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Constance Towers Returning to General Hospital

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On the heels of GH starting to air their Nurses’ Ball episodes this week, comes word that Constance Towers (Helena Cassadine) is making another return to the ABC daytime drama series during its 60th anniversary celebration.  However, it looks like she won’t be on-screen till next month.

According to a post from her official Facebook page, Towers has taped some scenes for inclusion in upcoming episodes of the show. Currently the airdates are May 5th and May 8th in time for May sweeps.

As for Towers, GH fans last saw her back in January 2022 when a video message from Helena, relishing Luke’s supposed death during his memorial, was played on the video monitors that shocked all the guests.

Following Helena’s death in 2015, Towers returned several other times in story whether it be in flashbacks or someone’s worst nightmare, and more.

Just how will Helena’s brief appearances shake up the story and the canvas on GH? Stay tuned.

What do you think of Constance Towers taping some new scenes as Helena? Will this be part of the resolution of the Luke mystery now that Tracy will be back on the canvas by that time, too? Share your thoughts and theories below.

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Either another ghostly visit or flashback scenes for a potential end to the Victor Cassadine storyline?

I suspect this is going to be the full “director’s cut” version of the video we didn’t see a couple of years ago when Laura pulled the plug before it could finish playing.

What I can say for a fact, is that Helena is still in Hell, so she’s not going to be visiting Port Charles in the present tense.

I like the actress, she played Helena wonderfully but let the dead be dead. It just happens too much.

so good at being evil, glad she’s back

Constance turns 90 later in May. GH viewers are so fortunate to have this treasure appear from time to time. The diamond may be the ice princess, but Helena is the Ice Queen. Cool, calm and always elegant.

OG Steve, excellent points and prose. Bravo!

Yes they are.. she been awesome sence she took over for the later Tylor

Agree! I’ve adored her since day one. Always wished they put her on contract and made her more 3 dimensional while keeping her edge. I always loved her twisted relationships w her family, Laura, Luke, Lesley etc and wish they’d explored it all deeper. Wish they’d never killed her off. Especially now w Laura and so many Cassadines on right now, there’d be so much for her to be involved in.

PS to me, the Cassadines were at their best in the 90s to 2001. Helena, Stefan, Alexis, Nik & Starvos. Just wish TPTB had made Helena & Stavros more viable, 3D, longterm characters bc the actors were so good! Like Stavros being written a bit more like Stefan who was awesome! That was my favorite era of Spencer/ Cassadine feud too bc of so many different angles at play. And Alexis was at her absolute best in Cassadine stories, her pairing w Ned & as a fearless attorney.

My dream would be for Tyler Christopher to return as Nik, Helena back alive, and GH & Days sharing Stephen Nichols so he could play Stefan again. With Laura back, Victor, Spencer & Valentin now on and Alexis & her girls getting roped into Cassadine stories, the possibilities would be endless.

But right now it’s hard to be excited about a Spencer/ Cassadine feud w no Spencers. So many key players are missing like Luke, Helena, Stavros, Stefan, Nik, Lucky, Lulu, Lesley. With all of them on the feud would be epic!

Please let Luke be alive. Or if not let Helena be the one who stops Victor for good.

Can’t wait for May and for this storyline to hit our screens

Sorry, but I wish she’d stay gone. The character has just played itself out

I so agree!! Personally I can’t stand her on the show!! So over it!!

I agree with you. She needs to stay dead

i totally agree. let the dead stay dead. to me it takes away from the show bringing back ones that die time and time again. bring in a new cast member rather than all these ones back from the dead. she has been killed off way to many times.

No way.

I know this is all part of GH’s DNA but despite the top talents involved, I am rather weary of the endless Cassadine madness. What was an escapist adventure 40 years ago has sort of just stopped being interesting to me. Again, top talents and well presented. GH is great but still…

I think just the opposite. I love all the legacy families and GH has succeeded in wiping them out. The Quarteraines have no original members left except for Ned; there was no reason to send Dillon and Skye away, kill AJ off, and of course Alan Q was killed which was absurd. Same with the Cassadines; the show killed off Helena (supposedly), Stefan, Mikos, Stavros…so I personally welcome Helena back whether as a ghost, her final warning via video, etc. and hope they don’t kill off Victor. I’d like to have these legacy families remain; otherwise just rename the show to suit its cast of all-new-unrelated-to-anything or anyone of GH’s origins, characters.

