Steve Burton is done with the show!

TV Guide Magazine: Word is, this is one of the most amicable soap exits ever — no money battles, storyline complaints, testy negotiations. Where's all the drama, dude?

Burton: I've been through 21 years of ups and downs with GH— regime changes, cast and crew changes, budget cuts, shakeups of one kind or another, and it's been nothing but a huge positive in my life and for my family. I have no complaints, no negative feelings at all. But it's time to go. I'm going to take some time off and do nothing but relax, just enjoy life a little bit with my wife and kids. I've bought a home in Tennessee, way out in the country outside Nashville. [Laughs] Probably too far out in the country! I've been talking about leaving GH and moving there for the last seven years. The timing was never right and then the economy crashed and I couldn't sell my house in California. I went there many years ago when I did the movie The Last Castle and loved it. Tennessee reminded me of growing up in Ohio. The people are nice, it's family oriented and, now that my kids are 6 and almost 9, I want to get them planted. My contract was coming up at GH so we put the house up for sale again and it went in, like, eight weeks. That opened the door for me to leave GH.

FULL INTERVIEW:

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Steve-Burton-Quits-General-Hospital-1052432.aspx

I won't lie, I'm sad about this. We're losing another Quartermaine and I've been enjoying Jason now that the show doesn't revolve around him. I thought Carlivati had just barely tipped the surface in what he could do with Jason. I wanted to see more with Jason and Liz and I just enjoy him being there. I like the relationship with Carly and Michael, Sam and John, even Sonny. It's going to be weird to never have him there.

Not in the form of JZ! I have a weak stomach!

And if anything, this just frees up cash for another OLer.

I hope so only cause the complaining about it from all parties got tiresome back in February.....

Does that make him crazy?

Crazy like a fox in a hen house.

i hope that frees up money for Bobbie to come back

Sure because when money gets freed up the first place it goes is to a woman over 40.

Sure because when money gets freed up the first place it goes is to a woman over 40.

If it is possible for an entire message board to have an orgasm, this board will have one on the day Bernard leaves.

hahahahahahaha

Franco was never a great actor to me. His next movie is a teen movie with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson

Kevin Federline anyone???

Sure because when money gets freed up the first place it goes is to a woman over 40.

Boom.

I couldn't disagree more if I tried, come on now. Todd has chem with Carly as much as I hate the thought of it, he has it with Sam too(ditto on hating that too)

John has chem with Alexis and Sam and even yes Sonny

They have more overall chem than most characters do *side eyes Kate/Connie*

I see zero chemistry between Todd and Carly - their scenes are awkward and Carly looks foolish. I don't understand Todd's relationship with her.

I see no chemistry between John and Sam - she just lapses into a coma when they are together.

These men were brought in based on hype from another show, not on how they fit into GH. That was irrelevant, and apparently still is.

I liked James Franco in Pineapple Express and Milk...

Good riddance, but its too little, too late!

Best news I have ever read on this site ever. He and his dear friend can go produce their show and leave GH alone. Who would have ever thought that the worst period on soap history would turn out to be the very period when GH shakes off in rapid succession every one of the people responsible for destroying it. Frons, Guza, Phelps and now Burton? GH, you are truly blessed.

GH's loss is Y&R's gain!

The rest of em can burn for all I care.

GH's loss is Y&R's gain!

The rest of em can burn for all I care.

He is one who [!@#$%^&*] ruined GH for me. If Y&R gets him then [!@#$%^&*] cancel Y&R already...he is a cancer.

Franco was never a great actor to me. His next movie is a teen movie with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson

Dang, sometimes I think as long as there's weed in his bowl, this dude will do just about anything.

His motto=

i hope that frees up money for Bobbie to come back

Money isnt the reason why JZ isnt seen anymore. Its not like she's Meryl Streep and demands a hefty paycheck.

His HH character is just this nutcase movie producer who thinks he's a genious

I guess his Spring Breakers character is a wannabe rapper