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John Stamos Was Told by Iconic General Hospital EP, Gloria Monty: “If You Leave, Dear, You’ll Never Work in This Town Again,” New Memoir Reveals
The new memoir by John Stamos , If You Would Have Told Me, has already made many headlines in mainstream media leading up to its release today on October 24th. The book is now available everywhere books are sold.
While the memoir of John’s life on-screen and off has plenty of bombshell moments and details, he does talk about the beginnings of his career as General Hospital’s Blackie Parrish – a role he played from 1982-1984.
In story, Blackie came on to the canvas as a troubled teen who became the foster child of Rick and Lesley Webber. Stamos was just 18-years-old at the time, but on GH, John was playing a street-wise kid who was used to surviving on his own and had just lost his mother.
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Throughout, If You Would Have Told Me, there are several stories and references to John’s years in daytime including his relationship with Lori Loughlin (ex-EON), whom he first met when she introduced the category he was nominated in at the 1983 Daytime Emmys. He also addresses if he and Demi Moore (ex-Jackie Templeton, GH) were an item while on the ABC soap.
John landed the role of GH’s Blackie on his first audition and was paid $400 an episode. Stamos shared, “and if I happen to stay on longer, $450.”
However, a critical point in his soap career changed his trajectory, when he told then GH executive producer, Gloria Monty, that he wanted to leave the soap. She took him to lunch to discuss, after a run-in with Dean Martin, who told Stamos to ‘get out while you can’. John told the tough-as-nails EP who had turned GH around from certain cancellation, that he wanted to go to a sitcom. Monty responded, “You know, if you leave, dear, you’ll never work in this town again.” Clearly, Gloria was proven wrong, as John went on to multi-decades long and successful career in television.
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In addition, Stamos also shared how he lost it in front of Elizabeth Taylor (ex-Helena Cassadine, GH), who was visiting the GH set to see her friend Tony Geary (ex-Luke Spencer). “There she is, in all her lavender-eyed glory, poised in a director’s chair, sipping champagne,” Stamos recalled. However, he yelled at the Oscar-winning actress and legend unknowingly when he got irked by the fact that someone was moving around a director’s chair while he was in the middle of the scene and that person was her!
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So, what do you think about John Stamos proving Gloria Monty wrong? Are you going to pick up your copy of ‘If You Would Have Told Me’? Let us know in the comment section below.
Didn’t GloMo also tell Jane Elliott that her work wasn’t good enough to submit for an Emmy?
She may have known how to resurrect a dying show, but some of her viewpoints were highly questionable.
Look, I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, and I do realize how Monty “saved” GH. I am one of those fans who was happiest with the show in the years preceding Monty’s tenure. And I do recall an infamous anecdote about how apparently cruel Monty was to a particular actress, Mary O’Brien who played the second Heather. Maybe it was “tough love.” I don’t like sports coaches who yell or even get physical with their athletes. Same goes for executive producers. Stamos made the right decision for him (to leave GH) at the time, and things certainly worked out well…
She deserves great credit, certainly–but the soap world generally acts like she saved GH by herself, when two very talented headwriters (Douglas Marland, and then Pat Falken Smith) had as much to with it, and arguably more, and she had one of the most gifted casts in soaps’ history for a good bit of her tenure (many of whom were not people she herself had hired) who certainly played a huge role as well.
She also did more than any other single person I can think of to wreck the soap genre, because she’s the one who introduced the idea that the executive producer, and not the headwriter, should be the driving creative force behind a soap–unleashing the whole culture of micromanaging (because once Monty got her way with that, every other soap executive up and down the chain decided they should have the same authority to impose their “creative vision”) that has brought things to the current point.
(Don’t even get me started on the “Rape is seduction” fiasco.)
As for Monty bullying her actors, MOB apparently wasn’t the only one. I know that some actors truly adored her, but judging from stories that crept out in the years after she retired, she could be just awful, and like you, James, I just don’t see any reason for that. Nothing justifies treating people that way. . . .
Hey Michael:
So glad to see your reply. Thanks for the backup and for providing further detailed commentary and analysis. I’m with you on all counts: “‘rape is seduction’ fiasco,” great writers, great inherited cast, etc. Maybe GH didn’t have an HR department in those days. 🙂 We know that DOOL certainly has one in 2023!
