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Is General Hospital’s Gio Going to be the New Young Man in Trina’s Life?
General Hospital has big shoes to fill with the departure of Nicholas Chavez (ex-Spencer Cassadine), plus the popularity of the couple “Sprina” as played by Chavez and Tabyana Ali (Trina).
Viewers may have been given a glimpse into the future and GH’s summer storylines when on Thursday’s June 6th episode, Trina laid eyes on Gio Palmieri (Giovanni Mazza). In story, Joss (Eden McCoy) sorta pushes Gio into the Metro Court pool fully clothed after it’s revealed that Gio is one of the new pool attendants.
Just as he is getting out of the water, who should he see but Trina. Gio asks for an introduction to her friend, and Joss introduce Trina Gio also reveals he’ll be going to PCU in the fall, which means hopefully Trina and him could be seeing more of each other.
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Knowing he that Gio is a violinist, Trina tells Gio that she works at an art gallery and that they are actually planning an event soon and could use some music that won’t distract from people’s conversations. Gio says he is definitely interested and asks Trina if he can give her his number. Trina smiles.
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Speaking with Soap Opera Digest Giovanni Mazza said of a potential Trina/Gio pairing, “She’s (Trina) interested in who Gio is and wants to know more about him, just as he wants to know about her, and I think we’ll develop a great connection on the show. I feel like there’s so much that could happen and could blossom out of our relationship, and I’m excited to know where the story goes. As a fan of the show, I also want to know what’s going to happen next!”
So, would you be down for a Gio and Trina burgeoning romantic storyline? Comment below.
Yessssss
The second-hand embarrassment over scenes like this is off the charts.
Has GH EVER been this bad before? Even Lucy and her duck was better than this.
(Side note: why does the entire town seemingly get to use the pool, when they’re not staying at the hotel?)
I often wondered ab
The MC pool is an easy way for them to show off some of the actors’ finer bodies.
As it’s the only pool set, it does make it awkward when people like the Quartermaines hang out there. At least they had Willow explain why Wiley liked it better, but what was Drew’s reasoning? Was he taking a work break?
He’s a very handsome young man and reminds me somewhat of Nicholas Chavez. I’m not sure when the casting happened, but if they knew Chavez was not coming back why didn’t they just recast him as Spencer?
It’s highly likely the show thought Chavez would be coming back for a few months to finish his contract. What we’re seeing on screen now was probably written in February or Marc, when it was assumed Chavez would return.
he seems too young for Trina
I thought he looked younger when his photos were passed around before he appeared onscreen (they may have been older photos). But seeing him actually interact with the actresses playing Trina and Joss, they all look like contemporaries and he fits right in.
I don’t think so; I still think he looks too young. They should have brought Emma back for him. She’s 18, he’s 19, and those two could have been going to college together. Joss and Trina should be graduating at this point.
The actor just turned 19 last month and I think Taby is 21/22. On the show they made a point of saying he’s 21.
Ditto!!!
Yes ! 100% plus he is very charismatic.
Probably, because GH can’t help but push black/white couples. Is Drew going to wind up with Jordan? So far Trina has fallen for Cam, then Spencer, and now Gio? For all their diversity, why don’t they bring on a young black actor/character, for Trina? The choice the show is making is an obvious one, as are many other shows and TV commercials. And for me, it just turns me off to the couple from the start, because of its intent.
And how did Gio suddenly go from being Brook Lynn and Lois’s cousin to Olivia’s nephew?
So us interracial families (been married for 20 years to a wonderful white man) are not allowed to see themselves represented on tv when white/white and black/black couples have always been featured as n entertainment. So you’re telling me that the world doesn’t not fits into one type of box. I can’t hear you. Speak up louder for those of us interracial weirdos in the back!!!
Please Rebecca. Lmao. All you would do if they brought on another Black character is complain about how there are too many Black characters. Let’s be honest here. If this show causes you this much misery, why do you watch???
I’m disgusted that when I continuously bring up the obvious, glaring, fact that there’s not one Jewish character, there’s not one viewer on this site (I think there WAS ‘one’) who stands in solidarity and says, “you’re right. I can see your point of view. Seems like they are adding more and more minorities and yet it is odd that there’s not ONE Jewish character.
