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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Kristina is Accepted into Medical School Paving Way for Kate Mansi’s Exit; What Do You Think of How She’s Being Written-Off?
As promised by General Hospital on Tuesday May 26 episode provided the reason why Kristina Corinthos-Davis will be leaving Port Charles next month in order to accommodate Daytime Emmy winner Kate Mansi’s decision to exit the soap opera.
After telling Mansi told former Soap Opera Digest Editorial Stephanie Sloane in her newsletter that, “Now, it feels like the right time for both Kristina and me to step into new adventures,” that couldn’t have been prove more true, when Kristina’s life and story took a sharp turn out of nowhere.
During a conversation on today’s GH, Kristina is talking with her sister Molly (Kristen Vaganos) about Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) outside of Bobbie’s when suddenly Kristina gets a message notification on her phone. Next, Kristina underplayed the information, she received when she looked at the notification and announced, “I took a long shot, and just got accepted into medical school!”
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Molly looks stunned, Kristina seemed like someone who just thought she would randomly throw her hat into the ring and see if it happens, as if wasn’t such a big deal, or maybe she is just underplaying her reaction for now. Certainly, for those who have applied to medical school, and have always wanted to be a doctor, this would be the most awesome news.
As to why all of a sudden the GH writers came up with this angle for Kristina’s exit story has yet to be explained on-screen with this being such a major career decision shift when Kristina just reopened Charlie’s. More is said to be revealed on tomorrow’s Wednesday, May 28 episode.
MEDICAL SCHOOL AS A VEHICLE TO WRITE OUT A SOAP CHARACTER
The move to have Kristina Corinthos-Davis become a doctor does give the show the leeway to bring back Kate Mansi a few years down the line with a new occupation and purpose if she ever wants to return to the show since GH executive producer Frank Valentini said in a statement that the “door is always open” for Kate to return. And as we also learned, there are no plans to recast the role at this time.
Kristina doesn’t have the greatest track record with academia having been expelled back in the fall of 2015 from Wesleyan, where she had been studying prelaw. That story eventually revealed itself where Kristina got suspended after offering to have sex with one of her professors in exchange for a better grade. The professor turned out to be Parker Forsyth played by Ashley Jones, and the two eventually were in a complicated relationship before breaking up.
Soap fans have always been tasked with suspending belief when certain reasons are written to precipitate characters exits when the audience already knows that the actor had decided to leave the show or needs a maternity leave, for example. Sometimes it makes some sense for the character and other times, it does not.
So, how do you feel about the reason why Kristina Corinthos-Davis will be written off the canvas as Kate Mansi wraps up her story on-screen? Do you think it fits the character? Like it? Don’t like it? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
Such a random, left-field reason for Kristina to leave the canvas. Hilarious. But whatever works for ushering out Kate Mansi.
I hoped that Kristina and Blaze would reconnect. Since that doesn’t appear to be the case, Kristina is a smart young woman and I’m glad she has reached a more goal directed point in her life.
Not to be hash, but I’ve never seen one instance of Kristina demonstrating that she is even remotely intelligent. Believing that she was accepted into Med school, is akin to believing that Melania Trump really deserved that Einstein Visa.
Exactly.
Suspension of disbelief be damn. The idea of a college drop-out slacker, who never studied pre-med, suddenly being accepted into med school is just lazy and horribly, plot driven writing. Kristina has never once indicated she was interested in pursuing a career in medicine is insanely stupid.
Wouldn’t it be more believable if Kristina decided she wanted to be an Olympic high diver? She has natural talent. The Romanian judge gave her a 9.2 on her fall into the MC pool.
Blah blah blah
I’m happy to see Kate Mansi LEAVE!!! I never ever liked her character!!!
Loved Kate Mansi as Kristina. I will miss her!
Being a chronic mess-up is part of Kristina’s core character. Medical school? I wouldn’t let her put a band-aid on me. I’d somewhat be okay with her being a psychologist as therapy has been a fall-back career for many.
