Days of Our Lives Early Spoilers July 21-25: Gabi’s Desperate Panic, Melinda’s Sinister Scheme

Days of Our Lives spoilers for July 21-25, 2025 see Gabi Hernandez (Cherie Jimenez) is panicking and Melinda Trask (Tina Huang) is plotting.

And as we always do on early edition day, we start with what’s coming the rest of this week and then talk about what’s ahead in the week of the 21st through the 25th.

Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Victoria’s Fussy Day and a Potential Deal

All right, getting started. On Wednesday, July 16th, little Victoria is fussy at the office. Xander Cook‘s (Paul Telfer) multitasking, taking a very important phone call while rocking her stroller back and forth, but she is not having it. This is not where she’s used to being. And Gabi may actually help out because she shows up to talk Gabi Chic to Xander while she’s up at the office and she loves little babies.

EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) and Gwen Rizczech (Emily O’Brien) may strike a deal about her moving into the mansion. After all, you know, they are related through marriage. Dimitri von Leuschner DiMera (Peter Porte) is EJ’s nephew, right? Because his mom Megan Hathaway (Miranda Wilson) is EJ’s sister. I’m doing the family tree while I’m sitting here making sure I have the math correct.

Intrigue and Investigation: Rafe’s Suspicions and Stephanie’s Surprise

Cat Greene (AnnaLynne McCord) and Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) meet at his office to look into EJ’s finances using ISA and FBI resources. He gives Cat an earful about EJ’s very colorful past. I mean, Chad DiMera’s (Billy Flynn) already told her a little, but Rafe is going to tell her a lot. Meanwhile, after this talk with Cat, we have Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) heading home.

He runs into Gabi who says Ari Hernandez (Marissa Reyes) left for the senior lake trip, and uh-oh, she’s going to find out very soon that Ari didn’t make it there. Stephanie Johnson (Abigail Klein) gets a surprise from Alex Kiriakis (Robert Scott Wilson). He had her book published, it looks like, electronically. He’s showing her the ebook cover.

Kayla Brady (Mary Beth Evans) gets a peep at it, too, but she doesn’t know it’s Stephanie that wrote it. And obviously, she’s going to freak out when she finds out her mom and dad were doing sexy things from the pages of her book. That is just so gross to me. I don’t even know why Days of our Lives is doing that. That just gives me the ick so bad to think about just writing sexy stuff and your parents acting it out. Like that’s just gross.

Anyway, Thomas DiMera (Christopher Cary) asks Cat if she will play ball with him and his dad Chad in the park, but Cat probably knows or is assuming that Chad doesn’t want her there. So, it’s like, oh, you know, should she stay? Should she go?

Jurors, Lies, and Kidnappings: The Drama Intensifies on Days of Our Lives

Thursday, July 17th. Belle Black (Martha Madison) and EJ are choosing jurors for Johnny DiMera’s (Carson Boatman) attempted murder trial. Now, they both think he’s innocent, but Belle is mad because she thinks EJ was getting sexy with her to get her to drop the charges. I don’t think so – I think EJ was getting sexy with her because he wanted to get sexy with her.

I think he made her the eggs benedict to try and get her to drop the charges and it didn’t work. But Belle’s cooled off since then, and she makes a suggestion to EJ when he says he wishes he could remember the shooting so he could find the real shooter and exonerate Johnny. So, I’m wondering if Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall is going to hypnotize him.

Sophia Choi (Rachel Boyd) and her fake belly continue to lie to her mother Amy Choi (Shi Ne Neilson) about being pregnant and pushing forward with adoption plans. She’s getting ready to make a trip out of town with Melinda to try and wrap this up and tie off the loose ends. The kidnapper is really scaring Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) and Ari. They need to remain calm and use their heads to stay safe.

Meanwhile, Tate Black (Leo Howard) and Doug Williams (Bill Hayes) get into a physical altercation over the girls. Doug insists he doesn’t know where Holly is, but Tate thinks he might know. So Doug absolutely knows who has them. He just doesn’t know where he has them. And Doug is going to try again to get into Gwen’s room this week. He’s desperate to get the necklace, but she seems to keep it on her and she may be moving out soon. So we’ll see if he gets it away from her.