Days of our Lives: Christopher Whitesell Out As Co-Head Writer

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Writing changes.

Christopher Whitesell will no longer be writing for Days of our Lives. After originally working for the series from 2000 until 2001, he returned to the show to share Co-Head Writer duties with Dena Higley in 2008. Sources at the show have told us that he was not fired, they have simply parted ways.

Whitesell has been writing for Daytime since the 1980s. He previously served as Co-Head Writer for One Life To Live from 2001 until 2003, winning a Daytime Emmy for his efforts, As The World Turns from 2006 until 2008, for which he took home another Daytime Emmy, and General Hospital in 1997. He also served as a writer for defunct soaps “Another World” and “Sunset Beach.”