Peter Porte returns to Days of our Lives today as Dimitri von Leuschner, and his timing couldn’t be soapier: He reappears just as his ex, Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart), has tied the knot with Javi Hernandez (Al Calderon).
For Porte, who last appeared in 2023, the call to come back was both unexpected and meaningful. “I was so pleased,” he enthuses. “I love working on this show. I get to work with my friends. It’s such a legacy. I mean, we just celebrated our 60th anniversary, which is crazy in this town, so I was very disappointed to leave. But these things happen. Contracts come to an end, storylines come to an end, but I was always hoping that they would bring me back. I thought the fact that they put me in supermax prison and not killed me was a good sign.”
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