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This week's GH: Johnny revealed to be the son of Claudia! Zacchara's go on the warpath – Watch the Video!
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In the out-of-the-blue, weird, shocking twist that GH is throwing at its fans, Johnny Zacchara (Brandon Barash) is revealed to be the son, not the brother of the late Claudia Zacchara (Sarah Brown).
Now this week, Sonny (Maurice Benard) armed with the evidence uses it to set out to destroy Johnny and Anthony, only the Z’s go ballistic and go after everyone that Sonny loves in different ways: Carly, Michael and Dante.
But who will be the real target? You will have to watch this week’s General Hospital promo for a preview. In the meantime, what do you think of this storypoint and a total reversal of history? Do you think it propels story? Do you think its extremely distasteful? Do you care? What character will be most affected by the fallout? Let us know your thoughts!
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‘General Hospital’s’ Jonathan Bennett Receives 3 ‘Critics Choice Real TV Awards’ Nominations for Hallmark Series, ‘Finding Mr. Christmas’
Many things are coming up roses for Jonathan Bennett! On the heels of the news that he is set to debut this month in the role of Joe Fitzpatrick on General Hospital, who is rumored to be a new love interest for Lucas Jones (Van Hansis), comes the news that Bennett’s reality series, Finding Mr. Christmas has received 3 nomination for the Critics Choice Real TV Awards.
Bennett’s Hallmark Channel series finds itself in tough competition alongside fellow nominees: RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV), Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix), Survivor 50 (CBS), Top Chef (Bravo) and The Traitors (Peacock). In addition, Jonathan himself is nominated for Best Show Host and the series participants as the Best Ensemble Cast in an Unscripted Series.
The Critics Choice Association (CCA) revealed the nominees for the eighth annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards on Thursday, which recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and reality programming across broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Winners will be announced online at CriticsChoice.com on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 9:00am PT/12:00pm ET.
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Taking to his Instagram to celebrate the nominations, GH’s Bennett, enthused, “3 Critic Choice Nominations! I’m so proud of the FINDING MR CHRISTMAS and to be in the company of all the legends in all these categories is so surreal! Congrats to Hallmark Channel and to our nominated cast and nominated show and everyone who made this magical show possible. This is crazy! This gives FMC 6 Critics Choice nominations in 2 years. Not bad for a little show on Hallmark Channel. What are your thoughts on our show?” Jumping first into the comment thread was one of his new GH co-stars, Dominic Zamprogna (Dante) who expressed, “Yeah buddy!!!🔥🔥”
In the series, Bennett, the host and co-creator spends eight weeks guiding 10 aspiring actors through a series of “festive face-offs” and acting challenges alongside actors like soap opera notables, Hunter King (ex-Summer, Y&R) and Alison Sweeney (Sami, DAYS). Along the way, they develop their skills and a bond with one another. The show, which is available on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Plus, highlights LGBTQ+ representation with openly gay contestants vying to be the next Hallmark star.
It should be noted that Traitors received the most Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations with 6 nods, followed by Dancing with the Stars with 4.
Bennett is very familiar to daytime fans having started his career as JR Chandler on All My Children in 2000-2001, before landing the part of Aaron Samuels in the motion picture, Mean Girls in 2004 starring Lindsay Lohan, which would become his breakout performance.
You can check out the full list of Critics Choice Real TV Award nominations here.
So, excited for Jonathan Bennett’s General Hospital debut this month? Have you ever watched Finding Mr. Christmas on Hallmark? Let us know via the comment section below.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Kelly Thiebaud on Britt and Cassius Sibling Drama, But Who Will Ultimately Blow His Cover?
On the April 30 episode of General Hospital, Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) had some choice words and warning for her brother Cassius Faison (Ryan Paevey) who has been masquerading as his twin, the very dead, Nathan West.
As the story has unfolded, viewers learned that Britt knew all along that when “Nathan” showed up in Port Charles seemingly resurrected with a missing 7 years of his life unexplained, that Cassius was taking his place.
