Nicole Paggi has agreed to briefly turn out to be Maxie Jones on Normal Hospital. She takes over the position from Kirsten Storms, who might be out for just a few days.
Cleaning soap Opera Digest first broke the information of the casting change.
Paggi — who performed Kelly Ripa’s niece/Religion Ford’s daughter Sydney within the ABC comedy Hope & Religion — debuted at the moment on the ABC daytime cleaning soap.
Days of Our Lives vet Storms joined Normal Hospital in 2005 after enjoying Isabella “Belle” Black on the NBC drama from 1999 to 2004.
That is the second such change of this character. Storms’ Maxie was briefly recast in 2011, with Jen Lilley taking up 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 often filling in.
Along with her Normal Hospital character, which she additionally portrayed on the offshoot Normal Hospital: Evening Shift, Storms is thought for Disney Channel’s Zenon TV motion pictures and her voice work on Kim Attainable.
Paggi’s current TV credit embrace episodes of The Rookie: Feds and 9-1-1. She beforehand co-starred on the UPN sitcom One and One.
