Great news...or a sign of bad things to come? TV Guide Magazine has learned exclusively that suds superstar Finola Hughes is returning to General Hospital as Anna Devane, the globe-trotting mother of Dr. Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough). The Emmy-winning actress starts shooting the ABC soap in mid-to-late January and will hit the air during February sweeps. A GH spokesperson tells us the gig is "recurring, but front and center. Finola will be on our canvas for a while and be very involved with Robin and Patrick [Jason Thompson]."
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SOAPnet's General Hospital: Night Shift had an overload of material for its season finale, so the wrap-up is now being presented as a two-parter that ends Oct 21. The plot: Patrick's actions with a patient culminate in an explosion that rocks Port Charles. The finale also boasts a class reunion of GH '80s greats, including Robert (Tristan Rogers), Anna (Finola Hughes), Luke (Tony Geary) and — this is so cool! — Sean (John Reilly) and Tiffany (Sharon Wyatt). — Michael Logan
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Have your backstage pass ready? Mr. Zarian will see you now. Fashion czar Lawrence Zarian will be joined by soap stars Finola Hughes, Rebecca Budig and Ricky Paull Goldin in granting Daytime Emmy fans backstage access (June 20 at 6 pm/ET, SOAPnet) leading up to the evening's ceremony on ABC at 8 pm/ET.All My Children's Budig (Greenlee Smythe Lavery) and Goldin (Dr. Jake Martin) catch the stars as they leave their limos in front of Hollywood's Kodak Theater and strut along the red carpet.Fashionista Hughes (General Hospital's Anna Devane) and Zarian will give the stars' fashion choices a once-over, complete with a "shoe cam" and culminating with the most "fashionable moment of the night". — J.R. WhalenRelated:• Cameron Mathison, Sherri Shepherd to Host Daytime Emmys• Heather Tom Takes Bold and Beautiful Step For Charity• Daytime Emmys Aiming for Golden Globes Energy
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This Saturday at 9 pm/ET, Style Network's How Do I Look? marks 100 episodes by delivering some of its most heartwarming and life-changing makeovers to date. Visiting New Orleans, host Finola Hughes and her crew turn their attention to a trio of school teachers who long to have their selves "rebuilt" as their hurricane-torn city rises from the rubble. TVGuide.com invited Hughes to share a look at the very special episode.
TVGuide.com: First of all, happy 100th episode....Hughes: Thank you very much! Thank you.
TVGuide.com: How was the New Orleans idea presented to you? Hughes: The producers wanted to find something that was really worthy, where we could give back to someone. So we approached the schools in New Orleans and asked for teachers who they thought had a really great story. T
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This Friday on General Hospital, Rick Springfield — for the first time in his two stints with the ABC sudser — will sing on screen, as doc Noah Drake tries to pass himself off as rocker doppelgänger Eli Love. The concert caps a storyline in which Noah and former superspy Anna Devane have grown rather... chummy, yet fans hungry for anything more will have to bide their time. "I really enjoyed working with Rick. He's a lot of fun, a nice, relaxed chilled guy," Finola Hughes, whose latest run as Anna wraps with the concert, tells TVGuide.com. "But we still have a lot of episodes of How Do I Look? [the Style Network show Hughes hosts] to do before the end of the year, and I'm still making jewelry for QVC, which takes up a great deal of my time." Interestingly, it was Hughes' and Springfield's respectively busy calendars that threw them together for this short-term tale. "I feel that’s why it works so well with Rick and I, because he's flying around in and out of tow...
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