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Home And Away’s John Palmer falls victim to dating scam

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The Parata family is the first Mori whanau to appear on Home And Away, an Australian soap opera.

He has beaten the odds by surviving a heart attack, a brain tumour, and a stroke. Today, John Palmer of Home And Away is up against yet another huge obstacle.

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but this plot is far from a medical condition,” says Shane Withington, the bombastic Summer Bay stalwart in his 12th year.

After his marriage to Marilyn, (Emily Symons), the immobiliary agent Susie MacAlister (Bridie Carter, McLeod’s Daughters & 800 Words, seemed to have hooked John to a con artist.

According to Shane Withington, John Palmer from Home And Away is “like the tragic clown.”

“One day, he’s just sitting outside the diner getting a bacon-and-egg sandwich when, boom, this woman comes up to him, clocks him, and sees he’s lonely,” the 62-year-old actor says of being pursued by Susie, who is, unbeknownst to him, defrauding his fellow Summer Bay residents in a series of schemes.

“It happens all the time,” says the narrator (in real life). The whole Susie storyline, in reality, coincidentally replicated a case of a woman defrauding people in Sydney. And we expected it. It was eerie.

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Withington claims that his own research into love schemes – which included listening to a podcast about a New Zealand woman who was conned out of a fortune – emphasises the relevance of the plot.

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“It’s important for people to see what’s going on out there because lives are being lost and hearts are being broken. I have to give the writers a thumbs up because the plot just keeps developing and morphing into another story that morphs into another story. They’ve done it so wonderfully, and it’s been a pleasure to play, as sad as it has been.”

Shane Withington and Bridie Carter filmed a seduction scene for a day.

Since they played husband-and-wife Shane and Molly Jones on A Country Practice, Withington has lived with his girlfriend, Anne Tenney (Back To The Rafters, Still Greener), in real life.

There have been plenty of other women for Withington, with a total of 12 screen wives. In Summer Bay, he married Gina Austin (Sonya Todd), the principal of Summer Bay High School, and Marilyn.

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The pandemic delayed production so much that the pair had to work one Saturday to make up for missed time.

It’s a highlight of his 12-year stay in Summer Bay, which he describes as “amazing.”

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On Home and Away, Bridie Carter plays Susie McAllister.

I’m not the kind of guy you invite to dinner.

“I act out all of my shortcomings. We can all be a little selfish, and we can all be a little jealous, so playing all of that is such great therapy,” Withington says.

“Because I find Donald Duck as the character, the way John does things sometimes is really funny. Donald’s furious, greedy, and jealous, but he has a gorgeous heart. He’s imparable, too. The sad clown reminds me.

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