General Hospital spoilers and updates reveal Lucas Jones (Van Hansis) is returning to the show; with a new face. Here is everything fans need to know about Lucas.
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General Hospital Spoilers – Lucas Jones Last Appeared On The Jacklyn Zeman Memorial Show
Lucas last appeared on the Jacklyn Zeman memorial show, who played Bobbie Spencer, played by his most recent previous portrayer Ryan Carnes.
Lucas is a long running character on the show, adopted by Bobbie and Tony Jones (Brad Maule) making him Carly Spencer’s (Laura Wright) younger brother and her children’s’ uncle.
His birth parents were Julian Jerome (William DeVry) and Cheryl Stansbury, (Jennifer Anglin) who was also Tiffany Donelly’s (Sharon Wyatt) sister; also making him Ava Jerome’s (Maura West) nephew by birth.
Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco) is Lucas’ half-sister by birth so he’s tied to the Spencers and the Jeromes. Lucas faced many challenges as he was growing up, including type 1 diabetes and his complicated family history-but eventually, he became a renowned doctor in Port Charles.
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GH Spoilers – Who Has Played Lucas Jones In The Past?
Besides Ryan Carnes, Nicholas Moody played Lucas from 1989-1992, followed by twins Kenny and Chuckie Gravino in the role from 1992-1994. Jay Sacane stepped into the role form 1994-1996, followed by Justin Cooper from 1996-1998.
Logan O’Brien took over from 1998-2002, CJ Thomason from 2002-2003, and Ryan Carnes recurred as Lucas from 2003 until now, with stints in 2004-05; 2014-20; and 2024.
Evan Bonifant played Lucas for a short time in 2002 as well as Ben Hogestyn 2005-2006 and Matt Trudeau from 2020-2021. Van Hansis, formerly Luke Holden on “As The World Turns” steps into the role this time.
General Hospital Spoilers – Lucas Jones Is One Of The Most Powerful Recurring Characters
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Lucas struggled to fit in most of his life with his family, while struggling with his own identity-in particular, his sexual one. He finally came out as gay and in one of the most powerful storylines, married Brad Cooper (Parry Shen) and adopted a newborn baby boy.
Lucas didn’t find out until many months later that their original baby, who they named Wiley Cooper-Jones (Billie Rose Albright) died of SIDS.
Nelle Benson, (Chloe Lanier) convinced Brad to swap the dead baby with hers, Jonah Corinthos who is now known as Wiley Corinthos (Viron Weaver).
In a later twist Wiley Cooper-Jones’ birth mother Willow Corinthos (Katelyn MacMullen) was revealed to be Nelle’s fraternal twin, which made the two babies cousins.
GH Spoilers – Distancing Himself From His Birth Father And Divorcing Brad
Naturally, when the truth came out about Wiley, it caused an unfixable rift between himself and Brad, and they divorced. Lucas has been back and forth from Port Charles a few times, with Brad in other troubles and back and forth as well.
Another pivotal point in Lucas’ family relationships was distancing himself from Julian when he learned of a murder he committed-already being familiar with his criminal past and struggling. His reuniting with his half-sister Sam in 2014 was a much more strong relationship, and a powerful moment as well.
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