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Kelly Monaco Thanks “Loyal People” for Devotion, and for Creating GH ‘What If Sam is Still Alive’ Story, Adding, “It Doesn’t Go Unnoticed … At Least By Me … Bravo!”

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What General Hospital fans know is that back on September 27th, Kelly Monaco filmed her last scenes as Sam McCall on the ABC soap opera, after a 21-year run as a longtime fan favorite. Since that time, viewers are watching just how Monaco’s exit will play out on-screen.

What we do know is that this week, Sam learned she is a viable donor match to save Lulu’s life through a liver transplant. What we also know is someone was tampering with Lulu’s ventilator from further discussions from Dr. Lucas Jones (Van Hansis) and Dr. Isaiah Gannon (Sawandi Wilson).  At the end of Friday’s, October 18th episode, we also learned there is some complication with Lulu even before heading into surgery, which is now a day away (although that will be stretched out to several days in soap opera time).

While fans of Kelly Monaco and GH watch to see how this story unfolds, we know that in the end, Sam is killed-off in what was reported as a “storyline-dictated” move, while many were hoping that when and if Lulu awakened, it would set the stage for a triangle between Sam/Dante/Lulu, but that is now not going to happen, unless somehow, someone, does an 11th-hour reprieve and rewrites the story and hires Monaco back.

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The I Stand With Kelly campaign has been in full gear for several months with their petition of signatures getting very near 17K viewers protesting Kelly’s dismissal. In addition, with billboards in Time Square, and the truck driving around ABC prospect studios, much has been done to let the powers-that-be know that they are still keeping hope alive, that they will reconsider their position and bring the character and Monaco back.

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Now, in a post on X, the campaign posted an elaborate and edited video sequence with selected clips from GH, telling the story of how they would see Sam being actually alive! They explained, “That’s right, our truck is back at Prospect Studios and ABC/Disney. Here is what we have playing on an 8-hour loop! As always, we added sound just for you! Due to Sam’s death already having been filmed, we expanded the ‘What If’ promo to be a storyline that has Danny and Dante figuring out she’s still alive. It showcases the resulting issues that come with Sam reclaiming her life—including: the originally planned love triangle concept between Sante/Lulu along with Sam’s conflicts with others in Port Charles. ”

The post did not go unnoticed by Monaco herself, who responded, “Thank you, y’all are the best, most loyal people ever!!!! It doesn’t go unnoticed… at least by me… BRAVO!”

Just how Sam’s on-screen journey will end is set to become quite clear on upcoming episodes of the ABC daytime drama series including official GH teasers for the week of October 21-25th which share that on the Thursday October 24th episode, Sam and Lulu’s imminent procedure draws loved ones to the hospital and on the Friday, October 25th episode Alexis awaits news on Sam.

Take a look below at the fan campaign to bring Kelly back to General Hospital below. Let us know what you thought of their ‘storyline”, then share how you are feeling after watching this week’s episodes of the ABC soap opera as we move closer to Sam and Lulu’s on-screen surgery date. Share your thoughts in the comment section.

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Watching Kelly/Sam this week with Dante and their family made me realize how much I will miss Sam on GH.

My favorite era of GH was from 2005 to 2009 because it gave us one of the shows best love triangles between Elizabeth, Jason and Sam. Aside from Liason fans finally seeing Jason and Liz admit their love for one another, and Jake being born, the next best part of that storyline was the rivalry between Elizabeth and Sam.

These two fantastic actresses were phenomenal as rivals. I was a fan of both Elizabeth and Sam, but after Sam learned Jake was Jason’s son and she turned on Jason and targeted Liz, oh how I hated her. I didn’t want to hate her, but I did. That’s how great Kelly was/is. Of course the writing was fantastic then. In fact, that storyline caused one of the biggest fan wars (Liason vs Jasam) GH had ever seen. LOL

Over the years the Liz/Sam rivalry changed, as did my hatred of Sam, and they, dare I say, became friends. I wish the show built that friendship up better over the years, especially since their sons are half brothers.

