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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: Sonny Tells Dante, “I Don’t Want a Son Like You,” While Michael Tells Brook Lynn to Bide Her Time Till Chase and Willow Have an Affair

On the Thursday, October 1 episode of General Hospital, both Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) had some things to say and what they had to say didn’t go over well with whom they were talking to!
Sonny had a confrontation with his son, Dante (Dominic Zamprogna), while Michael leveled with Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) over Chase (Josh Swickard).
GH is setting up a scenario where everyone is going to make it look like Sonny was responsible for having Sidwell (Carlo Rota) beat up in Pentonville; while viewers already know Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) were behind it.

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A VISIT WITH DAD
Now, Dante comes to Sonny’s house. He wants to know straight up from his dad if he ordered the attack at Pentonville. Sonny flatly denies any culpability or responsibility, but Dante refuses to believe him.
Dante informs Sonny he has video footage of Sully and Vito at the prison. Sonny explains to Dante he doesn’t know why Sully beat up both Curtis and Dante. Things escalated when Sonny was deeply hurt that Dante refused to believe him. Dante says he was disappointed that his father didn’t respect him enough to be truthful with him!
Sonny asks Dante to consider that he was being set up. He says all he did was to tell Vito to instruct Sully to keep a watchful eye on Sidwell, not to harm him. No matter what Sonny said, Dante continued hammering him with how he knew deep down, even though he said he left the mob, he had to finish off Sidwell for himself.
Next, Sonny explains everything he has ever done was to provide for and to protect his family. Dante fired back that he doesn’t want to deal anymore with Sonny’s half-baked truths. As the two men argue, Gio (Giovanni Mazza) shows up at Sonny’s front door and overhears Sonny losing his temper and shouting at Dante, “Get out of my house! I don’t want a son like you!” The scenes featured an excellent performance by Maurice Benard.

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MICHAEL THE MANIPULATOR
While this is going down, outside the Quartermaine boathouse, Brook Lynn opens up to Michael about living at the Q’s with Chase being there, since he only came back due to legal advice from his lawyer, Monet Mitchell (Blythe Howard).
Brook Lynn questioned whether they should get legally separate. Michael insisted that would be a big mistake. When she asks why, Michael tells Brook Lynn to bide her time until Chase and Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) have an affair; then she’d have full custody of Phoebe.
An angered Brook Lynn pushed Michael into the water and accuses him of moving Willow back into the gatehouse with intent on putting Chase and Willow in closer proximity and sacrificing Brook Lynn’s family in the process. As the two cousins bicker, Chase shows up asking Brook Lynn if she is OK. Michael punctuates their talk with “You know, I’m right.”
CURTIS FIGURES OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SLAMMER
At GH, Willow visits Curtis (Donnell Turner) in his hospital room. Curtis wants Willow to get him pardoned and keep him out of jail, and in return, he will help her nail Sonny.
Next, Willow tells Dr. Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) she wants Curtis held for observation for three more days. He agrees to do so under one condition, that she understands that he may need to call in a favor from a congresswoman.
So, what did you think of how Dante accused his father and refused to believe Sonny’s answers? Is this the end of their father and son relationship for good? Is Michael the most manipulative person of all, except for Willow? Do the two deserve each other? Do you want Chase and Willow to have an affair? And what of Curtis? Does he have many redeeming qualities left? Share your thoughts via the comment section, but first check out the talk Michael had with Brook Lynn.
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GH Alum Tajh Bellow and Y&R Alum Loren Lott Star in New Tiktok and Microdrama ‘Love Island’ Spoof

Two soap opera alums very familiar to fans of General Hospital and The Young and the Restless are paired together in a new short-form digital series from none other than Issa Rae’s production entity HOORAE Digital.
Look for Tajh Bellow (ex-TJ Ashford, GH)) and Loren Lott (ex-Ana Hamilton, Y&R) as part of the cast of The Compatibility Experiment, premiering on October 14, 2026, exclusively on TikTok and its companion microdrama platform, PineDrama.
In the video teaser, it appears that Bellow and Lott play a couple, Kelvin and Camila, set in a Love Island reality show-esque environment trying to win the one million dollar cash prize, only what could go wrong?

