General Hospital Spoilers April 29, 2024 Through May 3, 2024

Spoilers for the Week of April 29, 2024

05/03/2024 04:45 am

Soaps.com has the latest, new General Hospital spoilers from Monday, April 29, to Friday, May 3. Anna continues to pursue a truth she may not really want to face, while Sonny issues a warning regarding Dex. Elsewhere, Josslyn turns to a friend when she needs to confide in someone, and Drew seems poised to kick off a major new project. Read on for all the details!

General Hospital spoilers week of April 29:

General Hospital spoilers for Monday, April 29:

In today’s General Hospital recap, Ava tells Nikolas about Sonny’s meds, Kristina confirms Dex was ordered to kill Cyrus, and Nina and Drew have sex again.

Ava confides in Nikolas GH

We may finally get a bit more insight into what’s really going on with Ava when she pays Nikolas a visit and choose to confide in him.

Anna hopes Jason may help her uncover the truth about Valentin. But will she ultimately wind up regretting this decision?

Willow is about to receive an offer which could prove life-changing.

John mixes it up with Jason.

Nina may find herself giving in to temptation!

General Hospital spoilers for Tuesday April 30:

In today’s General Hospital recap, Anna realizes Valentin has been lying all along to her about Pikeman, Sasha and Cody share a kiss, and Nina is surprised when Willow decides to give her another chance.

Sasha kisses Cody GH

Will Dex answer honestly when he’s put in the hot seat by Jason? Should be interesting to watch two of Sonny’s former employees interact!

Natalia isn’t exactly one to bite her tongue, so she’s ready to tell Maxie everything that’s on her mind regarding Blaze and her role at Deception!

Sasha needs comfort, and she knows that Cody will be able to provide it for her.

Drew and Nina continue to walk the treacherous line that exists between them when he asks a favor of her.

Valentin has a proposition for Anna.

General Hospital spoilers for Wednesday, May 1:

In today’s General Hospital recap, Elizabeth worries Aiden’s being bullied again, and Natalia makes a bad impression on Alexis.

Liz and Aiden GH

Nina hasn’t had the best run of luck lately, but she’s feeling both hopeful and optimistic today!

So far, we’ve seen Natalia deal with Sonny quite a bit. But today, she’s going to pay Kristina’s other parent, Alexis, a visit!

TJ continues to think he and Molly made a mistake in asking Kristina to be their surrogate. Could Kristina lose TJ and Molly’s baby?

Thinking quickly, Maxie comes up with one of her famous — if not necessarily foolproof — plans.

Why is Elizabeth having to fret about Aiden?

General Hospital spoilers for Thursday, May 2:

In today’s General Hospital recap, Maxie and Lucy agree on who should be Deception’s new spokesmodel, Tracy tests Sasha’s cooking abilities, and Willow makes a decision about her future.

Brook Lynn Face Cream GH

Does the fact that Willow is suddenly questioning her career choices have anything to do with the chat she and Drew had earlier this week?

Cody and Sasha finally decide it’s time to have a cards-on-the-table kind of conversation about their budding relationship.

Will Tracy be open to the advice Gregory offers?

Lois is not only in daughter Brook Lynn’s corner, but steps up to the plate in order to coach her!

General Hospital spoilers for Friday, May 3:

Sonny is clearly still feeling betrayed by Dex, which would explain why he warns son Dante about the guy.

Carly comes to a realization regarding Sonny. (Might she be the person who finally figures out what’s really going on with him?)

Concerns about Kristina are weighing heavily upon several members of her family.

To whom is Drew about to pitch a brand new business project?

Josslyn takes Trina into her confidence.

And view our gallery below to see 20+ plots the stars hated.

— Richard Simms/Amy Mistretta

John Enos, Jess Walton and Jeanne Cooper "The Young and the Restless" Set CBS Television City 12/17/03 ©Aaron Montgomery/JPI 310-657-9661 Episode# 7806

1/22

Katherine’s expression says it all. In the mid-2000s, “there was a storyline in which Jill was supposed to give everything up and go into Witness Protection with Bobby and Brittany,” Jess Walton reminded Soaps.com in 2023. “Brittany and her child were living with Jill and Katherine, and Jill had come to love the baby. So a script came down where Jill said she was going to join them in Witness Protection posing as the child’s nanny.” If that sounds ridiculous to you, it did to the Emmy winner as well. “I couldn’t understand how this wildly over-ambitious woman could even think about giving everything up to raise someone else’s baby!”