I will miss Kelly/Sam on GH. I hope we get to see her return as one day. I know she is being killed off, but as her fans said, we know she can always come back.

Sam touches nearly every character on the show except for the Jordan/TJ bunch. She will be missed. I find it a bad move to kill her with no possible chance of return even if the show had to do a re-cast.

She was friends with Curtis, and TJ is her brother in law. So yes she will touch them as well.. Maybe not Portia.

# I Stand with Kelly and always will I Will Always Support And Follow Her# RehireKelly and keep Kelly and GH Alive❤️

It would be really easy to reverse Sam’s death, and it wouldn’t even require an escape from Hell.

We know that Sam has at least two lookalikes running around somewhere. Alicia Montenegro and Livvie Locke. We also know that Sam has been acting ridiculously out of character to one extent or another, probably since Jason’s first return in 2017. Definitely since his second return this past March.

So it would be actually believable if the real Sam was shown to be held prisoner somewhere – probably a Cassadine dungeon, or perhaps NuJagger stashed her somewhere before he got killed off, as a “backup plan” to coerce Jason into doing his dirty work. And it was the fake Sam doppelganger who turned out to be a match for Lulu and went through with the donation, thinking it was worth the risk, rather than outright refuse and bring unwanted attention to herself, as Sam would obviously take such a risk for Dante & Rocco’s sake. Of course, Fake Sam wouldn’t know if there were some other “evildoers” running around GH tampering with ventilators and such.

Now would these current writers be creative enough to think of this and make it work?

Don’t bet your soul on it, unfortunately.

I just posted a previous comment about ydou writing the scripts, but I think you should stop now, giving all your good ideas away for free! Oh well, they wouldn’t know what to do with good material anyway.

Don’t worry – the writers don’t look to us or on these sites for great ideas.

They’ve never taken any of mine and I really have had some creative ones. I know Satan can attest to that.

Yes, that’s why we’re watching such crap now, like letting someone like K.M go and keeping someone like the murderous Cyrus to kill her off. It’s disgusting .

i will miss kelly she will alway bw sam to i hope they never recast

I wish her the best of the best but our family has blocked all stations just sick of the nuts . They will survive good luck!

Looking for homes on deserted island where we don’t have to deal with the constant verbal attacks on each other

I For one wish they would change their mind and keep her. I think she’s a great actress and an asset to the show. Dante Lula and Sam triangle would be perfect.

Here’s my theory on what’s going to happen Cyrus was the one that unplugged the ventilator because he is worried that Lulu will wake up and somehow remember that he was behind the bomb going off that caused her to be in a coma to begin with, and so I think that Lulu will make it out of surgery. Sam will make it out of surgery and Cyrus is going to unplug the ventilator thinking it’s Lulu killing Sam

I will miss Sam, she was so good, while they were giving her good scripts, but than they just stopped coming, especially once Jason got back and she and Dante became a couple.Seems like they just pushed Sam back further and further.Now they are throwing her off GH and letting Cyrus the virus of all people get rid of her. Talk about insult added to injury.I hope the new Lulu’s resurrection is worth Sam’s demise.

I don’t want Sam to leave General Hospital.

Having Sam die during the Liver donation is a terrible message to send to organ donors in general.
There are a gazillion ways to kill her off – why do it as a flatline on the OR table or having a serial killer messing with a machine?
In the coming weeks, the show has Terrorist Jenz Sidwell coming back to town for November sweeps. I do not get why they cannot have Sam survive the transplant only to succumb to being the victim of a Sidwell assassin targeting either Holly or Lucky.

At least then it would be Holly’s fault and we are all now hating on her anyway.

You would be doing GH a favor for running with it. This would be a dynamic storyline. I know this, Kelly will make any storyline the best it could be. I’m not sure who you have chosen for Lulu……they better match Kelly.

