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Days of our Lives spoilers for Wednesday, November 12, demonstrate what happens when Sami tries to play nice. Even Marlena has a tough time adjusting.
Key Takeaways
Sami (Alison Sweeney, who shared a great BTS) is a grandma again, and that’s an important milestone to celebrate. She decides to throw a baby shower for Chanel (Raven Bowens) and Johnny (Carson Boatman) so they can get everything they need for baby John Paul, a.k.a. Trey. She’s inviting everyone in Salem who can put up with her. This, of course, includes Marlena (Deidre Hall). Marlena has been there for her grandson and his wife, and she is truly delighted by Baby T.
But seeing her entire family together only reminds Marlena of who isn’t there. The original John (Drake Hogestyn), the one both Johnny and his new son are named after. She wants to feel nothing but joy, but her grief is overwhelming, and Marlena comes close to collapse. Standing by as Sami and Belle (Martha Madison) snark over EJ (Dan Feuerriegel) doesn’t exactly help.
Theo (Tyler Joseph Andrews) is the new CEO of DiMera Enterprises. He’s a big boy now! Look at him wearing a suit, sitting behind a desk, and using big, corporate words. We think he looks like a little kid playing dress up.
But Abe (James Reynolds) thinks his precious boy is making a deal with the devil. Abe was furious when Paulina (Jackée Harry) encouraged Theo to go with this new professional move, and despite playing nice, it’s obvious he hasn’t yet forgiven her. Lani (Sal Stowers) picks up on her parents’ tension, and Abe confides in his daughter. Considering that Paulina has done much worse to Lani, we expect she’ll tell Abe to forgive her.
Paulina does what she feels, often without stopping to think. And those who love her just need to get on board with that.
Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.
The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.
Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.
A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.
Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.
The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.
Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.