PS: I always enjoy your insights here. Take care, Friend!
He proved Monty wrong. Would love for him to make a brief visit back to GH.
Jeanette, John Stamos did return, not as Blackie, but as himself in 1992. I want to say it was a storyline involving characters (for some reason I remember Scotty, Dominique, and Julia?) in Hollywood. And here’s the thing, Gloria Monty wrapped up her second stint as executive producer in January of ’92, and Wendy Riche came on, and it’s a bit poetic if you ask me.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Tracy Leaves Port Charles to Help Dillon; Paving the Way for Jane Elliot’s Temporary Exit
General Hospital viewers became concerned when on the Thursday, November 5 episode, Tracy (Jane Elliot) was preparing to leave Port Charles to go help her son, Dillon Quartermaine, who got arrested while trying to film in Thailand.
Tracy informed Jason (Steve Burton), that she had to leave and was counting on him to look after things while she was away. That included: making sure Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) and baby Phoebe were safe from the likes of Jude Jax (Wil Traval) as well as the Quartermaine businesses since Ned (Wally Kurth) still can’t overexert himself since his heart attack.
In Tracy’s final scenes, for now, she tells Gio (Giovanni Mazza) and Emma (Braedyn Bruner) to be there for Brook Lynn while she is going through her ordeal after divorcing Chase (Josh Swickard) and Jude trying to claim baby Phoebe.
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HOW LONG WILL JANE ELLIOT BE GONE FROM GENERAL HOSPITAL?
However, GH fans! Have no fear. Tracy’s exit was written into the show to facilitate Jane Elliot’s annual vacation. Same time last year, Elliot exited the canvas around this time after the entire Ronnie Bard/Martin Grey debacle; where they conspired to make it look like Monica left the Quartermaine mansion to her sister, Ronnie (Erika Slezak) instead of Tracy. In that storyline, Tracy took off for a spa in France for some much-needed R&R.
Now, according to Soap Opera Digest, while viewers are just seeing the beginnings of Jane Elliot’s temporary leave, the soap opera confirmed that the long-running star is already back taping new episodes. GH roughly runs about six weeks ahead of air in its production schedule.
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ALL ABOUT JANE
Jane Elliot started her GH journey back in 1978, and has come and gone a few times including an announced retirement back in 2017, only to eventually come out of retirement a few tines, and rejoin the show full-time in 2023.
Along the way, Elliot has won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress back in 1981, and in 2025 was honored for her 50 years of excellence in daytime television becoming a Gold Circle honoree from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Michael Fairman TV spoke to Jane at that time, immediately after receiving her honor on-stage. You can check out that interview here.
Now below, watch scenes from Thursday’s GH where Tracy informs Jason she has to leave the country and go help her son.
Then let us know, with the mention of Dillon Quartermaine on today’s GH, will the soap opera FINALLY recast the role? Will you miss Jane while she is off-screen? Glad to know she is already back taping all-new episodes of the ABC daytime drama series? Let us know in the comment section.
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GH’s Finola Hughes and Laura Wright Tease Anna/Valentin/Carly, “It’s Not Your Typical Triangle, We’ll Say That”
On General Hospital, Carly (Laura Wright) and Valentin (James Patrick Stuart) are now dealing with the fallout of their discovery, the dead body of Jack Brennan. While Carly became a suspect, now the two need to figure out just who was responsible for the former WSB Port Charles Bureau chief’s sudden ending.
Meanwhile, Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) is trying to put her shattered life back together, after almost killing Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud), hallucinating she was seeing a dead Peter August (Wes Ramsey) and trying to shake off years of trauma at the hands of Cesar Faison (Anders Hove).
While it has become apparent that Valentin and Carly love each other, the same holds true for Valentin and Anna, but is it differently, now that the former lovers are apart? However, it appears when Anna is in trouble, Valentin shows up to save her. That is not lost on Carly, who up until now has tried to be adult about the whole situation, but how long will that last?
