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I sort of pinch and remind myself that I hold the record for being the longest-serving ongoing character in Australian television history. That's quite an accolade.

We're such a rarity. Not just in Australia, but also worldwide. We're two actors who have been working consistently all these decades.

I recently said to my wife that the morning I wake up and don't want to go to work is the morning I've got to stop doing this. Luckily, that hasn't happened yet. Even if I go to work in the grumpiest mood, within half an hour I'm in a great mood again and having fun.

No different to anybody else on the show. I mean, I'm constantly reminded of it by the cast taking the mickey out of me, as well as people on the street and people in the industry.

It was a very significant thing for Neighbours to do, simply because it came on the back of the legislation changes in Australia. And it showed that Neighbours was up to date and not afraid to take that extra step.

I think in hindsight, they're now going, 'Oops!'," There is possibly some regret among the powers that be with regard to the decision, especially as Eve is shortlisted for the Gold Logie, which is a public vote.

You're always biased towards the show you are working on, you become like a family and that happens with every show that is successful, that's the nature of this industry. But hand on my heart, it's very hard not to be biased about this show, because I've been with it for so long and it really is very dear to my heart, and while we're a soap at the end of the day, we do tackle some really good issues and moral issues and try to attack them in the best possible way to get the message across as diplomatically as we can.

But then, Neighbours is an evolving show and it will move on.

We have just finished filming it all and it is so devastating that it rocked almost everybody in the cast. It was a very, very difficult two weeks of filming, really difficult. It is literally devastating.

It was a big shock to the cast and took us a long time to get over - myself, Ryan Moloney, Alan Fletcher, and Jackie Woodburne marched to the office and said, 'You can't do this'. They explained it was out of their hands.

[on leaving Neighbours in 1992] I was stupid. I thought I was going to go to Hollywood and conquer the world, and I didn't. Fortunately, I worked constantly in the UK for the 12 years I was gone.

For it to get a tribute of 40 seconds, f**k off. It would have been nice for Neighbours to get some sort of industry vote or recognition or accolade.

For the industry to turn around and say thanks Neighbours, you've lasted and made history, here's a little present. But we got f**k all.