General Hospital Spoilers: What’s Really Going On With Finola Hughes?

General Hospital star Finola Hughes, who is best known for her role as Anna on the hit ABC soap, is keeping herself pretty busy both on screen and off. Here’s what’s been going on in her life lately. Keep reading below for everything you need to know!

General Hospital Spoilers: What’s Really Going On With Finola Hughes?

Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, Finola, who has been nominated this year for Outstanding Lead Actress at the Daytime Emmy Awards says she was running errands with her teens when she got the all-important phone call from the executive producer of the soap. She recalled, “My phone rings and my daughter looks at it and says, ‘You need to answer this.’ I looked at my phone and it said, ‘Frank Valentini [executive producer].’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s my boss, I should answer that!’ And it was him saying that I was nominated. I was surprised! I didn’t know that they put me in [the Lead Actress] category, so it was a huge surprise. I didn’t even know the nominations were coming out that day. And then I got a hug from my teenage son, which does not happen very often! So, that was lovely.”

That said, what makes this year’s nomination even sweeter is that she is nominated in the same character as her best friend, The Young and the Restless actress Michelle Stafford. How exciting! Finola said, “Frank said, ‘Michelle is in there with you,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, my!’ So I either texted her or called her immediately, I’m not sure which, and asked her to come as my date.”

General Hospital Spoilers: Finola Is Going To The Daytime Emmys

Finola also says that she still gets butterflies in her stomach at these kinds of events. She said, “I also try very hard just to enjoy the whole thing. I like seeing people and I like hearing the nice, inspiring things that everybody says when they get up there. Being at the Emmys always makes me very happy to be part of the whole daytime family, it really does, and I think just the mere fact of being nominated by your peers is just the most extraordinary thing.”

Needless to say, General Hospital fans will have to tune in to find out what will happen next. General Hospital airs weekdays on the ABC network. Check your local listings for times.

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