Now in developments on today’s GH, Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) is figuring out that this guy pretending to be Nathan is someone else, and Cassius learns from Britt, that Joss is not just a ditzy sorority girl as he claimed, but a WSB agent! The moment stuns Cassius. Are the walls about to close in on him and his charade?
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Daytime Emmy winner, Kelly Thiebaud spoke to Soap Opera Digest, about the story point and getting the opportunity this time back at GH to work with Ryan Paevey, when she hadn’t had the chance to before.
BROTHERLY LOVE?
Thiebaud expressed on sharing scenes with Ryan Paevey, “It’s just been so wonderful to have him back and to actually work with him! When he first came onto the show (as Nathan at the end of 2013) I was kind of heading out — it was right towards the end of my contract, so we didn’t actually work together a ton. It’s been really refreshing and so much fun to really spend time together and get to know each other and work together. I think we have really great on-camera chemistry and banter with each other. I really enjoy working with him.”
With the stakes at an all-time, Thiebaud explained how she views her on-screen alter-ego’s involvement with her more hot-to-temper sibling and why Britt revealed the truth about Josslyn to him. “People finding out about Cassius would expose what she’s involved in and what she agreed to do,” explains Kelly “And now Josslyn is digging around, and she’s connected to Carly (Laura Wright) to Jason (Steve Burton) and that whole dynamic! It’s messy!”
BRITT’S MURKY FUTURE
Britt has currently also reached her breaking point with Jason being carted away by the WSB, Rocco (Finn Carr), the child she gave birth to, shooting Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) to protect her and Jason, Marco (Adrian Anchondo) being killed after trying to help her, and Cullum holding over her head getting her Huntington’s disease medication to control her symptoms, while blackmailing her into finishing the research on her father, Cesar Faison’s, final project. Thiebaud summed it up best for Britt right now, sharing, “It’s been a really tough time for her.”
So, who do you think will be the person to blow Cassius’ cover? Will it be Britt herself? Josslyn? Liesl? Brennan? Nina? Lulu? Rocco, Maxie, Cullum or someone else? Let us know your pick in the comment section.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL: Michael Reveals His Plan to Set Up Chase and Willow to Have an Affair
After the Wednesday, April 29 episode of General Hospital, it’s clear outside interference and other circumstances are set to blow Chase (Josh Swickard) and Brook Lynn’s (Amanda Setton) marriage sky high, as Michael (Rory Gibson) reveals his plans to entrap Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and use her relationship with Chase to do it!
In story, Michael dropped by unexpectedly to Carly’s (Laura Wright). A plotting Michael reveals his plan to nudge Willow and Chase into having an affair. Michael hopes it would create both a political and personal scandal, where Willow would lose her seat in congress. In the scenario, she would be having an affair with her ex-husband, while taking care of her supposed disabled husband, Drew (Cameron Mathison), who cannot speak and is confined to a wheelchair, which in turn will look horrible for Willow’s character.
Carly asked does he really want to destroy his cousin, Brook Lynn’s life in the process? Michael goes in on Chase’s holier than thou attitude, and says he is going to set-up the circumstances that would lead Chase and Willow to betray their spouses, and hit the sheets together. Michael swears to Carly what the two of them do is up to them, but he’s going to go on the offense with this.
MICHAEL HAS BACK-UP
Later, Jacinda (Paige Herschell) is talking with Charlotte (Bluesy Burke) at Crimson and how much she dislikes Willow because of what she has done to Michael. Just then, Michael shows up and tells Jacinda privately, he’s figured out a way to fight Willow. Looks like Jacinda might work with Michael to bring down Willow and use Chase as the person to do it!
At the hospital, Lucas (Van Hansis) tells Josslyn (Eden McCoy) that Carly is cheating on Jack, but he doesn’t know with who. Josslyn suddenly flashes back to the moment she found her mother harboring a fugitive, Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart), in her attic, and as figured out that her mother is sleeping with him. She heads out.
