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GH’s Paige Herschell Shares She Once Auditioned for ‘Blaze,’ Did the Soap Just Tease a Spark Between Kristina and Jacinda?
When Paige Herschell arrived on the scene of General Hospital in 2025 as a paid escort named Jacinda, who was used to defame Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) in the now infamous “liquor shots off her stomach on the bar” scene by the then congressman, the actress has no idea months later she would be called back by the ABC soap to reprise the role.
Now, Herschell is firmly-implanted into the Port Charles canvas as the woman currently seeing Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) with all her previous baggage and all.
Paige was this weekend’s guest on all new episode of That’s Awesome with Steve (Burton) and Bradford (Anderson) podcast where she revealed, before she landed the role of Jacinda Bracken, she actually auditioned a few times for General Hospital, including for the role of “Blaze” that eventually went to Jacqueline Grace Lopez.

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As viewers, Lopez wound up receiving a Daytime Emmy nomination last year for her performances in the Outstanding Guest Performer category. In story, Blaze and Kristina (Kate Mansi) were one time romantically involved.
KRISTINA AND JACINDA METRO COURT SCENE
In an intriguing scene that aired on last Friday’s March 23 episode of the ABC soap opera, Jacinda and Kristina (Kate Mansi) met at the Metro Court for lunch. During the conversation, Jacinda discussed her liaison with Kristina’s brother, Michael at the Quartermaine gate house. Jacinda apologized for monopolizing their conversation and asked Kristina about whether there was someone she was interested in at this point in her life.
Kristina looked at her and said that she had a track record of disastrous relationships, but Jacinda responded that you just never know when your luck can change. Several GH viewers noticed the spark in Kristina’s eyes when looking at Jacinda. Is GH, as had been rumored, laying down the groundwork for a shift in the story where Kristina becomes more interest and attracted to Jacinda, even though she’s dating her brother, Michael?
RORY GIBSON AND THE GH CAST

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During her visit to the That’s Awesome podcast, Herschell noted on her GH co-stars that she loves working with Rory Gibson, expressing, “He has such a grounding presence and has a calm about him that makes me calm. I’m always searching for my Zen. I can be a bit of a neurotic energy, so working with him has been very cool and I would love to continue that.”
When asked about other characters Paige is involved on the canvas, the actress added, “The character of Kristina and Jacinda have become close. It’s been great working with Kate Mansi.”
However, Paige says there is one actress she wish she would work with more. “I have only gotten to work with Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine) maybe once. I would love to work with her more. She’s amazing, and she’s so mysterious and she’s got such confidence about her.”
You can check out Paige Herschell’s interview below with Steve and Bradford.
Now let us know, did you get a sense from the scene last Friday that the soap is beginning to play up a spark between Kristina and Jacinda? Is it all on Kristina’s side, or do you think its a big nothing and a red-herring, or didn’t you notice it? Share your thoughts and theories via the comment section below.
Interesting but Kristina isn’t my cup of tea I think a recast is needed. She always a vapid look on her face. Love Jacinda tho!!
Please, please, please no love triangle between Michael, Kristina and Jacinda. Yes, I noticed Kristina looking greedily at Jacinda. Michael deserves some happiness and doesn’t need his greedy, spoiled sister interfering in his love life.
Yes please don’t do it . Find someone else for her. Michael needs this. A Happy Ending.
Give Michael a shot at having true love, especially after his disaster with Willow.
Mikey’s finally got himself a girlfriend who’s neither a raging psycho, nor a mindless Di$ney princess. let’s not ruin that by putting him in a love triangle with his own sister, for Hell’s sake!
Didn’t like it when they did this with Allie, Chanel, and Johnny on Days either.
Or with Noah, his sister Mariah and his girlfriend Tessa on Y&R. Can Kristina go out and find her own love interest? Damn, that girl is a lazy slacker and she tends to ruin everything she touches. Her Daddy just rebuilt her bar after it burned down and after he gifted her the first bar. Not only would her making advances towards Jacinda be bad for Michael, it would be bad for Jacinda who hasn’t had an easy time of it. Kristina needs to take a hike. I’m kind of sick of her.
Michael’s love life is eternally doomed.
Still hoping for the return of Sasha, especially with the resolution of her dad, Robert Scorpio.
I adore Sofia Mattsson, and her potential with Rory Gibson never got a chance but would love for the two of them to reunite with Baby Daisy. I do like Jacinda, but she may need to have an unexpected storyline not connected to Michael.
Ugh, why can’t soaps have a love story between women that isn’t about one of them stealing the other from (or losing the other to) a man? Can we have a soapy love story just be about two women? It’s 2026! This one stale trope that still centers a man as the foil has been playing out since Otalia in 2009.
Please no more les/bi love stories between two hetero women actors with no sexual chemistry. It does not help representation when LGBT stories are so forced between visibly uncomfortable actors (see Mariah & Tess, Kristina and Valerie, Kristina and Blaze, Allie and Chanel). Facepalm… those are the only les/bi stories on soaps in the past 15 years! Please don’t make the same mistake with Kristina and Jacinda! Soaps have figured out how to wrote great gay male couples. It’s time to have a believable female couple with chemistry!
Also, I love Jacinda and Michael! Great chemistry and character development already!
So first his uncle Drew steals Michael’s wife and now his sister Kristina may steal his girlfriend! Talk about a double whammy!
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‘General Hospital’ Favorite Kirsten Storms Gives Update on Apartment Break-in That Caused “Unnecessary Custody Case”

