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Mykel Shannon Jenkins Returns to General Hospital in New Role
General Hospital’s Curtis Ashford (Donnell Turner) is getting a therapist, a physical therapist that is, when Mykel Shannon Jenkins takes on the role of Roy. Soap Opera Digest revealed the casting news.
Jenkins should look very familiar to GH fans. The actor won the first season of SOAPNet’s I Wanna Be a Soap Star in 2004 and because of it, he won a role on the ABC daytime drama series as police officer, Byron Murphy. Later, Mykel appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful as officer Charlie Baker, the son of Lieutenant Baker played by Dan Martin.
Since Port Charles’ Curtis has been downtrodden over his current condition where he is wheelchair bound and can’t walk … might Roy, the physical therapist, be the guy to give him the push to reclaim his life and treat the people who love him better? We have already seen Curtis try to push away his daughter, Trina (Tabyana Ali) and his wife, Portia (Brook Kerr).
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Meanwhile Jenkins has been in demand. Back in April, he signed on to join the cast of the motion picture action-thriller, Gunner starring Luke Hemsworth, Morgan Freeman and Joseph Baena. According to Deadline: “Gunner follows Special Ops veteran Lee Gunner (Hemsworth) as he takes his two sons (DeWolfe, Feely) on a fishing trip to reconnect. The trip soon turns awry when the boys stumble upon a massive drug running operation and are kidnapped by Dobbs (Jenkins), the son of gang kingpin Kendric Ryker (Freeman) who runs his organization from prison.”
So, do you think Roy will give a kick-in-the-pants to Curtis to stop wallowing in self-pity and battle back to try to walk again or adjust to his life if he can’t? Comment below.
I hope he kicks him in the butt…
I think he is going to make him mad and push himself to get better
Yes he needs that kick
I believe that Jordan will be attracted to the physical therapist. This will crush Curtis’ spirit.
I can only hope that Jordan is attracted to someone else. Can’t stand her with Curtis
Too bad GH is still lagging behind in diversity casting. I guess there were no Asian, Latino, or Native American performers available, among others.
Soaphound,
Maybe the group you mention just aren’t interested in Soaps.Personally, I love Latino men, so many over the years and too many to mention, one of my favorites Carlos Montalban, oh my, be still my heart.
If you listen to the podcast of Bernard you would know that he is not Italian he is Hispanic
Not sure who you meant your reply to. This new format still confuses me, sorry! He is actually of Nicaraguan descent. I’m not sure where you got the idea of Italian, don’t think it was mentioned anywhere.
The character of Sonny Corinthos is often taken as “Italian”, mostly due to his occupation, and the fact that he allegedly makes the best Marinara sauce on the East Coast.
Of course the name “Corinthos” is very Greek. And Mike, his father had previously claimed to be of Greek & Irish origins. His mother Adela never appeared on screen (apart from created childhood “flashbacks”) but she was definitely Latina… probably Cuban, if my Fuzzy Devil Memory remembers correctly..
In either case, neither the actor nor the character was ever Italian. Just the conclusion some mortals jump to because of the mob stereotype, probably.
On the other horn, the Zaccharas were an Italian mob family, but all of the actors who played them were Jewish. Guess the casting folks thought one side of the Mediterranean was close enough to the other.
Satan,
Thanks for all the info, some known and some not. I only knew Johnny and his lousy father.I ‘m of the few who like Sonny and even now watching him I think of Desi Arnaz and understand why he played him so well. Being half Italian, I’ve heard a lot about the mob and even had relatives that were members in NY and Italy. Just stating facts not bragging .Not knowing any personally, I have nothing to compare Sonny to, but like him anyway and apologize to any one that offends.Always seemed like a Robinhood type to me.o.k stop laughing.
Violet,
You’re forgetting about the preposterous rewrite that made Anthony Johnny’s grandfather.
True,
I keep thinking Anthony was Johnny’s father.
