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Scottish Sun
4 days ago
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90s soap star, 47 looks unrecognisable three decades years after TV fame and new career
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A STAPLE of Aussies soaps looks completely different now after ditching her TV career. Tempany Deckert, played Selina Cook on Home and Away for four years until 1998. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Tempany Deckert looks unrecognisable from her days on Home and Away Credit: instagram/@tempanydeckert 3 Tempany (far right) played Selina Cook on the Aussie soap Credit: Alamy After the actress moved on from Home and Away, she had some roles in other Aussie dramas such as, All Saints, and treaded the boards in theatre productions Down Under. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her Home and Away co-stars, Melissa George and Isla Fisher, by moving to Los Angeles to try her luck in Hollywood. While she has appeared in some films and TV shows over the years, Tempany has largely moved away from acting and her new career path couldn't any more different than her character Selina on the soap. She teaches writing courses at UCLA, works as a motivation speaker and has published a massive 18 children's books. home and away HOME & LA Home & Away star unrecognisable with new life and career 13 years after quitting Tempany based in Los Angeles for most of the year and in between sharpening young minds, she took time earlier this year to appear in season 4 of FOXTEL's prison drama Wentworth. She also made a surprise appearance in the Emmy-award winning Netflix series, Dahmer, where she played a cop working the desk at a police station in one episode of the limited series. Tempany opened up on quitting acting, saying it felt like she'd dodged a bullet. "For me, I always wanted to give a really good turn at my writing, and I wanted to have children," Deckert told 7News in Australia. "I knew that if I had children and I was working on sets, it was going to be very difficult. You are working many hours a day and you don't get to see them that much," she added. "If I had gotten a bunch of jobs in Hollywood, I probably would have stayed the course because I love acting – but I probably wouldn't have gotten married and had kids." Soap legend, 80, has very different career 25 years after being killed off and returning as a ghost The actress also runs writing courses for anyone who wants to follow in her footsteps, including one called Write a Novel, Change your Life. She recently promoted an upcoming course on Instagram where she looked unrecognisable from her days playing Selina on Home and Away. Wearing dark rimmed glasses and minimal make-up, Tempany promised some more courses were coming soon. Tempany is also married to voice actor Brian Donovan and they share two children. She became an American citizen in 2020, but said her dream would be to return to Australia. "I'm trying to convince my Australian agent to get me a great job in Australia where we can move back for six months to a year," Deckert said. "That's the dream – to convince the husband to move to Australia."
Scottish Sun
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Soap legend, 80, has very different career 25 years after being killed off and returning as a ghost
THIS soap legend proved there is life after Home and Away and has gone on to have very different career 25 years after leaving the show. The actress, now 80, was killed off the Australian soap in 2000, but later appeared in the show as a ghost. 5 Do you remember this soap legend from Home and Away? Credit: Facebook 5 Now 80, this former actress has a completely different career Credit: Facebook 5 Home and Away fans will remember Judy Nunn who played Ailsa Stewart Credit: Network 7 The soap star in question is Judy Nunn, who played diner owner Ailsa Stewart. Her character was married to the legendary Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher). Judy was on the soap from the very first episode in 1988, until she was killed off in 2000. Viewers were left in shock when Ailsa died in the arms of her beloved husband Alf, after having a heart attack. Read more on Home & Away HOME & LA Home & Away star unrecognisable with new life and career 13 years after quitting However fans of the show were even more shocked when the character returned as a ghost in 2003, when Alf was suffering from a brain tumor. However, after leaving Summer Bay for good she has switched jobs and now has a completely different career. The former actress is now a successful novelist and has written several books. Judy previously revealed on Australian TV that she actually started writing when she was on the Home and Away set. "It sounds gorgeous, doesn't it?" Judy told The Morning Show, when asked about how she had time to write while shooting the soap. "When, for instance, we're burying somebody or when were marrying somebody…if you're one of the general collectives, you've got to smile and nod a lot and at the funeral you've got to cry a lot but basically you're an extra. Some of Alf Stewart's best moments on Home and Away as legendary Ray Meagher quits Summer Bay soap "Sitting around I found that very boring so that's when I'd write a book." Judy published her first children's book The Riddle of the Trumpalar in 1981. Ten years later she moved into adult fiction, and released The Glitter Game. Since then, Judy has published 19 books, all of which have been best sellers. As well as Home and Away, she also starred in Sons and Daughters, Prisoner, and A Country Practice. However she will always be best known for playing Ailsa, and was on our screens for a whopping 1313 episodes. 5 Judy's character was married to Alf Stewart Credit: Network 7
