Wooooooooooooooow – ok so TV Guide Canada’s Nelson Bronco is reporting exclusive scoop in his Sud’s Report that Days of Our Lives head Writer Dena Higley has up and quit the sudser.  I’ll quote his mini article on the situation here.

Days of Our Lives, Global/NBC — Breaking exclusive News: Dena Higley quits!
OK, Salemites: party at my house and don’t bring your own booze, because I’m supplying it all! Super-reliable sources tell The Suds Report Dena Higley quit as head writer last week. “If you read her NBC blogs, the writing has been on the wall for a while; she’s been unhappy with the media criticism of her work,” says one insider. So what’s the official reason “for doing daytime TV a favour?” Two words: Ed Scott, Days’ co-executive producer. “Dena said she couldn’t work with him any longer,” explains the source. And the news gets better: Sony wants to replace Higley, who is still under investigation for scab writing during the writers’ strike, with former Y&R Emmy-winning scribe Jack Smith or Genoa City’s current executive producer Josh Griffith. So, what’s the bad news in all of this? “[Executive producer] Ken Corday was on his many vacations when she bolted without warning, and when he found out he told everyone not to worry because he was going to talk her out of leaving,” continues the stunned source. Yikes! Corday is officially trying to cancel his parent’s beloved series, methinks. Memo to Corday: Don’t do it. Higley has given you the out of a lifetime! Hire Smith or Griffith (so Sony doesn’t have to pay him out of his contract when CBS chief Barbara Bloom realizes her dream) — or both!

The behind-the-scenes drama is just a tad bit better than what we see on-screen nowadays. Now I’m not the biggest Nelson supporter and I don’t take his word as the gospel like most people/sites do so I would advise you to take this with a huge grain of salt.  We could see a report surface tomorrow saying this is absolut rubbish and not to believe a word of it (you have to decide).  Honestly, I kind of liked what Dena has done with Days in Hogan’s abscence – I wasn’t the biggest Dena fan when she wrote for OLTL because she made the soap unwatchable for me but she has given me and other some Stax lovin’ but some storylines seem really slow like the Autism story that I’m really interested in seeing since I know people with that.  By the looks of it I’m sure GH: Nightshift will appraoch their autism s/l before Days.  Also, from my understanding she is still under investigation from her scab writing during the Writer’s Guild of Ameria (WGA) strike.

But I can’t stress enough that you have to take this information with a huge grain of salt enough.  Now if you read this on Soap Opera Digest/Weekly Online then you might have cause to worry.  So I’ll keep you updated with what he’s talking about on Monday since he’s apparently revealing more tomorrow.