Emily Symons: Last News

Lynne McGranger has given her fans a health update from her hospital bed post-surgery.The Home and Away icon, 71, revealed she underwent a procedure to remove her "toxic overactive thyroid". Lynne, who plays Irene Roberts in the Australian soap, beamed in her makeup free selfie from a hospital in Sydney. She wrote: “Less than a week ago my toxic overactive thyroid and I parted ways.

Home and Away star Emily Symons looked ageless as she stepped out on the red carpet this week.The actress, 55, best known for her role of hairdresser Marilyn Chambers on the Australian soap, stunned in a sheer black lace dress featuring a sexy thigh-high split as she attended the 64th TV WEEK Logie Awards on August 18, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Emily first appeared on Home and Away in 1989, starring for ten years before departing for a series of other roles, including a stint on Emmerdale, although she later returned to her Home and Away role in 2010.The star also had a stint on Dancing On Ice in 2007, but was voted out in the semi-final following a skate-off against Blue's Duncan James. After years living in the UK and seven years playing Louise Appleton on Emmerdale, Emily returned to her native Australia to reprise her Home and Away role and has resided there ever since.

When Home and Away was launched as a rival soap to high-flying Neighbours back in 1988, nobody could have predicted how it would make huge household names of many of its characters from those early years. School principal Donald Fisher, lovebirds Shane and Angel, bubbly Marilyn Chambers, caring foster mum Pippa Fletcher and many more all became nearly as familiar to many as their own friends and family. Another one of those names is grumpy old Alf Stewart – at one time married to another soap stalwart, Ailsa – created as one of the show's original 18 characters.

Emily Symons found her breakout role in the character of hairdresser Marilyn Chambers on Home and Away, taking up the role in 1989.The star, now 54, took up the role for ten years before departing for a series of other roles, including a stint on Emmerdale, although she later returned to her Home and Away role in 2010.The star also had a stint on Dancing On Ice in 2007, but was voted out in the semi-final following a skate-off against Blue's Duncan James. After years living in the UK and seven years playing Louise Appleton on Emmerdale, Emily returned to her native Australia to reprise her Home and Away role and has resided there ever since. Off screen, Emily’s romantic history includes two marriages - her first to drummer Nick Lipscombe, who she met in London in the early 90s.