{"id":488085,"date":"2026-06-21T06:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:53:30","slug":"deidre-hall-slaps-craig-melvin-on-today-show-a-la-days-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/488085\/","title":{"rendered":"Deidre Hall Slaps Craig Melvin on Today Show \u00e0 la Days of Our Lives\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Rinna was the first of several actresses to play Billie Reed, troubled singer turned cosmetics mogul of uncertain parentage, embodying the part from 1992 to 1995. (During which, she <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/lisa-rinna-had-fling-with-days-of-our-lives-costar-patrick-muldoon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told People<\/a>, she had &#8220;like, a thing&#8221; with costar Patrick Muldoon, who played Billie&#8217;s brother Austin Reed.) Krista Allen took over until 1999, Rinna returned for a season in 2002, Julie Pinson kept Billie going until 2008 and Rinna has made a number of appearances since.<\/p>\n<p>About the prospect of reprising the role of Billie yet again, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.distractify.com\/p\/lisa-rinna-return-to-days-of-our-lives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Distractify in 2024<\/a>, &#8220;Listen, I never say no, really, to anything. I\u2019m always open to revisiting these characters that I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know I love drama,\u201d she added. \u201cSo if it were right, if it felt right, if it made sense. I think I\u2019m always open to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna was the first of several actresses to play Billie Reed, troubled singer turned cosmetics mogul of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-488085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}