Neighbours Stars Call It ‘G’Day’ On Final Day Filming Australian Soap – Deadline

The lights went out for the final time on Ramsay Avenue yesterday, because the very last scene of Australian cleaning soap Neighbours was put within the can.

Former stars of the present, together with Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Man Pearce had all returned to hitch within the last scenes of the present which had made them family names in Australia and past, however was calling it a ‘G’day’ after 37 years.

Stefan Dennis, the one actor in Neighbours to be with the present from the start (bar a couple of breaks alongside the way in which), informed Australian breakfast programme Studio 10 the expertise of filming the final scenes had been “melancholy.”

He mentioned: “I type of closed the studio door behind me on my final scene, my final dialogue scene and… I abruptly shocked myself by getting extremely emotional.

“I simply saved to myself and went to my dressing room… so I’m holding a really low profile in the present day. I believe I’ll simply be an absolute mess if I type of dangle round too lengthy.”

In addition to Minogue, Donovan and Pearce, the present launched the careers of a number of internationally profitable Australian actors, together with Margot Robbie, Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crowe.

The present’s govt producer Jason Herbison informed the BBC about signing off the present with a bang, not a whimper, revealing: “I used to be actually eager to have an ending that may be fulfilling, joyous and can be very Neighbours – it could really feel satisfying when it comes to the place the characters and the storylines are.”

The choice to complete making the cleaning soap got here after Channel 5, the broadcaster airing the present within the UK, confirmed it could now not be buying the present from Fremantle Media in Australia, and this left too massive a niche within the present’s funding. The scenes filmed this week can be broadcast on August 1.