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Another one I'd forgotten about Sally and Gus: Sally briefly went out with Donna Bishop's younger brother. He was a mouthy brat who had gone off the rails and was on the verge of being sent to a juvenile detention centre. Pippa and Michael were against Sally going out with him, which of course... Sally began to behave like him, though she stopped short of setting anyone's guitar on fire or throwing rocks through windows.

When Curtis left, they sent him off with Laura's doppelgänger. That was a bit weird but maybe they did live happily ever after.

I think there's more to be read into her turning 30 and clocking up 20 years of being Sally. If she wanted to compete for other acting roles or to try something else, then it was time to do it. Being Sally seems to have been a double-edged sword for her. Hopefully she can get her life back on track after her recent troubles.

In comparison to the more colourful Diner and Surf Club sets, the Macklin ones were very beige and soulless.

I never liked Lance or Martin and feel they should've been written out long before they did. But hey, it'd be a very dull world if we all thought the same! They quickly ran out of ideas for Matt and Adam as well. I think staying on Home and Away for so long put the brakes on Mat Stevenson's acting career. I mostly remember Adam for the scruffy clothes and stupid scams now. When he was given something to do, you could see that Mat was a good actor. Jack wasn't the most likeable of characters, but I like that he never totally reformed. Unlike most of the other teens who were fostered in those years, he desperately wanted to go home and continued to be hurt by his family's rejection of him. Even though he matured and became a nicer person, causing trouble was never off the cards. Interestingly, when he came back for Sally's wedding a few years later, he apologised to Pippa for being such a pain in the you know whats.

If this interview from a few years ago is anything to go by, leaving was something Kate needed to do for herself.

That's terrible news. 56 is no age at all. When people discuss former Home and Away actors who have achieved success in the USA, Julian is only ever mentioned on that list intermittently. Perhaps it's because he left so long ago (1991) and because Ben wasn't a particularly likeable character. When you look at his resumé, it's pretty solid stuff. Amongst the guest roles that most actors accumulate on their CVs, he was in some long-running TV series. Another World, Charmed, Nip/Tuck, those FBI shows. He was also Dr Doom in some of those Marvel movies. He even got to be Prime Minister of Australia in The Residence . I'm sure his casting in that role wasn't a coincidence.

Shannon and Eric: In 1995, Shannon briefly went out with Eric Philips. He looked good in a tank top but that's where the praise for him ends. He was a creep who sold steroids to Jack and attacked Shannon. Exit stage left. I was surprised to read that the actor who played Eric ended up in America and was in The Young and the Restless for years. Now he's on General Hospital. That's not bad going for someone who I thought was a poor actor on H&A.

True. I'm just spitballing really

That's true, but she was still talking about David when she reconnected with Blake. She also called their son after him. I don't think that's healthy TBH Another relationship that came to mind: Karen and Revhead: Karen's journey from ordinary schoolgirl to jailbird was entertaining for viewers. The collateral damage stemming from her relationship with Revhead and the actions she took...now that was another matter entirely. I like that they laid the groundwork for this toxic relationship early on and that you could see why she ended up with Revhead. As an aside, I'd love to see Les Hill and Belinda Jarrett come back to see Alf, should they decide to give him a happier ending than Irene.

Adam became a businessman in the Summer Bay afterlife, so it isn't beyond the bounds of possibility that he might've had a proper job with the Macklins. It would've been a better path for him, when you consider what they did with the character for the next couple of years.

Without going into the morality of Sophie and David, it's a relationship which probably held her back in the years after she left Summer Bay. David remained frozen in time and grew a halo and wings in her mind. How could any man measure up to that? She was single in 2002 when she reconnected with Blake. I've only seen snippets of those episodes so I don't know if she had had any relationships after moving to Perth. Anyway, when she and Blake had baby boy, she called him David (note I didn't say "they").

Stacey and Nicholas During a separation from Philip, Stacey found the time to get engaged to city slicker Nicholas. As we all know, Stacey and Philip were never meant to be but Nicholas was yet another bump in the road.

Mods: feel free to merge this with the 'Favourite Relationship' thread if tumbleweed starts drifting through here. Again, I'll give credit where credit is due - this thread in General Discussion Here are some main cast/guestie relationships I didn't care for Marilyn and Phil Over the space of 3 weeks in 1992, Marilyn met, fell for and got engaged to widower Phil Bryant. He was smarmy, old enough to be her father and had a teenage daughter who wasn't enamoured with the thoughts of a youthful stepmother. To the surprise of nobody, the marriage didn't make it to the 3-year mark. To the surprise of anybody still watching in 2022...Heather..WTH??? Sophie and David Arguably, this controversial storyline looks even worse in modern times. To quote the late, great Smash Hits magazine, "Bleeeurrgh. See also Steven and Jennifer and Tug and Beth Angel and Simon I never cared for "Shangel" so I have no dog in this fight. Having said that, it was hard to watch Angel pretend to warm to the charisma-free Simon. So Angel, what attracted you to the very wealthy Simon? Bobby and Geoff Bobby had terrible taste in men, didn't she? She briefly got engaged to the drippy Geoff after discovering she was pregnant with a married man's child. Grant and Jane They went from 0-60 and back again in no time at all. Was anybody sorry to see her go? Nick, Lucinda and Ryan I never liked Nick and Lucinda as a couple, so I'm adding Ryan to the mix as a technicality. All three actors were badly served by this lurve triangle nonsense.

This thread caught my eye in the General Discussion forum so I thought I'd start one here. Blake and Meg It's the doomed romance from the early years, isn't it? I find it hard to watch now because of what happened to Cathy Godbold but it is iconic. Andrew and Stacey Technically, both were guesties but I'm going to add it anyway because it's my thread! It's a pity they cut Andrew and Stacey's relationship short because I think it would've been fun to see such different characters spark off each other. Curtis and Laura You could never file this relationship under "healthy" but it was entertaining to see sensible Curtis losing the run of himself for a while. Laura was as mad as a box of frogs and not the sort of girl most parents would like to see their teenage kid hanging around with. Note to self: don't wear distinctive clothing when doing madcap things. Pippa and Ian After losing two husbands and dedicating so much of her life to the teens in her house, it was nice to see Pippa find happiness again. Much as I like Pippa & Michael, it felt like that relationship operated at his pace more than hers. This one felt more organic. Selina and Nelson This was a fun, short-lived teen romance between two very different people. Nelson was nice but dull, but he was a good foil for Selina.