But since the show is intent on their agenda, then yeah, I notice an obvious choice for Trina’s new interest, these aren’t accidental decisions by the show. They make deliberate casting calls for more black characters, even down to day players, yet still don’t have ONE Jewish character. Transgender? Check. Gay? Check. Latin? Asian? Check. And those are just tokens; one or two occasional characters. But a Jewish doctor in a hospital? Naaa; let’s make Matt Cohen a priest. LOL
Black viewers have spoken up for years when there were barely any black characters. But when a Jewish person speaks up? They’re called out instead of supported.
So, only Black/POC can be paired with each other, and only White can be paired with White? That’s beyond close-minded and very colourist/racist to its core.
No; it means that there’s an agenda. It’s not by coincidence that Trina’s interests have been Cam, Spencer, and now possibly Gio. Since they expand the black cast, why not bring on a black guy for Trina? And I explained the rest above; I’ve discussed this before. I stand by what I said. We all see the world, fiction and real, through different eyes.
No, not an agenda. In real life, many people have a type of person to whom they’re attracted. Lord knows, I see that with many of my friends.
The Ashford/Robinson family is the only Black family currently, so a new Black young adult would not have a family connection, which is extremely helpful in establishing new characters. We don’t see Felix outside of memorials or the Nurses Ball. Phyllis has disappeared into the vortex with Taggert, Liesl and Brad. Brick is hardly a meaningful character (and his scenes with Jordan are cringeworthy). So, bringing Trina into the Quartermaine adjacent world allows for more story.
In real life, people have Jewish friends. In real life, 50-60 percent of Jewish people are married to non Jewish people. In real life, there are Jewish doctors. I don’t ANY of that reflected on soaps; on GH.
Why not pair Gio with Skye’s daughter who could join the show? Why not bring Emma back for Gio? Why attempt to put Trina into the legacy families? It is an agenda if the show moves forward.
Bringing Trina into the Cassadine fold would have ruined not only Spencer’s Cassadine nature, but the entire fun of the Cassadines; good vs evil history. Since we no longer have Helena, Stavros, Victor, Stefan (whom I adored), and they’ve written Nikolas out, Spencer would have had to be on his best behavior to meet the approval of Trina and her family, and basically havebeen a absorbed into her family. Another loss of a legacy family.
Trina and Joss are in college (which is ridiculous; they should be graduating). Why not have Trina meet a fellow student who happens to be a black guy? Or, a young black man can walk into Ava’s gallery looking to buy art, etc. But that’s not what the show wants to do; that much is obvious.
Past and present black characters: Jordan, TJ, Portia, Curtis, Stella, Marshall, Brick, Neka (bartender at the Savoy), Detective Bennett, Felix, the nurse who we see often (can’t recall her name), Valerie, Taggert, Sean, Justice, Keisha, Epiphany, Phyllis, Lenny..
How many Jewish characters? Asian? Latino? When a show defines diversity as the addition and expansion of primarily black characters, that in and of itself is an agenda and it’s no different than what they’ve always done; made it about certain people only.
Trina was also with Rory, the young Latino cop. Who got hooked, so he unfortunately wasn’t around all that long.
I have to somewhat agree on the whole Gio thing though. Nothing against the actor, seems like a nice kid, but they seem to be forcing him into everything really quickly, so much that they can’t even remember who he’s related to. I guess maybe the entire Bensonhurst crowd considers each other “family”. But is this kid supposed to actually be related to both the Cerullos AND the Falconeris?? I didn’t make that much of him calling Sonny his “uncle” because BrookLynn does that also even though they aren’t actually related. Might be a similar thing with calling Olivia his “auntie”?
