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Neighbours icon who starred with Kylie Minogue died at 54 after shock health battle

The entertainment world mourned the loss of a much-loved former Neighbours star who has tragically died from cancer at the age of 54, back in 2019. Darius Perkins, renowned for his role as the original Scott Robinson before Jason Donovan took over, was a familiar face on Australian television with roles in popular series like Home and Away and The Sullivans. His family announced the sad news that Darius passed away, and Twitter was flooded with homage posts from devastated fans at the time.
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John Torode on late Queen's 'great' personality and 'incredible' dedication to realm
John Torode, 57, was fortunate enough to meet Queen Elizabeth II on two occasions, having first met the monarch in 2009.The Celebrity MasterChef judge spoke to Express.co.uk about the "incredible" monarch whom he had the pleasure to meet at Buckingham Palace.John is known for being the face of BBC's MasterChef since 2005 alongside greengrocer, Gregg Wallace.Due to his highly successful cooking career, John has been given the opportunity to meet the Queen on two occasions.The MasterChef judge opened up about the "great honour" he felt meeting such a powerful monarch.John said: "The Queen, I mean, I suppose it's one of those great, great honours."The second meet, it was a private audience, which was for something about Australians, who were working in the UK and were high profile and so there was a lineup of Hugh Jackman, Jason Donovan, myself, it was just great!"It was really really interesting to meet her face to face and have a proper little chat."She’s an incredible woman who went and spoke to the 200 people in each room."He went on: "People come up to you and talk to you about how to address the Queen. It was just such an amazing way that it worked."I think I read that one year she had 580 official engagements, which is more than twice a day which is really quite incredible."John also recalled driving through the Buckingham Palace gates as it was something he never thought he would do.He continued: "The first time I met her was about 2009 and it was a sort of large gathering of around 600 people and you got moved from room to room, it was very formal."The most exciting thing was driving through the gates in my car."That was great.
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John Torode shares highlight of meeting late Queen 'Something I never thought I'd do'
John Torode, 57, has been fortunate to meet the late Queen Elizabeth II on two occasions, having first met in 2009.The MasterChef judge spoke to Express.co.uk about the "great" opportunity he had when visiting Buckingham Palace.John is known for being the face of BBC's MasterChef since 2005 alongside greengrocer, Gregg Wallace.Due to his highly successful cooking career, John has been given the opportunity to meet the Queen on two occasions.Recalling the events to Express.co.uk, John revealed: "The first time I met her was about 2009 and it was a sort of large gathering of around 600 people and you got moved from room to room, it was very formal."The most exciting thing was driving through the gates in my car."That was great. I mean, driving through the gates of Buckingham Palace is something I never thought I'd ever be able to do."I mean, I worked there with Masterchef but I never thought I would experience driving through!"He then opened up about the "great honour" he felt meeting such a powerful monarch.John continued: "The Queen, I mean, I suppose it's one of those great, great honours."The second meet, it was a private audience, which was for something about Australians, who were working in the UK and were high profile and so there was a lineup of Hugh Jackman, Jason Donovan, myself, it was just great!"It was really really interesting to meet her face to face and have a proper little chat."She’s an incredible woman who went and spoke to the 200 people in each room."People come up to you and talk to you about how to address the Queen.
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Neighbours cast's next jobs – Toadie could fly your plane to real medical job
Neighbours fans have been left wondering what will happen to the cast after the beloved Australian soap came to an end last month – and it turns out, quite a lot.The final episode of the long running soap aired on July 29, 2022 and saw the return of many familiar faces including Guy Pierce's Mike Young and Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan as Scott and Charlene Robinson.While fans will be delighted to meet a lot of the cast on the Neighbours Farewell Tour, which visits the UK in 2023, it has left viewers wondering what is next for them.READ NEXT: Neighbours Scully family now - billionaire husband, suing show and career U-turnAfter huge stars including Toadie actor Ryan Maloney and Karl Kennedy actor Alan Fletcher hinted at their future career plans, Daily Star decided to take a closer look at what the cast could do next.Ryan Maloney became an instant fan favourite as Toadie Rebecchi in Neighbours – but did you know that was not always his first career choice?The actor had a childhood dream of becoming a pilot and revealed that if he had not become an actor, he would have joined the Australian Air Force.It is reported that he began taking flying lessons during breaks in filming for Neighbours, with a view to fly planes commercially in the future.Speaking about his passion on This Morning, he said: "I do have my pilot's licence, I'm going for my commercial licence now.
