{"id":70995,"date":"2026-08-14T04:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=70995"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:52:01","slug":"days-update-monday-july-27-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/days-update-monday-july-27-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Update Monday, July 27, 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>Gabi answers the door at home to see Philip and tries to close the door on him.<\/p>\n<p>Alex and Joy bring Kelsey to the Brady Pub. Joy thanks Alex for coming to the hospital with her. Alex is glad she&#8217;s on the mend. Joy is glad to be out of her neck brace so she can enjoy sleeping in her own bed again. Arianna comes over and greets them. Ari says she&#8217;s glad to have Joy and Kelsey back as her next door neighbors and asks how Joy is doing. Joy says she&#8217;s much better and credits Alex for being such a great help.<\/p>\n<p>Leo runs in to Marlena in the town square and says he was just about to call her for an emergency last minute session. Marlena asks what&#8217;s going on. Leo informs her that he&#8217;s certain a terrible fate has befallen Gwen and he&#8217;s the only one who can save her.<\/p>\n<p>Cat goes to Rafe&#8217;s office. Rafe notes that she sounded really fired up over the phone. Cat then delivers Rafe a handwritten confession from Gwen, confessing to teaming up with EJ for a whole host of crimes. Rafe questions where she got it. Cat admits she hacked Gwen&#8217;s attorney&#8217;s computer and stole it.<\/p>\n<p>Philip tells Gabi that he has something to say and she&#8217;s going to listen. Philip repeats that he and Xander had nothing to do with her counterfeit bags. Philip asks how stupid they would have to be to antagonize her when their entire fate rested in her rich hands. Gabi argues that it wouldn&#8217;t be stupid while they were profiting off of it. Philip states again that they had nothing to do with it and calls it outrageous and insulting that Gabi would think that. Gabi mocks Philip being hurt and insulted while asking how hurtful and insulting it is for her to see her creations ripped off. Philip repeats that he and Xander had nothing to do with it. Gabi questions taking his word for it. Philip states that he&#8217;s being dead honest. Philip admits he&#8217;s done despicable things in the past, but that&#8217;s not who he is anymore, and he would never do that to someone he cares about.<\/p>\n<p>Joy talks about Alex being such a great help for her and their daughter. Alex is just glad they are okay. Joy repeats that it&#8217;s thanks to him. Arianna says to call her anytime if she needs anything. Joy thanks her as Ari heads back to her table. Alex calls Ari a good friend. Alex brings up Philip. Joy says everyone has made it very clear that they should call them instead of Alex, unless it has to do with Kelsey. Alex assures that she can still call him anytime. Joy says it&#8217;s okay and that she&#8217;s got it from here, so he doesn&#8217;t need to hang around. Alex says he will see Kelsey again soon then as he then exits the Pub. Arianna then starts clapping and mocks Joy for her performance, accusing her of still having a thing for Alex which Joy denies. Arianna asks if Joy came back to Salem so that Alex could fall in love with his daughter and back in love with her too. Joy denies that, pointing out they were never in love and just hooked up, adding that Alex is married now. Ari points out that Joy has a kid with him while Joy argues that she&#8217;s not going to use her child to get a man. Joy then admits that it would be nice for her daughter to have two caring parents in her life, without a psycho stepmom in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Alex runs in to Stephanie in the town square. She asks about Joy&#8217;s doctor&#8217;s appointment. Alex says it went okay and she&#8217;s back home to start physical therapy soon. Alex asks about Stephanie&#8217;s day. Stephanie calls it stressful as the hospital&#8217;s future depends on Gwen buying it but she&#8217;s gone missing and no one knows what&#8217;s going on, so Steve and the police are looking into it. Alex asks if she thinks something happened to Gwen. Stephanie says you&#8217;d think if she was going off the grid, she would&#8217;ve at least left a note or told someone.<\/p>\n<p>Leo tells Marlena how it makes no sense for Gwen to disappear right before she was going to buy the hospital from EJ. Leo says he had to do something about it, so he went to Melinda Trask to open the document from Gwen&#8217;s lawyer but the document was blank. Marlena asks what he thinks happened to it. Leo thinks EJ found out about it and got rid of it before he could see it. Leo adds that the next thing EJ is going to get rid of is him.