Another poorly researched - or, at best: clickbait - article was on the Mirror website yesterday.
The article is about Neighbours and states that Lucinda Cowden - who plays Melanie Pearson - is leaving the soap.
Take a look at the headline. It implies that Cowden is departing after thirty-seven years on screen. It's absolute nonsense.
Cowden joined the series in 1987 and left in 1991. She made a brief return for the programme's twentieth anniversary in 2005 and then returned as a regular in 2021.
The actress was not working on Neighbours for at least thirty years, so it's poor research to look at when Melanie debuted (1987) and conclude she has been in it for all that time.
Lucinda Cowden was gone for over thirty years when you do the calculations. Also factor in the year Neighbours was off-screen (which was during Cowden's second tenure as a regular).
With that little irk aside, I am sorry to see Lucinda Cowden 'axed'. I always like to see the characters from the earlier days of Neighbours. I suppose it's nostalgia more than anything.
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