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General Hospital Comings and Goings: Beloved Star Takes Medical Leave

Find out who’s coming and who’s leaving GH for the week of October 30 – November 3, 2023.

By Janet Di Lauro
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The week of October 30, 2023

It’s time to say goodbye to a beloved star, at least for now. John J. York makes his final appearance as Mac Scorpio this week. The actor has headed off on medical leave for approximately three to four weeks to battle a pair of blood and bone marrow disorders.

Asher Jared Antonyzyn is taking over the role of Danny Morgan, Sam (Kelly Monaco) and the late Jason’s son. The actor, who debuts this week, is replacing Zakary Risinger. Risinger has played Danny since 2021

Lily Fisher returns to the soap as Georgie Spinelli, Maxie (Kirsten Storms) and Spinelli’s (Bradford Anderson) daughter. Fisher originally began portraying the character in 2017. However, she had been replaced by Eden Harker, who has now exited. 
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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