Gayle Blakeney: Last News

Identical twins Christina and Caroline Alessi are unrecognisable 30 years on from their time on Australian soap opera 'Neighbours'.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Departing Neighbours actors have gone on to all kinds of incredible futures over the years, following their exits from Ramsay Street. Margot Robbie, who played Donna Freedman from 2008 to 2011, and Guy Pearce – Mike Young from 1986 to 1989 – became major Hollywood actors, with Margot currently setting cinema screens alight with her starring role in Barbie, while Guy is known for films including LA Confidential and Memento. Kylie Minogue – who played tomboy mechanic Charlene Mitchell from 1986 to 1988 – of course became a huge chart success, most recently scoring a top 10 hit with Padam Padam.Then there's Craig McLachlan, who played Henry Ramsay in the late 1980s before going on to have a short-lived pop career.

If you've been a Neighbours fan since the 90s, you'll definitely remember the Alessi twins, Christina and Caroline played by Gayle and Gillian Blakeney who now look totally different. Identical twins Gillian and Gayle Blakeney, who are now 57 years old, shot to fame on the Australian soap during the 1990s and they certainly had their fair share of dramatic storylines.

Neighbours star Stefan Dennis has claimed that he was once involved in a secret romance with co-star Natalie Imbruglia. The actor, 63, who played Paul Robinson, says the pair struck up a relationship despite him being 17 years her senior.While Paul dated Gayle Blakeney, 56, while she and her sister Gillian starred as the Alessi twins in the 1990s, he and Natalie also had a relationship during their time on the series.READ MORE: Hope for Neighbours as soap has been cancelled and renewed before in doomed runHe told Stellar Magazine this week: "Because of my relationship with Gayle, in a well-kept secret, I was also going out with Natalie Imbruglia, there was a rumour that I was making my way through the female cast."It comes as the last-ever episode of the series, which featured Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue, aired after three decades.Stefan played Paul between 1985 to 1993 and again in 2004, while Natalie starred as Beth Brennan between 1992 and 1994.Aussie singer Natalie, 47, was married to the Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, 43, from 2003 to 2008.She said on a podcast series last year: "He was the love of my life and I think in time you realise that's a really special thing and you look back on it fondly.