This Week’s Daytime Spoilers Are Packed With a Boardroom Coup, a Will Reading From Hell, a Hostile Takeover at the WSB, a Plasma Ring Crashing Down, and a Small Town Where Nothing Is Quiet

FIVE SOAPS, FIVE DAYS, COUPS, WILL READINGS, AND TAKEOVERS. THESE SPOILERS ARE A MUST-READ!

TL;DR: Brooke Logan pushes her co-CEO power play across the finish line on The Bold and the Beautiful, Lexie Carver crashes Stefano’s will reading on Days of Our Lives, Ross Cullum takes over the WSB Port Charles office on General Hospital, the Fairmont Crest plasma ring starts to crack on Beyond the Gates, and Phyllis Summers goes after Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless. Five soaps. One stacked week.

The Week Ahead

There is no quiet day on the daytime calendar this week. Days of Our Lives has Stefano’s will reading and Lexie Carver back from the dead. Beyond the Gates has the plasma ring on the verge of collapse. The Young and the Restless has Victor Newman tearing his own marriage apart. General Hospital has Ross Cullum running the WSB office he was supposed to be hunted by. And The Bold and the Beautiful has Brooke Logan trying to take Steffy’s job.

Five soaps. Five days. Plenty of chaos. Buckle up.

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Beyond the Gates Spoilers

Monday, May 11:

• After months of chemo treatments, Anita Dupree finally walks up to that bell, and the Dupree family throws the celebration Fairmont Crest has been waiting on for months.
• Nicole Dupree Richardson drops a bombshell on Dani Dupree that shifts the family balance overnight.
• Ted Richardson defends Leslie one too many times for Shanice Johnson‘s liking, and the fight that follows has been brewing for weeks.
• Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne corners Jacob Hawthorne for information about his case, and Jacob is a terrible liar to his own wife.
• Derek Baldwin shows up on Ashley Morgan‘s doorstep with an apology, and Ashley makes him earn every word of forgiveness.

Tuesday, May 12:

• Joey Armstrong gets in Smitty‘s face, and the only thing more loaded than the conversation is the threat behind it.
• Naomi gets news that lands closer to Ashley’s life than her own, and the timing changes everything for both of them.
• A man Bill Hamilton hoped he would never see again strolls back into Fairmont Crest, and the disgraced ex-partner brings every secret Bill spent the last year burying right back to the surface.
• Elon Hawthorne shows up in his police chief uniform to defuse an altercation involving Chelsea Hamilton and Madison Montgomery.
• Nicole and Carlton Fitzgerald close the distance again, and Ted Richardson clocks every second of it.

Wednesday, May 13:

• A crisis lands in Chelsea’s lap, and Dani, Kat Richardson, Bill, and Naomi descend on her at once because that is how the Hamilton women operate.
• Smitty pulls Tomas Navarro into a conversation about Lynette Wise, and the two men start connecting dots that nobody else has touched.
• Eva Thomas and Izaiah Hawthorne trade words that neither one of them can take back, no matter how badly they want to.
• Vanessa McBride hands a friend advice rooted in her own complicated history, and the friend hears something different than what Vanessa meant.

Thursday, May 14:

• Anita and Vernon Dupree sit down with Anita’s oncologist Dr. Bauer for the conversation that decides where the next chapter of her cancer journey actually leads.
• The Belleclaires sweep into Fairmont Crest aimed straight at Nicole, with Samantha Richardson catching the worst of it, and the Richardsons are not going to let it slide.
• Joey says something to Vanessa he cannot smile his way out of.
• A small kindness sneaks up on Donnell McBride, and the moment hits him harder than the gesture deserves.
• Mona Wilson drops one of her signature truth bombs on Randy Parker, and Randy actually feels it.

Friday, May 15:

• The plasma ring is days from collapse, and Jacob and Smitty are the two men who finally see the whole picture.
• Grayson Perez opens his phone to a new deadline from the people who own him, and this one is written in blood.
• Marcel Malone corners Lia Whitmore with a pointed question, and Lia’s poker face slips enough for Marcel to know.
• Ted leans on Monica to help him patch things up with Shanice, because asking the family for a romance assist is exactly the move Ted would make.
• Eva tries to lift Samantha’s spirits, and Tyrell Richardson walks in and undoes every word of it.

