THE SCOOP

With word that Robb Derringer would be vacating the role of Special Agent Kyle Sloane on ABC’s “General Hospital,” it was anyone’s guess as to what the soap planned to do with the character. Enter “As The World Turns” alum Grayson McCouch (ex-Dusty Donovan).

Soap Opera Digest is reporting that “GH” has opted to recast the role with the veteran soap star, who starred on Nick @ Nite’s “Hollywood Heights” and UPN’s “Legacy” in addition to stints on “ATWT” and “Another World.” McCouch played Thomas Wayne in the pilot episode of FOX’s “Gotham.”

McCouch is set to begin airing on “GH” sometime in early February.