Bryan Craig Is Returning to General Hospital — But Not for Good

Bryan Craig returns General Hospital eight years after he left the show.

The actor, 32, will reprise his role as Morgan Corinthos for a cameo on the ABC soap this summer, a rep confirmed to PEOPLE.

Although he’ll only be back for one episode, fans will be pleased as they’ve been anticipating his return since the show’s executive producer teased the male character’s return at the Daytime Emmys earlier this month, according to ABC 7 .

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Craig recently also hinted at his return, as first reported by TVLine. Last week he posted a slideshow on Instagram showing what he’s been up to lately – and the last slide featured a picture of him on General Hospital set.

Fans went wild in the comments, wondering if he was telling them he would be returning to the hit series.

“I hope the last shot is a hint of ‘Morgan is coming back’!!! We need him back!” one person wrote.

Another commented: “I’m going to cry if this means what I think it means.”

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Craig left the long-running series in 2016 after three years when his character was killed in a car bomb. He made a brief return in 2018 in a vision, but has not appeared in the series since.

“You know from the beginning when your contract is up, and I guess we started talking seriously about it when my fourth-year option came up, there were a couple of big projects that I got close to while I was at GH,” He said Soap opera summary 2016 “Both my manager and I kind of decided it was time to get back out there.”

(left to right) Kristen Alderson, Bryan Craig and Chad Duell.

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It’s unclear how he’ll re-introduce himself for his upcoming gig, but Craig has been busy since his departure from General Hospital.

In addition to assuming roles in Bravery and Big hotel, was a regular at Good trouble for the final two seasons before the series finale in March. He also starred in Netflix It’s Cupid movie 2022

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General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC (check local listings).

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