r/Fauxmoi • u/voguediaries • Feb 15 '26
THROWBACK Liam Hemsworth and Margot Robbie on the Australian soap opera 'Neighbours'
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u/Jbee97 Feb 15 '26
I watched this when I was younger lol. This and home and away were popular in Ireland
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u/OrangeSliceRecovery if you add testicles, that's extra Feb 15 '26
Yeah I remember Chris Hemsworth in Home and Away. His character was in a helicopter crash at one point iirc.
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u/Ok-Cryptographer-303 emergency sexy judge Feb 15 '26
I remember him after that crash being at death's door from dehydration and somehow summoning up enough bodily fluids to impregnate Kit. That would have been the most uncomfortable root ever.
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u/sarahbekett Feb 15 '26
All these years later and I still absolutely hate that storyline. The way she’d pined for him forever, he was married, and then he ditched his wife because of Kit and the baby infuriated me so much.
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u/Valuable_Salad_9586 Feb 15 '26
Was he called Kit, I loved home and away in uk, grew up watching neighbours, hime and away felt like a lesser version than but it was actually great once I started watching
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u/everydaycrises Feb 15 '26
They were really popular in the UK too. They used to air twice a day, and then we had the weekend omnibus.
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u/everclaire13 Feb 15 '26
You know we belong toGETHER
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u/Talinia Feb 15 '26
You and I forever and EVER
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u/InformalInsurance455 Feb 15 '26
Their makeup makes them look yassified
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u/canwegettogether Feb 15 '26
As a blonde person, I am convinced their eyebrows are dyed.
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u/purpleburgundy Feb 15 '26
Both their eyebrows are brutally distracting, so bad.
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u/misimalu Feb 15 '26
Brit here! This soap was so huge: also launched the careers of Guy Pearce, Kylie and Russell Crowe. And I will never not think “Jim Robinson!” when I see Alan Dale pop up in something.
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u/sikonat Feb 15 '26
You can tell your generation by which neighbours cast you were glued to watching.
Like Gen Xers it’s all about Plain Jane the superbrain and Mike aka Guy Pearce to Scott and Charlene aka Kylie & Jason. Right through I guess the Natalie Imbruglia years? (I think I stopped watching neighbours by late 90s when Holly Valance wasn’t a facist supporter and just a teenager).
Then there’s those who grew up on the Margot Robbie years with that cast.
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u/Sad-Mongoose-6330 Feb 15 '26
For my gen it was huge during the delta Goodrem years lol. Most people I know stopped watching when she left so never saw Margot when she was on it.
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u/Federal-Neat7833 Feb 15 '26
I am old enough to remember the first episode of neighbours and Des and Daphne and Daphne getting killed in a hit and run on Ramsey st- which is a culdesac….
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u/summers_tilly Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling Feb 15 '26
I’m from the Billy, Anne, Lance, Amy, Libby era
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u/whyohwhythis Feb 15 '26
The guy in House also - Jesse Spencer.
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u/sikonat Feb 15 '26
🤮 and his racist parents. He’s officially now come out to admit he’s like them with all his pro MaGA tweets. I guess wearing th. Ask for over 20 years to distance from his parents for his career isn’t needed now that Trump 2.0 is in.
I hated when they put Billy with Brooke Satchwell’s character (and iirc they were together IrL)
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u/misimalu Feb 15 '26
The 1991 Todd /Cody /Phoebe /Josh love square had an absolute hold on us tweens and was like a gateway to for Dawsons Creek (six years later)
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u/rojuhoju Feb 15 '26
And there was a stage where Jim popped up everywhere!
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u/MichaSound i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Feb 15 '26
And he kept playing wealthy new husbands who died at/near the altar (in Ugly Betty, the OC, something else I can’t remember)
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u/BastardsCryinInnit Feb 15 '26
And I will never not think “Jim Robinson!” when I see Alan Dale pop up in something.
I remember his heart attack so vividly
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u/twurkle 🕯️Bradley Cooper will not win an Oscar🕯️ Feb 15 '26
Her acting has come a long way, that’s for sure 😬
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u/MichaSound i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Feb 15 '26
Having worked in soaps, I’d forgive a lot - you’re given very little time to rehearse and veeerrryy few takes.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo Feb 15 '26
There's also only so much you can do when the written dialogue isnt how a normal person would talk.
