Well, here’s a twist we’re pretty sure nobody saw coming: Days of Our Lives and Young & Restless are swapping stars. What does that mean? Our sister site Deadline reports that Conner Floyd is about to join the cast of the Salem-set sudser as a recast of Chad DiMera. This comes as Floyd’s Young & Restless character, Chance, is about to show up in that show’s big summer storyline, which centers on Cane Ashby… now played by Billy Flynn, who until recently was playing Chad!
Confusing, right? And it will get even more so thanks to Days of Our Lives‘ super-advanced shooting schedule. That means that for at least the next few months, Flynn will be appearing on both of the sudsers. In fact, he’s likely to continue doing so until sometime in 2026! Meanwhile, although Floyd is set to start taping the Peacock soap this week, he won’t actually appear on screen until… you guessed it, sometime next year!
Certainly the timing is a tad odd. After hardly appearing on screen at all over the past few months, Floyd’s Chance will this week find himself caught up in the intrigue unfolding in France. On the plus side, this should give the actor plenty of time to pick Flynn’s brain about the part he’ll soon be stepping into!
Want one more confusing little factoid? The characters currently being played by the men on Young & Restless were once father and son. Yes, there was a time when Cane (then played by Daniel Goddard, who is now General Hospital’s Dalton!) pretended to be Phillip Chancellor — Chance’s dad — so that the real Philip could continue to play dead.
Ain’t soap life grand?
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Meanwhile, proving himself a class act, Flynn posted an Instagram story congratulating Floyd. “Chad is [in] good hands,” he wrote. “You’re gonna crush it, man!”
We’ve reached out to Young & Restless to find out how the show will handle Floyd’s exit, but as of publication time had not yet received a response. While the show could recast, the character could also easily be written off (as evidenced by Chance’s lack of storyline or airtime of late). Might the mystery currently unfolding in Cane’s maze wind up having a body count?
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