One Life to Live has hired a new star, while Days of Our Lives is saying goodbye to an old one. Here is today's soap opera news rundown...

• Former Passions actress Daphnee Duplaix (pictured) is coming to One Life to Live.

• Rachel Melvin is leaving Days of Our Lives when her contract expires this spring.

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