Career switches on soaps are common, but they should be plausible (i.e. Felicia going from PI to bar owner to patient advocate). But then there’s unqualified CEOs in Michael and Curtis or Laura – elected to two terms as mayor despite spending 5 years in a catatonic state.
Kristina as a doctor? What’s next? Lucy as a chemist? Liesl as a preschool teacher?
Many people are chronic mess-ups with a lack of direction in when they are young. Luckily, some of the gain direction and life purpose as they mature. Her relationship with Blaze, losing the baby, losing Sam, taking over Charlie’s, the fire and rebuilding Charlie’s may had that effect of Kristina. Kristina is not a dumb bell and modern medical school want students for all walks of life. There are programs where you earn your undergraduate degree and your medical degree at the same time. Plus, this will give Kristina a chance to stand on her own two feet with Alexis and/or Sonny as immediate safety nets.
I always appreciate your comments. I will, however, beg to differ with you here. Kristina still refers to the baby as “Adela” and has yet to take complete responsibility for cutting Ric’s brakes or her part in holding him captive.
It’s okay to have characters that maintain a bit of “screwy-ness”. On OLTL, Tina remained a bit off, Todd never really matured and Roxie, lovably, remained Roxie.
I would love to see Irene Kristen back on GH as Ava’s mother.
You know, we’ve watched through Casey the alien, a weather machine to control the world’s weather, COUNTLESS return from the dead stories…it’s not hard to believe Krissi got a wild hair and decided medical school would be a good fit. Really. It’s not a bad fit and it gives leeway if Kate wants to come back@ I’ve seen WAY WORSE STORIES ON THIS SOAP!! I’m in it for the long haul!
Hey, don’t be knocking the weather machine! Mikkos Cassadine brought that technology with him when he arrived down here, and made it possible for us to have air conditioning in Hell!
They can take molly with her doesn’t make any kind of reason Dr. Please don’t make laugh.lol
Difference being we didn’t know Casey the Alien. He just plopped into 10 year old Robin Scorpio’s garage. We had not invested in this character anymore than we invested in Mikkos Cassadine who tried to freeze Port Charles. What some of you are struggling with is distinguishing between fantastical characters and realistic characters. What I am talking about is character driven stories vs plot driven stories. We’ve known Kristina since she was a baby. Her suddenly taking an explicable turn that has not been backed up by a pattern of behavior or any history, is the WORST example of plot driven writing that I can think of. I’m sorry to belabor this but frankly, bad writing pisses me off.
Send Molly too please.
I don’t understand the medical thing? They could have sent her back to school for literally ANYTHING else. Maybe social work or psychology to help at the Corinthos-Davis center?
Bridget Forrester on B&B went from being designer to doctor in the blink of an eye. I agree for Kristina to be accepted into med school our of the blue is silly but this is GH where people come back to life time after time, mobsters go unpunished, and silly spy stories flourish. For a show whose central core is a hospital, this makes some bit of sense.
I don’t even remember her going to college so this is a big stretch. I know we’re supposed to suspend disbelief, but this is a bit ridiculous.
She went to college long enough to fall in love with a professor who was old enough to be her mother. I don’t remember what her studies were at the time, but it definitely wasn’t pre-med.
Oh right, that’s when she came out to her family.
The current writers keep going so far left of the history of this show and these characters it’s beyond ridiculous. This is just the latest in something coming out of nowhere. And not even bothering to address Kristina got nowhere close to finishing college. If they’re going to do it at least throw in a few lines about how it’s possible. And Wednesday’s episode doesn’t cut it. And at the very least have her studying psychology-that’s the only thing that makes any sense with Kristina’s background.
This is really out there! It doesn’t make sense, Kristina has not finished or been in college which she would have to be to be accepted to Med School. I know it’s a soap but viewers pay attention and don’t like when there no continuity. Marco just died, I could totally see her contacting Blaze and them giving their relationship another try. That would be reasonable and welcome with an easy exit and return.
