On November 26, 2022, "Days of Our Lives" star Judi Evans told Soaps that if "Another World" had continued instead of being canceled in 1999, "I think she [Paulina] would have been with Jake McKinnon (Tom Eplin) in the end. I think that he was the love of her life." Soap veteran Linda Dano, whose "All My Children" character Rae Cummings had crossed over to "General Hospital" in 2002, also played Felicia Gallant on "AW." Now, she has a podcast called "IN with Linda Dano," and in her ninth episode on July 28, she spoke with Evans. When Eplin's name was brought up, Dano asked if she'd been keeping in touch with him. "I haven't in a few years, but I reached out to him. [The producers] wanted him to come on 'Days,' and play Bonnie's ex-husband in flashbacks, but it didn't work out scheduling-wise, and I was so bummed," she said.
Evans further elaborated, "I thought it would just be so cool. And with a lot of the viewers on 'Days' they watched 'Another World.'" She added that "He said, 'Maybe next time.' I didn't get to speak to him, I reached out but he was able to talk to our casting director." Fans were probably as bummed out as Evans upon learning what could have been, so our fingers are crossed that we might see Eplin on "Days" in the future.
