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Charles isn’t going to be sticking around much longer. With so many options on the table, some fans are worried this could mean we will lose someone who is a serious anchor to the show’s well-being.

 

 

Eventually, we all know we’re going to have to let go of more critical characters, whether by choice or by force of nature, such as we saw with Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) and Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer) recently. Why would Gh choose now to write off anyone else?…A veteran star has exited the soap after a short, but memorable visit. Here’s the soap’s latest comings and goings casting news at General

Hospital for the week of January 12-16. Find out if any popular performers from yesteryear are returning, if any newcomers are joining the show in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, and if any of your other favorite actors or actresses are leaving the ABC drama.Jon Lindstrom’s run as Kevin wrapped on January 5, with the character leaving Port Charles for a teaching job in Dublin. Ace exited with Kevin, as twins Karis and Kieran Barry also wrapped their time on the show.

While General Hospital fans mourned the news of Anthony Geary’s death at the age of 78, the beloved actor went to his grave with unkind words about the show, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.

The soap opera legend died from complications three days after undergoing a planned surgery in the Netherlands, the country he moved to full-time in 2015 after leaving the daytime drama.

Geary originated the role of Luke Spencer in 1978 on the long-running ABC soap opera.

His wedding to Genie Francis’ Laura Webber became a pop culture phenomenon, drawing an estimated 30 million viewers when the nuptials aired in November 1981.

However, Luke and Laura’s romance became the focal point of the rest of Geary’s career, and he made no bones about how much it irked him.

“I just get really tired of the whole Luke-and-Laura thing,” the eight-time Emmy winner huffed in July 2015 shortly before leaving the show. “Genie and I have both been dragging the corpse of that relationship around for 30 years.”

“Being hyphenated as Luke-and-Laura has been a real pain in the a–,” Geary griped about how he couldn’t escape being half of General Hospital’s most-loved couples.

“It irritated me,” he seethed. “Every time I was introduced anywhere in the last 33 years, they’d run the clip of the f—— wedding.”

Luke and Laura’s nuptials remain the most-watched soap opera episode in TV history, despite the characters tying the knot 44 years ago.

Geary complained about “being in an industry where an actor’s resume is less important than how he looks with his shirt off or how many Facebook followers he has. That is abhorrent to me… I feel bad for all the young [actors]. They don’t have a clue how to survive in this rat-infested jungle.”

The soap icon had a clause in his contract allowing him to rewrite his character’s dialogue, something he was asked to give up, and one of the reasons he quit the show.

Geary fumed about General Hospital’s “weak writing” and how he wasn’t about to let some new writer on the show tell him how to play a character he had inhabited for 37 years.

“After all my years with this character, I’m not about to let some new hire tell me how Luke would express an idea or emotion,” he moaned at the time.

Geary made a prescient confession about how he would be written about upon his death, a decade before his passing.

“I have almost, but not quite, come to grips with the fact that my obituary is going to read: ‘Anthony Geary, Luke of Luke-and-Laura, died today,” he noted.

Geary’s husband, Claudio Gama, confirmed the star died on Sunday, December 14.

“It was a shock for me, our families, and our friends. For more than 30 years, Tony has been my friend, my companion, my husband,” Gama announced.