I think she is the female boss that Mason keeps referring to when he’s talking to Austin.

I agree with you

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Think youve got something there!,

Mason Jar-head has repeatedly said that his unseen boss was “family”. I doubt they would make Austin both a Quartermaine AND a Cassadine. Not to mention the Cassadines have never failed to be aware of the existence of other branches of the family, even if they don’t interact with them. Seems unlikely that Victor, Val, Nikolas, and Alexis would all be 666% unaware of this branch of the family tree, should it exist.

And besides – as I said – Helena is still down here in Hell! She’s not giving orders to anybody up there at the moment.

See I think that woman is Olivia Jerome.

I agree I think she has Nicholsas

I always enjoyed her exchanges with Luke. I don’t think she will become a permanent cast member.

She was a cast member for years.

I think it will be fun to see her again. I want my Luke back! I miss him sooo much!

Thrilled that Constance is coming back! Her Helena is a real Cassadine just like Tyler Christopher’s Nikolas and Stephen Nichols Stefan. The current Victor is a joke – he doesn’t have that Cassadine swagger or sophistication. He’s pathetic. The new Spencer isn’t a bad actor but he’s not a true Cassadine either. FV keeps changing GH and it’s ruining the show!

Is Frank perfect? No, but it’s quite a stretch to say he’s “ruining the show”. Ratings are up. Vets have been embedded in front burner storylines. The mob isn’t dominating screen time. Have there been some duds in casting, sure, but many of the newer cast (especially Spencer) are really good actors.

Even Gloria Monty and Wendy Riche kept the show fresh with new characters and storylines. Did they all work, heck no (Monty disastrously introduced the Eckerdt family).

Are the Cassadines as fearful as the 80s/90s version – no. Heck, the Quartermaines are a shadow of their former self, but both families are still part of the canvas 40+ years after they were introduced.

The current Quartermaines are a joke. The only original left is Ned who’s barely seen, and Brook Lynn, though not the original actress. They should never have killed AJ off, they should bring back Dillon and Skye (along with her daughter Lila Rae). Olivia, nuDrew, Michael CORINTHOS, Willow, and now, nauseatingly so, Carly in almost every “Quartermaine” scene is a soap travesty. I cringe every time someone mentions “the Quartermaines” and then we get that group in the scene. The least they could do is have a parlour game called, “Where’s Monica” and then maybe if someone finds her we’d get a scene or two.

Agreed that Dillon (a new recast) needs a to return. Josh Kelly would’ve been great, but instead we get Cody (a newly found Scorpio).

Monica’s screen absence has nothing to with Frank or the writers. Frank brought Leslie Charleson back from the exile created by JFP. If LC was comfortable appearing on camera, we would have seen her over the past year. It was a welcome surprise to hear her voice on the Epiphany tribute episode last week.

If LC is comfortable continuing to do voiceovers, the writers could come up with some creative way to work that in. Long time viewers remember the number of years David Lewis’ Edward was presumed dead and we only had his “ghostly voice” speaking to Lila.

Current Ned is not the ‘original’ either…just fyi. Although far better and more memorable

Rebecca1,
I rather think this poor woman is unwell, incapacitated, hence the phone call only, to Liz at the Epifany’s service. She may be bed- ridden and they just can’t bear to say a final goodbye with explanations, etc. I just read OG Steves’s post after writing this and totally agree, she could barely walk last time she was on screen. If she’s willing to contribute this way, I see nothing wrong with it.

Well said. I agree completely. I’d love to see Tyler and Stephen Nichols come back. Stefan and Nikolas had a great relationship and Stefan and Laura as well. I remember that he was the only Cassadine that helped her while she was held captive by Stavros on Cassadine island.

I think she is great and so many don’t make it to 90. That in itself is worth celebrating.

Her story is getting old. She does not need to come back.

A lot more oldies need to come back they r the ones who made this show what it is today been watching her sence the original cast was Elizabeth Tylor..

I wish her gorgeous late husband John Gavin was coming with her he was so hot!

If anybody can rein in Victor, it’s Hells. Love her to pieces.

What ever it is it will be Good it always fun when Helena returns yes!!!!

How about Helena having a twin sister that was taken away at birth by the mother for protection from the Cassadines

OMG,,isn’t one enough?

please do not bring helena back fulltime…I do not like this cradle robbing woman

June,
Me either! The way she used to fawn all over Luke made me sick. Isn’t her lousy, wicked brother enough?

