was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny and Chanel meet with Sarah at the hospital. Sarah discusses what the lump could be while Chanel argues that it&#8217;s just a normal part of pregnancy. Sarah says they still need to get it checked out, so Johnny asks what they do now. Chanel responds that this isn&#8217;t a &#8220;we&#8221; thing as there&#8217;s nothing for him to do here. Sarah points out that Johnny got her here, so he did do something important. Sarah explains that she will order a mammogram and take it from there. Chanel questions if that&#8217;s safe with the baby. Johnny asks about the radiation. Sarah says the risks are minimal and the positives outweigh them, assuring they will take care of the baby. Sarah says she&#8217;ll order it ASAP so Chanel questions if that&#8217;s because she&#8217;s worried. Sarah encourages that it&#8217;s just taking it safe and asks if there&#8217;s anything else she can do. Chanel asks if they can see their baby while they are there, so Sarah agrees to go find an ultrasound tech. Johnny encourages Chanel that everything is going to be okay. Chanel responds that it has to be. After leaving the room, Sarah makes a call to schedule a mammogram as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen tells Xander to cut the crap and asks what he really wants. Xander thinks it&#8217;s the same as her and admits it&#8217;s to find out what EJ is up to. Kristen asks why he&#8217;s so interested. Xander comments on keeping your friends close and enemies closer. Kristen stops him and says they also say &#8220;the enemy of my enemy is my friend&#8221;, so this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Brady tells Marlena about Tate wanting to be a personal trainer and reveals he wants to drop out of Salem U to pursue that career. Marlena asks if he&#8217;s okay with that. Brady confirms that he is, because Tate is passionate about it and he respects that. Brady adds that if Tate changes his mind, he can always re-enroll so nothing is set in stone. Marlena is glad he found something to be passionate about. Brady asks about Marlena&#8217;s possible new career path at Basic Black. Marlena responds that she thought it was promising but she&#8217;s not sure it&#8217;s going to work out.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia asks how Tate feels about Holly now that he knows she&#8217;s wishing her dead. Tate says even if Holly said that, it&#8217;s not like she actually meant it and questions how he knows she&#8217;s not lying. Sophia mocks that while Tate argues that she&#8217;s not the victim here. Tate tells Sophia to just stay away from Holly and warns that if she tries to hurt her again. Sophia questions what he will do and asks if he&#8217;ll use his black belt skills on her to put her in a chokehold. Tate tells her to stop acting crazy then apologizes for his poor use of words. Tate tells Sophia to understand that he and Holly are solid together and she cannot change that. Sophia asks if he&#8217;d be happy to never see her again. Tate says those were her words, not his. Sophia warns him to be careful what he wishes for and walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Brady asks if there&#8217;s anything he can do to help with Marlena&#8217;s decision. Marlena thanks him and says she will figure it out. Marlena adds that she&#8217;ll let him know as Brady encourages that she would be great at Basic Black. Brady says he has to get going to Bayview before visiting hours are over. Marlena sends her love to Rachel. Brady thanks her as they hug. Roman and Kate arrive as Brady exits. Roman tells Marlena that he hears from Kate that they might end up being colleagues. Marlena responds that they are still looking in to that.<\/p>\n<p>Xander runs in to Sarah in the town square. Xander asks if something is wrong since Victoria and the nanny were supposed to be there by now. Sarah says they will just be a little late and brings him some sunscreen for Victoria&#8217;s trip to the zoo. Xander thanks her and asks if everything is alright. Sarah responds that she&#8217;s just counting her blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Chanel and Johnny go home where Trey is still asleep. Chanel hopes he&#8217;s not up all night. Johnny says they&#8217;ll deal with it if he is. Chanel says they might take him on another evening stroll. Johnny hopes she&#8217;s not still mad at him for making the doctor&#8217;s appointment. Chanel admits she&#8217;s glad they went but she would like to forget about it for awhile. They look at the pictures from their ultrasound. Chanel says she can&#8217;t wait to hold her baby in her arms. Chanel starts to get emotional about possibly having cancer and not getting to raise their kids. Johnny tells her not to even say that, reminding her that Sarah said the odds are in their favor. Johnny promises that no matter what happens, he&#8217;s going to be right by her side. Johnny hugs Chanel as she cries.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia returns to the town square and gets a call from Kristen, who says she just wanted to let her know that the time to move on Johnny is tomorrow because Chanel will be gone all day. Sophia responds that it&#8217;s so soon and she doesn&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s ready. Kristen tells her it gets done tomorrow with no emotion and no mess. 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Sarah responds that she just needed to speak to EJ, but he&#8217;s at a meeting in Chicago. Sarah assumes Xander is there to see Marlena. 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