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Steve Burton is returning to Salem.
In keeping with People, the beloved actor had closed a deal to return to Days of Our Lives in 2023.
Burton made his tv debut on Days of Our Lives in 1988.
The veteran cleaning soap star left the sequence in 1990 and returned to the franchise with an look in Days of Our Lives Past Salem earlier this 12 months.
Burton will return with “an exciting new storyline” that finds him working alongside fellow franchise veterans Stephen Nichols.
Peacock is holding quiet about what brings Harris again to Salem, however did promise“extra thriller, high-stakes journey, and romance with Harris returning to the canvas subsequent 12 months.”
Burton can be well-known for Normal Hospital, a fellow daytime cleaning soap that airs on ABC.
The star was written out in 2021 after he refused to adjust to the manufacturing’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
“I do know there’s been lots of rumors and hypothesis about me and Normal Hospital, and I wished you to listen to it from me personally. Sadly, Normal Hospital has let me go, due to the vaccine mandate,” Burton shared on the time of his exit on Instagram.
“I did apply for my medical and spiritual exemptions, and each of these had been denied… which, you already know, hurts.”
“However that is additionally about private freedom to me. I don’t suppose anyone ought to lose their livelihood over this.”
Days of Our Lives left NBC behind earlier this 12 months when it turned a Peacock unique sequence.
It joined its spinoff Past Salem on the streaming service.
Burton beforehand stated it was an “honor” to look within the spinoff in an interview with Soap Opera Digest.
The actor stated felt prefer it was like enjoying a brand new character when he reprised the position on Past Salem
“I make references within the digital sequence to that character a few occasions, nevertheless it’s a brand new character,” he defined within the interview.
“And I simply let [Days of Our Lives head writer] Ron [Carlivati] determine it out and do his factor, like we at all times do as actors, and talked it by means of with him.”
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Days of Our Lives streams on weekdays on Peacock.
Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.