<\/p>\n<p>Cat explains to Rafe that Leo told her about the file and that he&#8217;s convinced EJ disappeared Gwen. Rafe looks up on his computer and sees that Steve checked in with the police to do a wellness check on Gwen but there&#8217;s no result yet. Rafe asks if Cat thinks something happened. Cat points out that with Gwen not around, it delays her purchase of the hospital which is certainly to EJ&#8217;s advantage. Rafe mentions seeing the state board gave EJ 90 days to sell the hospital or they will take it. Cat states that Gwen disappearing gives EJ the chance to keep the hospital after those 90 days are over. Rafe asks how that&#8217;s possible after the state board agreed his activity was illegal. Cat says if anyone can skate by, it&#8217;s EJ which Rafe agrees with. Cat adds that she called Andrew to track Gwen&#8217;s phone and he confirmed it hasn&#8217;t been turned on since yesterday morning. Rafe calls it unlike Gwen to be off the grid. Rafe then asks if Cat now wants to tell him why she committed a crime and stole the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi questions Philip saying he cares about her when she was under the impression that he hated her. Philip clarifies that he hates what she did in bugging Xander&#8217;s office. Philip reminds her that he said when they were together that she made him happier than he&#8217;d been in a long time and woke him up to what his life could be. Philip says he thought they were in it for the long haul and going to get married. Gabi points out they wouldn&#8217;t have had kids which Philip says he was fine with. Philip says his point is that he thought they had something special and asks if Gabi did too.<\/p>\n<p>Arianna informs Joy that Stephanie is her cousin, so she warns her to be careful what she says about her. Joy admits she didn&#8217;t know that. Arianna asks why she called Stephanie psycho. Joy responds that things have been complicated between them and Stephanie has kind of lost it a couple of times around her. Ari feels that&#8217;s understandable, especially if Joy was trying to break up Stephanie and Alex which would be shady and low. Joy insists that&#8217;s not what she&#8217;s doing because she&#8217;s not that type of person. Ari asks if she&#8217;s sure about that. Joy declares that she&#8217;s not trying to cause problems for Alex and Stephanie, she&#8217;s just trying to make sure her daughter has two loving parents in her and Alex and trying to do right back by her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Alex can&#8217;t believe EJ would do this after all the damage he&#8217;s caused Titan. Alex says he won&#8217;t do anything to provoke him further, but wishes EJ would get his. Stephanie thinks everybody wishes that. Nearby, Marlena tells Leo that if EJ got rid of the letter, he must believe he never saw it. Leo worries that EJ would think of him a loose end and would want to get rid of him for that. Leo adds that EJ could&#8217;ve had a hacker get rid of or maybe Melinda did, but he has to figure out his next move.<\/p>\n<p>Cat tells Rafe that she had to act fast and get rid of the letter before Leo published it and tipped EJ off, giving him time to cover his tracks, and she wanted to keep Leo out of EJ&#8217;s crosshairs. Rafe reads that Gwen wrote that if Leo is reading this, she&#8217;s probably dead and EJ is to blame. Rafe notes that the list doesn&#8217;t give them a lot to go off of. Rafe says they already know they were doing experiments on Lexie and were going to put Dr. Rolf&#8217;s drug on the black market which they seemed to have abandoned, so he doesn&#8217;t see anything here, but Cat says she does.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi tells Philip that she did think they had something special and real, but guesses it wasn&#8217;t meant to be. Gabi tells him that he should go, but Philip says not before he finishes saying what he came to say. Philip brings up Gabi accusing Theo of ratting her out and refusing to believe his denials, Theo was devastated, and now she&#8217;s doing the same thing with him and it hurts like Hell. Philip then exits as Arianna comes home.<\/p>\n<p>Alex tells Stephanie that it&#8217;s driving him up the wall, having to sit and wait while Philip is trying to get some of Gabi&#8217;s inheritance money which he feels is a waste of time. Stephanie asks if he doesn&#8217;t think Philip will be successful. Alex responds that when Gabi makes up her mind on something, there&#8217;s no changing it. Alex then gets a call and says he&#8217;ll be right there. Stephanie guesses it was Joy but Alex informs her that it was his dad, who has the amended birth certificate and wants he and Joy to come over to sign some documents including the custody arrangements. Stephanie comments that Justin works fast. Alex says they will get this whole co-parenting thing settled and thinks getting the legal stuff behind them is a step in the right direction. Alex tells Stephanie that he will see her at home soon as he exits.