Billy Flynn, Galen Gering "Days of our Lives" Set NBC Studios Burbank 06/09/15 © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 12725 U.S.Airdate 11/24/15

2/22

Back in 2015, viewers weren’t the only ones left scratching their heads over the Salem PD detective’s decision to let a snowstorm convince him to bail on rescuing Abigail from Ben. “Chad was like, ‘I’m going to just go myself,'” Galen Gering told <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/wp-admin/_wp_link_placeholder" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> years later. “He was able to save the day. That was very disappointing to me. When you work on a case for a long time, you want to see it through.”

Ally Mills, Jennifer Gareis "The Bold and the Beautiful" Set CBS Television City Los Angeles 7/18/08 ©Aaron Montgomery/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 5388 U.S. Airdate 8/29/08

3/22

As you can see, even Pam soured on all that sweetness. When John McCook and Jennifer Gareis were first paired as Eric and Donna, honey — and the “honey bear” nickname that she gave her lover — became part of the couple’s canon. “Obviously, it was a lot of fun, and the audience enjoyed it years ago,” McCook told Soaps.com in 2023. “But Jennifer and I were both ready to see this love story treated with respect. Donna isn’t just some bimbo Eric fooled around with, he had genuine feelings for her. So we were happy that we got to play these two as a truly loving couple as they faced Eric’s health crisis.”

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4/22

After four years as Alan and Monica’s son, Steve Burton wasn’t feeling challenged enough to stick around and keep playing the same beats anymore as the squeaky-clean Mr. Nice Guy of the Quartermaine family. Thankfully, “Maurice Benard really took me under his wing,” <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/584408/general-hospital-maurice-benard-steve-burton-rare-picture/" target="_blank">the Emmy winner said</a> in 2019, and before Burton could hit the exit, his character was transformed into Sonny’s “stone-cold” right-hand man.

Joshua Morrow, Kelly Sullivan "The Young and the Restless" Set CBS television City Los Angeles 03/22/16 © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 10911 U.S. Airdate 04/29/16

5/22

To this day, Joshua Morrow is still bummed about the decision to kill off Kelly Sullivan as Nick’s wife Sage in 2016. “Honestly, I think that was a huge mistake on the part of the show. It never should have happened,” he told Soaps.com in 2023. “They should have found something else for the character to do.” The MVP can acknowledge that “it was a beautiful story, so on that level, I sort of get it. But all I see is that they took Kelly Sullivan away from our show.” And that part, we don’t get, either!

Deidre Hall, Martha Madison "Days of our Lives" Set NBC Studios Burbank 08/23/21 © XJJohnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 14248 U.S.Airdate 12/23/21

6/22

Soap actors know full well that storylines ebb and flow, and not everyone is going to be front and center all the time. But there comes a point when they have to ask themselves, “Am I ever gonna be tossed the ball again?” Such was the case with Martha Madison. “Over time, Belle just became less and less important. She didn’t get to drive story,” she told Soaps.com in 2023. “I don’t want to be a curtain or wallpaper, just hanging in the background to talk about other characters who are actually driving storyline.”

Kim Matula, Darin Brooks, Scott Clifton "The Bold and the Beautiful" Set CBS Television City Los Angeles, Ca. 10/15/13 © sean smith/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661

7/22

In 2023, Kim Matula <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-bold-and-the-beautiful/news/654028/bold-beautiful-will-kim-matula-return-hope-soaps/" target="_blank">told Soaps.com</a> that during her six-year run as Hope, she wasn’t crazy about the way that, no matter how many times her character got burned, she was drawn to Liam like a moth to a flame. “So often, I wanted to shake her and just be like, ‘You need to get it together, girl! Get over this man who treats you like garbage!'” Matula also couldn’t get on board with Hope’s turn as a waffler. “When she was torn between two brothers, I was like, What? Do you want Wyatt or Liam? Pick a man!’ But of course, that’s not how soaps work.”

Gina Tognoni, Peter Bergman"The Young and the Restless" Set CBS television CityLos Angeles06/26/15© JJohnson/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 10725U.S. Airdate 08/05/15

8/22

Peter Bergman can’t say that he wasn’t challenged by the 2015 arc in which nemesis Victor replaced him with an evil doppelganger. But did it make sense? Eh. “It wasn’t strongly based in anything,” he told <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-peter-bergman-interview-1729788/" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> in 2023. “It was [former headwriter Charles Pratt Jr.] deciding there’s a guy in a prison in South America who looks and sounds exactly like Jack [to the point] that the woman in his life wouldn’t recognize the difference. It was so hard to do, and I was just dying every day trying to make it work.”

