Soap Vet Michael Dietz Reminisces Over Meeting Wife Paige Rowland & How Fate Reconnected Them

When Michael Dietz, who is doing a guest spot on Days of Our Lives as Dr. Jeffrey Russell, met his wife, Paige Rowland (ex-Kit Montgomery, All My Children), it wasn’t an instant love connection.

The duo, who celebrated their 23rd anniversary on April 6, first crossed paths 26 years ago when he was playing Port Charles‘ Joe Scanlon, and she was toiling in Pine Valley. “They flew me out for an ABC party at the Copacabana,” Dietz recalls of their initial meeting. “She was on All My Children, and I was with Ari Zuker [ex-Nicole Walker, DAYS]. We met and said hi.”