Home And Away's Shane Parrish star Dieter Brummer's tragic life after 90s soap exit
07.08.2023 - 05:29
/ ok.co.uk
He was one of TV's biggest Aussie soap hunks – blond curtains, a perfect tan, cute dimples and pearly white teeth. Dieter Brummer, who played Home And Away's Shane in the 1990s, seemed to have it all, as the young actor captured the hearts of everyone, including up to 8 million TV viewers in the UK. Alongside Melissa George, as Angel, the pair became a much-loved soap couple, with bad boy Shane proposing to Angel while they were still at school, much to the dismay of Summer Bay's older population.
But disaster struck on the soap – first when Angel was temporarily paralysed after being run over by Alf (Ray Meagher) and again when Shane was knocked off his motorbike. And although Shane apparently recovered, he lated tragically died of septicaemia, cradled in Angel's arms. Angel was then taken under the wing of Pippa (Vanessa Downing).
Dieter went on to feature on the covers of countless teen magazines, and won two Australian TV Logie awards for his performances. After exiting Summer Bay in 1996 after 557 episodes, he appeared in a TV hospital drama, Medivac, returning to soaps for the short-lived 2001 Sky TV soap Crash Palace, as well as Home And Away rival Neighbours, playing Troy Miller from 2011 to 2012. But life wasn't quite as rosy as it seemed for Dieter, who later admitted to never getting along with co-star Melissa in real life.
In 2019, he opened up to Australian magazine Women's Day about their disdain for each other, saying: "We may have been love interests on the show but the chemistry was far from real. Mel was incredibly ambitious right from the outset. I don't think she had much time for the cast of Home And Away." And he added: We had to look like the perfect darling couple in public.
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