Guza on Vanessa Marcil Gionvinazzo: "On Contract Until The Middle of the Summer"
By Jamey Giddens on January 21, 2011
General Hospital scribe Bob Guza took to the pages of ABC Soaps in Depth to address internet rumors about Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo supposedly already wanting to jump off the Port Charles pier and swim outta town!
General Hospital scribe Bob Guza took to the pages of ABC Soaps in Depth to address internet rumors about Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo supposedly already wanting to jump off the Port Charles pier and swim outta town!
"As far as I know, we've got Vanessa for quite a while yet, " says GH headwriter Robert Guza Jr. "She signed a year deal, so I know we have her on contract until the middle of summer at the least."
To find out what Guza has to say about those pregnancy rumors, pick up this week's ABC Soaps in Depth, on sale today.
Photo of Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo by PR Photos
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12 February 2010
2 days 17 hours
Call me whatever you want to, but I am just going to put it out there: If Vanessa DOES decide to jump ship, I won't lose a minute's sleep over it.
I have nothing against her personally, but Guza is trying soooo hard to build the entire show around BRENDA, and it's just not working for me. I am on Brenda overload and a part of me wishes she WOULD leave if it would give the show more balance and allow other characters to be taken off the backburner and given story.
Guza SCREWED up her return story. Period.
"The Brenda Show" has become TIRESOME.
5 July 2008
2 hours 36 min
That Means She Will probably Be On Screen Into August At Least. So End This Balkan Crap & Lets See What Else Brenda Can Do. Maybe It Can Be Saved. Maybe Not.
4 May 2009
21 hours 38 min
GH is such a mess with this Brenda storyline debacle, and the firing of Rebecca Herbst. How does this guy still have a job?
5 July 2008
2 hours 36 min
Got Me & Its Well Known At GH That Guza Not Only Writes But Has His Hat In Casting & Producing as Does Frons. JFP Is Just a figure Head But The Fact That she Let Them Do That To Her Is Unexusable & She Is To Blame For That and GH Sucking as well
16 April 2010
8 weeks 6 days
General Hospitals days are numbered, you watch the ratings drop now, cancellation is only a matter of time.
6 December 2009
16 hours 33 min
I have to agree with alstonboy4315, now I am not a loyal viewer of GH by no means but if I am home I will check it out just because of Laura Wright. I didn't know the "Brenda" when she was originally on GH, but come on when I have peeked in on the show it was pretty boring but the high parts was when I saw Tracy, Luke, Michael, Diane (is a hoot, my favorite new character) watching her on "Cougar" made me watch and any scene that Laura Wright is in with whomever is kicking ass!! Laura acts circles around Vanessa. Laura is a better actress and I do have agree with what I have read about Vanessa being a very over rated soap actress.
20 November 2007
1 day 2 hours
My source tell me she is so out of there!
We are not the only one not liking what we watch!
The same source who told me that RH was out.
24 August 2009
4 weeks 21 hours
The show had no balance before Brenda came back. It would just go back to the imbalance it was before. So its really a wash on whether she stays or go.
20 November 2007
1 day 2 hours
I so agree with you Luke, before everyone was complaining about Jason and sonny eating the show! and now Brenda, same old, same old.
10 February 2009
6 hours 31 min
BUMMER!
But wait, a contract doesn't mean anything at GH, ask Becky!
GH: DEAD BUT FOR THE DYING
19 May 2010
1 year 27 weeks
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I don't blame VM, I would run for the hills too!! What about all the Genie Francis rumors? If I were Genie, I would run away too. What a train wreck!
4 May 2009
51 min 55 sec
The whole show has been written around Brenda so if Vanessa splits Guza is gonna be screwed.
21 June 2010
1 year 31 weeks
I really hope she signs again.
I'm sick of her returning and then leaving again, its rather annoying.
5 July 2008
2 hours 36 min
To Be Fair She left In 2003 Cause They Worked Her TOO MUCH
2 February 2009
2 weeks 23 hours
I'd want out of there if I were VM too. I never got to see VM on GH before she came back in 2010, but was it always this bad? I literally have to fast forward through her scenes with sonny, and can only watch her with other people. To be fair, I fast forward through most of sonny's love scenes anyway, so that's not VM's fault!
