Friday, May 22, 2026

Fired “General Hospital” Actor Sues ABC, Lampooned on Colbert, Does Interview with Tucker Carlson, Waves Goodbye to Career

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This is how you tank your Hollywood career after 25 years. You refuse to be vaccinated so ABC fires you from “General Hospital.” (You also post transphobic remarks about a castmate.)

After being fired, you sue ABC, saying they didn’t allow your “religious exemption.” Then you appear not on Fox News but on their crazy right wing other channel, Fox Nation, with conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson.

To make the whole thing perfect, Ingo Rademacher, who played Jax on “General Hospital” on and off since 1996, was lampooned last night by Stephen Colbert for being a “dingus.”

Rademacher will not win his lawsuit, it won’t even get that far. No network will hire him now. No other soap opera will take him. He’s also totally thrown in with whack job Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax campaign, promoting his full-of-fallacies book against Dr. Fauci.

If this happened on a soap they would blame it on a benign brain tumor that would be removed at the 11th hour. But this not a soap, it’s real life, and Rademacher has no respect for his castmates or crew, his fans, or himself. By September he will be recast, and no one will remember who he was.

First, the Colbert video begins at 11:19.

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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