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Conner Floyd Hopes to Win Over ‘Days’ Fans as Chad DiMera
Stephanie Sloane
Mon, April 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM EDT
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Conner Floyd will make his Days of our Lives debut as Chad DiMera on Tuesday, April 21, 10 months after he first began taping.

“It’s pretty crazy,” marvels Floyd, who played Chance Chancellor on The Young and the Restless from 2021-25. “That was a big time gap, but it’s finally come. I feel like it kind of flew by as well, but it’s been fantastic. I’m pumped for people to see what we’ve been working on because the storylines have been really interesting and fun.”

His time on Y&R proved invaluable, as did advice from Chad’s previous portrayer, Billy Flynn, who moved to Genoa City last year as Cane Ashby before Floyd wrapped his run. “Being over there and playing Chance for as long as I did definitely prepared me for what was to come here,’” he notes.

Billy Flynn on 'Days of our Lives'
Billy Flynn on 'Days of our Lives'
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“And it was super helpful to talk to Billy beforehand. I got the lay of the land. He told me how everything operates, so when I walked through the doors, I wasn’t going into it blind. I knew I had to check in here, that my room was going to be down here, this is the time we rehearse, this is how rehearsals go… It was a lot of learning on the fly, but I felt like I had the SparkNotes. I came in pretty prepared, but I just remember everyone being very welcoming and very happy that I was here and very collaborative, which I loved. I felt like I just kind of meshed into the seams pretty well.”

To get fully up to speed, Floyd also immersed himself in DiMera family history, particularly its iconic patriarch, Stefano, played by the late Joseph Mascolo. “It was a lot of reading,” he relays. “When I started digging into past episodes and past storylines, I noticed how prominent Stefano was, so then I really dug into him as well. We talk about him just about in every episode, so obviously this guy has left a mark on this town and in his family, so I really wanted to see what he was about and what he was like and how he did his thing.”…..

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