Ryan Carnes makes first “General Hospital” appearance as Lucas Jones returns to Port Charles

Ryan Carnes returned to ABC’s General Hospital last Friday in the role of Lucas Jones after nearly a decade away.

His hair is darker than when he was last on the show but he’s even more handsome. Since he last played Lucas, it has been revealed that the character is gay.

Lucas is the adopted son of The character of Lucas is the adopted son of Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Tony Jones (Brad Maule) and the biological son of Julian Jerome (William deVry).

The groundwork for the return of Lucas was laid with Bobbie recently mentioning that her son is living in Seattle looking for the perfect man.

Ryan’s first scenes were with his TV mom and her brother Luke (Tony Geary). A preview shows that he finds out who his biological father is and confronts him.

The character’s dramatic coming out had been portrayed by another actor (Ben Hogestyn) since Carnes left the show in 2005 just before that plot development.

During around the same time as his first stint on General Hospital, Carnes was also playing a gay role during the first few seasons of the ABC show Desperate Housewives.

This followed his first major role as a lead in the gay independent comedy Eating Out which spawned a franchise of four more Eating Out films. Carnes never reprised his role in any of the sequels.