Again in June, eagle-eyed Days of Our Lives followers observed that Casey Moss — who first assumed the position of Jack (Matthew Ashford) and Jennifer’s (Melissa Reeves) son, JJ Deveraux again in 2013 — had tagged the present on his social media account, and Digest discovered that the actor was certainly again filming in Salem. Now, Digest can report solely that Moss’s first air date is simply across the nook!

Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 17, as that’s the day Moss’s JJ will first be seen on the Peacock sudser.

The character of JJ was born on display screen on September 3, 2004; Patrick Lockhart (Brody Hutzler) helped Jennifer ship him on the island of Melaswen, the place Jennifer was looking for a presumed-murdered Jack. He was named Jack Patrick in honor of each males. He spent a lot of his childhood off display screen, however returned to Salem as an adolescent when Moss was forged 11 years in the past. Moss performed the position whereas a troubled JJ acquired blended up with medicine (each doing them and dealing them) and wound up in jail for a time. JJ fell exhausting for Paige Larson they usually started a relationship, which went south when JJ fell right into a torrid affair with Paige’s mom (and Jennifer’s longtime rival), Eve Donovan. JJ later had sexual entanglements with Gabi Hernandez and Lani Value and joined the ranks of the Salem Police Division.

When he joined the present in JJ’s extra troubled period, Moss confessed to Cleaning soap Opera Digest that he noticed a variety of his youthful self within the character. “JJ was a child that I was a very long time in the past,” he shared. “I see JJ as a child who doesn’t really feel understood. He’s a child who feels betrayed. He doesn’t know how one can categorical himself emotionally, so he’s performing out, however in a reasonably extreme method. I don’t see him as a nasty child. JJ is a really delicate and emotional child who doesn’t know how one can management his feelings.” He went on to clarify, “I had a reasonably troublesome childhood rising up, and so I feel it has helped me on Days of Our Lives.”

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Mother’s The Phrase: Moss with on-screen mom Melissa Reeves, who may also be making a Salem comeback within the close to future as Jennifer.

Moss, who earned a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2018 as Excellent Youthful Actor, exited the present in 2020. Within the storyline, JJ went to Africa following the demise of his maternal grandfather, Invoice Horton. He made a short-term go to again to the present later that 12 months.

In 2022, the actor acquired engaged to longtime love True O’Brien, his former DAYS love curiosity. That very same 12 months, he returned to DAYS once more for an arc within the wake of the tragic homicide of JJ’s sister, Abigail.

Moss is way from the one fashionable DAYS star who has stamped his Salem passport of late. Click on right here for extra on the present’s upcoming forged returns.