Daniel Goddard Returns to Daytime in New Role on General Hospital

Daytime hunk and favorite Daniel Goddard (ex-Cane, The Young and the Restless) is finally making his return to daytime television in a new role on long running soap General Hospital. 

Goodard played Cane Ashby on The Young and the Restless from 2007-2019 and was an instant fan favorite. As one half of the couple Lane (Lily Winters) his character was the leading man in many storylines only fit for daytime television. Fans were shocked when it was announced he would not be returning to the popular soap. 

Since leaving the soap opera we have not seen much from him in the way of acting but he has been very active on his social media accounts. Prior to landing the role as Cane, his fans will recognize him from his tv show BeastMaster, a follow up to the film of the same name. He played Dar, a man that could communicate with animals and acted as their protector. 

This new daytime character, Professor Henry Dalton is set to premiere on General Hospital on April 15th. All that is known is that this new character works at Port Charles University. Fans are already speculating that executive producer Frank Valentini created this character specifically for the character of Carly Spencer played by Laura Wright. Carly’s daughter, Josslyn Jacks as well as characters Trina Robinson and Kai Taylor have connections to Port Charles University. 

TV Insider reported on the casting first and spoke to Goddard who had this to say about his character, “He teaches environmental physics, and it seems there are some things in his past that he’s done that have left him in a position of some form of investigation and from there, it’s an absolute mystery to me.”

He is grateful to the daytime television fans for supporting him all these years stating, “an absolute pleasure to be back in daytime” and said “I forever will be grateful to the fans of daytime in general.”

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