Overview

• Entertainment Weekly and Deadline confirm the Daytime Emmy winner will appear on Beyond the Gates before the end of December, with episodes tied to the show's 200th installment.
• Producers are keeping his character under wraps, though a cast Instagram video over the weekend showed Vaughan on set.
• Creator Michele Val Jean and executive producer Sheila Ducksworth teased the addition in July, calling the incoming actor a "hot male" familiar to longtime soap fans.
• The series has been renewed for Season 2 and is up 67% in multi-platform viewership year over year, topping General Hospital by 7% among women 25–54 on broadcast, according to Nielsen.
• Vaughan is best known for Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady, a role that earned him a 2018 Daytime Emmy, and EW reports he is expected to make a return appearance on that series later this year for its 60th anniversary.