After her her Dr. Britt Westbourne character died as a result of being attacked with a poisonous hook, Daytime Emmy Award winner Kelly Thiebaud is set for a return to “General Hospital” next month, it was announced on Friday.

According to Deadline, which first reported the news, the actress is set back at the soap starting in July, although the role she’ll be playing remains under wraps, leaving fans to wonder if Thiebaud will be playing a new character or if somehow Britt is being resurrected.

When last seen, Britt died after exhibiting symptoms of Huntington’s disease, known as a rare incurable neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system which causes nerve cells in the brain to decay over time.

“It is good to be home,” said Thiebaud in a statement released to Deadline.

“I am thrilled to have Kelly back on our show,” shared executive producer Frank Valentini. “We have some great twists and turns planned for her character.”

After exiting “General Hospital” in January 2023, Thiebaud reprised her role as Eva Vasquez on “Station 19” for a multi-episode arc during the show’s sixth season. The character was the widow of fallen firefighter Rigo Vasquez (Rigo Sanchez), who appeared during the show’s third season, and would go on to have an affair with her husband’s colleague, Jack Gibson (Grey Damon), which created lots of drama for the show’s characters.

Additionally, Thiebaud appeared in an episode of “Magnum P.I.” and more recently received praise for her portrayal of Dr. Layla Carreri on the podcast drama series “Montecito.”

In 2022, Thiebaud won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Daytime Drama Series: Actress for her portrayal of Britt Westbourne during the “The 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.” She would also receive a nomination in the same category in 2023 during “The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.”

The news of Thiebaud’s return comes just one day after the soap opera announced the exit of Jonathan Jackson as Lucky Spencer. “We were so glad Jonathan was able to reprise the role of Lucky, even if was for a limited time,” Valentini said in a statement. “We wish him nothing but the best, and the door is always open for Jonathan to return.”

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It's not the worst of returns, but if she is back as Britt, then it defeats her words of asking to be killed off so she couldn't come back. And if she's not Britt, then we've got another Michael Easton/Roger Howarth situation on our hands.

14 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

It's not the worst of returns, but if she is back as Britt, then it defeats her words of asking to be killed off so she couldn't come back. And if she's not Britt, then we've got another Michael Easton/Roger Howarth situation on our hands.

It’s amazing how quickly actors backtrack when they can’t find stable work elsewhere.

 

18 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

if she's not Britt, then we've got another Michael Easton/Roger Howarth situation on our hands.

I disagree to a certain extent.

Michael Easton and Roger Howarth were One Life to Live transplants given three million characters to play over a decade. Kelly, if she's not playing Britt, is no different than GH re-hiring a popular actress to play a different character when the one they previously portrayed either died or has since been recast. See Sarah Joy Brown and Tamara Braun as examples, or even Mishael Morgan at The Young and the Restless.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by Errol
Correcting the right Tamara.

8 minutes ago, Errol said:

I disagree to a certain extent.

Michael Easton and Roger Howarth were One Life to Live transplants given three million characters to play over a decade. Kelly, if she's not playing Britt, is no different than GH re-hiring a popular actress to play a different character when the one they previously portrayed either died or has since been recast. See Sarah Joy Brown and Tamara Braun as examples, or even Mishael Morgan at The Young and the Restless.

Oh, trust me, it's not Easton/Howarth level yet. But the whiplash is still felt from their endless roles (Easton had four; Howarth had three, four if you consider Franco's "Drew" phase). I just think with a talent pool that daytime has, recycling the same actors for new roles has become all too common practice. But, that's just my M.O.; again, she isn't the worst re-hire we could have gotten, but she wasn't on my immediate list, either.

18 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

It’s amazing how quickly actors backtrack when they can’t find stable work elsewhere.

Or even someone like Michelle Stafford, who swore to never return to Y&R, and within five years, she slipped back in. 🤣

We'll find out Liesel gave birth to twins and this character will be Britt's long lost twin LMAO(that is if she's not Britt)

12 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

We'll find out Liesel gave birth to twins and this character will be Britt's long lost twin LMAO(that is if she's not Britt)

Kitt in-coming?

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

It’s amazing how quickly actors backtrack when they can’t find stable work elsewhere.

 

I don't think that's entirely her fault; the entertainment industry hasn't exactly been too stable lately, especially with the fires we just had earlier this year and not to mention the writer's strike a year or two ago. 

On the other hand, I'm not sure how to feel about this. This show went through all this trouble to basically kill off Britt permanently and give her an actual send-off and barely two years later, she's back anyway? I'm actually hoping it's a different character because if she's back as Britt, she's going to die from Huntington's disease regardless, (unless that somehow gets retconned), and I just don't see the point. 

Edited June 6Jun 6 by MissPhoenixGirl92

I like the actress and am looking forward to her return.

I might be bored with the show by the time she returns.

I don't blame her for wanting steady work. I just wish actors when they leave shows/soaps they don't act like it would be such a "death" sentence if they had to come back. Soaps are steady/respectable work and until its own actors start treating it that way then the general public won't. 

I'm for it if she's Brit 

Yay!  This is great news.  She can't come back soon enough.