Alison Sweeney

Here's what's coming up on Monday's episode of Days of Our Lives (January 5).

Chloe (Nadia Bjorlin) delivers her warning about Philip (Jay Kenneth Johnson) to Stephanie (Shelley Hennig), Brady (Eric Martsolf) and Philip discuss Philip's animosity towards Melanie (Molly Burnett) and Rafe (Galen Gering) wants to know where Sami (Alison Sweeney) came up with her crazy plan.

Yes, he has a right to know

No, he's a DiMera, better to stay quiet

Don't care

Stopped watching / Still not watching

Yes

No

Stopped watching a long time ago

Don't Care

Sami and Lucas

Sami and EJ

Sami and Rafe

Lucas and Chloe

EJ and Nicole

After concerning fans and setting the gossip blogs on fire yesterday by faking going into labor on Ellen, Alison Sweeney is blogging about her appearance on the popular talk show.

I can’t believe how many people have called, texted and emailed me, my husband and everyone I know to ask about Ellen today. As if she would really leap over a woman in labor to go open presents! Lol. I was a guest on the show yesterday, and they were so excited to be doing the first day of their big 12 days of giveaways.

For me it’s always a blast to be on Ellen’s show. She’s hilarious, and fun to talk to and of course, it was pretty cool, running into Ludacris in the hallway. He said hi to Ben, and ‘pounded’ fists with him. While he was performing Ben was totally rocking out to the music too. So cute.

So, anyway, before the show they asked me if I’d be willing to set up the audience gift portion with a gag. I’m always game, and Ellen thought it would be funny to have me mock going into labor at the beginning of that segment. And be sure to sprawl out as much as possible so she really had to leap over me. Lol. So, I did the best I could. As soon as she passed me, I jumped up and laughed and clapped with the audience so everyone would see that I was okay. But I guess that didn’t make it on camera. I didn’t really think about it beyond that. Next thing I know, my best friend from New York is instant messaging me this morning about it. She wrote that if we hadn’t already been emailing that morning she would have thought something had really happened. Then I started getting more and more calls. My mom had me pulled out of a meeting! I said “MOM!!! Come on! If I’d gone into labor, I would DEFINITELY have called you!!!”

The best are the gossip site “reports”. Uh huh, clearly lots of thorough reporting going on there. One site even claimed I had gone to the hospital. Now they all have retractions up.

So anyway, it’s not true. I’m fine. The baby is fine. I have a check up tomorrow, we’re still looking at mid-January when she’s expected. Thank you all for your concern. I’m sorry if anyone was alarmed! If I had any idea that it wouldn’t be clear that it was a joke, I would have said something, but I just didn’t realize how the story would get so out of control!!

I’m prepping for the live Biggest Loser 6 Finale, Tuesday December 16th. Hope you all tune in. There are so many incredible transformations, and wonderful people I look forward to seeing again.
XOXO

Now that you've seen Alison's explanation do you think the stunt was all in fun or in bad taste?

If you were watching Ellen yesterday and thought that Alison Sweeney went into labor on the show you have no need to be worried. According to Access Hollywood it was all a stunt to lead into Ellen's big give away. Check out the stunt above.

It's official no one is safe at Days of Our Lives. This week's Soap Opera Weekly is reporting that Alison Sweeney, along with Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso have been approached about taking salary cuts in the range of 40-50 percent. As Daytime Confidential revealed, Reckell and Alfonso have reportedly accepted offers to remain on the NBC sudser with substantial reductions in pay, but what about Sweeney?
 
Many soap opera industry experts, as well as fans of the struggling soap, figured Sweeney to be the one Days star above reproach, considering the show has written most of its front burner storylines around her character Sami for years. That, coupled with the clout Sweeney allegedly wields as a result of her turn as host of the NBC primetime hit The Biggest Loser, seemingly made her untouchable. Apparently that isn't the case.

An insider tells the magazine: Continue Reading...

Has anyone else noticed all the pickles Sami (Alison Sweeney) has been eating lately? According to a recent blog by Ali, she has this to say on the matter:

Okay, so you're probably noticing that pickles keep appearing in the safe house. Uh huh - Sami's not the only one who's pregnant! :) I went through about a 2 month phase when I just couldn't get enough pickles. I love them!!........ So, I asked the prop department to put them in the fridge in the safe house, and then it just became this running gag. You'll see them appear several more times in upcoming episodes.

Ali goes on to mention how much she's enjoying working with Galen Gering (Rafael Hernandez) and how funny Diane Delano (Hilda) is to work with. To read about this and more, check out the rest of Ali's blog here.

Sami and Lucas

Sami and EJ

Sami and Rafael