We’re sad to announce that Jason is leaving General Hospital. We’d like to wish him the best of luck in his future projects!

Jason Cook, who joined GH in 2008 as Matt, is leaving the soap next month. The actor already has a slew of projects lined up to keep him busy. “I was going to have to take several months off the show for all these other things I’m working on,” he reports. “One would have been this summer, to do LifeCHANGE [his project with Arianne Zucker, Nicole, DAYS] and other shoots, as well as my new cooking show, CHOP THIS. It’s an on-location cooking show with a different restaurant chef showing us a couple of recipes each week. It’s going to start online at chopthis.com. If Genreful [his short film with co-star Bradford Anderson, Spinelli] gets funded, I have that to do, too. So, I am stepping away for the time being. There is no talk about me coming back, but I was going to have to take time off anyway.”

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