Violet – I assume you mean Victor, her brother-in-law (not brother). Val was not result of incest.

She’s only back for 2 days, in either new fake-flashbacks, as a ghost or maybe even a hologram (like what Anna & Felicia used on Eileen).

Cassadines never really die. How many time a Cassadine has died and they have the potion to bring them back from the dead.

You might be confusing Cassadines with the DiMeras from Salem. They’re the ones who usually escape from Hell by the use of Dr Rolf’s zombie potion, while the Cassadines usually just freeze the body and thaw it out later.

On the other horn, now that the DiMeras have started using cryogenics, maybe the Cassadines will have to switch to potions after all?

It annoyed the Heaven out of me that they brought back Stavros about 10 years ago, just to kill him off again. RKK plays crazy oh so well. Nicholas Chavez does look like he could be related.

Stavros was a decent psycho villain during RKK’s first run in the early 2000s. His last return, not so much really. ReRon thawed him out, only to make him a complete cartoon.

And they never did explain where exactly Stavros went when he jumped into the “bottomless pit” through the trap door in Helena’s GH sub-basement laboratory…. yet ended up years later as a popsicle on Cassadine Island.

YAY! Constance Towers is incredible as Helena and I wish they’d never killed her off. But I get why some people got sick of her. Soaps have a bad habit of turning their villains into one-note, cartoon, supervillains. But CT & Robin Mattson could’ve made Helena & Heather so much more if the show gave them depth vs using them as nothing more than plot points. With them n other 1 note supervillains Jerry Jacks, Faison, Alex Devane etc half the time their motivations don’t even make sense. And without clear character motivations and motivating emotions, villains aren’t interesting.

I LOVED the Cassadines in the 90s bc of the complicated relationships Helena, Stefan, Alexis & Nik. And Robert Kelker-Kelly was amazing as Stavros but a huge missed opportunity because TPTB made him 1 note and ott too. I loved their feud w the Spencers but had Helena & Stavros were more grounded & had more depth, it would’ve been so much better. And with so many Cassadines on now and her history w Laura, I’d have loved to see Helena’s familial relationships, rivalries and background explored more from a character standpoint. Imagine if she had a major soft spot for great grandson Spencer & step granddaughter Molly. Maybe keeping them on the hook by agreeing to tell her life story for a book Molly’s writing telling the story of the Cassadine family history. They and fans would learn of her traumatic, violent, loveless upbringing and the emotions behind it that turned into who she became, the turning point being Luke & Laura killing Mikkos, the only person in the world to show her love. We’d also see just how deeply she was hurt by Mikkos’ affair w Alexis mother and how Alexis is a living reminder of the most painful, heartbreaking betrayal she ever experienced. And having Stefan & Nik constantly defend and embrace Alexis while rejecting Helena just twists the knife.

Laura, Lesley, Nik, and Alexis would hit the roof at her spending time with them and though Spencer & Molly initially despise her as much as everyone else and know shes dangerous and manipulative, a real genuine relationship forms when Helena sees much of her younger self in both of them, sees them as the hope for the future of the family and really begins to let her guard down. And they become the 1st ppl since Mikkos to understand why she is who she is and the pain motivating her, see her display genuine emotion & humanity. A frenemy,love/hate type of relationship between them & Helena would send shockwaves through the Cassadine & Spencer families. Especially if Helena conceded in certain instances to preserve her relationship w Spencer n Molly such as agreeing to no longer go after or harm Laura & Alexis. Nik, Laura, Alexis & Lesley would see it as a tactic for her to get her hooks into them deeper, going after her guns blazing, joined by Lucky & Lulu which puts Spencer & Molly in the middle and causing them to clash w their families.

That’d be way more interesting and exciting than having her pop up as a ghost to haunt/ threaten since a dead person is not that intimidating. Ghosts on soaps are usually so lame anyway. I’ll take Helena however I can get her but ghosts don’t ever add much and there’s nowhere for the story or character to go. I didn’t care for it w Alan or John Abbott on YR and if TPTB weren’t ready to let the character go, they shouldn’t have killed them to begin with. Soaps are so short-sighted for shows that are endless and ghostly appearances don’t do nearly as much to placate upset fans as TPTB think.

Interesting, but the true Helena wouldn’t see anything in Molly and would be apt to slash her throat just like she did to Natasha’s mother.

