Days Of Our Lives
DAYS’ Deidre Hall Wants Julia Roberts in Salem, and She’s Not Being Subtle About It
DAYS icon Deidre Hall publicly invites Julia Roberts to Salem, calling the Oscar winner a huge, adorably starstruck fan of the soap.
DEIDRE HALL SAYS JULIA ROBERTS IS A HUGE DAYS FAN, AND SHE WANTS HER IN SALEM
TL;DR: Days of Our Lives icon Deidre Hall has publicly invited Julia Roberts to guest on the soap, calling the Oscar winner a huge fan during an interview with PauseRewind.
A Public Invite From Salem’s Most Iconic Doctor
Deidre Hall has a message for one very famous fan of DAYS, and she’s putting it out there for the whole world to see. During NBCUniversal’s Backlot Pass Day, she spoke with PauseRewind about celebrities who love the soap, and she had a specific one in mind.
“You know, Julia Roberts is a very big fan,” she said. “And I think she must have some downtime somewhere. So, Julia, come on by, babe.” It is a bold, public invite from a woman who has played Marlena Evans for five decades and clearly knows a good scene when she sees one.\
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Julia Roberts Has Met Deidre Hall Before, and It Went Great
Deidre Hall did not stop there. She went on to share a sweet story about meeting Julia Roberts in person over the years. “I’ve met her in person several times at award shows and she was just sort of, and you can tell, just sort of gobstruck,” she recalled. “It wasn’t me. It was ‘it’s my show. People behind me are on my show!'” She described the Oscar winner’s genuine excitement at being near the DAYS cast, adding, “So, she’s so cute.”
Deidre Hall’s invite lands amid a bigger wave of celebrity love for Salem this year, with other high-profile names having expressed their own soft spot for the soap. Whether Roberts actually takes her up on the offer remains to be seen, but fans are already dreaming up which role she could play if she ever did.
It would not be the first time a celebrity fan turned Salem visitor. DAYS has spent 2026 pulling in famous admirers eager to step into the world she has anchored for five decades as Marlena Evans, a role Deidre Hall has now played for fifty years and counting. If Julia Roberts takes her up on the invitation, she would be joining a growing list of stars who could not resist the pull of Salem once they found out how many people behind the scenes are quietly obsessed with the show too.
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Salem’s Waiting, Julia
Deidre Hall has made her invitation loud and clear, and now it is up to Julia Roberts to decide if Salem gets a visit from an Oscar winner. Between the celebrity love pouring in for DAYS this year and Hall’s own five decades of star power, this feels like the kind of guest spot that could actually happen. Head over to our Facebook page and let us know who else you’d love to see make a Salem cameo.
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