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General Hospital Coming And Goings: Star’s Real-Life Wife Joins Soap

Find out who is coming and going on General Hospital during the week of August 7, 2023.

By Janet Di Lauro
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Who’s coming and who’s going from General Hospital? Are any of your favorite performers from yesteryear returning to the daytime drama, this week, or in the not-too-far-off future?

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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 August 7, 2023

A popular leading man’s significant other has joined the GH fold. Lauren Swickard, the real-life wife of Josh Swickard, who plays Harrison Chase, has been cast in the recurring role of Janice. The character is a nurse at Ferncliff, the mental hospital that is currently treating Sasha Gilmore Corbin (Sofia Mattsson), and debuts on Monday, August 7.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith returns as Sonny Corinthos’s (Maurice Benard) security chief, Brick. He airs on Monday, August 7.

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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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