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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Sonny and Nina Say Their “I Do’s”, Then Michael Figures Out Who Turned Carly & Drew Into the SEC
On Friday’s episode of General Hospital, fans who thought that perhaps the ‘Sona’ wedding would be doomed, when it came to tying the knot, were proven wrong. As it turned out, in a touching intimate ceremony Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Nina (Cynthia Watros) became husband and wife.
All week long, viewers were teased with a phone call that Michael (Chad Duell) received while at the nuptials in Puerto Rico. Would the call that would implicate Nina as the person who turned in his mother, Carly (Laura Wright) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) to the SEC happen before the ceremony, during or after? Well, it happened after.
As to the wedding, Sonny and Nina shared their own personal vows. Sonny shares that he is thankful for Nina having trust him, and seeing a better man in him than he ever saw in himself. Most notably, Sonny is appreciative of Nina fighting for their love when everyone was against them.
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Nina shares she tried to fight the idea of them ever being together, but she found herself falling deeper and deeper in love with him. She loves his ferocity – how he loves and fights for his children – and of course, his dance moves. In key words, Nina says she wants to leave all the mistakes of the past behind and start anew. After the exchange of the rings, the priest announces they are husband and wife.
Kristina (Kate Mansi), Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), Wiley (Viron Weaver) and Donna (Scarlett Spears) all celebrate with the newlyweds in a small intimate reception, while Michael gets a phone call from a mysterious contact. The man, who we see the back of, says the SEC was pointed towards Carly and Drew by Martin Grey (Michael E. Knight).
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Michael realizes that Martin was a go-between, putting two and two together, Michael turns around and sees a happy Nina. It is then, Michael comes to the realization that Nina must have been the person responsible for the trouble that Carly and Drew have been in for months. What will be his next move now that Sonny and Nina are married?
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So, what did you think of Sonny and Nina’s nuptials? Are you happy they wed? Are you unhappy they tied the knot? What do you think Sonny will do if and when Michael lowers the boom on Nina? Share your thoughts in the comment section below. But first, check out the key clips from the Sonny, Nina and Michael drama.
WATCH: Michael gets the evidence he needs to name the SEC’s recently married informant. 💐💍 #GH pic.twitter.com/TjMtlw8lff
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This “marriage” will last about as long as Britney Spears’ first Vegas wedding to her high school crush.
Take her down, Mikey!
Yes, expose Nina and let Sonny see the true Nina. Let him see that Carly was the blonde hair woman in his memory/ dream all the time. Carly and Sonny belong together and can save Port Charles for what’s to come. Sonny have enemies on both side and now in his bed. Nina will try to destroy him or turn him in with her vindictive mentality. Carly will always stand with and by Sonny. That is true bond and what he needs. Nina is no match for Vu or Ciruis but Carly can go toe to toe with the best. She’ll make strategic moves when Nina will just run and cry the victim.
Does Michael tell his dad that he hired Dex to take him down and Carly knew it
And Carly shut it down as soon as she found out.
Doesn’t negate the fact that for a year Michael was scheming to send his father to prison for life.
Mikey is an angry man’s Elmer Fudd- I neither like him or respect him.
Plus, he’s a hypocrite just like his horrid mother who has ruined lives like Tony Jones and AJ Quartermaine. Are we really supposed to be enraged with Nina, who in the flush of the moment reported Carly for a crime? This was on the heels of her discovery that Carly took extraordinary measures( including bribery and unauthorized DNA testing) to keep the identity of Willow’s bio mother’s secret. It was also on the heels of Carly bullying Nina on the eve of Willow’s wedding to which Nina was not invited. Instead of being remorseful, Carly was gloating, smug and unrepentant. It’s no wonder Nina made that call- as she said aloud to herself,” I’m tired of Carly getting away with everything. Nina immediately tried to walk the call back but it was too late. At least Sonny and Nina had their beautiful wedding and no wonder what the future might hold, they’ll always have that.
Carly is a vile toxic character. First she doesn’t tell willow that Nina is her mother and vice versa. Then when Drew looks into finding Willow’s birth mother Carly pays off people to derail his investigation. All of this delays Willow finding a bone marrow transplant in Liesel but when all of this comes to light everyone forgives Carly. Then Carly commits insider trading a serious federal crime. When Nina finds out she reports it and she is the villain.
Something is really wrong here. If I were Cynthia Watros I would be sick and tired of being written as Carly’s punching bag.Cynthia deserves so much better than this as an actress. I don’t know how much input LW has into all of this but one would think that she would realize how awful her character has become.I’m sure that she is a lovely person but perhaps blind to how terrible Carly is just like a parent being blind to their child’s behavior.
So Nina let’s Carly and Sonny’s kids believe he’s dead for nearly a year. Gets Jax shot. Hides Whiny Heiny from the world, which results in that empty bar in Tricky Dick Nixon Falls getting burned down, almost getting her, Phyllis, and Sonny bbq’d in the process. Almost gets Jason & Carly killed in a car bomb at their wedding… which was only needed because of the instability in the mob, caused by Nina allowing everybody to believe Sonny was dead. Sonny finally gets his memory back, but Nina won’t let him go anyway. Then she steals Carly’s business from her, gets Drew sent to Prison, and leaves Ned with a life altering brain injury.
