Ryan Moloney has opened up about almost getting axed by Neighbours bosses.
It’s impossible to picture Ramsay Street without his character, Jarrod “Toadfish” Rebecchi, who first appeared in Erinsborough back in 1995 and has been a mainstay ever since.
However, Ryan admitted that there was once an exit plot for Toadie which was scrapped at the eleventh hour. and let slip the savvy move that saved his career during his early days on the Aussie soap.
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He previously told the Mirror: “I worked out in the very early days that the main reason people were given for being fired, nine times out of ten, was: ‘We just don’t see any more kind of story arc for your character’. “So roughly three or four months before the end of my contract I would go to the story team and dump like 15 or 20 story ideas on their desk so they never run out of ideas for me.”
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“Apparently there was – a day when they’d had enough of Toadie – I had someone tell me: ‘We had a see-you-later storyline for you but you did such a good job we decided to keep you on’.”
The father of two also disclosed the memento he nicked from the original Neighbours set last year when the soap filmed its supposed final episode. He also shared his thoughts on the legendary show’s rebirth as a streaming series.
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Neighbours: A New Chapter debuted on Amazon Freeve in September last year just over a year after former stars like Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue returned to the soap that made them famous to say goodbye to Neighbours following its TV cancellation and final episode broadcast in August 2022.
In November 2022, it was revealed that Amazon Freevee and Fremantle had struck a deal to bring Neighbours back to our screens. Regular filming resumed , with the soap making a triumphant return with familiar and fresh faces on September 18, 2023.
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Ryan, who’s been a staple as Toadie on Ramsay Street for nearly three decades, was chuffed about getting back into the groove just months after the original soap wrapped up but it seems he wasn’t exactly planning a return after he swiped a keepsake on his last day at the old set.
“I did take something with me [from the original set] but I’m not going to tell you what it is as it’s pretty cool,” Ryan admitted before adding: “I saw it and thought ‘that’s got to come home with me’ and it did.”
The Aussie actor, who’s now the voice behind the first-ever Australian accented Quick Replies for Ring Video Doorbells, cheekily admitted that no one’s clocked the missing prop in the fresh Neighbours reboot set-up.
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