{"id":68477,"date":"2021-08-22T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=68477"},"modified":"2021-08-22T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:39:54","slug":"will-new-sonny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/will-new-sonny\/","title":{"rendered":"Will &#038; New Sonny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it was announced that <strong><em>Days of our Lives<\/em><\/strong> is bringing back some classic characters for a limited series on <em>Peacock<\/em>, people have been asking me if Will and Sonny will return.&nbsp; I\u2019m pleased to tell you that <strong>Chandler Massey <\/strong>has signed on to reprise the role of Will on <strong><em>Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; That\u2019s the good news.&nbsp; Fans will be sad to hear that <em>Emmy <\/em>winner <strong>Freddie Smith <\/strong>will not be back as Sonny.&nbsp; However, different actors take over roles on soaps all the time.&nbsp; Sonny will be back, but he\u2019ll be played by the hunky <strong>Zachary Atticus Tinker<\/strong>, formerly Fen on <strong><em>The Young and the Restless<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Smith congratulated his replacement on Instagram by saying, \u201cI want to give a shout out to Zach Tinker.&nbsp; Congratulations, man.&nbsp; I know you are taking over the role of Sonny Kiriakis.&nbsp; You are going to have an absolute blast.&nbsp; He\u2019s an awesome character and it\u2019s such an important storyline.&nbsp; I know you\u2019re going to crush it so have fun and I can\u2019t wait to check it out on <em>Peacock<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it was announced that Days of our Lives is bringing back some classic characters for a limited series on Peacock, people have been asking me if Will and Sonny will return.&nbsp; I\u2019m pleased to tell you that Chandler Massey has signed on to reprise the role of Will on Days of our Lives:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68478,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68477\/revisions\/68478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}