New actor/character to Salem

 canvas until they can figure out what makes the character tic.

Does anyone else think he looks an awful lot like James Scott? More eye candy!

is it possible that if steph and this new guy eventually become love interests, and melanie and nathan officially become an item, THAT JUST MAYBE Philip and Chloe might hook back up? It sure appears that way to me. I mean, lately, Chloe and Philip have been each other’s "shoulder" to lean on through their tough times. And with the way the whole Carly-Dan thing appears to be  shifting, maybe Carly might – once Bo wakes up and realizes that he loves Hope and returns back to her – try to stick her claws into Dan, and that will lead Chloe to go running into the arms of Philip (who realizes that his wife Melanie truly loves another man – Nathan)? …Just a thought. Heck, I’d love for Chloe and Philip to get back together! I think those two make a great couple!

 some woman he slept with once, neglected to tell him about until he arrives in Salem?  That certainly has happened before! 

but if they are intending to put him into a (hate this expression) "love triangle" that will eventually come between Stephanie and Nathan:

a)  I hope she learns to keep her big mouth shut and not ruin the guy before they even have a chance to get started;

b)  I hope he’s got a little bit of bad in him, because she seems to do much better with those kind of guys than she does with a Max or a Nathan;

c)  I still wish they would bring back Owen.  This actor may have been a sleaze in his storyline of spying for the DiMeras while posing as the Kiriakis’ gardener, becoming obsessed with Stephanie when she was engaged to Phillip, kidnapping her, holding her prisoner in a morgue drawer at the mortuary run by his father (ugh), and eventually escaping when she was rescued by MELANIE (no *hit) and Phillip, there was still great chemistry between Steph and Owen, IMHO.  I loved this guy and wish he would return one day; and finally

d)  If none of the above work out, Ken Corday, can we borrow Billy Miller, better known as Billy Abbott, from Y&R, or, better yet, can we ship Stephanie Johnson to Genoa City (that’s exactly the kind of guy Stephanie needs)?  She’d never be able to pull the "po’ li’l’ ole’ helpless me" with a character like Billy Abbott.