Ah, regrets. We all likely have a few in our lives — and more often than not they probably revolve around love. Days of Our Lives‘ Stephanie has a few of those, but her biggest might be hooking up with Jeremy Horton! Lately, with her semi-autobiographical romance novel about to be published, she’s been worried about an ex reaching out who she never wants to hear from again. We had our suspicions that it was Jeremy, and then, on the July 31st episode, we seemed to get confirmation.
For one thing, we learned that the passage in her book that Stephanie was desperate to take out was inspired by an episode with an ex. That wouldn’t necessarily mean anything if not for the fact that in the same episode, Steve, found some things in Alex’s that reminded him uncomfortably of Jeremy.
Jeremy was one of the more troubled Hortons, which isn’t exactly a huge surprise since the deck seemed stacked against him from the start. He was born offscreen in 1987 after Robin Jacobs left Salem, never telling onetime beau Mike Horton that she was pregnant with their child.
By the time she returned a year later with their son, Mike had already moved on. So Robin left Salem once again with Jeremy. He then wasn’t seen until Trevor Donovan brought him home, all grown up, in 2007. And he was already dating Stephanie! (At the time played by Shelley Hennig.) They’d met while she was racing in Daytona and Steph introduced him around town and asked her friends to invest in his private airline service, Touch the Sky Airlines.
Ostensibly, it was meant to ferry the rich from Salem to Las Vegas, but in reality, it was a front for the DiMeras to smuggle merchandise. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Jeremy had serious anger issues, was abusive towards Stephanie, and had been convicted of everything from fraud to shoplifting.
Eventually, the smuggling scheme was uncovered, but while the DiMeras got off with a slap on the wrist, Jeremy had to go on the run to stay ahead of the law. At the time, he seemed to want to set his life right, but we haven’t seen him since.
Jeremy isn’t mentioned all that much, and the last time was back at Jada’s bachelorette party where Stephanie admitted to him being one of her big regrets. And now this. Does that mean he could be on the way back soon? Maybe, especially since we know Mike himself will be back after watching Days of Our Lives’ summer preview!
Mike’s son is one of the more troubled Hortons, but perhaps, like Julie’s brother, Steven, he could return some with the news that he really has turned his life around. Though that’s not to say he and Stephanie should try getting back together — she’s clearly still traumatized by their relationship — but Salem is the town of second chances. (And third and fourth…)
On the other hand, if he does see Stephanie’s book and is ticked he’s in it, he could come back as an outright villain this time. Either way, since Donovan and AnnaLynne McCord (Cat) were both on the CW’s 90210 requel a few years back, it could be fun to see them mix it up once more in Salem.