The character/actress link I would’ve liked was when Jennifer Bassey joined GH as Quinn (the publisher in the vapid Msn Flanders story). If they had brought her over as Marian Chandler and made her Helena’s sister, it would’ve been quite interesting as Bassey and Towers share a resemblance.

I hope this means Anthony Gary will make a special come back too!!!

Not crazy about her. Don’t care if she comes back.

Great ! She is fantastic !

Love it! Mow let’s get Luke!

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‘General Hospital’s’ Jonathan Bennett Receives 3 ‘Critics Choice Real TV Awards’ Nominations for Hallmark Series, ‘Finding Mr. Christmas’

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Many things are coming up roses for Jonathan Bennett! On the heels of the news that he is set to debut this month in the role of Joe Fitzpatrick on General Hospital, who is rumored to be a new love interest for Lucas Jones (Van Hansis), comes the news that Bennett’s reality series, Finding Mr. Christmas has received 3 nomination for the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.

Bennett’s Hallmark Channel series finds itself in tough competition alongside fellow nominees: RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV), Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix), Survivor 50 (CBS), Top Chef (Bravo) and The Traitors (Peacock). In addition, Jonathan himself is nominated for Best Show Host and the series participants as the Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series.

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) revealed the nominees for the eighth annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards on Thursday, which recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Winners will be announced online at CriticsChoice.com on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 9:00am PT/12:00pm ET.

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Taking to his Instagram to celebrate the nominations, GH’s Bennett, enthused, “3 Critic Choice Nominations! I’m so proud of the FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and to be in the company of all the legends in all these categories is so surreal! Congrats to Hallmark Channel and to our nominated cast and nominated show and everyone who made this magical show possible. This is crazy! This gives FMC 6 Critics Choice nominations in 2 years. Not bad for a little show on Hallmark Channel. What are your thoughts on our show?” Jumping first into the comment thread was one of his new GH co-stars, Dominic Zamprogna (Dante) who expressed, “Yeah buddy!!!🔥🔥”

In the series, Bennett, the host and co-creator spends eight weeks guiding 10 aspiring actors through a series of “festive face-offs” and acting challenges alongside actors like soap opera notables, Hunter King (ex-Summer, Y&R) and Alison Sweeney (Sami, DAYS). Along the way, they develop their skills and a bond with one another. The show, which is available on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Plus, highlights LGBTQ+ representation with openly gay contestants vying to be the next Hallmark star.

It should be noted that Traitors received the most Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations with 6 nods, followed by Dancing with the Stars with 4.

Bennett is very familiar to daytime fans having started his career as JR Chandler on All My Children in 2000-2001, before landing the part of Aaron Samuels in the motion picture, Mean Girls in 2004 starring Lindsay Lohan, which would become his breakout performance.

You can check out the full list of Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations here.

So, excited for Jonathan Bennett’s General Hospital debut this month? Have you ever watched Finding Mr. Christmas on Hallmark? Let us know via the comment section below.

 

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‘General Hospital’s’ Kelly Thiebaud on Britt and Cassius Sibling Drama, But Who Will Ultimately Blow His Cover?

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On the April 30 episode of General Hospital, Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) had some choice words and warning for her brother Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) who has been masquerading as his twin, the very dead, Nathan West.

As the story has unfolded, viewers learned that Britt knew all along that when “Nathan” showed up in Port Charles seemingly resurrected with a missing 7 years of his life unexplained, that Cassius was taking his place.

Now in developments on today’s GH, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) is figuring out that this guy pretending to be Nathan is someone else, and Cassius learns from Britt, that Joss is not just a ditzy sorority girl as he claimed, but a WSB agent! The moment stuns Cassius. Are the walls about to close in on him and his charade?

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Daytime Emmy winner, Kelly Thiebaud spoke to Soap Opera Digest, about the story point and getting the opportunity this time back at GH to work with Ryan Paevey, when she hadn’t had the chance to before.

BROTHERLY LOVE?

Thiebaud expressed on sharing scenes with Ryan Paevey, “It’s just been so wonderful to have him back and to actually work with him! When he first came onto the show (as Nathan at the end of 2013) I was kind of heading out — it was right towards the end of my contract, so we didn’t actually work together a ton. It’s been really refreshing and so much fun to really spend time together and get to know each other and work together. I think we have really great on-camera chemistry and banter with each other. I really enjoy working with him.”

