Neighbours' Stefan: 'Affair is a time-bomb'

Neighbours' Stefan: 'Affair is a time-bomb'
Neighbours' Stefan: 'Affair is a time-bomb' (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Neighbours star Stefan Dennis has revealed that the steamy affair between his alter-ego Paul Robinson and Priya Kapoor will 'shake up' both their lives. The Ramsay Street bar owner and the married school headmistress (played by Menik Gooneratne), who have been flirting for weeks, will finally succumb to their passion. "This is an affair borne out of hatred and, for both Paul and Priya, that seems to make it even more passionate," Stefan told Australia's TV Week. "Paul also discovers that Priya loves the danger of an affair as much as he does. Paul is obviously physically attracted to Priya, but he also loves women who challenge him," he added. Menik added: "It will continue as Priya does choose to keep it going. That is something really unthinkable to her, but yet she does." Stefan teased that it's only a matter of time before the romance is rumbled. "It's a time bomb that will eventually go off in a big way. It will shake up Paul's household, and it will shake up the Kapoor household. This is Ramsay Street after all, so things can't be kept secret forever!" The affair will be shown on Australian screens shortly, with the storyline arriving in the UK in October.

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.