1 July 2009
19 hours 28 min
I wouldn't blame VMG one bit if she does leave, this is not the same Brenda I know from back in the day. Laura Wright (Carly) is mopping the floor with her.
I still say she panicked and went back to GH, because she felt she wouldn't get a pilot.
GH is a sinking ship and I won't lose any sleep if she decides to jump.
9 January 2011
1 year 47 weeks
"The Brenda Show" has become TIRESOME.
You know, though I am fairly new here, I read alot of your posts. And I do enjoy them.
Especially when you write how I feel about something!! Keep up the good work!!
9 January 2011
1 year 47 weeks
A contract means NOTHING!!
Bringing her back SUNK what little left of GH there was.
She will be seldom seen I bet. (And hope!) The show is taking on so many new storylines, I can assure you, she won't be the major one after sweeps. (I hope)
21 January 2011
19 weeks 21 hours
As a longtime GH watcher who stopped watching a while ago, I only came back because Brenda is one of the BEST characters on the show and I LOVE Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo!
I was so happy she was coming back but the writing has been horrible and it isn't fair to Brenda or VMG who can do amazing work. She is one of the best and won an Emmy last time she was on. Sorry I don't want her to leave I want them to give her and the whole cast better writing. I hope she stays for a while because it sure wasn't better before she came back and unless they make major changes then it won't be any better if she leaves.
12 February 2010
2 days 17 hours
JAQ---
Thank you for your kind words.
Sam--
Vanessa did NOT deserve that Emmy in 2003. Robin Christopher was ROBBED with a capital BS................
23 June 2009
15 weeks 5 days
As they say in my island, "Que se vaya pal carajo!" I was real excited for her comeback and then I actually sat down and watched. Vanessa GeographicaWatchamacallit Marcil, you owe me some internet bandwidth and some wasted hours. I'm sick of her dumbass-sweater-sleeve-pulling-glazed- doe-eyed-looking-self!
29 September 2010
2 years 8 weeks
It's not Brenda that's not working. It's Brenda and Sonny. IMO, that ship has sailed. GH could save a lot of money by taking Maurice Bernard off contract and putting him on recurring.
12 February 2010
2 days 17 hours
I am a Sonny fan, but I agree----Sonny and Dante need to be put on recurring status for at least 6 months while they restructure the show.
27 December 2007
1 day 1 hour
I don't blame Vanessa Guza wrote her return and it was horrible for her fans this isn't the Brenda they remember...why she was brought back only to ruin a very popular character has many scratching their heads wondering "why?"
..its a classic Guza bait n switch...A lot of her fans I post with are not happy with the "writing" not (Vanessa) Brenda.
29 September 2010
2 years 8 weeks
Alstonboy, I'm not one for looking back, but I couldn't agree more about Robin Christopher and 2003. ABC has never utilized this woman's talents properly, and the one year they did she was robbed.
Given the current climate, she'd be getting fired right now if she was still on one of their soaps.
12 February 2010
2 days 17 hours
6-soaps,
I agree. I remember watching the Emmys that year and hoping that they'd call ANYONE'S name but Vanessa's. She did some good work, don't get me wrong, but her body of work didn't even BEGIN to rival that of some of the other nominees in that category that year.
And I have no problem looking back. Truth is truth for me, no matter how old it is.
21 June 2010
1 year 31 weeks
Eh maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm enjoying her return. Way better then the 2003 return.
SnB are still fire after all these years.
2 April 2008
6 days 5 hours
9 December 2008
1 year 12 weeks
I'm going to be praying that she leaves as soon as that year is up!!!
Sorry, but Brenda isn't the messiah. She don't walk on water. She sinks. Hard.
26 July 2010
2 years 8 weeks
I don't want this to be another negative post. GH is the one soap I feel bad about trashing.
I've always been a Vanessa Marcil fan but I get the impression that Frons and Guza thought it would be enough to just bring her on and, magically, the show's fortunes and ratings would rise again. She had no interaction with anybody from Port Charles when she came back a few months ago; and when she finally did, it felt anti-climactic. They're now trying to make up for lost time by making the show all Brenda all the time. From the looks of things, that isn't going to work.
I'm just a fan, not a soap expert so I don't know what ABC could do to fix this show, aside from trying to find a balance in its storylines. But the suggestions that I hear regularly from Jamey Giddens and others might go a long way towards getting people interested in watching GH again.