General Hospital Comings and Goings: The Final Curtain Call for This Character!

By Janet Di Lauro Oct 09, 2016 8:35 a.m. ET

General Hospital coming and going

Who’s coming and who’s going from General Hospital? Here’s the latest casting news from the ABC soap.

The Week of October 10, 2016
Richard Burgi has exited the show as Paul, after his character confessed to being the hospital killer and headed to prison. “For me it was all fun,” the actor told Soap Opera Digest. “I’m grateful for the work, for the experience, and I made some great friends.”

Scarlett Fernandez is making her daytime debut as Charlotte, Claudette and Nathan’s daughter, on Thursday, October 13. The 7-year-old actress is currently featured in a nationwide commercial for Ross stores.

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Janet Di Lauro

Oct 09, 2016 8:35 a.m. ET 3,631 articles

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.