I will always love Sonny C. He is the most loyal family man on GH. In spite of the verbal abuse heaped upon him by his son, Michael, he still respects his right to speak up and still loves him. I know Sonny has many faults but he has compassion in his heart even for enemies at times.
They still are in front for addressing today’s issues AIDS gays transsexuals and all the difficulties going with that. Not to mention bipolarism. And alcohol addiction.
You wrong the Gambler boss ,& Gay her Son?
There is Spanish also maybe they look white the Casdian!
Soaphound, I hear you. Diversity across the board is needed but I think a better question to ask is were there no Asian, Latino, Native American etc. available for the casting of Betty, Nurse Jackie, Dr. Montague, Andrea Gates or any of the several roles that pop-up all the time that are cast by non-minorities? Why don’t we comment on those castings? Or are those choices ok because that’s the way it’s always been?
Why do general hospital have so many open stories
Could it be due to the writers strike (?)
If a story’s main writer isn’t writing, perhaps it is out of respect to let them finish it back when they themselves come back (?)
How about for Trina . Trina and Spencer have no spark.
I totally agree. Get a new actress for Trina…she doesn’t have the spirit of Trina we got use to.
I have been saying that since they recasted the role of Trina. There is no chemistry in this couple. Whoever casted the new Trina and thought that this would be a good couple should be fired. Not believable at all.
Totally 3
The Curtis story is a snoozer and I could care less what happens to him…
the character use to be good but eeehhh now he sucks..,,, Its simply another pity party..
Didn’t he use to be a heavy police guy that actually made him watchable, he had good stuff going a long time ago, but now eeehhh….He should take Trina and disappear in Siberia..
Too all Curtis lovers enjoy his journey..
SuOOO,
Hi, I just don’t have many feelings about Curtis right now, maybe things will perk up with the new P.T guy. I just have no idea where they are going with his story, but wish they’d dump his wife, she doesn’t even act like a Dr. I’d like him back with Jordan, they have much more in common.
Hi Violet–yes– Curtis and Jordan were 100% better together–
IF the writers value Curtis he will walk again if not he might be written out..
Curtis has not been of value, lately,, time will tell
I hope so. He needs to get off that pity bus!!!!
Not a good storyline at all. Neither is Trina and Spencer. Everything is more extreme than it needs to be, and Nina is a total mess. Stop it!!!
Exactly
We need good writing team. So far your ruining GH’s reputation. Get to Ned coming out of that STUPID memory loss. Let him tell on Nina. Pit Carly an Sonny back together. Nina and Sonny have ZERO chemistry. Bring LuLu back great storyline now since her husband is in love with Sam.
You want to get Sonny and Carly back bring back their son!
The Valintine Anna storyline not great. Trying to kill Anna NOT! Bring Nicholas back. Get him and Ava back. You would win back your reputation if you can get, Jason or Luke back! Marry Fin and Elizabeth please. Great storyline about Curtis but he needs to go back to Jordin.
Guys get busy before GH is canceled.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes again to everything that was said from the Raynetta Waller’s comment. Please GH let’s see some real action once again.
So, in other words, you’re in favor of no character growth? Sonny and Carly – again? Curtis and Jordan – again? What is their to gain by resurrecting Luke?
Finn & Elizabeth just aren’t working. Violet’s tea parties are more interesting.
Resurrecting Luke makes sense because killing him offscreen in such a lame way was ridiculous & almost as much as an insult to the character as that pathetic exit story ReRon wrote in 2015.
There’s not a snowball’s chance in my back yard that Tony Geary would ever return permanently to GH. But I’d like to see him come back short term, just so he could dispense with the weak “death” story and usher in a “reboot” of the Spencer family which includes waking up Lulu from veggieland, bringing back Lucky (if JJ has to take breaks to do his musical stuff or whatever, so be it), and maybe even cousin Valerie if they can find someone worthy of the role.
