Jonathan Jackson will be missing from General Hospital beginning on Tuesday, February 18, but fans have no reason to fear — Lucky Spencer will be back in Port Charles soon.
Jackson, 42, the actor who portrays Lucky, will miss a “handful” of episodes but is expected to return to General Hospital later this month, Soap Opera Digest reported. The outlet added that Jackson has already returned to filming and that no reason was given for his absence.
Guy Wilson, who portrayed Will Horton on Days of Our Lives from 2014 to 2015, will step in while Jackson is away. It will be the second stint for Wilson, 39, on General Hospital, having previously played a young version of Lucky’s late father, Luke, during a fantasy sequence in 2006.
In Wilson’s first episode, Lucky and ex-wife Elizabeth are set to meet their son Aiden’s love interest, Tobias, whom he has spoken about since coming out on the show in 2023. The actor portraying him has not been announced.
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Jackson’s brief hiatus comes just six months after he returned to the show in August 2024.
Lucky was first introduced as a character on General Hospital in 1993 when the five-time Emmy winner was only 10 years old. He portrayed Lucky until 1999, when he handed the character off to Jacob Young and later Greg Vaughan. He returned to the show in 2009 to play the character for two more years, before leaving again in 2011.
His 2024 return marked the end of a nine-year absence (Jackson made a guest appearance in 2015), and he signed a multi-year contract upon his return.
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“I’m super excited and I can’t wait to dig in and see what’s going on in Port Charles,” he said via Instagram last June, shortly after the show announced his return. “I’m excited to see Genie Francis, obviously, and so many others. I just wanted to say thank you to all of the fans over the years. Your persistence and love has certainly played a part in all of this so I just wanted to say thank you.”
Outside of acting, Jackson has kept plenty busy. He’s the frontman of the rock band Enation, which he formed with fellow actor Richard Lee Jackson in 2003. He is also an author, releasing a poetry book in 2012 and The Mystery of Art in 2014, which examined the intersection of art and Christianity.
General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC with old episodes available to stream on Hulu.
