What happened to Josslyn on General Hospital? The recasting, explained

Publish date: 2024-05-09

On Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, General Hospital audience had been shocked to find out one in all their favorite characters, Josslyn Jax, was recast. Actress Courtney Fulk took over the phase from Eden McCoy, and questions stay about what triggered the move on the part of the show’s manufacturers.

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Uncertainty as to what happened to “Joss” Jax was once deepened because less than a week ahead of McCoy stepped back from the phase, she appeared at the 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, where she received Outstanding Younger Performer for the role of Joss, suggesting McCoy and the General Hospital team stay in good status.

So, to explain things, fans took to X, formerly Twitter.

Late to things: is Eden Mccoy taking day without work because dropping her mum/college or is this an everlasting replacement? Main reason I ask is cos GH supporting winners most often get them AFTER they leave (Julie Bermen/Lulu) or cross away. #GH #GeneralHospital

— JimGamgee 🏴‍☠️ (@ComputerBlu3121) December 18, 2023 by way of JimGamgee/X

To make issues extra complicated, General Hospital has made no professional observation about McCoy’s departure and Fulk’s — brief, we are hoping — arrival.

Eden McCoy lost her mom in November 2023

With no authentic reason for what’s been broadly reported as just a brief move, again in Nov. 2023, Eden McCoy posted on Instagram that she lost her mom to most cancers, so McCoy can have taken time without work to grieve.

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McCoy even mentioned her mom in her 2023 Daytime Emmy Awards speech.

“This is for and because of my mom. It’s not misplaced on me what an absolute privilege it is to be ready to do something not simplest I really like to do but love to do for a residing, and I love what I do. It’s really simple to be grateful on nights like this, but I'm thankful every day,” she said (via TV Insider).

With that, we feel assured that, sooner than lengthy, the award-winning actress will return to the part. In the interim, if McCoy’s alternative, Courtney Fulk, appears to be like familiar, you’re right: She’s no newcomer, with credit together with Killer Seduction, Killer Cheer Mom, and the upcoming film The Devil’s Ride.

As for Eden McCoy, she premiered in the part of Joss Jax on General Hospital in 2015 and appeared in seven hundred episodes earlier than Fulk changed her.

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