Days of Our Lives’ Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso Returning… for the ‘Bope’ Reunion We Deserved Last Time?

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We’ve got some good news, and not-so-good news. The good news is Days of Our Lives is finally bringing Bo out of his coma and reuniting him with Hope! The bad news? We have to wait until May of 2025 to see it. That should put us squarely into the new writing team’s material, which should start airing around April.

According to TVInsider, Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso are both back at the Peacock sudser shooting scenes for a special story arc that will hopefully give fans the real reunion they’ve been clamoring for since Bo first returned from the dead. While we haven’t seen her initial return yet, Alfonso was previously back at Days of Our Lives to shoot the farewell to onscreen dad Doug, who’s being laid to rest after the legendary Bill Hayes’ passing.

Those scenes are set for the show’s 15,000th episode in November. But now, Hope’s back once again and this time, she won’t be alone!

Alfonso assured TVInsider that, “These episodes with Pete will not disappoint.” Added Reckell, “This ride is one we know the fans are really going to love. Stay tuned!”

This will be “Bope’s” third reunion, of sorts, in recent years, and hopefully the one that will stick! They first came together in the summer of 2022 in Beyond Salem: Chapter 2. Though Bo was still dead, the duo reunited in heaven after Hope was shot and (temporarily) killed by Stefano’s twisted daughter, Megan.

Bo was then resurrected by Megan to return in the spring of 2023, albeit with his love for Hope brainwashed out of him! It wasn’t exactly the “Bope” reunion folks were hoping for, though, until Hope finally broke through to him — just before their son, Shawn, shot his dad and put him in a coma!

Bo’s been languishing in Europe somewhere, unconscious ever since. He didn’t wake up and make it home for his father, Victor’s funeral, nor will he, apparently, attend father-in-law Doug’s. But now that’s all going to change! We just have to wait eight months for it. But since we’ve already been waiting eight years, that’s nothing.