Kirsten Storms (Maxie, GH) is sharing more details on the December 2025 apartment break-in and the difficulties she has had with the Tennessee police, plus how the original incident, according to the actress, played into her ex-husband, Brandon Barash (ex-Johnny, GH and ex-Stefan/Jake, Days) filing a restraining order against her and the custody case involving their daughter, Harper.
The popular actress had played GH’s Maxie Jones on and off since 2005, after coming to the ABC soap opera following her run as Belle Black on Days of our Lives. As GH fans know, Storms last appearance on General Hospital was back in March of this year. In recent episodes, the character of Maxie was written-out along with her entire family and Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) and relocated to Australia.
Now, Kirsten explained via Instagram and with shared photo of the December police report, which indicated Storms had placed a call to the Franklin Police Department to report a break-in at her Tennessee apartment. The report states that Storms was away from her apartment for about a week in August of 2025, and when she returned home, she found damage to the deadbolt on her door, as well as other missing items.

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KIRSTEN STORMS SPEAKS OUT ABOUT CUSTODY CASE OVER HER DAUGHTER
Then, Storms fired back at naysayers in the ongoing comments on her break-in situation, stating: “Please do not tell me (or ask me) not to post these things. I’m hoping this is the last item I post (of the documents I have on the break-in at my old apartment in Tennessee). I’m only doing this because that lead to an **unnecessary custody case** being filed against me.”
It was back in April that TMZ learned, through obtaining of court documents, that Barash cited Storms for having mental health issues so he filed a restraining order against her. Kirsten expressed in her latest post, that she was asked to meet with a mediator in the custody case for her daughter, not a judge, and that her mental health issues were being used against her instead of people focusing on the break-in.
Storms added, “However, the break-in … followed by a ‘custody case/now mediation request’ where the break-in was the main reason for the initial custody filing, was unwarranted.”
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CHECK
Kirsten also shared on her health status,”I have always been proactive about my medical care (all aspects), as well as Harper’s (<—— the MOST important person to me). I’ve also been attempting to get checkups with a neurosurgeon/neurologist for my brain aneurysm and brain cysts. And tbh, I have a psychologist that I’ve seen for years, who I’m kinda attached too. She’s f’ing incredible and understands the kind of therapy sessions I need. Addressing what should NOT be the focus (mental illness), is frustrating for me”
You can check out Kirsten’s latest post on the custody matter, and her ongoing battle over the apartment break-in while in Tennessee below.
Now let us know, glad to hear from Kirsten and hear more of her side of the custody story and her ongoing issues with this apartment break-in? Let us know via the comment section below, and if you miss seeing her on-screen on General Hospital and hope one day she will come back.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson to Star in New Holiday Movie

The Stone Cold and the Jackal brand will now expand into movies, in news today on Monday, September 14. Fans of General Hospital’s Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) and Bradford Anderson (Spinelli) will be excited to learn that the two will be starring in and are co-writing and producing a holiday flick.
Working alongside producers, Zero Gravity Management, the production team behind the hit and critically-acclaimed Netflix series Ozark, though the title and details are bering kept under wraps, fans can look forward to an upcoming movie that is said to be a “quick-witted comedy, holiday romance, and a playful whodunit, that follows two unlikely partners as they stumble into a mystery in a charming small town at Christmas.”
Burton, Anderson, and their creative partner, Stacy Asencio-Sutphen are working on the script. According to the official Stone Cold and the Jackal Instagram account, “While financing and distribution continue to be ironed out, there’s a casting call out for the two female leads who’ll star opposite the dynamic duo. At present, the film is being considered the first entry in a franchise of annual romantic mysteries.”

