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General Hospital Comings and Goings: Controversial Characters Return!

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from General Hospital (GH)?

Are any favorite performers from yesteryear returning to the daytime drama, this week, or in the near future?

Have any new actors or actresses been cast on the show in contract, recurring or day player roles?

Are any well remembered or beloved stars from other soaps, past or present, about to join the General Hospital fold in surprise new parts?

Here’s the latest casting news from the ABC soap.

The week of July 31, 2017
Kristina’s (Lexi Ainsworth) life is about to get complicated. Ashley Jones is heading back to the soap as her former professor-turned-lover, Parker Forsyth.

GH confirmed the big casting news with social media posts on Twitter and Instagram. The actress last aired on the soap in August 2016. Look for Jones to sur-face again in August.

Michael Sutton returns as Stone, this week, when he appears to Sonny (Maurice Benard) in his hour of need. Sutton last made a ghostly appearance to Robin (Kimberly McCullough) in 2010, when she was in a crisis.

Finola Hughes (Anna) will be off the canvas as she embarks on her annual summer vacation break. Her character left town the week of July 24, after receiving word that her daughter Robin was about to give birth to her second child.

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Janet Di Lauro
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Janet Di Lauro is a contributing editor at Soap Opera Digest and a writer at Cynopsis.com and Soap Hub.com.
She has been writing about daytime and primetime television for over 30 years.
Prior to her current gigs, Janet ran ThoughtCo.com’s Days of our Lives website. She has built a career in daytime television coverage that has spanned over 30 years and includes a stint as the West Coast editor of Soap Opera Weekly magazine from the publication’s debut in 1989 through 2010. In addition, she was the features editor of Daytime TV magazine and editor of Soap Opera Stars magazine during her publishing years working in New York.
Based in California, Janet has interviewed daytime’s biggest stars, past and present, from Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso (Bo and Hope, Days of Our Lives”) to Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children) to Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital) to Peter Bergman (Jack, The Young and the Restless). In addition to her daytime work, she served as a contributing editor on the tween publication Pixie and was a feature editor on Reality Check magazine.

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