I know, right? Maybe on a different soap, this wouldn’t irk me. But this soap literally has Hospital in its title.
Wow! Just when I think that some of these story lines couldn’t get any worse. Med school? For a non college graduate?
I didn’t know she finished college.
She didn’t. She dropped out after Professor Parker broke her heart.
She was in college for one semester before she dropped out and went away with her college professor Parker.
Are you kidding me what a stupid idea to let her leave.
I’m guessing that the learning institution that grants Krissie her medical license is the same one that awarded super-spy Robert Scorpio his law degree!
They actually mentioned UCLA. When I last checked, it’s still a top institution that doesn’t admit people who never got an undergraduate degree to their medical school.
Maybe “PARKER!” sent a letter of recommendation.
Or maybe Sonny called in a favor, considering UCLA’s hospital had some really big security holes when he had his heart procedure there a few months back, and almost got taken out by a hit person disguised as a nurse.
I would say they owe him one for not suing over that.
I’ve read that Mansi has directed some clips on GH and wants to further her career in that area. Frank Valentini has allowed her freedom in that and im glad he’s left the door open. Will Ethan then take over running Charlie’s Pub? If not him, then who?
I love that direction for Kristina. It is a happy ending and she can always come back. Thanks to the writers for not killing. Her off
The latest ratings are out for the week of October 26-30, 2026 and the big takeaways include: that CBS daytime’s Beyond the Gates was separated by only 23,000 viewers behind third place (of the soaps) General Hospital! For the last several weeks, Beyond the Gates has been closing the gap on this year’s winner for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and continuing to best GH in the key demos.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings breakdown from Soap Opera Network, the final week of October brought Beyond the Gates 1.790 million on average tuning-in and the show set a season high in total viewers. Meanwhile, General Hospital hit a new season low! The long-running ABC soap had 1.813 million for the week, and once again the series did not go over the 2 million mark.
Meanwhile, in the key Women 18-49 demo, Beyond the Gates was firmly ahead of GH with a rating share of 0.21, while General Hospital had 0.17 rating share.Then, in the key Women 25-54 demo, Beyond the Gates was once again ahead of the ABC soap with a ratings share for that demo at 0.30 while GH came in with 0.26.
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MORE BY THE NUMBERS
In addition and comparatively, Beyond the Gates +22,000 viewers week-to-week, and had the largest gains in viewership year-to-year in daytime TV with +267,000 from this in 2025.. However, General Hospital seems to be going in reverse. The show was down -56,000 viewers week-over-week and down -22,000 year-over-year .
BEYOND THE GATES
Let’s take a look at some of the storylines that had people tuning-in to Beyond the Gates during the ratings week:
Hayley (Marquita Goings) attempted a massive shocker regarding her pregnancy and tried to use it to extract money from Bill Hamilton (Timon Kyle Durrett). Although, Bill saw right through her game, he demanded a paternity test, and made it clear he has no intention of raising the child—planning instead to pay her off to take the baby and leave. Meanwhile, Hayley confided her plan to her cousin Randy (Maurice P. Kerry).
Jacob Hawthorne (Jibre Hordges) and Naomi Hamilton (Arielle Prepetit) clashed over Jacob’s ongoing investigation into The Impaler, causing significant strain in their marriage. At the same time, Smitty (Mike Manning) considered taking matters into his own hands—including potentially heading to Mexico for evidence—while Martin Richardson (Brandon Claybon) worried about what comes next.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL
Over at General Hospital for the ratings period, the story served up included:
Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) teamed up to investigate what really happened to Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna). Later, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) leads them to Jack’s dead body.
Jude (Wil Traval) dropped a bombshell claim to Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn); that he is Phoebe’s father, while Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and Chase (Josh Swickard) signed their divorce papers.
Then, Danny caught Rocco (Finn Carr) and Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) sharing a kiss, plus the shocking return of Heather Webber (Alley Mills) capped the week.
