One of these five young UK ladies will be appearing in future Neighbours episodes.
They have been chosen from more than 1,500 British fans in a talent hunt that offers a one-month guest role as a “free-spirited young woman” named ‘Poppy Rogers.’
They are: Miriam Locke-Wheaton, Gabriella Darlington, Jennifer Hall, Jo Gleave and Olivia Kennett.
Fans will vote online for the top two who will both be flown to Melbourne with one to be chosen by producers.
Previous talent searches in Australia for Neighbours have cast Sam Clark, Hany Lee, Luke Ledger, and Adelaide Kane onto the show.
Source: Digital Spy
Herald Sun says today that Gabriella and Jennifer, the top two votegetters, travelled to Melbourne this week for final auditions. Executive producer Susan Bowers revealed on July 16 that Gabriella has won the role, and will start filming three days later.
Gabriella fits the profile of Poppy Rogers.
You do not have to be the best actor but have the x factor.
Check out Jason & Kylie’s audition tapes on youtube, they certainly not great!!
@ John, I think you will find that the outdoor dubbing does happen quite a lot and it happens on all shows not just Neighbours. I do agree though it is quite weird when they do that.
Will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Anyway still watching Neighbours and have been for the last 16 or so years. I guess the gripes I’ve had lately is I cannot convince myself that the new Declan is actually meant to be Declan. Just having problems there. That and the strange over dubbing at times when they are outside somewhere. It was never there in the past, so I don’t know why it appears sometimes now.
I love Neighbours and would be seriously peeved if it ever went off telly.
That said it has slipped over the years and they seem to be following H&A’s lead by casting pretty people rather than those that can act i.e. Declan 2.0.
I wish the Brits would stop watching it because that’s the only way we’ll get it off our screens. Their pathetic devotion to that show is wrecking Australian TV. Talk about cultural imperialism in reverse.
Its simply terrible. I remember last year when they decided to change the way they filmed the show. They said it was revolutionary. You’ll notice the softer lighting in all their shots. Its an English style they are now using. Of course, its that way in England because the light there is so bloody dull anyway, but the producers of this rubbish show must have felt really smart to go down the same road. Then there is the audio dubbing when they do shots outside these days, just horrible! The stories are terrible and projected so badly that you can tell where things are heading well in advance. The other thing to watch….the kids. The kids in this show dominate everything! Every story line is either about the kids, or is taken over by the kids at some point. Its like watching a show like Happy Days, except they remove all the funny parts!
This show is so last century, it went past its used by date over a decade ago and should be put out of its misery. Now they’re casting unknowns who can’t act, what’s next? It will never go back to its former glory. The early years were the best.
Guys, go to the Neighbours Holy Soap website to vote!!
I had a look at all their videos and Miriam (short hair) is by far the best actress.
Please vote for her!! The other girls might look more attractive, but not very good at acting.
I wouldn’t brag about any of those tragic finds other than Sam Clark. None had their short stints extended other than him.
Care factor zero
i agree League Freak . I used to watch neighbours about 10 years ago… it lost its touch years ago! i remember the days when karl cheated on susan with sarah, that was neighbours at its prime!!! i miss that.
There needs to be a new soap. But they wont axe it ud think it makes too much money from other countries buying the soap.
ive seen all 5 videos, none of them blow me around
They either need to move this show to Saturday mornings with all the other kids shows or finally put it out of it’d mysery and axe the bloody thing. It has the worst writing of any show on television that I have ever seen.
The three on the right look hot. Probably not enough to increase ratings over here.
I see Disney Channel have just had there own “search for a star” chosing a young girl from the GC to be in As The Bell Rings!!!