Neighbours in 2018, playing Valerie Grundy, a pivotal character in the show's history, despite only appearing once.Valerie was revealed to be the longest-running resident of Ramsay Street, who rather than getting involved with her fellow neighbours on screen had been quietly living in the street's corner house for the past 34 years.The 8,000th episode's storyline centres around Valerie's death when she passes away in her own home.When Toadie finds items belonging to neighbours past and present in her house it leads to a touching call back to the show's past. Away from Neighbours, Patti has had a career in the public eye since 1957 and is still going strong to this day.Her first role came in The Tarax Show, which was an early Australian children's TV show.