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Michael Fairman TV caught up with both Daytime Emmy-winning Lead Actresses on the red carpet at the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards and asked them to weigh-in on what viewers can expect, and what’s it has been like working with leading man, James Patrick Stuart.
Laura Wright explained, “James is hilarious. I would say most of our dress rehearsals are laughing it out because we’ve got to show up for taping, but he’s very funny.” Finola Hughes echoed that with, “He’s a very funny person, always,” adding, “I couldn’t be in a scene with him and Amanda Setton (Brook Lynn, GH). It was him, me, and Amanda one time. We couldn’t get through the scene!”
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The discussion turned to if GH viewers will see Anna and Carly fighting over the love of Valentin. Laura Wright shared, “Not in the way you would think. It’s not your typical triangle. We’ll say that.” Finola Hughes concurred, “It’s not your typical triangle!”
Watch our chat from the red carpet with Finola and Laura below, and make sure to check out all the moments from Michael Fairman TV at the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards here.
So, do you think Valentin will be caught in an actual love triangle between Anna and Carly, or will he be fully in his relationship with Carly, only to find himself constantly coming to the rescue of Anna Devane, causing an ultimate riff in his relationship with Carly? Who would you like to see Valentin with … Anna or Carly? Let us know via the comment section below.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Rory Gibson and Katelyn MacMullen Believe Michael and Willow Still Love Each Other, But What About Chase?
On General Hospital, the marriage of Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) and Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) took a massive nosedive after she had an affair with his uncle Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison).
But nobody was prepared for what came next, which saw nasty custody fights between the now exes over their children, Amelia and Wiley, and then Willow shooting Drew and injecting him with a paralytic drug and that’s all just for starters.
Fast-forward and one has to ask, deep down do these two still really love each other? We saw signs of it. Remember when Michael came to Willow’s rescue after Jacinda (Paige Herschell) drugged her? But, where are they at now?
We went right to the source, Rory Gibson and Katelyn MacMullen, to ask them theie thoughts on the messy feelings of Michael and Willow during Michael Fairman TV’s chat with the duo on the red carpet at the 53rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD
Rory Gibson weighed-in on the state of Michael and Willow sharing, “I think at the end of the day. that’s the only reason that the fights end up as kind of big and nasty as they are, because they do have such a deep love for each other. They just can’t seem to see eye to eye on certain things.”
In response, Katelyn MacMullen joked, “I mean, Michael and Willow can’t pick the same movie. There’s nothing we agree on. Lunch.” Rory chimed in, “Different dinners!”
Do they hope that Willow’s crimes will be exposed before the clock turns into 2027? Rory Gibson said, “I really hope so!” However, Katelyn responded with, “I hope not! I just want Willow to keep getting away with everything. Michael did it. He does all these terrible things. That’s all I’ll say.”
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LOOKING FOR A NEW LOVE OR OLD FLAME?
Meanwhile, it looks like GH is setting up Willow and Chase (Josh Swickard) to hook up and Michael and Jordan (Tanisha Harper) too. When pressed, Katelyn expressed about her Port Charles alter-egos feelings for her other ex!
“Chase and Willow obviously have a lot of history, so I mean, he’s always sort of been there for her, and seen this pure version of her. I think when they’re together again, like anytime they’re together, she feels like herself again. And that’s the danger, because she doesn’t want to lose that and of course, Chase is really loyal,” explains MacMullen.
Elsewhere, Michael accompanied Jordan to the same burn clinic that helped him with his scars after the penthouse fire, overseas. The soap opera has been teasing the growing closeness between the two.
On the Wednesday, November 4 episode of GH, after Jordan developed a kidney infection from her burn treatments, instead of going back to Port Charles to be with his children, he decided to stay and make sure Jordan was on the end, but encouraged her for now to stop the treatments if it was making her sick.
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“Tanisha’s been great,” shared Gibson. “It’s been really lovely working with her. They’re testing the waters there and we’ll see what happens.”
You can check out our full conversation with Rory and Katelyn on the Michael Fairman Channel below.
Now let us know, do yo think Michael and Willow will eventually end up back with each other? When do you think Willow’s crimes will be publicly exposed? Do you want to see Michael/Jordan and Willow/Chase pairings? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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