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GH’s Réal Andrews on Taggert’s Fallout After Trina’s DNA Test Results: “His Whole Past Is Unraveling In Front of Him”

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If you thought the scene where a devastated Taggert breaks down in the General Hospital elevator was heartbreaking … just wait! There’s more to the story!

This week on the ABC daytime drama series, upcoming previews indicated that the always stoic Marcus Taggert (Réal Andrews) is really struggling with more than just over the results of the DNA tests that proved Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) is actually the biological daughter of Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner), not him.

According to Soap Opera Digest (in their latest issue on newsstands now), Taggert will go on a bender and wind up talking it all out with none other than Jordan (Tanisha Harper).

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Réal Andrews told SOD on the scenes: “Tagger is always so stoic. He’s always been that tough guy that doesn’t really show emotions. but here, you’re going to see 27 years of pent-up emotions come unraveled. He’s spiraling and the alcohol is obviously a part of it. And when he’s talking about what he’s going through, he’s triggered, you know? His whole past is unraveling in front of him, right down to why his marriage failed.  He’s having to face, for the first time, that he’s responsible for most of it,”

The actor also reports that following the scenes, the crew gave him a standing ovation sharing, “I was so humbled. It was very touching.”

So, GH fans get your hankies ready! This ought to be one of those moments that will forever tug at your heartstrings.

Do you hope GH will continue the Taggert story? Do you hope that the DNA test results might have been manipulated and that he is indeed Trina’s biological father? How will Jordan figure into all of this? Share your hopes in the comment section below.

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Must say I’m impressed that they are following up on Taggert’s POV. Hope they remember to bring up Gia’s past with Nikolas.

Real Andrews is quite impressive when given strongly written material.

Yes he is

Wu messed with the test.

I agree

Noone l mean Noone wants to see another DNA switch ever

Wu switch the results

I hope the dna test was switched I don’t want Curtis to be Trina’s father raggedy should stay her dad Curtis is doing the same thing that Portia and jordon did keeping secrets so who is he to judge anyone only is secret is criminal

Me either.

I hope this was the result of tampering with the test.

Yes

I really want curtis to be the father,and they will be a family, Jordan need to go she didn’t tell shawn that he was her son father either,she always meddling in people business.

I really like the idea of Curtis being Trinia father.

Hopefully Curtis is not trinas dad

Jordan move on. Stop meddling with married men.

She just slept with the first guy she saw.

Once a slut, always a slut

Who you calling a SLUT because it sure ain’t Jordan. Unlike Portia, Jordan always knew who her son father was from the jump unlike Portia. She kept that secret to protect her child but, everyone in the Curtis family KNEW it wasn’t his brother child.

Neither Taggert nor Zeke is married.

If that AIN’T the pot calling the Kettle a name. Portia cheated on Taggert with Curtis while she was married and supposedly got pregnant with Curyid child. When she met Curtis again, he was married this time to Jordan but that didn’t stop her from interfering in his marriage before having sex with him. GRANTED BOTH OF THEM SHOULD HAVE VERIFIED THAT THE DIVORCE HAD BEEN FINALIZED ALL THOSE MONTHS JORDAN WAS IN A COMA BUT they didn’t!!

I’m hoping that the DNA results are wrong and Taggart is Trina’s dad. It was heart breaking to watch Taggart emotional response after the results were released.

I agree

It was gut wrenching to watch collapse!!! It made me cry!!!! We all can imagine that kind of news!!! Ugh!!! Great acting!!!!

I’m hoping that Selina Wu interfered with the DNA results & that Tagert is indeed Trina’s bio dad. They have such a special father daughter relationship. I’m just over Curtis’s hypocritical standards & Portia’s interference with Trina/Spencer.

I agree

Ohhhhhh yes! That’s a great story line! And I think Selena has a crush on Curtis.

Deb, I agree with you.

It will take forever to really find the truth. GH love to keep you hanging on.

Portia’s was married when she was sleeping with Curtis

Jimmy Brooks,
We know that. That’s why she didn’t know who her dad was.

Totally agree. Cant wait til Portia finds out Jordan just slept with brother. But she’s not gonna stop her from sniffing all around Curtis! And when Trina finds out everything Portia is doing to break her & Spencer up…it’s curtains for Portia. Can’t wait til she loses both Curtis & Trina. Can’t stand her!

I can’t stand her either

Amen! We’re with ya Taggart❤️

I think that Selina tamper with the DNA. I don’t think Curtis is Trina father.

I believe Selena Woo tampered with the DNA test. To have control over Curtis so he can do what she needs him to do in fear that harm could come to his daughter!

I agree

I think Curtis is no push over and is perfectly capable of taking care of Trina and I hope she is his daughter. Ms. Wu will never be able to handle Curtis.

Curtis is not Trina’s father. I bet Woo had something to do with that test.

Who you think k Brad learned his tampering from.

Kare n,
That little creep, never could stand him!

Supposedly Brad hadn’t even met Selina at the time he was up to his lab test tricks with Britch.

He was aware that the Wu’s were his biological family, but hadn’t actually met any of them at that point.

I think Ms Wu change the dna test for curtis I always thought taggert was her father am hoping by and by through this storyline that taggart her father that hard thing to go through.