The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers

Monday, May 11:

• Donna Logan reminds Katie Logan that family is supposed to come first, and Katie is already drafting her next move while she nods.
• Liam Spencer clocks Hope Logan‘s wavering at Forrester and decides somebody has to light a fire.
• Brooke Logan puts a corporate restructuring proposal in front of Ridge Forrester that takes his daughter out of the co-CEO chair, and Ridge walks out of that conversation rattled to the core.

Tuesday, May 12:

• Ridge puts a question in front of Steffy Forrester that catches her flat-footed.
• Hope gets a glimpse of a Brooke she has never seen before, and the lighting on her own mother is unflattering.

Wednesday, May 13:

• Steffy pushes back on Ridge the way only Steffy pushes back, and Ridge leaves the office with twice as many questions as he came in with.
• Brooke and Hope close ranks together, and the path the two of them map out has Steffy at the bottom of a cliff.

Thursday, May 14:

• Dylan gets a job offer at Forrester Creations, and the timing of it is no accident.
• Brooke’s power play finally lands on Bill Spencer and Katie’s radar, and neither one of them is throwing a parade.

Friday, May 15:

• Zende Forrester Dominguez hits his breaking point about being a designer who never gets to design, and Carter catches the whole rant.
• Brooke holds her breath waiting for Ridge to hand her the title she has been positioning for since Monday morning.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers

Monday, May 11:

• Lexie Carver walks out of a hidden DiMera tunnel mid-toast at Stefano’s will reading, and the family that thought she was dead nearly drops their wine glasses.
• Tony DiMera puts a proposition in front of Gabi DiMera that catches her completely off guard.
• Kristen DiMera sees Sophia standing where Sophia cannot possibly be, and her guilty conscience does the rest of the haunting.
• EJ DiMera starts pressing Cat Greene with the kind of questions a man asks when he is two steps from figuring out who his assistant actually works for.
• Chad DiMera goes to bat for Leo Stark, which is the most surprising sentence we are writing all year.

Tuesday, May 12:

• Belle Black lands in Marlena Evans‘s office for the kind of advice you can only get from your mother.
• Holly Jonas takes her grief over Sophia out on Tate Black, because that is the storyline this week.
• Brady Black and Sarah Horton find each other in the middle of a hard week and lean in.
• Philip Kiriakis shows up for Gabi in a way the Salem rumor mill chews on for weeks.
• Arianna Horton finally tells Liam Selejko what she has been holding in, and Gabi will not love hearing about it.

Wednesday, May 13:

• Steve Johnson drops by Alex Kiriakis‘s place with a conversation that lands heavier than Alex bargained for.
• EJ slips a knife into Gwen Rizczech‘s plans before she sees it coming.
• Marlena holds space for Paulina Price the way only Marlena Evans can.

Thursday, May 14:

• Johnny DiMera and Chanel Dupree lean on each other through Chanel’s biopsy, and the room shrinks around them.
• Jada Hunter hands Shawn Brady a key to her place, and the gesture is not subtle.
• Gabi pins Arianna down about Liam, and the conversation tests every nerve Gabi has left.
• Amy gets in Holly’s face about Sophia, and Salem should pull up a chair.

Friday, May 15:

• EJ wants to dig into Cat’s history in a way nobody is ready for, least of all Cat.
• Kristen and Chad sit down together for a conversation about life and death that nobody on this canvas saw coming.
• Javi Hernandez finally lets Rafe Hernandez past the wall.
• Gwen holds Xander Cook‘s feet to the fire over the deal he thought he was getting away with.

General Hospital Spoilers

Monday, May 11:

• Nina Reeves lands on Willow Tait‘s doorstep ready to drag her over the syringe and the man she sedated, and Nina does it with that signature edge.
• Lulu Spencer sweats through a conversation about Rocco that tells her exactly how close the truth is.
• Elizabeth Webber finally lines up the slide bite, the kitchen story, and the timeline, and the picture only points one direction.
• Ethan Lovett and Ava Jerome run face first into each other, and the Jerome Gallery should lock the front door.
• Ric Lansing starts defending himself out loud to anyone who will listen, which is the surest sign Ric is in trouble.

