Kelly Monaco is about to exit Basic Hospital after greater than twenty years on the hit ABC daytime cleaning soap opera, a supply solely tells Us Weekly.
Monaco, 48, will bid farewell to the city of Port Charles by means of a narrative line this fall, the insider tells Us. Cleaning soap Opera Community was first to report the information of her departure.
Monaco has performed the function of Sam McCall on Basic Hospital since 2003. Beforehand, she portrayed Livvie Locke on the cleaning soap Port Charles. She was nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards for the collection in 2003 and Basic Hospital in 2006.
Monaco competed within the first season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars 19 years in the past, in the end successful the coveted Mirror Ball trophy. In 2012, she was a contestant within the collection’ All Stars version. She and her professional dance companion, Val Chmerkovskiy, positioned third that point round. (Afterward, Chmerkovskiy made a cameo on Basic Hospital as a boxer.)
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In 2017, Monaco returned to Dancing With the Stars to carry out the rumba with Terrell Owens and dance professional Cheryl Burke.
Earlier this 12 months, actress Lindsay Hartley crammed in for Monaco throughout an episode of Basic Hospital. Hartley had beforehand stepped in for the longtime star for a handful of episodes in 2020 and 2022.
Monaco appeared within the present’s sixtieth anniversary primetime particular in January. She and Chmerkovskiy, 38, reunited for the event.
“I put my dancing sneakers again on for the @GeneralHospital primetime particular (that includes a particular look by @valentin),” she captioned a pic of herself and the dancer through Instagram. “’Basic Hospital: 60 Years of Stars and Storytelling’ airs tomorrow (January 4th) at 10pm on ABC. Don’t miss it!”