Yep; first thing I noticed when he called Olivia “Aunt Olivia.” Totally didn’t make sense, He was promoted before coming to the show as Brook Lynn’s cousin, he was mentioned at the wedding as Brook Lynn’s cousin, Lois explained to someone at the wedding that someone was married to someone..some kind of son of a second cousin or something. ZERO mentionof Gio and Olivia being related. In a FB group, someone said that maybe it’s because the family is close with Olivia; well calling her “aunt” when Los is the same age and he doesn’t call her his aunt, would make no sense. Totally frustrating. I imagine those of us paying attention all doing the head tilt as in, “huh?” lol
As for Rory, if you recall he’s the one guy she wasn’t into and felt bad about it. Tried to feel it but didn’t… In real life, I think the actor was called out for using the N word years earlier, someone dug that up on Twitter. That might have been the reason for his early departure…
Olivia and lois and sonny r bffs they grew up together that why brook lynn calls sonny her uncle sonny and gio is related to cerullos on his mom side and and he calls sonny his uncle too why cuz sonny is closed to both of cerullos and Falconeri’s families
I am so happy to see Giovanni ( pronounced ; Jo-vahnni, not Gee-o-vani—double consonants are stressed in Italian) join the cast. Please keep Trina away from him. Bring Sydney back!!
Oh please no,no,no!
Agreed… I thought he paired better with Joslyn.
I actually enjoyed Trina’s interactions with gio so far and hopefully trina and gio becomes close friends then turn into something more.
Someone here still obsessed with Sydney sorry girl Tabyana is here to stay eat that or puke rather don’t watch for your happiness
Yes I’m all for it for gio and trina pairing!
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GENERAL HOSPITAL Preview: Serena Sets Her Sights on Michael; Jason’s Emotional Exit from the Mob
This week on all-new episodes of General Hospital, new and old motivations come into play with dangerous consequences. According to the just released GH video spoilers video for the week of August 3-7, a bailiff calls out, “All rise!”
Now it’s Isaiah (Sawandi Wilson) vs. Curtis (Donnell Turner), as the surgeon is suing the owner of the Savoy for assault that ruined is ability to operate. At the end of the day, which of these men has enough evidence against the other? Portia (Brook Kerr) is by Isaiah’s side, while Jordan (Tanisha Harper) is with Curtis.
Next, Lucy (Lynn Herring) has a plan to get the controlling shares of Deception away from Michael (Rory Gibson). She wants her daughter, Serena (Kelly Kruger) to seduce Michael. She tells her, “Pick out your most seductive suit.” Soon, we see Serena in her bathing suit at the Metro Court face to face with Michael.
Later, there is a small baggie containing three blue pills. Nina (Cynthia Watros) ask Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), “What did you do?” We also see Michael asking the same thing of Jacinda (Paige Herschell). Leading into this week, viewers know that Willow doesn’t want the former escort anywhere near her children, Amelia and Wiley. Is this how she stops her, or is Jacinda up to old tricks and wants to frame Willow? Remember when Jacindsa drugged Drew (Cameron Mathison)? Stay tuned.
Finally, in the pick-up from last Friday’s cliffhanger, an emotional Jason (Steve Burton) continues to tell Sonny (Maurice Benard) that he cannot work for him anymore. Sonny ask, “So that’s it? You’re Out?” We fade to black.
Take a look at the official GH spoilers for the week below.
MONDAY, AUGUST 3
Jason makes a sacrifice for Danny. Elizabeth becomes privy to a secret. Carly is touched. Valentin has a warning for Nina. Josslyn cautions Brennan.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4
Brook Lynn and Chase celebrate a milestone. Trina gets an earful. Carly’s plan backfires. Curtis is skeptical. Michael is anxious about his family’s’ future.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5
Sonny wants answers. Ava is struck with inspiration. Curtis’ trial begins. Brook Lynn wrestles with a big decision. Lucy and Serena scheme.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6
Sonny makes a stunning announcement. Serena makes her move. Willow faces a new threat. Isaiah takes the stand. Lucy questions Laura.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7
Josslyn is taken aback. Ava courts a new ally. Jordan and Anna catch up. Isaiah vents to Lucas and Elizabeth. Michael questions Jacinda.
Check out the latest ABC promo for General Hospital entitled, “What Did You Do?” below.
Now weigh-in: Do you think GH is about to pair Serena with Michael? Is it curtains for Jacinda? Can anyone stop Willow once and for all, or make her pay for her crimes? What will Jason do without Sonny and the mob? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
General Hospital Fan Club Weekend brought out many of your favorites to the four day event; with the main cast gathering on Saturday, August 1. Fans near and far attended the weekend held this year at the Burbank Marriott Hotel. Whether it be the main cast event or the smaller more intimate events featuring two or three cast members a great time was had by all.