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The Compatibility Experiment loglines share that it brings a fast-paced, relationship-focused reality check—much like Love Island with a twist. The show takes a participant’s current relationship, introduces them to a potentially more compatible partner, and forces them to navigate the differences with life-changing money on the line.
The new series is part of a groundbreaking content deal between HOORAE Digital and TikTok to develop premium short-form storytelling. The ensemble cast also features; Ayona, Reggie Luck, JaNa Craig, Tosin Morohunfola, Jessica Jacoby, Georgia Warner, and Nick Cassidy.
General Hospital fans know Tajh Bellow for his performances as TJ Ashford, and who earned two Daytime Emmy nominations along the way during his run. Bellow took over the role in 2018 and last appeared on the ABC daytime drama series in December of 2024.
Loren Lott first appeared as Devon’s (Bryton James) sister Ana Hamilton on The Young and the Restless from 2018 to 2019; making a brief return in 2024. She has continued to perform on the stage and screen with recent credits including: Bel-Air, Cherish the Day, and All American: Homecoming.
Check out the trailer for The Compatibility Experiment below and let us know what you think of its concept and if you are glad to see Tajh and Loren again? Hoping they might return to daytime in their GH and Y&R roles at some point in the future? Weigh-in via the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Ava and Drew Revealed to be Behind Framing Sonny for Sidwell’s Prison Beatdown

If you thought that the person responsible for the Pentonville brawl that saw Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and Curtis (Donnell Turner) taken to General Hospital was Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) or even Sidwell himself, you were dead wrong! On the Wednesday, September 30 episode of GH, it turned out that the culprits were actually Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison).
In story, Drew apparently bankrolled the attack on Sidwell and framing Sonny. He told Ava their planned worked (she came up with it!) but was horrified when Drew informed her that Curtis got caught in the crosshairs. Ava is visibly upset because of her longtime friendship with Curtis’ daughter, Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali). Drew tried to make Ava see the bright side. Curtis was witness to it and his presence will cast doubt on Sonny’s claims to that he had gotten out of the mob and gone legit.
Later, Vito shows up at Drew’s. They informed him that his guy on the inside of the slammer made a big mistake by hurting their friend and ordered him to leave town.

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BOATHOUSE BRAWL
In other major developments, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr) have a blow out fight as Danny blames his “brother” for the reason Charlotte was sent off to boarding school.
Rocco told off Danny for Charlotte’s (Bluesy Burke) reckless behavior and he explains he had to protect his sister. He went in on Danny saying that his mother Lulu (Alexa Havins) has been right to send Charlotte to boarding school and far away from Danny.
However, Rocco went a bit too far when he shouted, “And if your mom was alive, she would send you away too!” Next, Danny punched out Rocco, leading to a terrible brawl. An angered Danny yells at Rocco to, “Stay away from me and everyone in my family. And don’t you ever mention my mom again!” Danny storms off.

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Now alone outside the boathouse, Rocco flashes back to his first kiss with Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarksi), hoping that his fight with Danny will not escalate and ruin their budding romance. Meanwhile, a bloodied-mouth Danny heads over to Sonny’s and Jason (Steve Burton) is there at the same time. He then admits that he has a bad fight with Rocco and they are both beaten up.
WILL SCOUT WISE UP?
At the end of the episode, Scout, who had a fight with Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) over Drew, and who keeps telling everyone how good a man her dad truly is, comes upon a suspicious scene.
Scout hides behind the wall outside Drew’s. She sees her dad, Ava and Vito talking. Next, Scout seems to overhear Vito assuring Drew and Ava that their business dealings are done, and he’ll be leaving Port Charles for good.
So, what did you think of the reveal that Ava and Drew were behind framing Sonny for the prison beatdown of Sidwell (and Curtis)? Do you think Danny and Rocco’s relationship can be repaired, or do you think the teenagers will continue to be at each other’s throats? Finally, do you hope Scout gets a clue and stops thinking her dad walks on air? Weigh-in via the comment section, but first check out how Ava and Drew conspired below.
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