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STEVE BURTON AND BRADFORD ANDERSON’S JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN
In a statement, Bradford Anderson, expressed: “We have the best fans in the world, and the constant question we ask ourselves is, ‘What more can we do to entertain them?’ When we came up with this idea for a series of holiday films, we knew we had something special.”
Steve and Bradford initially developed their on-screen. and later on-stage chemistry on General Hospital when Spinelli, the computer nerd would help Jason solve crimes or infiltrate the bad guys software system on GH. From there, the two begun touring in comedy and music venues around the country and since 2018 have co-hosted That’s Awesome with Steve and Bradford on their You Tube Channel, and have continued to grow their brand.
While Steve Burton started on General Hospital as Jason Quartermaine in 1991, it wasn’t until 2006, when we first met Damian Spinelli, that the two eventually linked up as the most unlikely pairing of “crime” fighters, even though Jason worked for Sonny and the mob.
In story in 2026, Jason and Spinelli remain close friends, although recently Spinelli was written off the canvas when he received a job offer in Australia that he could not pass up. So far now, Spinelli is living down under with Maxie and the children, while Jason remains in Port Charles.
So, we ask you, who would you like to see cast as the two leading ladies opposite Steve and Bradford in their first holiday movie?Would you want to see a holiday franchise featuring Steve and Bradford that delivers a project each year? Do you remember when Spinelli first met Jason? Let us know via the comment section below.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL Preview: An Arrest is Made in the Disappearance of Jack Brennan

This week on all-new episode of General Hospital, WSB agent Baines (Alimi Ballard) is on the hunt for the person responsible for the disappearance of Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). GH viewers know that a deceased Jack was buried six feet under by Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) after finding him dead and floating in the Metro Court pool.
Now, in the latest GH promo and video spoilers for the week of August 24-28, suspicion continues to fall on Ava, Drew, Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and Nina (Cynthia Watros), who Drew set up to take the fall.
A pair of gloved hands are seen holding Jack’s wallet, the same wallet the Drew implanted in Nina’s car. Ava is seen warning Drew, “A man like Brennan doesn’t just disappear.” Then we hear the voiceover of Nina pondering, “How exactly are we going to deal with that?” Will Drew also throw Ava under the bus to keep himself anywhere near being a major suspect in the crime?
SUSPECTS ARE MOUNTING
Then, Baines, who has stepped in as the acting WSB Port Charles bureau chief, is seen saying, “I have some questions for you.” Quick shots of Drew, Nina, Willow, Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Ava flash through the promo.
At the conclusion of the promo entitled “Not Good At All,” referencing Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) statement to her daughter Molly (Kristen Vaganos) earlier in the video, Baines is at the Metro Court Gardens where he clearly is at someone’s table and informs them, “You’re under arrest.”
Take a look below at the official General Hospital spoilers for the action this week in Port Charles.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Jason confides in Carly. Britt is stung. Nina is in the hot seat. Cody and Serena get better acquainted. Molly fears Alexis is courting trouble.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Anna opens up to Valentin. Nina calls a family meeting. Britt breaks bad news. Emma is furious. Alexis reassures Chase.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Brook Lynn is crushed. Anna makes a sacrifice. Carly challenges Valentin. Sonny offers to help Nina. Drew makes a vow.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Ava confronts Drew. Nina cracks under pressure. Carly meets with Josslyn. Trina visits Curtis at Pentonville. Jordan doesn’t mince words. Sonny tries to get information from Justine.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Elizabeth surprises Dante. Charlotte takes action. Willow gets alarming news. Lulu and Valentin meet. Molly runs into Lucas and Joe.
Check out the latest GH promo, “Not Good at All” below.
Now let us know, who do you think becomes the prime suspect in the Jack Brennan missing person’s case? Who do you actually think killed the guy, or pushed him the Metro Court Pool? Let us know your theories via the comment section below.
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