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So happy for Sonequa. I need to watch Season 3.

I'd never heard that but at this point nothing re: Joe Stuart would surprise me.

Pure foolishness from some folks who should know better. Yeah, yeah, you work with the dude for years, I don't care, this is life or death:

I've found Steve to be politically vocal, misogynistic and racist all at different times. He's just less vocal about it than Ingo. He's trying to play it humble when the fact is he put people at risk and thought the show would cave for him like it always has. I'm not beefing with you, I just have absolute contempt for the man and have for many years. But even I didn't think he would be this selfish and foolish. I believed it when people claimed he was vaxxed months ago.

If he had class he would've stopped putting people in danger months ago and not blamed the show for his getting COVID. LW has survived three cancelled soaps but exposing her to COVID is a new level. And neither he nor Ingo are the only ones in the cast who tried to claim a religious exemption, BTW.

Yes, girls, it's a Steve Burton deepfake.

Goodbye, chud.

Eagerly awaiting @j swift's 5-part thesis about why he was right all along when I get off my plane for Thanksgiving

If GH wanted to respond to Variety and Kate Aurthur, they would do so. They're not Soap Opera Digest or Daytime Confidential lying down on the job to keep access.

Uh:

Variety: Kate Aurthur is a pretty serious reporter for Variety, and her being stumped is surprising: I feel like GH is in denial and/or cowed by their aged, conservative Facebook-adjacent audience re: Sonny and Jason tbh. Just trying to avoid acknowledging any of this. I think they're desperate to reach a new deal with Steve to vax and are hoping to avoid releasing the truth until they can make one and then claim it's just 'a break'. That or they'll dump it on Friday.

Valentin has been corny since Moment 1 on this show long before he began singing Billy Joel songs to the American public and crying over this baby or that lisping toddler. JPS is a very talented actor who I know people love from his long history in daytime but to this day I don't understand how and why this guy is still here or a key lead.

I wonder how long they intend to string this out without commenting. Even Deadline has wind now.

These 'caves' look worse than '80s Doctor Who. Embarrassing. If that cheap cave-in with him standing in the middle of the stage in a maintenance worker coverall was really Jason's exit what an ignoble way to go out. They'll be very stupid if they really let Cameron shave that beard. He looks amazing.

I looked into it and I'm pretty sure the fan is referring to something they said on the latest iteration of some Patreon exclusive supplemental podcast thing they do in addition to their main one. I'll be damned if I'm subscribing to Steve Burton's Patreon!

Grain of salt, anecdotal, but this is floating around and I didn't see it here (and it's from one of his stans):

Didn't Ursula die onscreen or am I wrong? It would've been fun to see Jill Larson pop back over briefly in recent years, were the shows still around - he's had a career resurgence in genre work like starring in the title role in the popular The Taking of Deborah Logan (a 70s TV movie horror title if ever I heard one), and is also in the new Amazon horror film The Manor with Barbara Hershey. Jill is so lovely as a person but can be scary as hell.

Yeah, there's no chance anything with GH was done without GH. That being said, I believe what I've heard. Whether it's changed since then I've no idea.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster, famously one of the first creepy victims in "The Waters of Mars", almost steals the show in Denis Villeneuve's pretty good Dune as planetary ecologist Liet Kynes, a role she inherited from Max von Sydow in David Lynch's film.

The Jim Thomason plane crash story (among others in that era) was terrible lol

The short answer is we don't know anything about what's going on here at this point, but a lot of solid folks in the know who are not chasing clout have staked their reps on Steve being out. Do I think it's possible that in the last month or even last few days Steve could've bowed to pressure from the network to vax along with pleas from the show to keep him around, yes - I was surprised he refused to vax in the first place when money was on the line. Principles have certainly never stood in the way of him taking money before. But we also have no idea exactly what happened with The Talk or how that was put together, and atm GH still isn't talking at all and neither is Steve, both of which are extremely unusual. So it's all very suspicious. I am inclined to still believe he was fired from the various people I've heard it from, but we'll see what transpires. Also, I'm not sure what the post-COVID turnaround time is at GH for taping but it is not impossible to reshoot and slot stuff in on a very quick timeline when absolutely necessary - whether to write him in or out, if he did bend the knee at the last moment to save his paycheck.

This is why I've never gotten behind Billy Joel the piano-playing hunchbacked Cassadine! Cut losses!

I can't understand why Dorian and Herb were in the reception line either. Was it Herb's position in the town at the time? I think he was either DA or Mayor or something. That is Anthony George as Dr. Will Vernon, Sam's father, next to her. I know George best from Dark Shadows. I can never get over Wanda Webb and Asa being cousins as an ongoing character beat for a decade In this era. They very regularly refer to each other as 'cousin'.

To build on the other day re: the Weisman piece and CNN claiming a bill passed days ago is being reflected in polling weeks ago: