Nicole Paggi has agreed to briefly develop into Maxie Jones on General Hospital. She takes over the function from Kirsten Storms, who will probably be out for a number of days.
Soap Opera Digest first broke the information of the casting swap.
Paggi — who performed Kelly Ripa’s niece/Faith Ford’s daughter Sydney within the ABC comedy Hope & Faith — debuted in the present day on the ABC daytime cleaning soap.
Days of Our Lives vet Storms joined General Hospital in 2005 after taking part in Isabella “Belle” Black on the NBC drama from 1999 to 2004.
This is the second such swap of this character. Storms’ Maxie was briefly recast in 2011, with Jen Lilley taking on the half till Storms returned in 2012. Storm additionally took non permanent leaves from the present in 2016, 2017 and 2018, starting from a pair days to a several-months hiatus, with Molly Burnett continuously filling in.
In addition to her General Hospital character, which she additionally portrayed on the offshoot General Hospital: Night Shift, Storms is thought for Disney Channel’s Zenon TV motion pictures and her voice work on Kim Possible.
Paggi’s latest TV credit embody episodes of The Rookie: Feds and 9-1-1. She beforehand co-starred on the UPN sitcom One and One.