{"id":39206,"date":"2023-11-07T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1919149"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:47:27","slug":"neighbours-stars-past-comes-back-to-haunt-characters-in-flashback-week","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/neighbours-stars-past-comes-back-to-haunt-characters-in-flashback-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbours stars: \u2018Past comes back to haunt characters in flashback week\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re about to find out why Melanie left so suddenly… <\/p>

By Laura Denby\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 07 November 2023 at 00:01 AM<\/p>

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Neighbours stars Lucinda Cowden and Lucinda Armstrong Hall have teased how the past \u201ccomes back to haunt\u201d their characters Melanie Pearson<\/a> and Holly Hoyland in upcoming scenes.<\/p>\n

When the Australian soap returned to our screens in September, it\u2019s fair to say viewers were floored by the changes in the lives of our Ramsay Street favourites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Toadie Rebecchi (<\/span>Ryan Moloney<\/span>) had now divorced Melanie, going on to marry long-time pal Terese Willis<\/a> (<\/span>Rebekah Elmaloglou<\/span>). <\/span><\/p>\n

All we knew was that Mel had suddenly abandoned Toadie, and his children Nell (Ayisha Salem-Towner) and Hugo (Tanner Ellis-Anderson), a year earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Karl Kennedy\u2019s (Alan Fletcher) daughter Holly moved in with him<\/a> and wife Susan (Jackie Woodburne) after splitting with her dodgy ex-boyfriend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next week, a series of flashbacks will finally explain everything, as Melanie is forced to face up to exactly why she walked away from Erinsborough.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Annie Jones as Jane Harris and Lucinda Cowden as Melanie Pearson in Neighbours.<\/span><\/figcaption> Amazon Freevee<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Cowden tells us how her alter ego is feeling ahead of her big confession.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s pretty low, she\u2019s lower than I\u2019ve ever known her before. I think she\u2019s so exhausted, and so sick of running and sick of people getting hurt, and I think she just wants it to stop,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think telling the story of her past coming back to haunt her when it does, and the repercussions of that, I think they\u2019ve exhausted her. And I think the only other option for her now is to own up to it all. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think she\u2019s kind of tried to run for as long as she could, and she can\u2019t do it any more. She\u2019s run out of money, she\u2019s run out of everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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You\u2019ll just have to wait and see what Mel has been hiding, but Cowden promises that Neighbours<\/a> fans won\u2019t see what\u2019s coming. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll also be shocked to their socks, I think! I think it\u2019s such a shocking revelation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Joining her co-star to chat all things Neighbours, Armstrong Hall revealed that Holly is also struggling in a big way. \u201cHolly\u2019s\u2026 I think she\u2019s just feeling a lot of guilt,\u201d she teased.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe sort of feels responsible for everything, in a sense, for bringing a certain person to Erinsborough in the first place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Holly Hoyland and Costa D\u2019Angelo as Eden Shaw in Neighbours.<\/span><\/figcaption> Amazon Freevee<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Of course, the aforementioned ex, Eden Shaw (<\/span>Costa D\u2019Angelo<\/span>), is the root cause of Holly\u2019s torment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the one she brought to the Street!\u201d confirmed Armstrong Hall. \u201cI think there\u2019s a sense of, \u2018If I never brought him here in the first place, he could\u2019ve never started to hurt anyone.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of blaming of herself. But that being said, we get to see in the flashback a bit of a contrast of what she was like two years ago versus a bit messy now, and then it sort of unravels as to why. <\/span>That was really fun to delve into.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Just how this fits into next week remains to be seen, but Cowden teases that we\u2019re about to see an entirely different side to the usually bubbly Mel. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really good, as an actor, to have the option to flesh her out more, really, because she\u2019s always just been a fun, comedy kind of character,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Holly Hoyland and Jackie Woodburne as Susan Kennedy in Neighbours.<\/span><\/figcaption> Amazon Freevee<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Cowden also hinted that Mel\u2019s vibrant persona has actually been her way of coping. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to have a look at her dark side, and to realise what she was hiding all of that time, and how she was living on this really high energy level to sort of quell the fear of life catching up with her \u2013 which, of course, it eventually does.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it was really interesting. I thought it was a total gift for me as an actor, to be able to give her a whole other side that we didn\u2019t know was there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Neighbours kicks off its Tell-All: Flashback Week from Monday 13th November.<\/span><\/p>\n

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