General Hospital is making a big change in the writers room.
06.01.2024 - 00:22 / justjared.com
Steve Burton is heading back to General Hospital.
The 53-year-old actor was previously fired from the ABC soap opera series for failing to comply with the vaccine policy that was set in place in late 2021 amid the return to work during the pandemic.
Steve played Jason Morgan on the show from 1991 through 2012 and then again from 2017 until being let go from the show in 2021. He then appeared on Days of Our Lives for the past year and announced his exit just one day ago, though his episodes will continue airing through spring 2024.
Now, Steve is back as Jason Morgan.
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Steve announced the exciting news in the final moments of ABC’s General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars & Storytelling special that aired on Thursday night (January 4).
“Happy anniversary, General Hospital. Stay tuned. Big things are coming to Port Charles,” he said in a video, which you can watch below.
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three years after leaving the ABC soap over COVID vaccine mandates.The Big Burton Reveal came at the end of ABC’s special, “General Hospital: 60 Years of Stars & Storytelling,” which aired Thursday, Jan. 4 after the live telecast of “The Golden Bachelor” wedding.As dramatic music played, and with “GH” co-stars Kelly Monaco and Lauren Wright on either side, Burton opened a door and walked through.He appeared on-screen with these words: “Happy Anniversary, ‘General Hospital.’ Stay tuned — big things coming to Port Charles.”Burton, who’s spent the past year as Harris Michaels on NBC’s “Days of Our Lives,” has played Jason Morgan on “GH” several times — from 1991 to 2012 and again from 2017 through 2021, when he left the show right after Jason married Carly (Laura Wright).At the time, he posed a prescient video to his Instagram account in which he said he wanted his fans “to hear it from me personally … Unfortunately, ‘General Hospital’ has let me go because of the vaccine mandate” and alluded to one day returning to the soap.“I’ll always be grateful for my time on ‘General Hospital.’ I love it there, I grew up there.
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