{"id":19455,"date":"2022-07-29T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1688167"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:07:13","slug":"what-happened-to-sonya-mitchell-in-neighbours-toadies-tragic-wife","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-happened-to-sonya-mitchell-in-neighbours-toadies-tragic-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Sonya Mitchell in Neighbours? Toadie\u2019s tragic wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lewis Knight\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 29 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Longtime Neighbours fans will remember Sonya Mitchell was a dog trainer for Toadie Rebecchi who went on to become his second wife.<\/p>\n

Sonya was introduced as a guest character in 2009, but actress Eve Morey was later promoted to the main cast and became Toadie\u2019s long-term love, with her past of substance misuse and gambling addiction being explored.<\/p>\n

The arrival of Sonya\u2019s sister Jade Mitchell (Gemma Pranita) led to the revelation that Sonya was the biological mother of Callum Rebecchi (Morgan Baker), Toadie\u2019s adopted son.<\/p>\n

Toadie and Sonya went on to marry in 2013 and establish a family together, even having a daughter named Nell.<\/p>\n

The pair faced numerous difficulties, however, including stalkers and the spectre of Toadie\u2019s presumed dead wife Dee Bliss and her con artist evil twin Andrea Somers, both played by Madeleine West.<\/p>\n

However, what brought Sonya Mitchell\u2019s time on Neighbours<\/a>\u00a0to an end?<\/p>

What happened to Sonya Mitchell in Neighbours? Toadie Rebecchi\u2019s wife explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sonya Mitchell was killed off when the character discovered she had terminal ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n

The character discovered her precarious health situation after she and Toadie faced their marriage imploding at the hands of Andrea Somers.<\/p>\n

Sonya underwent chemotherapy but it failed to reduce her tumours, prompting her to spend time with Toadie, Callum, Jade and Nell.<\/p>\n

A trip to the beach saw the character pass away in Toadie\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n

In real-life, Neighbours producers had decided to write out the character in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Sonya Rebecchi fell ill with cancer in Neighbours<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Explaining what happened to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, actress Eve Morey confirmed it was not her decision to leave<\/a> the soap behind.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cAt the end of 2017 Neighbours was at a point where it was negotiating its future\u00a0(following Australian broadcaster Network Ten\u00a0going into administration)<\/em>, and there had to be changes budget-wise for it to move forward in every department, and I was part of that. It\u2019s what happens in the industry, it made sense, it\u2019s a business, and it\u2019s all good \u2013\u00a0once I knew the character was going I wanted to know what would happen to Sonya and Toadie, we had to preserve the integrity of these characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo with almost a year to go, I said \u2018I have to die,\u2019 which started the trajectory of the exit storyline.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sonya with son Callum, sister Jade and husband Toadie in Neighbours<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

On her desire for Sonya to die rather than leave Toadie, Morey noted: \u201cSonya would never leave Toadie or her kids, or take Nell and not let him see her. They both have too much respect for each other to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want her to go off the rails again, if you make someone unlikable because they\u2019re leaving you to end up not caring they\u2019re going! I feel death was the only option in order to be true to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, everyone did everything they could to make this whole process as wonderful as it could be for the end of the character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Toadie looks poised for a new happy marriage as he prepares to marry Melanie Pearson (Lucinda Cowden).<\/p>\n

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