Ingo Rademacher
After 15 years on General Hospital, Ingo Rademacher is taking a well-earned vacation to Hawaii.
The Aussie actor will guest-star in an episode of Hawaii Five-0, TVLine reports.
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Vanessa Marcil-Giovinazzo
She said she'd only stick around a year and she damn well meant it. Emmy-winning diva Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo will conclude her current run as Brenda on General Hospital the week of July 18. The star gave TV Guide Magazine the scoop on her exit, what she really thinks about the way Brenda's return was written and the likelihood of coming back. You'll be surprised which character VGM wants Brenda to bed next!...
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Vanessa Marcil and Elvis Martinez
General Hospital has devastated — okay, outraged — many of its viewers with the accidental hit-and-run death of four-year-old Jake Spencer, an unthinkable tragedy compounded by the revelation that Jake's killer was his own grandfather, Luke (Tony Geary). Now, thankfully, here's some good news on the Port Charles kiddie front: On April 5, heroine Brenda Barrett (Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo) will come ...
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Laura Wright
It's the confrontation of the century! Okay, so I exaggerate but not by much. On October 22, General Hospital fireball Carly Jacks (Laura Wright) will come face to face with the woman who's been making her life a living hell. That would be Brenda Barrett (Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo), the desperately needy international supermodel who recently returned to Port Charles and has all of Carly's men (Jax, Sonny, Jason) uncontrollably obsessed. But don't assume mantrap Brenda has the upper hand here. "Carly will eventually get the keys to the kingdom," GH head writer Bob Guza tells TV Guide Magazine. "She will wind up with the ammunition that can completely destroy Brenda in Port Charles." But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We spoke with the fantastic and woefully underappreciated Laura Wright — not one damn Emmy nomination ever! — to get her take on the long-awaited ...
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Ingo Rademacher and Laura Wright by Michael Yarish/ABC
TV Guide soaps columnist Michael Logan's Sept. 3 "Suds Alert" called into question the "outcry" over Irina's sexual assault of Jax on General Hospital. That, in turn, elicited a passionate response from many GH fans. Here is Logan's latest take on the controversial matter:"Bang! Zoom! I've been assaulted with e-mails from General Hospital fans furious at my remarks about their guy Jax. They started out PO'd because the character was tortured and forced into sex with a female villain, and that GH then tried to play it as a marital infidelity rather than rape. And now the Jaxanistas hate me for pointing out that they never raise this sorta stink when women are victimized on soaps. People, please! Years ago GH became a show primarily about gang wars and the sordid side of life — a stylistic commitment that sets it apart from all other soaps. Mobsters are heroicized, terrorists are forgiven, and women are disposable possessions. (Saintly hit man Jason recently threatened to kill hi...
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Eva La Rue and Ingo Rademacher, General Hospital
Scoop! Ingo Rademacher will definitely leave General Hospital when his contract expires in May. What's more, TVGuide.com has learned that the role of Jax is being recast. The ABC sudser has sent out a casting call for "Hugo," a handsome bloke in his thirties who speaks with an Australian accent. An extremely reliable source tells me, "Hugo, Schmugo. It's Jax."
The popular Rademacher joined
GH in 1996 as Aussie businessman Jasper "Jax" Jacks and romanced several leading ladies, most memorably
Vanessa Marcil's Brenda. He briefly left in 2000 to star on
Aaron Spelling's blink-and-you-missed-it prime-time soap
Titans, and returned to
GH the following year. The show's rep had no comment on Ingo's latest departure.
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