“General Hospital” Recasts Spinelli, Bradford Anderson Books “Homeland” Role | TVLine 

, which opens its New York City-based Season 6 on Sunday, Jan. 15, the five-time Daytime Emmy nominee says he will appear in multiple episodes; characters details were not available during this holiday week.

alum Blake Berris will step into the role of

‘s Spinelli for a few episodes starting in mid-January, a spokesperson for the ABC sudser confirms.

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Addressing the recast sitch, Anderson said on his Facebook page that landing a gig on

, a show he has “watched and loved since it began,” is “pretty exciting. The unfortunate part is that it conflicted with some episodes of

that I was supposed to do, and I had to back out of those episodes. To make it even worse, it all happened last minute. I put

a very difficult position and for that I am incredibly sorry.

“GH took whatever steps they needed to proceed without me,” by swapping in Berris, he continued. “My plea to you is to be compassionate, understanding, and appreciative of whatever decisions they made. If anything looks or sounds different than you’re used to, understand that it’s because of a decision that I made. The situation was created by ME.”

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Exactly! He isn’t on contract or recurring status on the show, so what can they do. This is a really high profile opportunity- he’s gotta go for it.

That’s great news for both actors. Curious to see Blake’s style of Spinelli. Tough shoes to fill but I’m sure he’ll do great!!

I’ll never forget his part on Breaking Bad. Very small part but memorable.

Wow. OLD news. This has been well known in the soap world for at least a week now!

Holidays, but I thought BA deserved the mainstream coverage, “late” or not. (Plus, I was waiting/hoping to get details on his Homeland character.) But I can easily delete this, just say the word, RS….

I had already read about it but was stoked to see it here. BA definitely deserves the attention.

I think it is great that you and tvline give coverage to soaps and their actors . I know you are/ were soap fans and/or reporters.

No, no, don’t delete, I’m glad he got the attention though. You guys are truly the best out there…just a shame you didn’t get it first as you do most things.

There are entire magazines and websites that cover [the four] soap operas and nothing but [the four] soap operas. They absolutely

I love that actors who are on daytime shows get coverage in publications such as this one whether it be later or not. For the longest time, there has been this unfair stigma around those who act in daytime and those who watch daytime, but it does feel that slowly that stigma is being stripped away.

I appreciate your post. I had heard of Berris filling in but I didn’t know the reason behind it until I read your post.

Really, Fan? Other than a few rumors on fan boards, I didn’t see any official confirmation of this until Monday. Most soap sites reported this on Monday as well. I’m just glad a mainstream TV site is mentioning it at all.

Good for the actor, but as of now I can’t really want to see anyone else play the role.

Happy for Bradford. I wish Blake were on a show like Homeland he deserves to be a star he was outstanding on DAYS.

Blake Berris would be great stepping in for the Bradford Anderson role of Spinelli on GH starting next month. Really sad when Blake’s character Nick Fallon got killed off on Days of Our Lives and I did remember him when he had a guest starring role on Breaking Bad.

As much as I’ve loved watching BA in this role, I’m excited to see what Blake Berris does with Spinelli even if only for a few episodes. For those GH fans who aren’t familiar with him you are in for a treat.

That’s unfortunate for those of us that are faithful GH fans~ like myself for as long as I can remember. I even bought Spineli’s book years ago and was so hoping to have him autograph it one day. I really find it hard to believe the character of Spineli can be replaced. But then again I had a hard time when Stephen Burton aka Jason Morgan could be replaced. And the new Jason is ok~ but it’s still not the same. But I continue to be that GH fan. Only daytime soap I record. I tried watching the other soap that Stephen Burton went to but the character was not like Jason~ and I couldn’t watch it anymore. Just like if Sonny left GH he could never be replaced. Don’t care for this Nelly character at all.. The show needs to get back to being exciting again..

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