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BRENNAN IS ABOUT TO LEARN ABOUT CARLY
Next thing you know, Josslyn has showed up inside Jack’s (Chris McKenna) hotel room at the Metro Court and when he enters his room, he is shocked to find her there. He lays into her for not keeping his distance and that Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) will have no problem killing her if he knows she’s WSB. Josslyn fires back that he is only concerned about that because his relationship with her mother depends on her being safe. But then, she lays the boom, and tells Jack, Well, you’re too late. You already lost her.”
LULU GETS A GLIMPSE OF CASSIUS’ TEMPER
In addition, Lulu (Alexa Havins) sees a different side of “Nathan.” Since she is unaware that the man before her is his twin, Cassius Fasion (Ryan Paevey), he tells her that Rocco (Finn Carr) blabbed that he shot Cullum to Britt (Kelly Thiebaud), and now he thinks they should send him away to stop him from talking to everyone else. This concerns Lulu, who rails at Nathan for telling her what to do with her son and that she isn’t going to abandon him. With “Nathan’s” outburst at her on the matter, will she finally get a clue this is not the man she thinks it is?
So, what do you think of Michael’s plan to push Willow and Chase into an affair? Will it work or backfire? Do you think Joss will reveal that Valentin is the man sleeping with Carly to Brennan, which will send him in a rage? Will Lulu continue to be clueless about “Nathan?” Weigh-in via the comment section below. But first, take a look at the GH video tease for today’s April 30 episode.
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What did Claudia have Johnny when she was 10?
I know we’re soap fans, and we’re supposed to suspend our disbelief and all that, but this is too much.
Yeah, that was my first thought. The age difference (or lack thereof) between Olivia & Dante is hard enough to take. This one is really pushing it.
Totally unbelievable! Claudia and Johnny are at the most 7-10 years apart. Gino Solieto is listed as the father and was married to Tracy. What if Johnny is hers? Now that would be interesting.
dopey right?
If Claudia was 15 years old when she had Johnny and the family tried to hush it up, then that would explain why Anthony continued to call Claudia inappropriate names. This storyline is possible. I’m 32 years old, my daughter is 17 years and I have a grandson that will be 2 years old in 3 weeks. Some people would say the storyline is idiotic but this is still a very plausible scenario. By the way, I am college educated and I’ve just entered my MBA program; furthermore, my daughter is entering her senior year and plans to enroll into college next year. Let’s just hope the story ends positive with Sarah J. Brown returning as Mrs. Claudia Zacchara-Corinthos. Bye-bye, adios, and hasta la vista Kate Howard/ Constance Falconeri/ Connie or whatever the heck she calls herself! Mrs. Zacchara-Corinthos will not share her Sonny days with anybody!
Ten year old girls giving birth isn’t anything new:
https://theweek.com/article/index/221431/the-10-year-old-mexican-who-gave-birth
https://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/11/10-year-old-girl-gives-birth-in-spain/1
Soaps imitate life so no suspension of disbelief necessary.
I want to be the first to advise everyone. I have been watching GH for 30+ years. I want to be the first to go on record that Jason and Franco are brothers. This way the baby father tests will be inclusive.
That is why Franco kept saying we are the same. That is why Franco so hung up on Jason.. Unless it was some super bromance.
I want full credit for this if it true
Fine, you can have the credit. I just hope they come up with some compelling reason to have wasted all the time they did on Franco, beside the fact he was a sick, twisted freak, as if that alone was supposed to make him entertaining.
its far fetched but if claudia was abuse at a teen, then i can buy her as jonny’s mom, but she would have to be a very young teen, like 13, its kind of disgusting, but these horrible things happen in real life, as for the storyline twist, it will generate alot talk for sure, but this storyline would be all better if sarah brown was still around, they should not have gotten rid of their best female villian, Gh really doesn’t have a good one right now, other then Helena, so hopefully down the line maybe claudia can be alive after all and franco kept her somewhere hidden. especially since no one thinks he’s dead, and this would be a better story then the one they are currently playing with franco.