9/22

The goal of every pair of lovers is to live happily ever after, right? Except on a soap opera. So once Josslyn and Cameron finally settled into coupledom, it was kinda… pfft. “Personally, William [Lipton] and I found it a little boring toward the end,” <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/722754/eden-mccoy-discusses-josslyn-cheating-on-cameron/" target="_blank">Eden McCoy admitted</a> in 2024. “We were together for a million years in soap opera terms, as I call it. And nothing was really happening [in our storyline].” Which begs the question: If nothing actually happens in a storyline, is it even really a storyline? Get back to us on that one; we’re thinking.

Chris Engen, Yani Gellman "The Young and the Restless" Set CBS Televison City Los Angeles 2/23/09 ©sean smith/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 9115 U.S. Airdate 4/2/09

10/22

After Adam was SORAS’d into an adult, the conniver was set to seduce attorney Rafe in 2009 in order to keep the secret that he’d been gaslighting stepmother Ashley in drag as Victor’s previous wife, Sabrina. Rather than embrace the twists and turns, Adam’s then-portrayer <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/4355/chris-engen-statement-on-quitting-young-and-the-res/" target="_blank">Chris Engen quit the show</a> while insisting that he was not a homophobe. “Many of my dearest friends are homosexuals,” he said. Regardless, “I was not comfortable with many of the challenges they presented before me… In the end, I didn’t feel that decisions were being made in my best interests, personally or professionally.” As of this writing, Engen’s last IMDb credit had been added just three years after his exit.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES, from left: Drake Hogestyn, Eileen Davidson, john kristen priest possession

11/22

From demonic possession to shapeshifting masks to “Hey, today you’re a priest!” the Peacock soap is well known but not always well loved for its logic-defying twists of plot. Especially when they are being used to tear apart a couple that we all know belongs together. “The hardest obstacles,” Drake Hogestyn told <a href="https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-drake-hogestyn-and-deidre-hall-interview/" target="_blank">Soap Opera Digest</a> in 2018 — and choosing his words with care — “were sometimes with some of the stories that I don’t know were written a way that played to our strengths. And that is where some of the waters got muddied… ”

Lindsay Korman and Travis Schuldt Passions set Radford Studios 1/17/01 © Jesse Grant/JPI 310-657-9661 Episode #0415

12/22

There would have been no point to objecting to the storylines on this whackadoo soap, they were so out-there. But what its cast could’ve done without was the on-screen days that went on for weeks of taping. “We all committed to wearing clothes for 30 days,” <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/passions/news/626062/passions-lindsay-hartley-crazy-plots-will-cancelled-soap-return/" target="_blank">laughed Lindsay Hartley</a>, who played trouble magnet Theresa for the entirety of the show’s run. “I’ll never forget my engagement party. I had this peach dress with rhinestones.” By the time the shindig was finally a wrap, “I remember thinking, ‘I don’t ever want to see this dress again!'”

Katherine Kelly Lang, Thorsten Kaye "The Bold and the Beautiful" Set Wedding CBS Television City Los Angeles, Ca. 02/05/20 © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661

13/22

Our best attempt at counting the number of times that Ridge and Brooke have tied the knot is eight — and that’s just with each other. So the never-ending game of ring toss has to end, in Thorsten Kaye’s estimation. “It’s time for them to stop with this back-and-forth,” he told Soaps.com in 2023. “Being married doesn’t mean you’re boring, and at some point, it has to stop being about Ridge always chasing another woman. There are plenty of other challenges they can face if they’re going to be together. And obviously, they are going to be together, because, as one of them has to say every couple of days, it’s their destiny. Although honestly, given how often they’ve cheated or divorced or whatever, I’m not sure that word means what they think it means.”

spencer bechtel chavez Howard Wise/JPI, ABC

14/22

The late, great Jeanne Cooper was not a fan of Soap-Opera Rapid-Aging Syndrome, whether on her show or any other. “What took a wrong turn,” the Young & Restless <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/27485/the-young-and-the-restless-interview-jeanne-cooper/" target="_blank">legend told Soaps.com in 2012</a>, “is taking all the 7-year-olds and turning them into 25-year-olds. You know, you walk upstairs, you’re 7 years old, you come downstairs and you’re 17.” (Or in the case of General Hospital youngster Spencer, you go off to boarding school and come back a hunk.) Katherine’s portrayer figured out the perfect way to solve that problem, though, at least for herself. Not only did she avoid boarding schools, but “I stopped going up my stairs,” she said with a laugh. “I don’t have that kind of time to spare!”

Courtney Hope, Joshua Morrow "The Young and the Restless" Set CBS television City Los Angeles 08/03/22 © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 12449 U.S. Airdate 09/14/22

15/22

It isn’t so much a storyline that Courtney Hope hasn’t liked as much as what viewers have extrapolated from the plots in which Sally has gotten twisted on both her current show and Bold & Beautiful. “I’m obviously very protective of [my character],” she told Soaps.com in 2024. So “I don’t love that some people think of her as a gold digger. She is 100 percent not. She has the wherewithal to do it on her own, and she deserves that. And often, when the men in her life offer her money, she fights it.” Not necessarily to the bitter end, however. As a result, “I would love for her to be able to rely on the street smarts and experience that she’s gained just from living the life she’s lived.”

