Neighbours to introduce suspicious new character in Mel storyline
Neighbours spoilers follow.
Neighbours is set to introduce a suspicious new character in Melanie Pearson’s storyline.
Melanie has a difficult few months, after she had an affair with her ex-husband Toadie Rebecchi, behind the back of his current wife Terese Willis.
But she was left alone when, after their cheating was exposed, Terese decided to give Toadie another chance and work on their marriage.
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After this drama, Melanie decided to take a break from Erinsborough, and in Thursday’s episode (May 9) she decided to take her Drinks Divas van on the music festival circuit for the next five weeks.
Thankfully, Melanie isn’t leaving the show for good, and in a ‘Ramsey Revelations’ clip posted on the Neighbours Instagram, actor Lucinda Cowden revealed that a mysterious new character will be introduced when she returns.
"Things coming up for Mel?" she said. "For a start, I think she absolutely needs to move out of the Kennedys’. Also, she meets somebody – not in a romantic way – while she’s doing these music festivals, and they come back with her. And, I don’t know but maybe there’s something a bit strange about them.
"That’s all I can tell you. I can tell you no more. There are no more revelations coming through here. No spoiling."
Cowden, who has played Melanie on and off since 1987, also opened up about her character’s tricky storyline in recent months.
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She said: "If I think about Mel, what’s happened to her this year… it’s not been good. It’s been really fantastic to sort of flesh Mel out a bit more and it was a gift of a storyline to come back with. Ryan [Moloney] and I worked really hard to make that relationship believable and real and get people on board with it, because it was a difficult relationship on paper to make work, really.
"I think single Mel is interesting, as well. Originally I always thought of her back in the eighties as like your ultimate single friend. Just that mad girl that will do anything with you."
Neighbours releases new episodes from Mondays to Thursdays for free on Amazon Freevee in the UK and US. In Australia, the show airs from Mondays to Thursdays at 4pm on Channel 10, with a 6.30pm repeat screening on 10 Peach.
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