‘General Hospital’ Shocker: Kelly Monaco Leaving After 21 Years On ABC Sudser
deadline.comA seismic shift is about to occur in Port Charles: Kelly Monaco, who plays Sam McCall, is leaving General Hospital. Deadline has confirmed that Monaco, who first joined the ABC sudser in 2003, will leave sometime this fall.
Monaco has shot more than 2,200 episodes of GH and has received two Daytime Emmy nominations for her work. She went to win the mirrorball trophy in the first season of Dancing with the Stars.
Soap Opera Network was first to report the news about Monaco. Monaco’s surprise departure mirrors what happened on CBS’ The Bold & the Beautiful earlier this year when Executive Producer Brad Bell decided to kill off Sheila Carter, played by the popular Kimberlin Brown.
Brown told Deadline the surprise decision to write off her character was a “hard pillow to swallow” — especially since the decision was made two months later to bring her back.
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