And of course, they inevitably have to write in Bobbie’s death. And it would be a shame if her big brother wasn’t around to help with that.
After all that’s done, Luke can always go back to Amsterdam with Tracy.
I’m thinking the opportunity to bring Luke back (even for a short term) has passed. Tracy has been rejuvenated since they broke the shackles of her on again/off again husband. Laura certainly doesn’t need him around.
Poor Lulu, whenever she does wake, Dad and Aunt Bobbie will be gone. Does she know that Dustin died in the blast? Brother Nikolas is missing. Thankfully her old boss (Peter) is a goner and so are Jason and Franco.
I don’t know if she saw Dustin die. But she had dumped him right before the bomb went off, I think.
The last thing she did before she passed out and the lights went out forever (seemingly) was mouth the words “I love you” to Dante.
Your last six words are the most important in my book, can’t stand that Broad!
I’m seeing a lot of Tracy hate lately. Yeah, she’s being a little rough on her own brain injured son – which is ironic, considering she lived through the Quartermaine family drama which resulted from Jason’s similar injury.
Guess I just can’t hate Tracy. She’s the last of the OG Quartermaines. Yeah, technically Monica is still around, and we even hear her voice on a telephone occasionally. But it’s not looking likely that we will ever see her again.
Would like to know what she’s up to with this whole “industrial espionage” thing with Deception though. And who exactly she’s working with.
Valentin? Do you really think he’s after Anna, I don’t mean romantically.
Val seems to be acting weird lately. I seriously hope we aren’t looking at Fluke 2.0 here, but something is definitely off with him.
Sonny and Carly reuniting for the millionth time would be boring, redundant, cynical, unromantic and joyless.
Speaking of snitching on Nina, I thought Avery would do that weeks ago. A lot of us thought that would happen.
He’ll tell Curtis that he needs to grow up and be a man and not let his disability control him and take a hold of him!
How long are Sonny and Nina on GH going to go on??? It is just terrible.
I totally agree. I fast forward over everyone of Nina and Sonny’s scenes.
It will go on until Sonny finds out she’s the witch we all know she is, just taking longer, not thinking with his head right now.
Nina is a witch? I think that applies to Carly. I love Nina.
Sorry Harry, I hate Carly too but if you knew who Annie Dutton was maybe you’ld think a little differently.
If Sonny could do it why not Curtis!
Can we please have Taggert back instead!?
Yes, Taggert was more of a father figure for Trina than Curtis because there was real chemistry between the two. There’s no chemistry between Curtis and Trina as family and it comes out as the both trying tooooo hard to convince the audience to be so.
Just what we need, another Stud Muffin. Hopefully, he’ll be of interest to Trina.
Violet 🙂
AHAA Ha !! good one!!
Hopefully, he will take Trina to never never land ..
I’d actually like to know why his good friend Sonny isn’t visiting Curtis and talking to him about when he couldnt walk and was in a wheelchair and how it took a lot of work, but he got walking again
That makes sense, but it would also be too easy. They have to make things more complicated for Curtis, probably working towards a bigger and more involved story line.
My guess is that Sonny knows that Curtis – being an ex-cop/PI – is going to ask questions about the shooting. And right now, Sonny & Anna have “theories” about the shooting, but no definite answers.
Or it could just be that the scab writers didn’t know Sonny was ever paralyzed himself?
Sonny should be the one to help her this and then they can forge a friendship because Sonny was in the same situation A couple of years ago and he fought and he stayed alive and well. It’s pretty boring that through this even has feelings about being a shot from the bullet came from nowhere. And this is not a man if he’s crying about not appreciating his life the way it is. Build a handicap step anyway at the Savoy because that’s something that was overlooked and maybe try this will learn from that and bring in diversity besides black and white faces on GH.
New characters are not necessary. Use what you got. These writers don’t really know GH, they need a history lesson. Is Anna stupid?, no sparks between Trina and Spencer. Trina is drab. I agree that GH is suffering a downward spiral and unimaginative direction.