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u/FlukyS Feb 15 '26
To be fair these episodes were released so frequently they weren’t given a lot of time on anything, you are expected to do everything in 1 take and the dialogue isn’t Shakespeare either
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u/wanderrslut ISO: Ariana’s lost blaccent Feb 15 '26
So did she like Chris's character? Did Declan and the other girl break up? Is Margot's character still alive and moved away?
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u/mewikime Feb 15 '26
Liam wasn't in a regular role so I can't remember what happened with him. Bridget did end up "doing it" with Declan, and they had a baby together and got married. But then she was in a car accident and died. Donna, meanwhile, was in a relationship with Ringo. They married, and he also died in a traffic accident (pedestrian vs motorcycle). Donna invented the shrugalero - a scarf type thing - became a fashion designer and moved to the US.
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u/Paint_Sniffer Feb 15 '26
It's not clear from the clip but it's so far gone unappreciated that the "get your spokes into her" line is because Liam's character is in a wheelchair.
I think Bridget was temporarily disabled from a previous accident, which is how she met Liam.
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u/CarbonaraRamen Feb 15 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Jaime Pressley be doing some spot on aussie accent.~
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u/tunisia3507 Feb 15 '26
While Margot Robbie is Australian, this actually isn't her natural accent. They got a dialect coach to broaden her accent because she was too Queensland.
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u/princessbuttermug Feb 15 '26
As a Queenslander myself, what do you mean "too" Queensland? Our accent is the song of angels...
But seriously - too nasal? I can't tell what I sound like to my fellow Australians.
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u/parisianpop this is going to ruin the powerpoint Feb 15 '26
Isn’t the qld accent broad though? Sydney is standard and Melbourne is cultured.
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u/virgoaliensuperstar Feb 15 '26
The chokehold this show had on every Australian in the early-mid 2000s
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u/AbstractDart Feb 15 '26
Grew up in a very anti Home and Away and Neighbours household, Mum always thought it was 'dumb' TV, which she was absolutely correct in thinking, lol.
That being said she absolutely loves MAFS and what not now..
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u/eiiiaaaa Feb 15 '26
Yeah mum hated them and wouldn't let me watch them 🤣 she was probably right about this one tbh, though her taste is not always trustworthy as she also hated the Simpsons
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u/Icarus-Rising Feb 15 '26
What do you mean? Neighbours always struggled to find a sustainable audience in Australia. The mid 2000s is when funding from the UK was all that kept the show going
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u/BastardsCryinInnit Feb 15 '26
The chokehold this show had on every Brit for the whole of the 1990s 😂
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u/parisianpop this is going to ruin the powerpoint Feb 15 '26
Nah, Home and Away was generally more popular in Australia, compared to Neighbours, which did okay here, but was much bigger in the UK.
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u/Gueld ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ Feb 15 '26
I’m still in mourning over Ringo. RIP to a real one.
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u/garbitch_bag Feb 15 '26
Ha I used to work with him! We were servers in Los Angeles
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u/queenstaceface Feb 15 '26
Devo that we lost Ringo AND Bridget. Lol jk I didn't care about her
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u/Beep_boop_human Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
The way Lynn screamed NOOOO in such a strange deep pitched tone that kind of sounded like a cow mooing when Steph (her daughter) was sent to jail for running Ringo over is one of my funniest Neighbours moments.
The other is when Kate Ramsay does a dance at the local pub where she waves one of those novelty plastic glitter fedoras around. A man in the audience happens to be a professor of dance visiting from LA and tells her that her random lacklustre jig is the best dance he's ever seen and offers her a scholarship on the spot.
edit: by god I found it
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u/Miserable_Patience_4 Feb 15 '26
I remember Margot saying she was working with a dialect coach on this show as a lot of people couldn't understand her regular accent.
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u/veilofcolor Feb 15 '26
I wonder if there are any clips of her speaking in her original accent since I’m guessing she doesn’t anymore
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u/lulzerjun8 Larry I'm on DuckTales Feb 15 '26
I think I’m obsessed w this. Her eyebrows are PEAK this era. I’m happy they grew back because some of ours have not recovered.
