No Neighbourly Love Lost
Despite the fact that the (unnamed) reporter for The Age who penned the following article can't spell 'Ramsay Street' (a crime for which I was also guilty until an anonymous commenter corrected me about it last year - and my thanks to you again, Anonymous), this little gem seems quite interesting.
I'm not sure just why a very sour-grapes Dale would want to come out swinging after so many years, but I guess bitterness has a way of festering inside you until you burst, if you don't deal with it straight away.
As Dale's character, Jim Robinson (Paul's father), died in 1993 - marking the actor's departure from the show - I'm unsure as to how exactly he believes the producers wanted him to be involved in the twenty-year anniversary special.
Incidentally, the twenty-year anniversary special was two years ago now, so it looks like The Age is really at the cutting edge of entertainment news.
My thanks to Spankk for the link.
Former Neighbours favourite Alan Dale says he hates the makers of the TV soap, saying he left feeling ripped off.
Dale, who played Jim Robinson in the glory years of the Ramsey Street soap from 1985 to 1993, has since become a success in the US where he has appeared in an array of high profile programs.
But despite that success, 59-year-old Dale remains bitter over how he feels he was treated during his time on Neighbours. He says he snubbed the progam's 20-year anniversary because he felt ripped off.
"I didn't like it there, they were not nice people," Britain's Daily Mirror quotes Dale as saying.
"They treated us badly, so I don't owe them anything.
"Like that 20-year thing - sounds wonderful, go back for the 20th anniversary, why not?
"And they're making a TV show out of it and there'll be a documentary of course, and they're making money out of that.
"They'll sell it all over the world, make millions, and still not a dollar for us."
Dale has accused the producers of trying to keep quiet international sales of the program for fear of having to pay the actors more.
"When we decided that we hated each other, the company and me, one of the things the company did was to market everything they could out of us and pay us nothing," Dale said.
"We didn't discover that the show was a hit in England until it was on the front page of the local paper.
"They didn't tell us because they didn't want us to know, because they might have to pay us more.
"All along the way, I fought with them about the fact they were ripping us off.
"It was just awful, so I didn't go back for the 20th anniversary thing, and I don't do any of the magazine articles or anything like that."
Dale says he regrets not moving to the US sooner - he's turned up in a slew of top programs: The OC, CSI: Miami, ER, Lost, NCIS, The X-Files, The West Wing, 24 and now Ugly Betty.
He is married to former Miss Australia Tracey Pearson and based in Los Angeles.
As Spankk says, "I think he was having an affair with Anne Haddy."
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posted by BEVIS @ 8:25 AM
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i was only talking about anne haddy on tuesday night.
my friend kirsty and i were watching all saints (oh my god i love that show. mark priestly can be my boyfriend anytime he wants) and she commented that von (judith mcgrath) may become all saints 'gran'.
then we remembered how gran died peacefully sitting on the couch next to hannah.
then i remembered bouncer being buried.
kirsty then reminded me that she was only 20 and could not remember such things.
then i felt old.
Given that picture was taken during the Young Doctor days, and given how he looks in Ugly Betty, do you think there's been some work done?
Its a bit of an ongoing dispute in our household... your opinion please!
Thanks for voicing your opinion on this one - I thought the exact same things on my weekly Thursday Green Guide read. Especially the fact that they were talking about something from 2 years ago - talk about struggling to fill the pages!
LittleFaerieGirl, small world, eh? (But - as Stephen Wright says - I wouldn't want to paint it.) I'm sorry to see that what started out as such a happy train of thought ended up with you feeling slightly less-than-delighted with yourself. You're not old. They're just breeding younger and younger people these days.
Magical_M, there may very well have been some work done, although he's married to a former Miss Australia winner (who also looks fanTAStic for her age), so maybe he's just been let in on some of the tricks of the trade (which may, indeed, include getting some work done). If I was being forced to give an answer, I'd say he hasn't had any work done ... although there may just be the odd Botox injection between the eyes or something.
Cathy, welcome! Don't thank me - it's my pleasure! That's what I'm here for, etc. I'm not sure if the reporter was just bad at maths, or if the article itself was researched two years ago but didn't make it to print until now because there were too many other exciting things going on in the world at the time. Either way, I'm not surprised that no name was attached to the piece. :)
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