This story originally appeared in the October 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. When Bill and Connie Hayes were growing up in ...

The '60s were turbulent and our people were phasing out suits and ties. When my husband Bill Hayes [Doug] came on the show, he was a new character who was not a good guy—of course, he became a good ...

Beloved daytime veteran Susan Seaforth Hayes, who has played Julie Horton Williams on Days of Our Lives since 1968, had to act out the passing of her beloved real-life husband, Bill Hayes, when the ...