Kylie and Jason unlikely to appear in Neighbours second finale
Neighbours' Executive Producer Jason Herbison has revealed that the soap's most famous stars, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, are unlikely to feature in the show's finale.
In 2022, Channel 5 aired the last ever episode of Neighbours, featuring a host of familiar characters including Minogue and Donovan's Scott and Charlene.
Months later, the soap was picked up by streaming platform Amazon Freevee, allowing it to return to screens.
However, the beloved Australian soap is set to be taken off-air again in December after the closure of Amazon Freevee.
Speaking to Australian soap news website backtothebay.net, the Neighbours producer said: 'I've already written it, and I would say that, I definitely am not going to try and compete with that finale."
In the 2022 finale, Scott (Jason Donovan) and Charlene (Kylie Minogue) return to Erinsborough, while Guy Pearce reprised the role of Mike Young to reunite with childhood sweetheart Jane Harris (Annie Jones).
Herbison continued: '"I haven't picked up the phone to Jason and Kylie and Guy again. I've left them alone, but it will be very similar in tone. I think it's a very warm, hopeful tone, but it's also a little bit different. There are things about it that I think might remind people of the previous finale, but it's also very different.
"I think, as has been well documented, the show's not ending because people aren't still enjoying it. We still have an amazing following.
"Unfortunately, the closure of Amazon Freevee did mean the end of the show. But having said that, at the end of this chapter of the show, they were terrific and gave us lots of notice on it as well, which is as much as you can possibly hope for. It wasn't something that took anyone by surprise."
Warning: Spoiler Alert!
Herbison teased of the soap's last storylines: "There's a big story for the Rodwells that will be a big challenge for the household, lots of twists and turns, lots of drama and lots of impact for everyone in the street. That will be a massive story right until the end.
"The Varga-Murphys have some very big storylines coming up as well.
"I'm often asked, are we ever going to meet the Linwells [the dangerous builders from whom the Varga-Murphys had to escape after Cara exposed their dodgy practices]? Yes, maybe we will, but it might not be exactly the story that people are expecting.
"But there's definitely another chapter of the Linwells to be told, which also very neatly dovetails into some other stories."
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