Jackson Montgomery's abrupt decision to leave the country last week has some fans wondering if actor Walt Willey is leaving All My Children. While it is not network policy to comment on contract status, published reports state that Willey has been taken off contract and might not return. In short, Jackson's vacation may be much more permanent than originally anticipated.
Fans have no doubt noticed that Willey has lacked storyline since the end of his character's love triangle with Erica Kane and the now-missing-in-action Carmen Morales. Jackson's on-screen familial ties have also been severed with the death of Greenlee Smythe.
Willey joined All My Children in 1987 after having made a series of appearances as an extra. AMC was not his first stop on the daytime dial. A year before arriving in Pine Valley, Willey appeared as Jim LaRusso on Another World and as Ryan's Hope's Joe Novak.
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