Inside Neighbours star Ben Turland's life - AGT stint, rival soap and co-star pals

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Neighbours. The 23-year-old actor joined the Aussie soap in 2019, playing the bad boy son of business tycoon Pierce.He rocked up in Erinsborough having just been booted out of boarding school, and since then the character has been involved in his share of juicy storylines.But while fans of the show are well versed in Hendrix' antics on Ramsay Street, less is known about the actor who plays him.So we have a look at Ben's life before Neighbours and what he gets up to when he's off screen.The actor also has a serious dance pedigree.Ben, who grew up in Mittagong in New South Wales, has been dancing for many years and in 2012 he and his dance group appeared on the show Young Talent Time.He went on to land several dance jobs, and not long afterwards he showed off his moves on Australia's Got Talent.The star auditioned for the programme in 2014 and made it all the way to the semi-finals.

He told Radio Times in 2020 that he had a "huge kind of a realisation" while he was competing on the show. "I realised that even if you work your hardest, maybe it's where not where you're meant to be," he said."So it was after that I started really pursuing acting because I thought maybe you're not going to go down the path you think you're going to go down."But that was a lot of fun.

I wasn't going to school much, I was dancing 3-4 days a week, full time." Neighbours wasn't Ben's first journey into soapland, as he previously appeared in fellow Australian serial Home And Away.

The actor starred in the programme in 2016 in what was one of his significant first screen roles.He played the character Jordan Walsh, who was a foster child of John and Marilyn Chambers.Ben featured in the soap for several episodes.The star evidently likes to get back.