Melissa George's Home and Away shock

Melissa George's Home and Away shock
Melissa George's Home and Away shock (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Ex Home and Away star Melissa George is astonished that the soap she started her career in is still going more than a decade after she left. The actress played Angel Parrish in the early 1990s and is now a film star, appearing in 30 Days of Night, Music Within and Derailed. While promoting her new film Triangle she spoke about the soap: "Is it still on, that's amazing. “I haven't seen it since. I only watch my own work, when I'm on it." She added: "I'll tell you this, having done lots of productions since then, that was one of the most organised productions. My script was always on time, I never had rewrites, I never had delays in scheduling - Home And Away was a well-oiled machine." Melissa explained that she doesn’t stay in touch with most of her old co-stars from the soap. The actress said: "I keep in touch with Laura Vazquez, who played Sarah Thompson - she's one of my best friends today, she's just such a great girl. "To be honest, the rest of the cast, I have not spoken to any one of them but I think about them a lot. It's just that I don't have Pippa's home number, or the actress who played Pippa. I don't have their numbers any more because it was so long ago." Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.