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.

Sonny is going to need a good hit man/enforcer now. I wonder who will replace Jason? My fear is that it will be Sean but I certainly hope it isn't. I like Sean being the nice guy, pretty much raising a young kid. What about that bald white dude who appeared on the GH primetime spinoff? I forgot that character's name.

lol, bitter that he's not a 'darling' of the show runners anymore? SEE YA, PAL.

Haha, I just found this. About 3 years too late but oh well

That picture truly does sum up Spixie - Maxie as a trashy looking, vapid doll, perched on his knee. She looks about 50.

She looks about 50.

And he looks about, well, 10.

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They look like failed replacements for Loretta Lynn's old Crisco ads.

Honestly, when the headline reads, "I Won't Sleep With You!," it's pretty clear why.

That picture truly does sum up Spixie - Maxie as a trashy looking, vapid doll, perched on his knee. She looks about 50.

ROTFLMAO!

TV Guide says Burton will exit in the next few week. I thought it would be at least another month, maybe two

That soon, eh?

TV Guide says Burton will exit in the next few week. I thought it would be at least another month, maybe two

How far ahead is GH shooting?

About 4 weeks (I think).

How far ahead is GH shooting?

Two weeks.

About 4 weeks (I think).

Last week they were taping for stuff to air next week.

Last week they were taping for stuff to air next week.

Oh okay. I know it used to be 4 a while back but I think you're right.