New characters are always needed. Sonny, Ava and Elizabeth were all new at one point. The therapist is probably on for a short stint.
Anna has been written as dumb for the past few years (even before Peter was introduced). It’s a shame, because she should be the smartest woman on the show.
I will give credit to the fill-in writers. They’ve actually moved some story along and have inserted history (Carly and Olivia flashbacks where appropriate).
You mention Anna, I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She thinks she’s indestructible and kills her to take help from anyone. I hope she’s not trusting the wrong people who might be trying to take her life.
I’m expanding on this comment after today’s show which compounds my theory, which I hope is very wrong. Is there any chance it could be Valentin, maybe being programmed somehow to start the fire, etc.? I think he really loves Anna but a lot of fishy things point to him.
Yesss! Also BRING JASON BACK!!! PLEASE!!
I think Curtis will fight like hell after Mr therapist kicks him in the ass. Curtis aint a quiter…. Do it Curtis… U got this…
I would love to see Curtis and Jordan back together. I think that Curtis was the intended target with Tagert being his assassin as last we saw him heavily hitting the bottle. Then Salena Woo will confess that she had the DNA results changed. This would give Portia and Trina pause and leave town to care for Tagert. Then Curtis and Jordan will get back together.
Why can’t Felix be Curtis’s therapist?
Curtis needs the will to fight back. For hisself and his family. Stop wallowing in self pity. Start getting your life back. You deserve it.
Sorry, but this guy looks nothing like the one that was with Curtis today. He tried to tell Portia to keep her distance and there she is lurking around.
You just never know when one of your favorites from a soap opera will pop on TV on another show! Such was the case on the Tuesday, October 6 episode of the number one daytime game show in America, The Price is Right on CBS!
Hudson West, who has played Jake Webber on General Hospital from 2016-2019, and then has been recurring since 2021 and used very sporadically in story, was in attendance in the audience for a taping of The Price is Right. He wound up selected as one of the players and eventually won a car.
Here;’s what happened: West bid $3,000 on a five-night stay at the Bandon Marina Inn in Oregon. His opponent, Charles, bid $4,550, which was too high, so West got the chance to play the game “Any Number” for a prize.
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The drama became intense as West picked the numbers needed to win a new car with host Drew Carey presiding over the game play. After he won, Hudson fell to the floor in shock before getting up and running in excitement towards his new car!
Later in the show, Hudson got the opportunity to spin the wheel to try to advance to the “Showcase” round, but his opponent named Jenny spun a higher number to qualify, ending West’s run in the game. But, he came away with the new car.
Apart from his role on GH, TV fans have seen West on NCIS: Los Angeles, Dancing with the Stars: Juniors and Grace and Frankie to name but a few.
You can check out what happened when Hudson won a car on The Price is Right on the video below.
Now let us know, what did you think of Hudson’s big win? Do you hope that GH finally has Jake back in story since he is the son of Elizabeth and Jason? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
The Tuesday, October 6 episode of General Hospital kicked-off with Serena Baldwin (Kelly Kruger) literally turned upside down and stuck on the Quartermaine roof in front of Jason (Steve Burton), who came to her rescue.
This marked the first time that Kelly Kruger and Steve Burton shared any substantial screen time together since Kruger debuted on the ABC soap opera back in July.
In story, Serena was trying to save the peregrine falcons’ nest that Tracy (Jane Elliot) wanted exterminated. Jason agreed to help Serena relocate the nest to the nature preserve. Said relocation would be put in the preserve adjacent to the property, think where Ava (Maura West) and Drew (Cameron Mathison) buried Brennan (Chris McKenna)!
Later, when they returned to the Quartermaine mansion, the two have more banter where Serena told Jason they should both check themselves for ticks. Serena has done a full body check in the bathroom, but then asks Jason to go through her hair and look for any signs of ticks. Clearly, one or both may have ticks prompting suspicion if they wind up at GH with Dr. Isaiah Gannon (Sawandi Wilson) as their doctor who previously treated Ava for the tick stuck in her hair!