I agree

I am hoping taggart is Trina’s real dad that Selina woo just manipulated the results

I want Curtis to be the father

I do believe that neither is her dad

That’s what I think

Wait till the big shocker comes out sonny is her father

LOL

Pussy Jones,
How funny! He didn’t even know her. Really a stupid idea, or just a joke I hope.

Nah, they aren’t going there, because Spencer is Sonny’s nephew. Also, Trina’s darker than any of her three parents as it is, so the odds of her having a white father are roughly equal to that of me opening a ski resort on Beelzebub Mountain tomorrow.

I cant stznd Curgis znd Portiz togdther remember Curtis was marrito Jordan they werrent divorced when he fooled around with Portia whdn Jordan was comatose in Rehab
Portia is the only Slut

Hope all goes in Taggart favor
Please hurry and get Nina out boy I love this soap been watching for about 25 years it gets better and better

Nina needs to be found out. Her and Sonny don’t even look right together!!

I think sonny and Carly belong together and Nina and her manipulation has to go

I second that opinion!

They sure don’t

Totally agree. Nina n Sonny very mismatched.

Don’t even get a Devil started….

That smirk on her face when TJ said that Ned’s amnesia might be permanent… she’s gone to full on irredeemable Shiloh/Whiny Heiny mode now.

No future except as a chew toy for my three headed dog, Cerberus!

Yes I really hope that Taggart is the biological father for Trina.

I love Real’s portrayal of Taggert. I think that he really IS Trina’s father and Ms Wu manipulated the results.

I wanted Tagger to be Trina father…I’m hoping that Selena did have the DNA changed…or even better yet, Posha changed the DNA…I can’t stand her!
Tagger was exceptional in the scene in the elevator!

That’s a good thought because Portia could have easy access in the hospital.

I hope he is the.dad

Taggertt is the the father. Just wait and see.

Taggertt is the father.point blank period!

I hope it was a mistake, and Trina is Taggert’s biological daughter.

I hope that it was a mistake or Selina Wu messed with the results. Taggert needs to be Trina’s biological daughter.

Who is this Ms WU chick?

Ms. Wu is a mafia leader, one of the 5 families
She has card game at Curtis club, in the back room.

I hope it will be found out that the test for Trina was tamper with. I want Targget to be Trina’s father. Can’t stand Curtis’s, too self righteous!

I believe that Taggert is really Trinas biological father. Selena Wu doctored the tests results to make Curtis the father. Why because she knew he got an offer from the WSB if it turned out that trina wasnt curtis daughter he would most likely take the wsb up on their offer and Curtis might close down his club and Selena Wu wouldnt be able to have access to curtis back room to conduct her gambling ring among other things with Wu you never know. Remember i said this.

I just want this story line ended but now am thinking the test was manipulated by the mob lady and so we will have months more of this story line with Taggert’s unraveling!

I hope Tagart is her real father

I hope it doesn’t take forever for the true to come out tag is the father so please don’t let this go on forever

Right! Just like the Nina/Sonny thing. It’s time she’s found out. Can’t stand her.

I hope it turns out that the results were tampered with and she has them done again and finds out it’s neither one of them but someone different altogether

Real kicker would be that Taggert had an affair with Jordan and turns out to actually be T.J.s real father, that would shock the hell out of people

Taggert needs to get Trina’ s DNA some how and his and keep quiet that he is doing it. Run it thru the PCPD lab. Doing it quietly. I feel Selina Wu altered the lab report between Curtis and Trina to hold it over Curtis’ head. So she can keep her back room Poker games going at the Savoy.

I really like Taggert and I hope that he gets a break….maybe a fresh start with Jordan! He will always be Trina’s dad …

I hope Taggart is not Trina’s father.

I want Taggard to be the father

Yes I hope tager is Trina father and wuwu mess with the test cause she want to have something over Curtis head Trina love tager I know it going to hurt Curtis

I hope the DNA was tampered with and he is her dad

I don’t know why but, when the other girl was playing Trina, I for some reason though she was Curtis’s daughter. Marcus is a good guy but,if Trina is Curtis’s daughter then it should be left at that. Trina said, Marcus as she knows and thought was going to be her Dad. There’s nothing wrong with Trina having two Dads. It’ll all work out.

Well the ancestry DNA test that Trina and Curtis’s aunt took did place them as close relatives. I feel for Taggert, and Jordan is the right person to share his grievances.

I would hate for Trina to also spiral out, especially since it seems that Portia would continue to be dishonest to get her own way. I believe that Trina should stay Taggert daughter but good old mamma dearest should evaporate completely. I love Spencer and Trina together as well as Jordan with Curtis but, he need a lesson in treating Jordan right. SO it’s cosmic justice if Jordan and Portia brother hook up for awhile before all her lies to keep Curtis catches up and ends his romance with Jordan as well.

They need to make it that Portia rigged the results to make it look like Curtis is Trina’s read dad, just so she can get back together with him. Figuring that Taggart would be able to handle it but he can’t. now that would be a great story, then taggert discovers the real truth and hell breaks out, Curtis leaves and Taggert leaves…..

So now it looks like Taggert could be the new police commissioner, now that Jordan’s getting kicked upstairs to be Laura’s deputy mayor.

While the gig might be good fit for him under normal circumstances, something tells me it’s not going to go well, if he takes on that kind of responsibility while in the middle of a personal meltdown.

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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

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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

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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?

The Compatibility Experiment

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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

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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.

Maura West

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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.

Rocco

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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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