Julie met her husband’s namesake on the December 4 episode of Days of our Lives. Well, it’s the name Doug Williams III changed it to. He offered Julie a little backstory and filled the audience in on what they needed to know about Doug’s father and grandfathers. But here at Soap Hub, we think there’s a lot more you need to know. So here we go.

Sibling Struggle

Doug (Bill Hayes) was a single dad to little Hope (not yet Kristian Alfonso). But Doug didn’t want Hope to be an only child. So, he hired an anonymous surrogate to have a baby for him as one does. The anonymous surrogate was his housekeeper, Rebecca (Brooke Bundy). She lied to Doug and said the baby was her boyfriend, Johnny’s. (Guess she was pulling a Moses’ mother deal and planning to be her own child’s wet nurse.