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‘General Hospital’ First Look at Jonathan Bennett’s Debut — Why He’s Returning to Soaps Now
The actor says the role is a full-circle return to daytime work and follows the early soap training that helped launch his career.
- On Monday, May 18, Jonathan Bennett will make his General Hospital debut as Detective Joe Fitzpatrick, marking a full-circle moment in his daytime television career.
- Daytime television provided early training for Bennett, who recalls his time in Pine Valley as a defining experience where he first played J.R. Chandler in 2001.
- Mean Girls, the 2004 blockbuster where Bennett played Aaron Samuels, transformed him into a millennial pop culture icon and opened doors for his sustained career.
- Since The Christmas House in 2020, Bennett has championed LGBTQ stories on Hallmark Channel, stating his mission is to normalize love that looks like everyone else's.
- Having spent 15 years hosting Food Network shows, Bennett welcomes the fast-paced memorization demands of daytime soaps, finding familiar faces made his transition comfortable.
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‘General Hospital’s’ Jonathan Bennett Knew He Hit the ‘Jackpot’ With New Role as Joe Fitzpatrick
First-look photos of Jonathan Bennett’s new General Hospital role of PCPD officer Joe Fitzpatrick have been released, given GH fans a glimpse of what’s to come when the character makes his debut on Monday’s upcoming May 18 episode. Bennett is coming home to ABC soap operas, after beginning his career as All My Children’s JR Chandler some 25 years ago. The actor/host/producer shared that returning to the rigors of a daytime drama was not on his “…
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