Days of Our Lives fans shocked as TWO key characters leave the show – with first surprise exit this week
DAYS of Our Lives couple Sal Stowers and Lamon Archey are both bidding farewell to Salem.
Sal (Lani) will be leaving the NBC soap opera on July 1, while Lamon (Eli) is exiting the series the week of July 4, Soap Opera Digest revealed.
Sal joined Days of Our Lives in 2015 as Abe’s (James Reynolds) presumed daughter Lani.
Lamon, meanwhile, was introduced as Julie’s (Susan Seaforth Hayes) grandson Eli Grant in 2017.
Eli and Lani found love on the show after a rough start – and some interference from people like Gabi (Camila Banus) – and married and welcomed twins.
Lani found herself in hot water after she shot and killed her biological father T.R. (William Christian).
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Eli urged his wife to let her mother Paulina (Jackée Harry) take the heat for the crime.
However, Lani couldn’t take the guilt and confessed to the murder in the middle of Paulina and Abe’s wedding.
Sal’s departure suggests things didn’t go well for Lani and she ended up in prison.
However, Eli also exiting Salem indicates that maybe she got off with the crime and the couple decided to leave town to make a fresh start.
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Fans shared their heartbreak at the couple’s departure on Twitter.
One posted: “Aw, so sad to hear that Lani and Eli will be leaving Days of Our Lives…love them!”
Another added: “WTH? Lamon Archey and Sal Stowers are leaving #DAYS? Jeez, Eli And Lani are the only young couple I like.”
GOODBYE LANI
Discussing her exit, Sal told Soap Opera News: “I’m going to miss telling her story.
“I genuinely love her story – the good, the bad, the flaws, the ugly, the pretty – she’s a powerful woman and she didn’t start that way”.
Sal got her big break as the winner of cycle nine of America’s Next Top Model.
She made her daytime debut in the role of All My Children’s Cassandra Foster in 2013.
Her other credits include The Fosters, Switched at Birth, Major Crimes, and New Girl.
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Lamon first appeared on Days of Our Lives shortly after ending his run as recurring character Mason Wilder on The Young and the Restless.
He has also appeared on shows like All American, 2 Broke Girls, and Can’t Buy My Love.
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