Neighbours spoilers: Toadie Rebecchi discovers the SHOCK truth about Alice Wells!
Toadie comes to the rescue of trapped Willow. But will he and Willow be too late to save Sonya, whose life is slipping away out in the bush...
Willow Somers is the only one who knows her wicked grandmother Alice Wells is behind Sonya Rebecchi's poisoning and disappearance, as part of a twisted plan to wreck Sonya and hubby Toadie's marriage and reunite Toadie with Alice's equally twisted daughter Andrea.
However, Alice has taken drastic action to make sure her plans aren't foiled and that loyal Willow doesn't tell Toadie the truth.
Having been locked in the potting shed by scheming Alice, teenager Alice attempts to escape. Her lone hope lies with Toadie, who she has sent a warning text message to.
Although distracted by Sonya's disappearance and his incorrect belief she may have relapsed and gone off on a bender, Toadie finally notices Willow's SOS message and races to the rescue! But will he and Willow be in time to save Sonya's life?
Meanwhile, with Toadie busy with his family crisis, his legal assistant Piper Willis has been left in charge of the office and is determined to do some snooping and find out the identity of the mystery new client Toadie has been trying to keep from her.
But Piper gets more than she bargained for when she discovers a mysterious folder with Leo Tanaka's name on it. Is Piper's mum Terese's new fella Toadie's new client?
Wondering what's inside the folder, and whether Leo is in some kind of legal trouble, will Piper be tempted to break Toadie's trust and take a peek at the folder contents?
Neighbours continues weekdays at 1:45pm and 5:30pm on Channel 5
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Simon has long been a fan of soap operas, and especially loves OVER-THE-TOP plots involving evil twins, hair-pulling catfights and natural disasters. Anyone remember the Sunset Beach earthquake/tidal wave? Or when Krystle Carrington got locked in the attic and replaced by look-a-like Rita in Dynasty?!
Simon has written for a variety of TV and childrens’ magazines/websites including Inside Soap, Nickelodeon, What’s On TV, Radio Times, Metro, Girl Talk, Disney Girl, Toxic! and Digital Spy. He has reported LIVE from the red carpet at The British Soap Awards interviewing glammed-up stars from soapland, and hosted a Facebook LIVE session for Metro with Home and Away legend Ray Meagher (Alf "Stone the flamin' crows!" Stewart) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Aussie soap.
Simon is also co-author of The Treasures Of Coronation Street (Carlton Books)
And the writer and director of (very!) low budget fright flick, Midsummer Night's EVIL and the sequel webisodes series, The Hatchet Woods HORROR.