Frank and Nate Varni have shown General Hospital is not a show for the fans. If it were, Kelly would still be there and Jasam would be driving story. It’s absolutely shameful and makes me sick. They’ve lost this viewer, and I have nothing but disdain for those two. I’ll wrap this post with this truth… the disrespect shown to Kelly would NEVER have happened to a man #noKellynoGH #IStandWithKelly

Someone’s going to hire Kelly very fast she is very talented actress and has a lot of experience. General Hospital will be in her rear view mirror. Especially the way they did her

BRAVI; not bravo —masculine plural.
BRAVE ; not bravo—feminine plural.
When “borrowing” words from another language; please have the courtesy to spell them correctly and know the grammar.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Will Ava Tie the Knot With Drew?

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On the Friday, November 13 episode of General Hospital, Drew (Cameron Mathison) convinces Ava (Maura West) they need to get married, to each other! Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton) hopes to get the DNA results on Jude (Will Traval) she has waited for, and Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst) and Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) secretly co-conspire to find out who in Port Charles had the infamous tick!

Here’s what went down: Drew explained to Ava that they needed to get hitched ASAP, that way, they couldn’t be forced to testify against each other in the Jack Brennan case. After initially being kind of sick of the thought of marrying Drew, he made her change her mind, by throwing out the fact that if she lands in jail Sonny (Maurice Benard) will have Avery (Ayla Bullington) all to himself.

Next, Ava heads to GH to ask Lucas (Van Hansis) to be her witness in marrying Drew. Lucas has already figured out the reason Ava is marrying Drew because it has something to do with Brennan’s death. Explaining she hates the idea of getting married to Drew, she has run out of other options. Lucas agrees to help her, but firmly tells Ava nobody would believe it was a real marriage anyway.

Ava and Drew

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CAN MOLLY AND JOE STOP THE WEDDING?

At the same time, Drew asked Martin (Michael E. Knight) for a post-nuptial agreement. Martin was not happy to hear that Drew was going to marry Ava, warning that prison was a better option than tying himself to a woman like Ave Jerome.

Eventually Ava, Lucas, Drew, and Martin gathered at the city clerk’s office. Lucas comes up with a way to derail or stall the nuptials by saying that they need to wait for Scout (Kayden Brenna Tokarski) and Avery to show up, as they should be a part of this, too.

Lucas may have saved the day, because Molly (Kristen Vaganos) and Joe (Jonathan Bennett) went to Drew’s office to serve him his warrant, but found the office door open. Next, Joe found a sticky note on Drew’s folder that revealed Drew had obtained a marriage license. A light bulb goes off in his head and he realized Ava and Drew are getting married, so he and Molly rush off to City Hall to try and stop it.

Brook Lynn

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IS JUDE THE TRUE BABY DADDY?

Elsewhere, after receiving a text message that the DNA results are in at the hospital, Brook Lynn ends her discussion over Jude and baby Phoebe with Gio (Giovanni Mazza) and runs out of the Quartermaines.

Once Brook Lynn gets off the elevator at GH, she sees Jude and Britt  Kelly Thiebaud) looking might close. She quickly heads back towards the elevator sight unseen and was clearly shaken by what she saw. Earlier at the doctors and nurses hub, Elizabeth helped Dante by confirming by an ear gesture they had worked out; that the patient with the tick was Ava Jerome.

You can check out the scenes where Lucas gets a visit from Ava and he learns she wants him to be her witness in marrying Drew at City Hall.

Now weigh-in: do you think Ava and Drew will tie the knot before Joe and Molly make it to City Hall? What do you think the DNA results will show once Brook Lynn gets her hands on them? Have they been tampered with? Let us know your thoughts via the comment section.

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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Carly Fears Escalating Tensions Between Sonny and Josslyn: ‘I’ve Already Lost One Kid Because of That Man. I Won’t Lose Another’

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On the Thursday, November 12 episode of General Hospital, as battles line are drawn by Carly’s (Laura Wright) ex-husband, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) and her daughter, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy), she realizes things are about to get a whole lot worse, and she expressed her fears to Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart).

After Sonny came to see Carly to get her daughter to back off of him; especially when Josslyn lit into him in front of nuAvery (Ayla Bullington), Carly is terrified that Sonny could retaliate against Josslyn. Realizing, Josslyn is in danger, Carly won’t sit by and let anything happen to her. She tells Valentin, “I’ve already lost one kid because of that man. I won’t lose another.”

