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Could four of soaps’ most popular stars return?

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Reader Poll!

You voted on soapoperadigest.com and here’s who you want to see back!

Peter Reckell 32%

Anthony Geary 30%

James Scott 21%

Vanessa Marcil 17%

Peter Reckell (ex-Bo, DAYS)

Few actors have had as high-impact a presence in daytime as DAYS’s Peter Reckell, whose Bo Brady made fans swoon and was half of beloved supercouple Bo and Hope. He played the role from 1983-87, 1990-92, and 1995-2012. After that exit, Reckell moved out of Los Angeles, settling in Nashville, TN with wife Kelly Moneymaker and their daughter, Loden.

In 2015, Reckell inked a short-term deal to come back, and his run ended when Bo succumbed to a brain tumor. In an interview with Digest, Reckell addressed the question of whether he would return again. “If you were to ask me that before I came back the last time, I would have said, ‘Of course not,’ ” he admitted. “Who knows? It’s really a question that I can’t answer. I look at my daughter now and she was pretty much the main reason for leaving the last time, besides not really having anything to do on the show that was of substance, and to see how quickly she’s growing, I would not have missed a moment of this last several years of her.”

Reckell was last seen in Salem in 2016, when he appeared in a special Hope-centric episode. That same year, he topped a