Tuesday, May 12:

• Lulu corners Britt Westbourne for answers Britt has been ducking for months.
• Dante Falconeri gets in “Nathan’s” face in a way that closes a door neither one of them can reopen.
• Curtis Ashford takes off on a private mission of his own because Curtis cannot leave a thread alone.
• Rocco Falconeri, Danny Morgan, and Charlotte Cassadine butt heads, because Port Charles teenagers are who they are.
• Isaiah Gannon gets a hot seat of his own, and the questions about Jordan come loaded.

Wednesday, May 13:

• Ethan slides an invitation across the table to Kristina Corinthos-Davis that opens a door Kristina has been waiting on.
• Michael Corinthos loops Jacinda into a plan he has been quietly building.
• Willow takes a meeting with Jenz Sidwell, and a sitting congresswoman walking into a room with that man is the plot twist nobody wanted.
• Curtis’s worry about Jordan Ashford tips into something that pushes him toward a move he might regret.

Thursday, May 14:

• Britt stares down a choice that has no clean way out for her or her brother.
• Tracy Quartermaine finds out something that lights her entire week on fire, and the woman has range when she is outraged.
• Laura Collins has to answer for her actions to a Port Charles that is not in the mood for explanations.
• Carly Spencer corners Nina with questions that Nina cannot answer truthfully.
• Dante sits through a conversation that knocks the wind right out of him.

Friday, May 15:

• Carly stonewalls Ross Cullum the second he comes hunting for information about her daughter.
• Valentin Cassadine plots his next move from the bedroom of the woman whose ex-boyfriend he syringed twenty four hours ago.
• “Nathan” confides in someone the audience absolutely did not have on the bingo card.
• Liz brings Dante in on what she knows, and the Lulu of it all spills out.
• Ric and Alexis Davis set everything else aside for Molly Lansing-Davis, because that is the one thing the two of them still get right.

The Young and the Restless Spoilers

Monday, May 11:

• Victor Newman pulls Christine Blair into his war on Phyllis Summers, because Victor has never met a problem he could not weaponize a DA against.
• Nick Newman white-knuckles his sobriety in a way the whole family feels.
• Noah Newman starts building a wall around Sienna that Matt Clark has been waiting for an excuse to climb.

Tuesday, May 12:

• Nikki Newman hands Jack Abbott a confession that lands with the force of a slap.
• Cane Ashby makes a move with Lily Winters that the Genoa City rumor mill chews on for weeks.
• Patty Williams pleads her case to Billy Abbott, because Patty Williams has never met a man she could not cry in front of.

Wednesday, May 13:

• Victor leads the manhunt for Matt Clark personally, because Victor does not delegate revenge to anybody.
• Adam Newman starts calling Nick’s recovery into question out loud, and the Newman dinner table cools by twenty degrees.
• Devon Hamilton starts sounding alarms about Lily and Cane that nobody in the family wants to hear.

Thursday, May 14:

• Victor drags Nick into a Newman-style intervention dressed up as a hug, and Nick walks out with bruises he cannot see.
• Jack flips the table on Patty, and the Patty who came to seduce a married man meets a Jack she has never sat across from before.
• Phyllis lays a trap with Victor’s name on the welcome mat.

Friday, May 15:

• Lily asks Cane the question she has been holding in for weeks, and Cane does not have a good answer ready.
• Holden Novak and Claire Newman take the New York trip all the way to the bedroom.
• Nick strikes a deal with somebody he has no business sitting across the table from, and the Newmans feel the fallout immediately.

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Which Couple Needs to Break Up IMMEDIATELY? Billy's already threatened to throw his business partner under the bus and he's supposed to be husband material? Will and Electra are drowning in letter drama and secret cousins while she's kissing RJ on the side. Alex can't read a room and Stephanie is over it. Cassius and Lulu aren't even a real couple because HE'S NOT NATHAN. And Joey and Vanessa have been a disaster waiting to happen. Which couple do you want gone FIRST and which one are you secretly still rooting for even though you know you shouldn't be?

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