Sarah Brown needs to come back to GH. all other soaps that have had you, have not given you any interesting characters to play and haven’t maximized your great talent. This new twist GH has thrown in only makes me miss Sarah Brown more. She needs to come home to GH.
I’m a DAYS fan, and I will personally gift wrap and drive the talented Ms. Brown back to Port Charles. Her character on DAYS is a waste of her talent and she was much better as Claudia.
Aria, you are so right about Sarah Brown. I watched DOOL just to see her character and I couldn’t believe Brown would waste her incredible talent playing Madison, who is boringly pleasant and unremarkable. Maybe Brown is using her brain and energy on law school or a PhD because playing Madison appears so undemanding. If only she would come back to GH as Claudia–every second would be a potential emotional explosion, sure to re-energize GH.
Opinion of the whole story? Simple – one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Hopefully,
Out of the blue right now. I actually expected this to happen prior to Claudia’s death. The way Anthony talked to her and called her a slut as well as other names on top of the constant reference to the “unnatural” relationship between Johnny and Claudia and their need to always protect each other. Additionally, I think I remember a conversation between Claudia and Trevor Lansing which cause me to think that something happened between the two of them at some point.
I think the story line is kinda silly. But we will see how it plays out. Hopefully it will be good.
I think its an interesting Idea ,I like johnny and his insane father,and what sonny did is start another mob war ,you hurt my kid ,I will hurt yours,so anothoy zacchara will start to take even better care of his roses ,when he does that you know he is up to no good.I think sonny made a big mistake because michael did kill claudia,and now johnny is hurt and pissed,his mother was a bitch,but still he loved her, he forgave michael because claudia put him in a coma,Ill be tuning in,Im looking forward to seeing what our new writers will do with this mess.
I HEAR the bullets flying now!!!!!!
First of I do think Bruce Weitz is a good actor… but get him out of there! I am so tired of crazy Anthony. I like Johnny but am loving the rumors about getting rid of most of the mob. I am not liking the threats to hurt someone Sonny cares about. Let’s take AZ out… reduce the mob by getting Johnny out of it and Sonny could go straight to keep Kate (if she needs to hang aound)… lets get Jason to turn into a combo of Jason Q nad M and get the GH world to be more about business and the hospital.
no way ,he has to stay,he makes me laugh ,hes crazy,nuts ,I love the way he tends to his flowers,and his relationship with tracy I like that to ,hes interesting and funny,and thats what I will miss at one life to live the comedy ,general hospital doesnt have that,and to many stories go to sonny,hes a big part of general hospital,but hes not the backbone the spencers and the quartermaines are,the killing that goes on in port charles is awful,and general hospital has become so boring,with the same stories told over and over again,I want a change ,Im ready for One,and Im not alone in my thinking ,if general hospital doesnt get its act together ,this fall we will be here bitching that general hospital is gone ,and I dont want to see that happen,the thought of katie couric makes my skin crawl.
Let Claudia come back and together she and Johnny can take out Anthony, who lied to Johnny for years. Maybe Anthony stood by while Claudia was abused or maybe he offered her up as part of a business deal. Mother and son mobsters would be more fun than the usual.
I would love to see SJB back as Claudia but I think she likes it over at DOOL. It’s a great idea and a great way to take AZ out.
Sometimes it takes a “shocker” like this to stir things up in just the right way. It does seem a bit “out there”, but sadly, plausible. I am sure Ron C. will know how to play this storyline out in a way that will work. I am very excited about what is to come for GH and all of the characters!!!!!
I cannot think of a reason for this “twist.” Claudia is long dead & so Anthony is Johnny’s grandfather instead of father. Big deal. Just means Michael killed Johnny’s mother instead of his sister. I don’t see any big repercussions coming of out of this.
It is an interesting way to liven things up. It would be even more interesting if Claudia was alive (or brought back). No wonder Claudia was a mental wreck if she had a child from abuse and couldn’t tell Johnny he was her son. Claudia was a fabulous character and Sarah Brown was incredible. If Sarah had to leave, I wish Claudia had taken a vacation rather than been killed off (but maybe she didn’t really die?). I would love the return of Claudia (with Sarah). That would be everyone’s worst nightmare, and then mother and son could be reunited and discuss what happened.