With the stakes at an all-time, Thiebaud explained how she views her on-screen alter-ego’s involvement with her more hot-to-temper sibling and why Britt revealed the truth about Josslyn to him. “People finding out about Cassius would expose what she’s involved in and what she agreed to do,” explains Kelly “And now Josslyn is digging around, and she’s connected to Carly (Laura Wright) to Jason (Steve Burton) and that whole dynamic! It’s messy!”

BRITT’S MURKY FUTURE

Britt has currently also reached her breaking point with Jason being carted away by the WSB, Rocco (Finn Carr), the child she gave birth to, shooting Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) to protect her and Jason, Marco (Adrian Anchondo) being killed after trying to help her, and Cullum holding over her head getting her Huntington’s disease medication to control her symptoms, while blackmailing her into finishing the research on her father, Cesar Faison’s, final project. Thiebaud summed it up best for Britt right now, sharing, “It’s been a really tough time for her.”

So, who do you think will be the person to blow Cassius’ cover? Will it be Britt herself? Josslyn? Liesl? Brennan? Nina? Lulu? Rocco, Maxie, Cullum or someone else? Let us know your pick in the comment section.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Michael Reveals His Plan to Set Up Chase and Willow to Have an Affair

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After the Wednesday, April 29 episode of General Hospital, it’s clear outside interference and other circumstances are set to blow Chase (Josh Swickard) and Brook Lynn’s (Amanda Setton) marriage sky high, as Michael (Rory Gibson) reveals his plans to entrap Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and use her relationship with Chase to do it!

In story, Michael dropped by unexpectedly to Carly’s (Laura Wright). A plotting Michael reveals his plan to nudge Willow and Chase into having an affair. Michael hopes it would create both a political and personal scandal, where Willow would lose her seat in congress. In the scenario, she would be having an affair with her ex-husband, while taking care of her supposed disabled husband, Drew (Cameron Mathison), who cannot speak and is confined to a wheelchair, which in turn will look horrible for Willow’s character.

Carly asked does he really want to destroy his cousin, Brook Lynn’s life in the process? Michael goes in on Chase’s holier than thou attitude, and says he is going to set-up the circumstances that would lead Chase and Willow to betray their spouses, and hit the sheets together. Michael swears to Carly what the two of them do is up to them, but he’s going to go on the offense with this.

MICHAEL HAS BACK-UP

Later, Jacinda (Paige Herschell) is talking with Charlotte (Bluesy Burke) at Crimson and how much she dislikes Willow because of what she has done to Michael. Just then, Michael shows up and tells Jacinda privately, he’s figured out a way to fight Willow. Looks like Jacinda might work with Michael to bring down Willow and use Chase as the person to do it!

At the hospital, Lucas (Van Hansis) tells Josslyn (Eden McCoy) that Carly is cheating on Jack, but he doesn’t know with who. Josslyn suddenly flashes back to the moment she found her mother harboring a fugitive, Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), in her attic, and as figured out that her mother is sleeping with him. She heads out.

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BRENNAN IS ABOUT TO LEARN ABOUT CARLY

Next thing you know, Josslyn has showed up inside Jack’s (Chris McKenna) hotel room at the Metro Court and when he enters his room, he is shocked to find her there. He lays into her for not keeping his distance and that Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) will have no problem killing her if he knows she’s WSB. Josslyn fires back that he is only concerned about that because his relationship with her mother depends on her being safe. But then, she lays the boom, and tells Jack, Well, you’re too late. You already lost her.”

LULU GETS A GLIMPSE OF CASSIUS’ TEMPER

In addition, Lulu (Alexa Havins) sees a different side of “Nathan.” Since she is unaware that the man before her is his twin, Cassius Fasion (Ryan Paevey), he tells her that Rocco (Finn Carr) blabbed that he shot Cullum to Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), and now he thinks they should send him away to stop him from talking to everyone else. This concerns Lulu, who rails at Nathan for telling her what to do with her son and that she isn’t going to abandon him. With “Nathan’s” outburst at her on the matter, will she finally get a clue this is not the man she thinks it is?

So, what do you think of Michael’s plan to push Willow and Chase into an affair? Will it work or backfire? Do you think Joss will reveal that Valentin is the man sleeping with Carly to Brennan, which will send him in a rage? Will Lulu continue to be clueless about “Nathan?” Weigh-in via the comment section below. But first, take a look at the GH video tease for today’s April 30 episode.

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