<\/p>\n<p>Joy tells Kelsey that it&#8217;s just them and she is her favorite person in the whole world. Joy adds that she thinks Kelsey is becoming Alex&#8217;s favorite too. Joy remarks that the good news is things aren&#8217;t looking so good for Alex and his nutso wife right now, so if they do split up. Joy then gets a call from Alex and says she can be there soon. Joy hangs up and tells Kelsey that she&#8217;s about to get a new name of great distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Leo tells Marlena that he&#8217;s through being paranoid and letting fear control him. Leo admits EJ scares him but he won&#8217;t let him get away with this. Leo declares that he&#8217;s going to find Gwen and if it is too late, he will avenge her. Marlena argues that it&#8217;s not his responsibility and he&#8217;s not trained for this. Leo argues that he tried to get the pros involved and brings up believing Cat was ISA. Leo says he confided in Cat, but she denied being ISA and told him that law enforcement wouldn&#8217;t take him seriously, so it&#8217;s up to him. Leo declares he is going to summon his courage and if something happens to him, he will exit the cruel cold world in a blaze of glory. Marlena tries to stop him but Leo says he must go carry out his noble mission and walks away.<\/p>\n<p>Leo goes to his room at the Salem Inn and begins packing, saying he&#8217;s coming for Gwen.<\/p>\n<p>Cat shows Rafe where Gwen admits to conspiring with EJ to kidnap Dimitri and that Dimitri said he was grabbed the moment he was let out of prison which means it happened on US soil and not Alamainia. Cat adds that Gwen laid it all out how they used Dimitri&#8217;s money to partially fund EJ&#8217;s purchase of the hospital and get the patent for Versavix to develop Dr. Rolf&#8217;s miracle drug. Rafe acknowledges that would&#8217;ve made them billionaires. Rafe declares this is the piece of the puzzle they have been looking for. Cat says that Gwen is the identity of EJ&#8217;s silent partner, so they&#8217;ve got it. They congratulate each other. Cat says she has let Andrew know and that their next step is finding Dimitri because he left town, vowing to find evidence that Gwen was behind his kidnapping, so they need to see if he found it and if any of it points to EJ as well. Rafe agrees and says he will continue digging for information on Gwen. Cat says she will head to the hospital to look around. Rafe compliments Cat on her good work as she exits.<\/p>\n<p>Philip comes across Stephanie in the town square. She invites him to join her table and thanks him for agreeing to help with Joy. Philip says no problem and that she hasn&#8217;t asked for any help yet. Stephanie hopes she will so she doesn&#8217;t rely on Alex so much, but warns that Joy can be high maintenance so she hopes that doesn&#8217;t burden him too much. Philip assures it will be fine and he will welcome a distraction from the trainwreck of his life. Stephanie asks if he wants to talk about it. Philip hopes she brought tissues since it&#8217;s a real tearjerker. Stephanie assumes it&#8217;s about Titan&#8217;s latest financial disaster and EJ buying it to make it impossible to pay off. Philip confirms that made Titan&#8217;s chances nearly nil.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi tells Arianna how happy she is to see her but Ari clarifies that she thought Gabi would be at work and only came to grab a few more things from her room. Arianna asks what Philip was doing there. Gabi explains that he was defending himself because she accused he and Xander of stealing her designs to sell counterfeit Gabi Chic purses online. Arianna admits she didn&#8217;t know that was happening and asks if she has proof they are behind it. Gabi complains that she never had problems like this until Titan started shipping for her and that no one else had access to her designs. Arianna points out that she did. Gabi says that has no bearing because she always got whatever items she wanted, like the purse she gave her a few weeks ago that she loved. Arianna says she got a lot of compliments on that, but then reveals that she misplaced it the first day she had it which shocks Gabi.