Be A Star On Neighbours: Final five revealed!

Here are the final five girls hoping to win Five's Be A Star on Neighbours competition. From over 1,500 applicants, the judges selected Miriam Locke-Wheaton, Gabriella Darlington, Jennifer Hall, Jo Gleave and Olivia Kennett to battle it out for the four-week guest role as Ramsay Street newcomer Poppy Rogers. Voting opens on Monday at five.tv/neighbours and runs for two weeks, closing on Sunday June 27. Neighbours star Alan Fletcher - aka Dr Karl Kennedy - will announce the two most popular hopefuls on Live From Studio Five on Monday June 28. The final two will then fly to Australia for a week of orientation, at the end of which Fremantle execs will choose the final Poppy who will stay on to begin filming on the hit Australian soap. Fan can catch all five finalists tonight on Live From Studio Five. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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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.