General Hospital’s 2026 exits: every star who’s left so far
Port Charles is losing familiar faces fast in 2026. General Hospital has already logged a wave of exits—some shocking, some long expected—that are rewriting romances and rivalries. Here’s who’s gone so far, and how their goodbyes are reshaping the canvas.
Soap operas lose characters like my local pub loses staff: constantly, and usually with just enough drama to make you raise an eyebrow. 'General Hospital' isn’t just clinging on after all these years, it’s thriving on the chaos in Port Charles—love triangles, kidnappings, family feuds, that kind of malarkey. No surprise, then, that 2026 has already seen a string of familiar faces disappearing from the GH corridors, for reasons ranging from tragic story arcs to good old-fashioned real-life priorities.
Who’s left General Hospital in 2026?
- Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones): Maxie bowed out on 13 March. Storms put out a note on Instagram suggesting she’s probably not coming back to LA, thanks to some personal upheaval. It sounds, genuinely, like a proper exit rather than a soap-style ‘see you in six weeks’ sort of thing.
- Marc Forget (Pascal): Pascal had to scarper after Marco was murdered—he didn’t fancy sticking around to becomesuspect number one. Yes, it’s as melodramatic as it sounds. Forget's last bit of screen time was earlier this month.
- Elliott Carr (Rocco): Last seen in his Nurse Grant guise, looking after Jack at Turning Woods. If you blinked, you might have missed him.
- Maxwell Caulfield (Apollo): Apollo popped up as an NYC art dealer in scenes with Alexis on the 29 May episode. Brief and businesslike—think art, not heart.
- Kate Mansi (Kristina): Kristina’s exit was all about heading to medical school—on screen. Off screen, though, Mansi admitted she’d just hit the point where a change was due and wanted to try new things. Nice when the soap plot and real life almost line up, for once.
- Steve Burton (Jason): Jason left (again) earlier this year, this time supposedly to spend more time with his wife and family—well, Jason’s family, but also Burton’s in real life. But, as ever, he’s due back next month. You can set your watch by his comings and goings.
- Michael E. Knight (Martin Grey): Martin up and left Port Charles in March, apparently just because he landed a new client. No mobsters, no drama, just paperwork. Very un-soap but there it is.
- Patrick Scott Lewis (Ezra Boyle): If you noticed someone else playing Ezra in March, you weren’t imagining things. Daniel Cosgrove, the usual Ezra, couldn’t get to the studio—his flight was grounded in snow—so Lewis filled in for a couple of episodes.
- Cosette Abinante (Scout Chain): Scout was last seen dropping in on her dad Drew back in March.
- Lily Cardone (Delilah Wilson): Delilah died after giving birth to her daughter on 4 March. Classic soap: tragedy plus new life in one scene.
- Wes Ramsey (Peter August): Peter’s exit wasn’t so much an exit as a ghostly return. Anna hallucinated him during the 23 January episode. Ramsey turned up just long enough to haunt her conscience, basically.
- Anders Hove (Cesar Faison): Villains never really leave. In Hove’s case, Faison’s voice echoed menacingly over a loudspeaker to threaten Anna on 16 January. Just a disembodied threat, but enough to remind you he’s not gone for good.
- Jon Lindstrom (Kevin): Kevin’s off on an international babysitting assignment: Laura asked him to take Ace abroad to keep him out of Sidwell’s reach. His last appearance was way back on 5 January.
There’s one classic quote out of the bunch worth highlighting—Kirsten Storms on Instagram, addressing her future with the show:
'It’s highly unlikely I’ll be headed back to Los Angeles or back to the show. Some things are more important than any storyline.'
If you’re trying to keep tabs, that’s your lot (for now). Yes, half the cast seems to be coming and going like it’s a revolving door, but it’s par for the course in soapland.