Fortunate Spencer is placing Port Charles in his rearview mirror once more.

Lower than a 12 months after Jonathan Jackson returned because the beloved character, the actor will depart General Hospital, Leisure Weekly confirmed on Friday.

"We had been so glad Jonathan was capable of reprise the position of Fortunate, even when it was for a restricted time," Normal Hospital govt producer Frank Valentini mentioned in an announcement to EW. "We want him nothing however the most effective, and the door is at all times open for Jonathan to return."

Fortunate hinted at his exit — which can come 9 months after he reappeared on the cleaning soap on Aug. 23, 2024 — through the June 5 episode, wherein Fortunate informed his estranged love and ex-wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Herbst), that Port Charles was "not his residence anymore."

Though Fortunate and Elizabeth had just lately rekindled their romance after years of being aside, the Normal Hospital head nurse turned down his shock marriage proposal, explaining that she's come to appreciate that he may by no means be comfortable in a small city when he's used to touring the world. Fortunate introduced he was leaving, admitting that he knew it was sudden, however he mentioned, "Being right here, figuring out that we are able to't be collectively, it simply hurts an excessive amount of."

Followers can count on the daddy of three to make his exit within the coming weeks.

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EW confirmed that Jackson was returning to the long-running cleaning soap opera for the primary time since 2015 again in June 2024. The actor originated the position of Fortunate Spencer, the troubled but noble son of cleaning soap super-couple Luke Spender (Anthony Geary) and Laura Collins (Genie Francis), in 1993. As a Port Charles police detective, Fortunate endured a sequence of tragic storylines over time, together with his struggles with dependancy and the dying of his spouse.

As Fortunate, Jackson has appeared in additional than 380 episodes of the daytime drama. He first departed the present in 1999, with the position going to Jacob Younger after which Greg Vaughan. Jackson then returned to the sequence in 2009 earlier than exiting two years later for a job on the ABC-turned-CMT musical drama Nashville. He briefly returned as Fortunate once more in 2015.

Throughout his run on the cleaning soap, Jackson was nominated for 9 Daytime Emmy Awards, profitable in 1995, 1998, 1999, 2011, and 2012.

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TV Insider first reported Jackson's departure.

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