News about Bill Hayes

Kristian Alfonso is set to return to the set of Days of Our lives for a special episode after parting ways with the hit show in 1998 and returning briefly last year. The 60-year-old actress will step back into the shoes of her character Hope Brady to pay tribute to her on-screen father played by the late Bill Hayes. 'My return is very bittersweet, because it is the end of an era with Bill gone,' the actress told TV Insider while on set Monday.

Days Of Our Lives will see three old faces from the 1980s return to the fold, amid a series of dramatic changes to the cast. Two new stars have been added to the long-running soap opera in roles that have currently not been disclosed to the public. Meanwhile one actor has decided to leave the show and pursue college as a full-time student, requiring his role to be recast.

Bill Hayes, who was best known for his portrayal of Doug Williams on the long-running soap opera series Days Of Our Lives, has died at the age of 98. In a tweet on Friday, the late performer's death was announced in a tweet to TVLine. The actor's official cause of death has yet to be disclosed despite being on the set of his 98th birthday.

Two months after Dick Van Dyke, 97, announced his guest appearance on Days of Our Lives, soap opera's elder statesman Bill Hayes triumphantly celebrated his 98th birthday with cast and crew on stage at The Burbank Studios. During his time as he appeared on Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's fifties variety show, Your Show of Shows, the silver-haired soap star was treated to a 'delicious' double-chocolate cake topped with black icing and emblazoned with a portrait of himself.

Jane Beaumont, nine, and her siblings Arnna, seven, and Grant, four, both right and inset, vanished on Australia Day in 1966 after leaving their parents' home for an afternoon at nearby Glenelg beach in suburban Adelaide. Their disappearances sparked a mass search, but the three men were never found after years of desperate hunting. Grant Alfred Beaumont (left) - also known as Jim - died on April 9 and is'reunited in heaven' with his children,' according to a funeral notice released on Saturday.