<\/p>\n<p>At the Kiriakis Mansion, Alex thanks Justin for taking care of the paper work so quickly. Justin says anything for his granddaughter. Joy then arrives with Kelsey. Justin greets them and presents the amended birth certificate, officially listing Alex as the father of Kelsey Adrienne Kiriakis. Joy calls it officially Kelsey&#8217;s new name. Justin adds that he also has the custody papers with the terms they agreed to, including Alex&#8217;s open visitation and child support continuing as is which they both agree on. Justin adds that he amended Alex&#8217;s will along with the family trust, so Kelsey will be fully provided for. Justin brings up needing to nail down an advance directive along with a will and trust in Joy&#8217;s name. Joy says she doesn&#8217;t really have anything to leave anybody. Justin says the important thing is that they need to designate who will have custody of Kelsey if one of them dies or is incapacitated. Justin says standard language is that Kelsey would remain with the surviving parent which Joy declares that she is not okay with, because she doesn&#8217;t want Stephanie raising her child under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Philip tells Stephanie that no matter how hard he plead his case, Gabi refused to believe that he had nothing to do with stealing her designs while Xander swore on his daughter&#8217;s life that he had nothing to do with it either. Philip talks about regretting the forged letter for the rest of his life and says he understands why Gabi would be suspicious of him. Philip says he needs to make this right, but he has no idea how he will do that. Philip asks Stephanie for PR on how to convince Gabi that he is honest and the definition of integrity. Stephanie responds that she can&#8217;t work miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Marlena finds Cat at the hospital and asks if she has a minute. Cat asks what&#8217;s going on. Marlena says it&#8217;s about Gwen as she got permission from Leo to discuss this with her. Marlena informs Cat that Leo seems to think Gwen has gone missing and he&#8217;s been very concerned, but she apparently denied that she&#8217;s ISA and said she couldn&#8217;t help him. Marlena points out that both of those things are a lie. Cat calls it hazards of the job and says she should&#8217;ve known Leo wouldn&#8217;t let it go. Cat assures that she&#8217;s on the case. Marlena brings up Gwen&#8217;s letter that incriminated EJ which somehow went missing after Cat learned about it. Marlena then asks if Cat is the person who disappeared it.<\/p>\n<p>Leo runs in to Gus in the town square and says he has no time to chat. Gus asks where he&#8217;s going. Leo responds that he&#8217;s going to find Gwen, who he may lay down his life for.<\/p>\n<p>Alex questions why Joy would even say that, insisting that Stephanie is not a danger to Kelsey. Joy brings up Stephanie shooting at her, so she does believe her to be a danger to her daughter. Joy wants it added to the custody agreement that Alex&#8217;s visitation is contingent on Stephanie not being around. Alex refuses to sign that and says he will not agree to separating Stephanie and Kelsey for the next 18 years. Justin suggests coming up with a compromise but they say they won&#8217;t. Joy declares that she&#8217;s not signing anything unless that condition is written in to the agreement while Alex says he&#8217;s not signing if it is.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie tells Philip that she can&#8217;t work miracles but can offer a little guidance. Stephanie tells him the most important thing is to be honest and transparent with Gabi and not at all defensive. Philip assures that he was honest and transparent, but maybe a little defensive since he was being falsely accused. Stephanie asks if his defending was done angrily or kindly and calmly. Philip responds that he was vulnerable, kind, and calm some of the time but Gabi still looked at him like a liar. Stephanie says she can relate since she recently offered some apologizes that have fallen on deaf ears, so she knows what he&#8217;s going through and that it&#8217;s tough. Philip argues that she has time to fix things with Joy while he doesn&#8217;t have that with Gabi because the clock is ticking on the loan payment due date and the window is closing.<\/p>\n<p>Gabi questions why Arianna didn&#8217;t tell her that she misplaced her purse. Ari explains that she thought she left at her desk but it wasn&#8217;t there and then she found it in the break room and everything was still in it. Gabi argues that she&#8217;s not supposed to let those prototypes out of sight. Arianna says she usually locks it away and thought she&#8217;d only be gone a couple minutes. Gabi doesn&#8217;t know what to think and realizes maybe it wasn&#8217;t Xander or Philip who stole her designs.<\/p>\n<p>Cat tells Marlena that she can&#8217;t discuss an ongoing investigation with her. Marlena suspects Cat is developing deep feelings for EJ and warns that if those feelings are going to jeopardize the investigation, she will have to talk to Andrew. Cat says she understands but reveals that she already turned the letter over to Rafe and Andrew, so she can assure that this is not a matter where they should involve Leo Stark. Marlena tells her that ship has sailed.<\/p>\n<p>Gus questions Gwen missing. Leo declares that he&#8217;s going to find her and tells Gus to tell Javi that he says goodbye and if he never sees him again, that he will always love him. 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