Now the questions become; without having much promotional synergy in the ABC day-part to draw more eyeballs it is not helping but hurting General Hospital. It seems Beyond the Gates is also a benefactor of a one-two-three punch of CBS soaps (Y&R, B&B and BTG) and promotion.
However, that still doesn’t take away the fact that Beyond the Gates is close to besting GH in all ratings category as they go head-to-head in some markets across the country.
So, are you excited to see Beyond the Gates climb in the ratings? Are you concerned for General Hospital? Do you think they can stave off Beyond the Gates in total viewers or will the upstart soap overtake them in the next ratings report? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Antonio Sabáto Jr., the former Jagger Cates of General Hospital and GH: Night Shift, and the former Dante Damiano of The Bold and the Beautiful has issued his first public statement since the incident involving his son, Jack’s arrest in Alaska for a fatal hit-and-run.
Jack is the son of Sabáto Jr. and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and according to court documents obtained by KTUU Jack, was allegedly driving a white Chevy Tahoe when he hit and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, near an intersection in Anchorage around 5:35 a.m. on Monday, November 9.
The reports indicated that Jack fled the scene — but later decided to called the cops to say he hit “something” that “suddenly appeared in the road” while he was “doing late-night DoorDashing.”
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Now, Antonio has taken to his Instagram breaking his silence on the situation, sharing, “At this time, my family and I are navigating an extremely sensitive and deeply personal matter.”
He added, “As a father, my love for my children remains unconditional, and my priority is the well-being of my family. We ask that the public and members of the media honor our privacy during this difficult time and keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.”
The soap alum concluded, “I also wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of the gentleman who tragically lost his life. My thoughts and prayers are with them as well. We sincerely appreciate your compassion, understanding, and respect for the privacy of everyone affected.”
Jack Sabáto was arraigned in court on Tuesday, November 10 with bail set at $5,000, and a no-driving order and the potential of $5,000 penalty fees if he fails to attend future court appearances.
Antonio is the father to Jack, 34, daughter, Mina Sabato, 24 and son, Antonio Sabáto III, 15.
This is a developing story. You can check out Antonio’s official statement below.
So, let us know your thoughts on this tragic hit-and-run, which claimed the life of another man, and Antonio’s statement, via the comment section below.
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Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Ava’s (Maura West) daughter Avery looks quite different, starting on today’s November 9 episode of General Hospital. That’s because GH has made Avery into a full-blown teenager and the role is now being played by actress Alya Bullington.
In her debut, the Tennessee native was thrown into the deep soap waters with Daytime Emmy winners, Maurice Benard and Eden McCoy (Josslyn). Bullington weighed-in to TV Insider about her first scene which featured Avery overhearing a fight between Sonny and Josslyn.
She explained “It was something I have never done before, I did not have a lot of experience with the screaming and the crying stuff, but I got my first script, and I was like, ‘OK, this is a huge opportunity to learn so much about how that stuff works and to become this character that I have never even tried playing before.’”
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THE TEENAGED VERSION OF AVERY WILL HAVE A LOT TO CONTEND WITH
Speaking of working with McCoy, Bullington shared, “She’s incredible. I remember her just laughing and making jokes on set, and then the minute that they started taping, she just locked in and she cried immediately, and my first thought was, ‘I want to be able to do that.’
The soap opera newcomer added, “I think she just inspired me so much because she is so great and she can just lock into whatever character she wants to in the moment.”
The character of Avery was born back in 2014, but as recently as the October 8 episode of General Hospital, the character was suddenly referred to as a teenager. This is the second young female character in recent months to be aged up following the casting of Kayden Brenna Tokarski as Scout Cain.
As for her take on Avery and what’s ahead, Alya said,“She’s emotional, and she’s curious, and she’s a really fun person to play because so much stuff is happening in her life. I think she’s kind of confused about what’s happening and what to believe.”
So, what do you think about General Hospital making Avery a teenager? Are you excited to see the conflict between Sonny, Ava and Avery now that they have aged up the character? Share your thoughts and welcome Alya to GH via the comment section below.
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