General Hospital (GH) spoilers and news teases some colossal casting drama for 2024. On the heels of May Sweeps, here is what you need to know to be in the know about the cast of your favorite daytime drama.
The news doesn’t get bigger than Steve Burton returning to GH as Jason Morgan. That move was a 10.0 on the Richter scale and forced all sorts of novel plots forward.
Burton returns to GH after a brief stint on Days of Our Lives where he reprised the role of Harris Michaels, the role that introduced him to daytime fans.
Jason was presumed dead in 2021 and fans first saw old blue eyes on Monday, March 4.
You know what they say, when one door opens, another one closes. Such was the case for Tonja Walker’s character Olivia Jerome. The baddie was killed offscreen in Pentonville.
Walker tweeted: “Looks like I died. Oh what a rip! I wish we could have actually shot some great story but again, another missed opportunity… unless it’s not. I guess you never know. It wouldn’t be the first time.”
General Hospital spoilers: Eva LaRue’s Power Casting
The soap scored with its hire of daytime legend Eva LaRue. The former All My Children star is playing Natalia Rogers-Ramirez, Blaze’s mother, and debuted on February 26 episode.
Additionally, Jeff Leaf made several appearances in February 2024 as O’Neill.
Virginia Ma has been seen rather regularly as Nina Reeves’ (Cynthia Watros) new assistant Madison; her credits include The
Thundermans and Magnum PI.
February was a busy month in Port Charles as it was February Sweeps. On February 2, 2024 we saw William Lipton return as Cameron Webber. Cam left in March 2023 when his character left for Stanford.
Cam was in town for Spencer Cassadine’s (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) funeral and his portrayer is now on Amazon’s series The Runarounds.
Speaking of Chavez, it was announced this week that he is out as Spencer. Chavez left to star in the Netflix series Monster, about the Menendez brothers’ parental assassinations. Maybe we should have seen the writing on the wall when he unfollowed all of his GH castmates upon his departure?
We last saw Spencer on January 31—tell us GH fans, do you think the role should be recast?
General Hospital Spoilers: Faves Came Back
In brighter news, Adam J. Harrington is now in the role of John “Jagger” Cates. He replaces Antonio Sabato Jr. nearly 30 years after fans last saw the lawman.
Fans will see Ellen Travolta as Gloria Cerullo during the week of May 13 when she shows up for a very Q wedding.
Morgan Fairchild was just back as snooty, snotty Haven de Haviland, a guest role she’s nailed to perfection.
General Hospital: Sudden Cast Changes
Michael E. Knight reportedly is on a temporary leave of absence as Martin Gray and there is no return date listed.
Also gone is Avery Pohl as Esme Prince. We last saw her on the January 31, 2024 episode when both Esme and Spencer fell into the frigid ocean waters, presumably meeting a watery grave. Why do we think this is not the actual reality?
Tell us GH fans, what casting news makes you sad, and which makes you happy?
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I like returns and additions on GH but sad Spencer and Esme are gone. Also disappointed the baddie Jerome (Ava's sister) was killed off before even returning to fulfill a juicy plot line.
So sad that Spencer is going to be recast! Absolutely love Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Spencer! Nobody better.
Sonny needs his right dosage of meds pls don’t let Ava and Valentin /nina in on what was found out abt her /their part in meds altering just replace meds with right dosage and see what happens Sonny needs msg to get back on right track he had his good n bad performance/ personality he is a good guy when he is on his right dosage of meds.