After over a decade of running daytime serial 'General Hospital' as executive producer, Jill Farren Phelps has been fired. ABC Daytime confirmed the news on Thursday, December 1st after the news broke overnight on Twitter. The embattled exec has endured years of criticisms from industry insiders and fans over decisions that met less than warm receptions. The list of fan-favorite actors/actresses unceremoniously dismissed from the long-running soap over the course of her tenure as EP reads like a "who's who" within the soap genre - Amber Tamblyn, Stephen Nichols, Anna Lee, Stuart Damon, Lindze Letherman, Brad Maule, Ingo Rademacher, Tyler Christopher and Lexi Ainsworth to mention just a few. Former OLTL EP, Frank Valentini has been named as her replacement. Current GH head writer, Garin Wolf, will remain on the soap writing time but not in the HW position. That job will now go to OLTL head writer Ron Carlivati.
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