Paul Telfer, Eric Martsolf "Days of our Lives" Set NBC Studios Burbank 02/14/23 © XJJohnson/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 14663 U.S.Airdate 08/17/23

16/22

While Eric Martsolf would be the last person to begrudge anyone a frontburner storyline, he did lament to Soaps.com in 2024 that Alex and Xander’s feud had nearly KO’d Brady’s family ties. “His roots have been slightly disregarded in that sense. So I do think it’s important to remind the audience that he is a player in the Kiriakis family and has a lot of history in that department. You forget how much Brady is a Kiriakis just because his last name is Black. It tends to get overlooked. But his mother was Isabella Kiriakis. He’s ingrained in that family and, hopefully, will continue to be.”

ANOTHER WORLD, from left: Victoria Wyndham, Charles Keating, 1990s, 1964-1999. ph: E.J. Carr /© NBC /Courtesy Everett Collection

18/22

To put it mildly, Laura Wright and Steve Burton were not ape over the 2006 storyline that found Carly and Jason chasing after a chimp that was believed to be source of Port Charles’ encephalitis outbreak. “The monkey” was the worst, Burton said in 2017. “Everyone knows that <a href="https://www.soapsindepth.com/posts/abc/general-hospital-laura-wright-steve-burton-146314" target="_blank">we hated the monkey</a>!” The feeling wasn’t mutual, however. The vets’ simian co-star loved Burton… or at least “the monkey loved Steve’s shoes,” Wright recalled. “He would just kiss his feet and chew on his feet!”

Eric Braeden, Sharon Case"The Young and the Restless" Set CBS television CityLos Angeles06/20/12©sean smith/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 9961U.S. Airdate 08/01/12

19/22

The year that Victor married Sharon, who’d previously been hitched to both of his sons, viewers balked, and so did Jeanne Cooper. “I can’t buy that. Even the thought that he would do it… turns him into a sort of lascivious old man,” Katherine’s much-missed portrayer <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/27485/the-young-and-the-restless-interview-jeanne-cooper/" target="_blank">told Soaps.com</a> with a laugh. “‘Everybody, bring your daughters indoors, Victor’s out tonight!'” The Emmy winner was able to see a couple of silver linings to the twist, however. Eric Braeden “just swallows hard and charges ahead with it,” she marveled. And “Sharon Case is a comedian from the word ‘go,’ and she’s never had the chance to express that except now.”

20/22

Although “Cin” shippers might gasp at the the mere thought, Victoria Konefal wasn’t altogether thrilled that Ciara and Ben’s pairing became so mega-successful in the late 2010s. “The problem with being part of a supercouple is that the audience doesn’t want to see you with anyone else. Not only romantically but even in scenes with other characters,” she once lamented to Soaps.com. “Some viewers only want to see Ben and Ciara in scenes together, period. That makes me a little crazy, to be honest!”

Maura West, Bryan Craig, Haley Erin "General Hospital" Set The Prospect Studios ABC Studios 09/22/15 ¬© Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 13410 U.S. Airdate 10/12/15

21/22

In 2016, Ava swapped out ex-lover Morgan’s bipolar medication with placebos in hopes of protecting daughter Kiki by keeping her from dating the next-gen mobster. Maura West told Soap Opera Digest in 2023 that she had to focus on her character’s fear that the relationship put Kiki in danger. “That’s how I could sell it to myself… I didn’t love that, to be honest. But I don’t have to love everything that Ava does, I just have to do it as best I can.”

22/22

“Everyone knows that’s kind of a standard joke with Peter Bergman,” the actor himself told <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/11/25/young-and-the-restless-peter-bergman-30-years-jack-abbott/4253741002/" target="_blank">USA Today</a> in 2019. “Just bring up Keemo, and he starts to wince.” Yeah, we know. The mid-1990s storyline in which it was revealed that Jack had served in Vietnam and unknowing had a son with lost love Luan was, to put it mildly, not his favorite. “That came from far left field,” he said later, speaking with Soap Opera Digest, “and smacked me alongside the head.” It wasn’t the character of Keemo that Jack disliked, of course, but the WTF-ness of the twist. So now, “whenever I am displeased with a storyline,” he laughed to <a href="https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/news/2013/0403-bergman.php" target="_blank">SoapCentral</a> in 2013, “all I have to do is think ‘Keemo,’ and I realize how bad things could get.”

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