Well, it is a nice shock.
Walt Willey is returning to daytime TV and reprising one in every of his most beloved roles.
Soap Opera Digest experiences that the All My Children alum has closed a deal to star on General Hospital.
And get this:
Willey will likely be enjoying Jackson Montgomery!
Cool, proper?
It’s at all times good when a personality we thought was lengthy gone will get to stage a comeback lengthy after the sequence has ended.
Willey joined the solid of All My Children in 1987 and stayed put till the 2011 sequence finale on ABC.
This isn’t the primary time Willey has performed Jackson in one other sequence.
He appeared in The City in 1996, so this would be the third sequence the actor has performed the identical position.
Plot particulars are being stored below wraps about what brings Jackson to Port Charles, however will probably be attention-grabbing to discover out what occurred to him following the conclusion of All My Children.
There can be scope for intel on what turned of different characters, in order that must be attention-grabbing, proper?
There has been a sign that ABC is all in favour of a primetime revival of All My Children.
The final we heard about was from Kelly Ripa, who mentioned it’s nonetheless in improvement however hinted that it was not a high precedence for the community.
“Hopefully, it comes back and hopefully sooner rather than later because, for me, that’s really, you know, that, to me, is the thing that I care about the most because All My Children is responsible for every good thing that happened to me in my life,” Ripa mentioned final summer time.
Pine Valley was to be a primetime continuation of the beloved daytime cleaning soap.
The sequence was then set to focus on a younger reporter with a secret agenda who arrives on the town to deliver Pine Valley’s lethal historical past to mild.
The younger journalist will get tied up in a feud between the Santos and Kane households.
We can hope that the venture sees the sunshine of day.
Until then, we’ll be ready to be taught extra about Jackson’s storylines in Port Charles.
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