Jade is Sonya’s sister. She was a regular character for a couple of years.
I’d say Brad is only back as a guest. Probably visiting his daughter Piper. Kip was touring with The Bodyguard and couldn’t do guest spots before now. It’s only speculation about whether Ned will be a guest or become a regular.
Credit to Neighbours for having this storyline, but why do the producers and writers insist on being so hypocritical in other areas of the show? David and Aaron being forced to remove their towels therefore baring their backsides to shield Amy while she got dressed - rubbish. And Sheila and Dipi swooning over the new ‘hot’, much younger gardener - who just happens to work without his shirt. Again, absolute rubbish.
If the roles were reversed and Karl and Paul were swooning over an attractive younger woman there would be an uproar. And I can guarantee the producers would never ask a woman to drop her towel and reveal her backside!
Don’t think it’s been mentioned, but with the show’s new PG classification, Aaron and David (in the scene where both of them and Amy had to be evacuated from the beauty parlor and only wearing towels), stripped revealing their bare backsides.
Haven’t seen rear nudity since the very early days, pre all this ACMA code and whenever it came under G guidelines.
They had a storyline a while ago, where the girls at uni decided to have a topless protest. There was no frontal nudity but they were actually topless.
Personally, I didn’t find it funny or necessary, but clearly other people like it and I assume it rates.
It’s just hypocritical that it’s acceptable when guys do it but not for women. I am dreading watching Sheila and Dipi drooling over the gardener. Like I said, there would be an uproar if Paul and Karl did that to a younger woman on the show.
There’s clearly still a double standard with this kind of thing, especially in the media. Look at all the Katy Perry unwanted kissing stuff with Idol, that went away in a blink. On Ellen a couple of days ago they had a segment where half-naked stripper men were contestants in a quiz game designed to highlight how dumb they were for the audiences benefit. If either these situations were the other way around, Lionel Ritchie kissing young girls or Ellen making fun on half naked women, there would be completely different response. I’m not saying it’s wrong or I’m offended by it, but it exists, and allows Neighbours to do things like this.