Viewers won’t soon forget the devastation Carly felt when Morgan (Bryan Craig) died in a car bomb explosion back in 2016 because of Sonny’s dealings in the mob in a complex story involving Julian (William deVry) and Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker).

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SONNY IS READY FOR WAR

Meanwhile in the aftermath of his visit with Carly, Sonny told his brother Ric what went down when Josslyn disrespected him in front of his own daughter and hurt Avery. Since Josslyn already make it known that she no longer considers herself part of Sonny’s family, he’s decided to treat her accordingly.

Sonnys first step in payback is to take away her support system at JJE by approaching Hudson Parker (Troy Lennon Appel) again, but this time in a much less-friendly way.

Ric points out that this would go against every move Sonny made as a legitimate businessman in Port Charles and would mean he’s back in the mob? Sonny doubles down, saying Josslyn changed the game when she involved Avery. While he showed concern of how bad Carly would feel over all this year, he said he is ready to finish what Josslyn started.

At the Metro Court, Ava (Maura West) is listening to Avery explain what happened between Sonny and Josslyn and how much she hates Josslyn right now, which Ava seems to be OK with.

WILL JOSSLYN’S WORLD BLOW UP ON HER?

Speaking of Josslyn, she is on the pier still after her talk with Hudson and still crying over her confrontation with Sonny and Avery overhearing it, and what she told her sister. Lucas comes across her at the pier while out for his run.

Explaining how badly she feels for what she said about Sonny to Avery, Lucas says that eventually Avery will discover the truth about Sonny. He explains to Josslyn that even though Avery hates her now, she will come to realize that what she said about her father was the truth, and that Josslyn was not lying to her at all.

So, what do you think about Sonny ready to play dirty to take down Josslyn? How will Carly ensure her daughter does not wind up dead? Who do you think is in the right here? Is Josslyn’s vendetta against Sonny justified, at the cost of the relationships with her family? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.

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‘General Hospital’s’ Cynthia Watros Honors Former ‘Titus’ Co-Star Stacy Keach Following His Passing

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Stacy Keach and Cynthia Watros

General Hospital star Cynthia Watros, who can currently be seen in on the ABC soap opera in the role of Nina Reeves, has had a enduring career in television. That included her time on the 2000-2002 Fox sitcom, Titus.

In Titus, Watros starred along with Stacy Keach as Erin Fitzpatrick and Ken Titus, respectively. After the November 10th news that Keach had passed away at 85 while living in Poland, Cynthia took to her Instagram on Thursday, November 12 to pay tribute to the great actor.

Watros expressed, “My first prime time show was along side Stacy. I loved him instantly. What an amazing talent and man.❤️”

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In Titus, Stacy played stand up comedian Christopher Titus’ heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, five-times-divorced father who frequently pulled cruel pranks and tried to toughen his kids up. Cynthia played by Christopher’s level-headed, big-hearted girlfriend trying to build a normal life with him. In fact, Cynthia’s role on the sitcom was first series regular role after her Daytime Emmy run of Annie Dutton on Guiding Light which ran from 1994-1998.

STACY KEACH’S WIFE ON HIS PASSING

Keach’s wife, Malgosia shared the news of the actor’s death publicly in a statement with PEOPLE. Malgosia expressed, that Stacy had, “a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.”

She added, “Stacy peacefully departed this world. He fought for so long, with extraordinary courage, determination and strength. He was a true warrior, facing his illness with the same remarkable spirit and resilience that defined his life.”

Małgosia continued, “Stacy was not only a legendary actor, admired and loved by audiences the world over, but also my beloved husband, my companion and the heart of our family. His passing leaves an immeasurable emptiness in our lives. But his extraordinary spirit, his unforgettable voice and the love he gave so generously will remain with us forever.”

Now, let us know do you remember when Cynthia made her sitcom debut in Titus? Share your thoughts via the comment section on Cynthia’s many TV roles and the passing of Stacy Keach in the comment section. But first, check out the very first episode of Titus with Cynthia Watros below!

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