Oh yeah… covering up Whiny Heiny’s whereabouts also made it possible for Heiny & Victor to abduct Nina’s own Aunt Liesel. And when Jason went to rescue her, that’s when he was allegedly “killed” in the tunnel collapse on Cassadine Island. And Jason’s absence – along with Nina herself – has caused Sonny to make one bad decision after another for the last two years…..
So how is Nina a “punching bag”, exactly?
If anybody’s a punching bag on this show, it would probably be Sasha. That girl can’t get a break.
So, Nina that cut Ava’s baby from her womb, took advantage of amnesiac Sonny and let his family think he was dead, is an angel ok
And Nina isn’t vile? Oh, please! Nina is far from a victim!
I agree Queen Carly fets by with everything and Willow and Michael are hateful
Well, Greg, I’m with you on the Carly front. Yes, Nina hid Sonny from everyone and told about the insider trading. But let’s not forget that both actions were precipitated by Carly’s nastiness, inability to see any viewpoint but her own, refusing Nina’s phone calls when she tried to tell her Sonny was alive, and blocking every attempt for the Nina/Willow reunion. I’m not calling Nina a saint by any means but the level of vitriol in many of these posts is truly disturbing. And how about Carly’s attack on Ava last week: “YOU DID THIS! YOU GOT DREW BEATEN UP! I KNOW IT!” So embarrassing!
Thank you, Soaphound! Well said!
Well said, Greg. Carly is just a vile creature which is fine. But the writing afforded to her attempts to prop her up as some kind of heroine.
Minutes before Harmony died, she told Carly that Willow must never know that Nina is her mother. Asked Carly to promise that she would protect Willow!
And Carly chose to adhere to the wishes of a woman who pimped out her minor daughter to a rapist?
Well, she got away with it. For NOW!!
Sometimes people make assumptions before thinking of the full picture
Michael need to tell Sonny and Carly once he confirms with Martin or tell Sonny that it was Martin. Sonny can find out for his self that Nina is the RAT. Nina always plays the victim after she causes so much damage. Willow probably won’t speak to Nina since she love Drew. Carly may be vile but she owns and accepts her miscomings. Whereas Nina is vile and blames everyone else for her own doings. . She has done a lot of damages in Sonny family so he need to see true vindictive Nina. Anyway Sonny was seeing a blond hair women in his dream when he lost his memory and we all know that was Carly NOT Nina. So enough of Nina vindictive/victim mentality. Expose Nina for all to see. Christine can see the true Nina since she is obviously blinded. The writers have dragged this out way too long. So expose Nina so Sonny and Carly can unite as one to fight Ciruis and save Port Charles!!!!
Carly owns and takes accountability for her crimes? On what planet? Moreover, no one around her holds her accountable for her crimes.
For the record, Satan is exactly right and Nina belongs down there with him.
Just a little quibble…there is no Catholic priest on the planet that would keep marrying Sonny.
Shari, thank you for pointing out the weirdness of Sonny continuing to get married in the Catholic Church. That is even more ridiculous than a one-day SEC investigation!
Fir the record, Satan is exactly wrong. That’s why He is Satan.
Well, in the immortal word of John Lydon… “I could be wrong. I could be right”
But in this case, I’ve been right about this awful Tricky Dick Nixon Falls story all along.
Interesting rumors circulating around Hell right now…..
Could it be, that while we were all paying attention to Mikey’s reaction to his phone call from the “SEC contact” that they threw a major “Easter Egg” at us.
Odd that they actually hired an actor to be on screen for a 2 minute phone call. Even more odd than this actor was only shown from the back of his head. And because we were all waiting for Mikey to hear Nina’s name…. we might have missed the significance of that moment completely.
The clip is up on the offfical GH YouTube channel with the title “On Behalf of a Client”. Freeze the video at 2:28 where the unknown caller is on screen, and tell me what you see.
A Devil can’t be 666% sure about this, but I think I see somebody whose arrival I have been expecting in Port Charles for months now. The CEO of Pikeman himself.
Now how he would know that Nina was the one who narced out Drew & Carly…. that’s one Hell of a question. But why he would give that info to Mikey… well that’s easy enough. It would feed the pattern of chaos he’s been sowing in the Corinthos organziation ever since this whole Dex/Pikeman/Pawtuck clusterphuck began.
I didn’t like Michael threatening Marty and wish he had told Michael to go to hell. Kind of surprised he folded so easy. As others say, it was wrong what Carly and Drew did but it sure made me think less of Nina with her vindictiveness, jealousy,etc.With all her rotten behavior, I have to pity for her when and if Sonny dumps her ass.
On another note, who actually believes Blaze was there to see her Abuela? She’s got a thing for Kristina, pure and simple and it must be pretty strong for her to fly that far to see her.
I could believe that Blaze had a grandma in Puerto Rico. But considering she was at a meeting with Lucy & Maxie in one scene and then on the island all dressed up in the same episode… I’m not sure when she would have had the time to visit Abuela. Apparently it’s an 8 hour flight from Buffalo to Puerto Rico (Buffalo being the closest actual airport to where Port Charles would be) so Blaze had one HELL of a busy day.
Glad that Sonny is coming back from his Honeymoon early and hopefully Michael will tell him the truth about Nina and her big mouth.
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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