Days of our Lives' Eric Winter (Rex) made his national talk show debut recently when he appeared on the TV show The Other Half,  the syndicated series hosted by Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, Mario Lopez and Dorian Gregory. Winter, along with co-stars Bryan Dattilo (Lucas) and Kyle Lowder (Brady), competed against the hosts in a unique relay race. The obstacles included having to put on a dress, apply makeup and fix their hair (by putting on a wig), which allowed the men to experience what the "other half" does in order to prepare for a date. 

 

The Days hunks lost (or won, depending on your point of view.) "We could have started out better if I didn't screw up with the dress that I had to put on," laments a chucking Winter. (Where's a cross-dressing Jack Deveraux when you need him? (lol) ) But the defect hasn't turned the Salem newcomer off to appearing on the talk shows. "They treated us very well," the actor enthuses. "Also, it was fun to go on with two co-stars. I've shared scenes with Kyle but never Bryan. I got to know him a little bit more. He's a fun guy."   

 

Also enjoyable was meeting Lopez, whom Winter watched for many years on Saved By The Bell (Lopez played A.C. Slater). Alas, the former Bell star isn't tuning into Days on a regular basis. "They asked us which of us had the weirdest story and everyone pointed at me," Winter chuckles, referring to his character's "alien" storyline.

 

 

      Rex and Mimi are the couple "Rimi" (not a couple yet.) Could they become the next hot teen couple on Days of our live?  When Mimi first met Rex, he was indroduced to Mimi as an alien, she and Kevin were still a couple then. Shawn and Belle where the ones that found Rex and Cassie (twins) who are known as the gemini twins, so they tried to help the twins by hiding them from their parents and the goverment, and Mimi decided to help them out. First Mimi thought they were really weird but after they were captured by the government (one of John's friend) and were revealed that they were humans and were very normal by Marlena. And after they moved into the DiMera and joined college that she didn't think they were weird any more. But she did see that Rex and Cassie had it in for Belle and Shawn's relationship. As usually Mimi was out to stop any one who would hurt Shawn and Belle's relationship. So Meems and Phillip teamed up to distract the twins. Mimi asked Rex out for the Halloween party and Phillip asked Cassie. After that Mimi had a thing for Rex (who wouldn't! lol). Later on Rex found a heart with his name on it which Mimi had. She told him that it didn't mean that she loved him but that she would just "love" to study with him. When the Winter solstice arrived she asked Rex to her as a double date with Shawn and Belle, and he agreed. At the winter solstice Meems sees Rex standing alone under the mistletoe and walks up to him and plants a big kiss on his lips, then telling him it's a tradition.Where will this lead for them? Guess we'll have to wait and see!

 

 

 

On Saturday, March 8, Eric Winter will be at the Lifestyles Expo
benefitting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at Chico Mall in
Chico, Calif. He'll be signing autographs from 12-2:30PM.

On Saturday, March 8, starting at 1PM, join Eric at the Covina Bowl, 1060 W. San Bernardino Rd., Covina, Calif. The event benefits the Foothill AIDS Project.