EMMA SAMMS RETURNS TO GH

Emma Samms returns to GH as Holly on April 17 for a short-term arc that picks up the narrative thread of Holly’s quest to safeguard her son, Ethan, and bring her former captor, Victor Cassadine, to justice.

The actress, who is based in the Cotswolds region of England, describes the pace of her comeback as “pretty frantic! It’s been full-on and intense, but it’s been a joy.”

Samms most recently appeared as Holly in late 2022, “so it’s been less than six months since I was last there,” she notes. “But we had sort of touched on the subject [of another return]; Frank [Valentini, executive producer] and I had spoken about the practicalities of it.” For Samms, that includes not only the logistics of traveling and working abroad, but of balancing the show’s frenetic production schedule with her own continuing battle with Long Covid. “I’m very lucky that my husband, Simon [McCoy], is able to come back with me and do some work from here, that he has that flexible schedule,” she says. “That has made all the difference, really. We were thinking, ‘Oh, it would be nice to get a bit of sunshine,’ but we got here and there was a tornado and more rain than L.A. has seen for 100 years or something! So we felt right at home [laughs]. It’s been very interesting weather, but of course, most of the time, I’ve been inside the studio with no windows, anyway! So it doesn’t make any difference.”