Some of the cast participating in the main cast event included: Cyrus Hobbi (Yuri), Gary James Fuller (James), Bradford Anderson (Spinelli), Viron Weaver (Wiley), Paige Herschell (Jacinda), Chris McKenna (Brennan), Josh Kelly (Cody), Kayden Brenna Tokarsi (Scout), Cassandra James (Terry), Laura Wright (Carly), Dominic Zamprogna (Dante), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane), Rick Hearst (Ric), Adrian Anchondo (ex-Marco), and Chloe Lanier (ex-Nelle).
In addition to, Van Hansis (Lucas), Cameron Mathison (Drew), Ryan Paevey (ex-Cassius), Easton Rocket Sweda (Leo), Maurice Benard (Sonny), Kristen Vaganos (Molly), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), Kate Mansi (ex-Kristina), Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth), Cynthia Watros (Nina), Kristina Wagner (Felicia) and more.
Take a look at some of the snaps from the main event arrivals below:
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GH’s Rick Hearst with on-screen daughter, Kristen Vaganos, plus Nancy Lee Grahn, and Kate Mansi.
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GH’s Maurice Benard on-hand to meet the fans.
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Jack Brennan in the house … Chris McKenna.
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Adrian Anchondo, Van Hansis and Anchondo’s boyfriend, Days of Our Lives, Colton Little.
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GH’s Josh Kelly and his gal, the former Nelle Benson of Port Charles, Chloe Lanier.
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Who is James’ father? Not Cassius or Spinelli, actually. Actors Gary James Fuller, Ryan Paevey and Bradford Anderson!
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One of General Hospital’s newest cast members, Kayden Brenna Tokarski attends her first GHFCW event.
Check out some more arrival images featuring: Laura Wright (Carly), Cassandra James (Terry), Carolyn Hennesy (Diane) and more in the gallery below.
Michael Fairman TV will be adding more images to this post in the day ahead.
So, were you glad to see so many of your GH favorites attending this year’s General Hospital Fan Club Weekend? Let us know via the comment section.
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Vincent Pastore of ‘Sopranos’ Fame and ‘General Hospital’s’ Maximus Giambetti Dies at 80
Vincent Pastore, best known for his memorable role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos has passed away.
The veteran actor was found dead on August 1st in his home in the Bronx, New York. Pastore was 80-years-old. The cause of death is yet to be determined.
As well as his role on The Sopranos, many soap fans will recall he played multiple smaller roles on the beloved One Life to Live from 1995 and 2004. However, in 2008, he landed the short-term role as Maximus Giambetti on General Hospital.
PASTORE WANTED TO BE ON GENERAL HOSPITAL
Maximus was the mobster father of Sonny Corinthos’ (Maurice Benard) bodyguards: Max (Derk Cheetwood) and Milo (Drew Cheetwood)
According to Soap Opera Digest, Pastore told Soaps In Depth back in 2009, after appearing in a SOAPnet promotional campaign as a celebrity fan of General Hospital: “‘I’d love to be on the show. So they called up GH’s casting director (Mark Teschner) and Bobby (Robert Guza Jr. ex-head writer, GH) and they wrote me in!”
Pastore was a huge General Hospital fan from way back, who at one point told producers that he would watch the ABC soap opera while working in bars and nightclubs in the 70s and 80s.
Throughout his decades long career, Pastore appeared in films including: Goodfellas, Carlito’s Way and Men of Respect, The Jerky Boys: The Movie and the 1996 HBO TV movie Gotti.
In TV, besides The Sopranos, Pastore’s credits included: Law & Order, The Practice, Son of the Beach, Queens Supreme, Hawaii Five-0, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, plus the miniseries The Last Don II. Most recently, Vincent was a series regular on Gravesend and guest starred on Yellowjackets.
Pastore is survived by his daughter, Renee, son-in-law and granddaughter.
Share your remembrances and condolences for Vincent Pastore on his memorable role on ‘The Sopranos’ and his time on ‘General Hospital’ via the comment section below.
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