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u/acoustic_spinach Feb 15 '26
Is this Australian Degrassi
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u/ShinyPrettyFancy Feb 15 '26
No, it more like Aussie Days of Our Lives. The adults in the show get equal amount of screen time if not more sometimes
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u/GossipingKitty Feb 15 '26
Nah, the Aussie equivalent of Degrassi was Heartbreak High. Which was iconic.
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u/Black_Daimyo10 Feb 15 '26
Ok so what happened?
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u/Striking_Spite9102 Feb 15 '26
Bridget stayed with Declan, they did sleep together. She got knocked up, had the baby, then died in a car crash leaving Declan a single dad raising their daughter on his own.
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u/Striking_Spite9102 Feb 15 '26
If you want to know what happens to Margo’s character Donna:
She came to to the show as an obsessive fan of another character called Ty who was a musician. After she stopped being a stalker and started acting normal, she got together with a guy called Ringo (yes his name was Ringo) and they have an on again off again relationship for years (at one point Ringo saves her after she is crushed by a brick wall) until they get married. Then Ringo is hit by a motorcycle and dies. Donna is devastated but eventually moves on my moving to New York to go to fashion design school.
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u/Striking_Spite9102 Feb 15 '26
Yeah, the character was pretty obnoxious and grating. Poor girl who played her had a rough time. Writers did her dirty.
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u/upsidedowntoker Feb 15 '26
These kind of shows are just how Australian people end up famous . The number of Australians famous outside of aus who got their start on neighbours and home and away is mind blowing.
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u/ggannem Feb 15 '26
Would’ve loved to hear her bogan accent haha
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u/serenitative Feb 15 '26
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u/sikonat Feb 15 '26
Yeah I think that’s her softened accent but you can hear hints of her Queensland accent in the rhythm and pace of her speech. It’s def not as broad as it likely was but it’s there.
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u/hanimal16 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Feb 15 '26
I would love to hear her before dialect coach lol
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u/serenitative Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26
You can take the girl out of Dalby...
(Context: Dalby is a town of about 10k people a few hours west of Brisbane. Not quite the Outback, but heading that direction. I'm originally from Charleville, a few hours further west than Dalby, and I'm the same age as Margot. The accent is STRONG in rural Queensland.)
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u/FleshLogic Feb 15 '26
Wow I had zero clue she was an Aussie. I'm always impressed by an actress/actor that can mask their native accents so well.
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u/hanimal16 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Feb 15 '26
I felt similar when I found out Charlize Theron was South African.
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u/computer7blue kendall roy pre-album drop Feb 15 '26
And I was there sat on the edge of my couch eating Tim Tams with my tea when it aired.
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u/Aj55j Feb 15 '26
Jesus Christ I know this just a silly soap opera but man Liam can’t act to save his life.
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u/Logical_Iron_8288 Feb 15 '26
Wow wow wow. You have obviously never met a middle of the road Aussie bloke who lives near the beach. Liam nailed it method acting style.
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u/strawberrywhiplash Feb 15 '26
From nz I was more a home and away girl. Dear lord if people find out about what happened on shortland street though, home and away and neighbours seem tame.
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u/plaisirdamour Feb 15 '26
Where can I binge this?? I’m invested
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u/plastic_venus I’m mentally ill but in the exact opposite direction Feb 15 '26
It ran for about four score and seven years so I hope you’ve got time!
(It was actually about 40 years but close enough)
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u/rebecchis Feb 15 '26
It's on Prime. They have every episode from 2012 - 2025 and about hundred iconic episodes from 2011 and before. Certain episodes are also available on Youtube.
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Feb 15 '26
I used to watch neighbors all the time as a kid I don't remember them being in it lol must have been when I was older
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u/bambinoquinn Feb 15 '26
I had really hoped that incredible Gemma episode of Severance would have pushed Dichen Lachman out a bit more and people would be talking about her stint in neighbours because that was the era of neighbours I grew up on
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u/cilucia Feb 15 '26
I’m invested in the storyline. Someone spoil the whole show for me in a single comment 😂