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Neighbours boss explains why scenes were cut from finale after backlash from fans
Neighbours fans have been left fuming after finding out that some scenes were cut from the season finale. The iconic Australian show wrapped up on Friday night, where fans saw some touching scenes such as a speech from fan favourite Karl..However in the episode that was aired in Australia included a video message from Sky Mangel as well as a touching scene where Dr Karl Kennedy told Toadie that he was a son to him but British fans didn't get to see these touching moments. READ MORE: Ex-Neighbours soap star savages star-studded finale as ‘unwatchable’ Another scene where Beth Brennan mentioned her son Ned Willis was also cut.Explaining the reason, Herbison said that the finale was 'always intended as a one-hour special' but the Australian channel Network 10 decided to give them a 90 minute episode to wrap things up.He said: “As you can imagine, with so much story at play, there was a lot of material left on the floor."There is easily another 15 minutes of unseen footage in the last episode, including the video messages.“Perhaps one day we can do a special cut and cover such important questions as – how did that street party come together so quickly?”Neighbour has been a popular Australian soap for 37 years.Fans have been left begging for a reboot of the soap after its final episode saw over 3 million viewers tune in to say goodbye.The grand finale saw past stars returning to the soap including Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce as the residents of Ramsay Street said a fond farewell to Erinsborough.The same episodes in Australia aired on Thursday and drew the biggest ratings in over a decade.UK ratings enjoyed an average of 2.6 million viewers, hitting a peak of 2.9 million.
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Neighbours fans 'work out' why Kylie Minogue hardly spoke in soap's final episode
Neighbours fans are convinced they have worked out why Kylie Minogue only had a few lines in her cameo appearance of the final ever episode.Last week, the popstar returned to the Australian soap for the hour-long special where she reprised her famous role as Charlene Robinson for the first time in 37 years.The 54-year-old songstress played a leading role in the Channel 5 show between 1986 to 1988 and was one of the main characters in possible the most-viewers weddings in soap history.READ MORE: Neighbours fans beg for reboot as final episode attracts three million viewersAt the time, a staggering 19.8million UK viewers tuned in to watch Charlene tie the knot with Scott Robinson, played by fellow singer Jason Donovan, back in November 1988.The dynamic duo has gone on to have quite the lasting success in the UK since they left the Aussie soap both as musicians and actors in their own rights.After the TV bosses announced that the show was coming to an end, the pair confirmed they would be returning to the place where their careers first took off for Neighbours’ final hurrah.As they arrived on the street for the final episode, their epic duet Especially for You was heard playing on the radio as they pulled into the driveway.As the parked outside their brand-new family home, Scott leaned in to kiss Charlene on the head in the heartfelt moment as he muttered “Wow, wow, wow. This is crazy.
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Neighbours Ramsay Street set's fate revealed as show comes to end after 37 years
Neighbours tour have revealed that the soap's set is to be "dismantled" - and that a new TV project could potentially take its place.Australian soap Neighbours came to an end last night (July 29, 2022) after 37 years, with famous faces including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce returning to Ramsay Street to say farewell.A spokesperson for the official Neighbours tour has now revealed that the soap's set is to be taken down - and also hinted that the space may make way for another TV project.READ NEXT: Neighbours Kennedy kids now - Rival soaps, terrifying health battle and £8m net worthSpeaking about what will happen to the set, Terry Smit of Go West who look after the official Neighbours tour, told Daily Star exclusively: "We are advised by Fremantle Media that the sets will be dismantled and that the space will be used for their next project, whatever that may be." The news of the set being dismantled seemingly hints that the popular soap will not be returning too, as a new Fremantle Media project looks set to take the place of Neighbours in the production lot, according to the statement.However, it has not been confirmed what "project" could potentially take up residence in the Neighbours lot - and whether this could potentially be another soap in place of Neighbours.
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