Odd as this twist seems to me — the lack of a suitable age gap — maybe it is a catalyst for righting the ship and moving GH in a new direction… clearing out characters and plots that no longer are viable or interesting, setting up new stories and making room on the canvas for new people.
Okay, I can sit here and ignore the fact that if the show was sticking to the currently accepted ages for Johnny and Claudia, she would have had to have been about eight when she got pregnant with him. And I can even at least try to swallow the fact that this completely ruins her entire backstory. What I can’t stand is that they’re even thinking about going through with this story and not bringing Sarah Joy Brown back. Claudia is DEAD. It’s unfortunate; she was by far my favorite character that GH ever had (even though they never developed her to her full potential, which SJB could have easily done). But why bring this storyline up now?! Why didn’t they do it back in 2008 when everyone was saying how borderline inappropriate Claudia and Johnny’s relationship was? Without her on the screen, it’s completely pointless. If they’re actually doing this, they need to bring SJB back from Days so that she and BB can have some kickass scenes together. I can totally buy Claudia coming back from the dead, and I will sit through this nonsense if it means she’s back.
the reason to bring the storyline in now,so once again its the sonny show,we will have another excuse for the mob war,I hear that michael easton wont show up in port charles till march ,so that means no one goes to jail again,and the murders continue at general hospital.unless he isnt john mcbaine,to bad claudia is dead ,to bad they didnt sent her away ,sometimes its just stupid to kill an interesting character,when they could have just left town ,I think that sonny treated her like crap,and he has done so many nasty things ,they made her out to be worst then him, so its the sonny show again ,I liked claudia to.Ill keep watching.our new writers have started,Ill have to pay closer attention to the bottom of the television ,to see when it begins.
I’m SICK of The Sonny Show. I never liked him, not even with Claudia. And even if it had to be The Sonny Show, couldn’t they have come up with a better plot twist that at least involved ALIVE characters? I don’t watch GH regularly anymore…I’ll flip it on when I get the time, which is rare. But I’d start watching full-time again if they brough SJB back. Anyone know how her stint is going on Days? I tried watching it, but wasn’t too into it. I’m trying not to be too critical of this storyline, though, cuz if it does bring Claudia back, I’ll never say another bad word about it.
this twist only has a payoff if Sarah comes back. I miss her character, i know she’s currently at dool, I to tried to catch a glimpse of her, and she looks fabulous, but dool doesn’t have any heavy hitters, and i don’t see them being any match for sarah, i think she needs to come home to GH were theres definitely more interesting characters and actors for her to spat with.
GH is her home. She was fabulous as Carly, and absolutely incredible as Claudia. Both were gutsy parts that also had great backstories that provided for vulnerability and plenty of room for great acting. She could tear this storyline apart if they brought her back.
This shows how badly GH needs Ron and Frank.
That would be the only way for me to start watching GH again, is if they bring Sarah back….but I just don’t know how they would. I know its a soap and people come back from the dead all the time, but how in the world would they do it, after the elaborate way that she went out? Not to mention, the whole cover up and burying her body out in the woods…. Ever since Sarah left, GH just hasn’t been as exciting. And it would only make sense to do this story if Sarah were coming back.
Brandon did an amazing job with these scenes. He can handle more complications and storyline than he has been given. I hope GH wakes up and give Johnny a bigger story on GH, and I hope he plays the piano again soon.
I agree I love johnny and his crazy father,and its not so far fetched that claudia is his mother ,A while back ,before she was killed I thought that maybe she is his mother,but nothing went any further about her being raped by that sick guy who worked for anthony,something was there ,guess the writers changed there minds.brandon did a wonderful job at his shock of this whole mess,gives him a good story line ,I like the piano playing to.so lets fasten our seat belts ron and frank are in charge now.I believe we are going to enjoy general hospital alot more now.