 On August 17, 2017, "Daytime Confidential" exclusively announced that Watkins had been let go from the serial.In November 2017, Soaps.com announced that Palmer Watkins would remain on the soap in a recurring capacity.In 2009, Clifton described Dillon as "unguarded" and kind of "looser cannon" when compared to his "One Life to Live" character, Schuyler Joplin.