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Yes, it's true; Georgie Parker's laugh could kill. Hold on tight as MURDER ON THE WIRELESS transports you through time and space and into the magic, mayhem and delicious comedy of the radio drama with multi-skilled performers Katie Fitchett (FRANKENSTEIN), Mark Kilmurry (EDUCATING RITA), Daniel Mitchell (BAREFOOT IN THE PARK) and Georgie Parker (BAREFOOT IN THE PARK). I'm not a glamorous person, I don't have an outrageous lifestyle, you know, I don't get really pissed and I'm not fighting my way into clubs and I don't go to the opening of a door. "Oh, that's absolutely deliberate," she says resolutely. ... With two Gold Logies on board, Georgie Parker's career just keeps gaining altitude. Sign up to get alerts for soaps and receive television and entertainment email newsletters from our award-winning editorial team. We're all Logie winners.". It must be all that chocolate; on the two occasions we sit down during the day to talk, someone lobs up to hand her her "fix". I love you but that ... is ... just ... shit! "I never did any homework, I was, I was ..." she hesitates and then continues "I was almost a congenital idiot as far as schoolwork was concerned. As we reported in Mediaweek at the time, Robin Bailey quit her Triple M Brisbane breakfast show not long ago to spend time with her ailing husband and former radio executive Sean Pickwell.. She only managed to get six days post her radio career with her husband before he died from cancer. Interestingly, the baby Roo had back in the day – named after her ‘dead’ mother’ – was given up for adoption but later returned played by Jodi Anasta, now Neighbours’ Elly Conway. Her antics made life hell for single dad Alf, who was struggling with the apparent loss of wife Martha, Roo’s mum, who drowned when his daughter was little. It's a phrase she uses a lot. Home and Away got me where I am today, I love the show. That's not the way I lead my life. Home and Away’s Georgie Parker wants the original Roo back to play her twin! Looking back, though, she says she has no negative feelings about those years at all: "The whole brace thing, the scoliosis, which I still have, the notion of being confined? Already have an account with us? The grown-up Martha returned to Summer Bay in 2005 to reconnect with her grumpy grandfather and spent five dramatic years on the soap, launching Anasta’s career (she was known as Jodi Gordon back then, before she married rugby star Braith Anasta in 2011). Clarke has been acting since she was a child, and appeared opposite Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in 1985 blockbuster Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome where she also met future Home and Away and Neighbours star Rebekah Elmaloglou, who she is still close to. We worked together before on a cop show called All Saints and we have mutual friends. I did the HSC, but I wasn't going to have anything to do with uni. By entering your details, you are agreeing to Radio Times privacy policy. Neighbours cast: Who is joining, leaving and returning to the soap. For now, we'll see Parker strained through the character of nurse Terri Sullivan, at least for the next year: "They've got some really good things planned for the character. I think it helped that I was a really confident person. “Evan was a wandering minstrel who travels around the … Watching Parker slip into the character of Terri Sullivan, All Saints' goody-goody nurse and former nun tortured by Catholic guilt, is like watching a tornado being bottled. "It was like, 'Oh, there you are'. I couldn't rally any interest and I didn't know why.". I'm not one who's prone to neurosis." News, photos, videos and full episode guide. ", Then, aged eight, she was sent to Abbotsleigh, the private North Shore girls school: "The private school system on the North Shore is a fairly protective environment but I didn't have that kind of home, I wasn't raised in that kind of home - it wasn't the North Shore cliche.". “She’s very well known in Australia for other shows like A Country Practice and All Saints. We know little about Georgie Parker as a person. I grew up watching her, she’s like my all-time favourite actress. A fact that still amazes the Most Popular Television Personality of the past two years: "Why do they single me out? “Whenever we run into each other we take a selfie, then send it to Ray Meagher with a little message saying: ‘Here are your two daughters!’ The two Roos say hello, it’s hilarious!”. You can unsubscribe at any time. Parker, as Anasta notes, has been a huge star of Australian TV and theatre for decades, winning seven prestigious Logies during her career (the Oz equivalent of a National TV Award). She's friends with Justine Clarke who was first to play the role.

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