After Common Hospital launched its new and surprisingly blond John “Jagger” Cates within the February 2 episode, Antonio Sabàto Jr. took to social media to supply what he known as “the one reality about what’s occurring” — after which deleted the Instagram video by which he did so.
Fortunately, Michael Fairman TV transcribed his message earlier than it went bye-bye. In it, the actor stated that he’d “been requested by… tens of millions all around the world, not simply in America and in North America, however all around the world, about coming again to [the daytime drama] for 30 years… ” In all that point, “I’ve by no means been requested to return again on Common Hospital… The producers at Common Hospital, ABC and Disney, they know the place to seek out me. They know the place I’m.”
Technically, Sabàto was requested again — and he reprised the function that he’d performed from 1992-95 — simply 15 years in the past within the second season of SOAPnet’s Common Hospital: Night time Shift spinoff. Regardless, he doesn’t want the job. In 2020, he instructed Variety that his political beliefs had gotten him “blacklisted. All my representatives left me, from brokers to managers to business brokers. I actually needed to transfer, discover a new job to outlive and handle my children.”
Now, nevertheless, “I’m doing very nicely,” he stated. “I’m not begging to return on the present. This isn’t about that. I’ve many careers. I’m nonetheless performing very nicely… ”
As for the hiring of Adam J. Harrington, Sabàto instructed that “they name him John [instead of Jagger] as a result of they know that the character’s solely been performed by me ’trigger it’s a part of who I’m. It’s my life… I gave all the things I’ve to that character and I’d nonetheless do…
“So that is on them hiring a brand new particular person, which is okay. They may do no matter they need,” he continued. “However hey… to invest or to say, , I ruined my profession… no, that’s not it. So now the reality. I’m gonna go away this on the market so that you can see.”
Maybe in time, the video will reappear on Sabàto’s Instagram web page. Within the meantime, see what issues the incoming headwriters of Common Hospital have to deal with first in our photograph gallery that makes up their to-do listing.