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ROMANCE SWITCH-UPS
While initially General Hospital fans suspected that the character of Serena was being brought back to the canvas in the form of Kruger as a love interest for Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson), in recent weeks and in admission by Tanisha Harper, it appears that GH is teasing a Michael and Jordan romance. The two have been spending more time together at Aurora, and Michael helped her get accepted into the burn clinic in Germany to treat her facial scars from the car accident.
Meanwhile, after Steve Burton returned to GH after his extended hiatus this June, it was clear that the writers were heading in the direction of a Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) and Jason break-up.
Eventually, a few weeks ago, the duo called it quits after Anna (Finola Hughes) tried to kill Britt, and Jason would not help Britt press charges against his friend, who was suffering from delusions after being mentally gaslighted by Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) and Sidwell (Carlo Rota) and company.
So, what did you think of the scenes between Jason and Serena on today’s GH? Do you think Kelly and Steve have on-screen chemistry that you would be open to be seeing how it plays out? Weigh-in via the comment section below.
It’s hard to believe it’s been two years since Van Hansis made his debut as the recast Lucas Jones on General Hospital. It was back on October 4, 2024 that GH fans got their first look at the former As the World Turns (ex-Luke Snyder) favorite in his new soap role.
Hansis became the fifth actor to play the role of the adoptive son of the late Bobbie Spencer and Tony Jones, and the biological son of the late Julian Jerome and Cheryl Stansbury. Prior to Van, C.J. Thomason (2002–2003), Ben Hogestyn (2005–2006) Ryan Carnes (2004–2005, 2014–2020, 2024) and Matt Trudeau (2020–2021) had played the part.
When Van left daytime after As the World Turns sadly went off the air in 2010, it would be 14 years until he stepped back into the updated frenetic pace and grind of acting on a daily soap opera.
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LUCAS CAME HOME TO PORT CHARLES
Since Lucas has been back in Port Charles, he fell in love with the late Marco Rios (Adrian Anchondo) who was murdered, moved into a new apartment with his current roommate (soon to be love interest?) Joe Fitzpatrick as played by Jonathan Bennett, has become best buds with the “Britch” Dr. Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud), and has found himself involved in multiple other storylines. However, now that Van is firmly implanted on GH, might Lucas get a leading storyline of his own? Stay tuned.
In the meantime, to acknowledge his two-year anniversary at General Hospital, Hansis shared via his Instagram a photo montage and some heartfelt “thank you’s’ and words. “Two years ago yesterday, Lucas Jones came home to Port Charles looking a little different. Looking exactly like me.” began Hansis.
“When I took on the role, I was told it would be a heavy recurring for a few months and then we’d see where it goes – being based in NYC at the time, I thought it would be a fun little gig that would bring me back to my old stomping grounds of daytime for a bit.”
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GENERAL HOSPITAL HAS BEEN LIFE-CHANGING FOR VAN HANSIS
Next, the longtime New York-based actor confirmed he has now moved to Los Angeles as this new chapter of his life has unfolded, and how grateful he is that the show’s writers and producers have continually given more for Lucas to do.
Van explained, “But then they kept writing for me more and I fell in love with Lucas, and everyone around him (in front of and behind the camera). I wanted to stay a while and am so grateful I have. Being a part of GH these last two years has been life changing. Literally. My family and I are Angelenos now, I’ve made incredible new friendships and have been able to revisit old ones.”
The five-time Daytime Emmy-nominated actor concluded with, “Thank you Frank (Valentini, executive producer, GH), thank you Mark (Teschner, casting director, GH), for inviting me to the party. You throw a great one. ”
So, happy to know Van is sticking around General Hospital for some time to come? What has been your favorite Lucas Jones moment over the first two years of Van’s run? Let us know via the comment section below.
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