Nicole Paggi has agreed to quickly change into Maxie Jones on Basic Hospital. She takes over the function from Kirsten Storms, who might be out for a number of days.
Cleaning soap Opera Digest first broke the information of the casting swap.
Paggi — who performed Kelly Ripa’s niece/Religion Ford’s daughter Sydney within the ABC comedy Hope & Religion — debuted right now on the ABC daytime cleaning soap.
Days of Our Lives vet Storms joined Basic Hospital in 2005 after enjoying Isabella “Belle” Black on the NBC drama from 1999 to 2004.
That is the second such swap of this character. Storms’ Maxie was quickly recast in 2011, with Jen Lilley taking on the half till Storms returned in 2012. Storm additionally took momentary leaves from the present in 2016, 2017 and 2018, starting from a pair days to a several-months hiatus, with Molly Burnett regularly filling in.
Along with her Basic Hospital character, which she additionally portrayed on the offshoot Basic Hospital: Night time Shift, Storms is understood for Disney Channel’s Zenon TV motion pictures and her voice work on Kim Doable.
Paggi’s current TV credit embody episodes of The Rookie: Feds and 9-1-1. She beforehand co-starred on the UPN sitcom One and One.
