Neighbours’ Dr Clive Gibbons actor Geoff Paine now - from dad of twins to soap return
30.08.2023 - 13:15
/ ok.co.uk
There's only a handful of characters that Neighbours viewers old enough to remember the 1980s can easily recall. Scott and Charlene, Des and Daphne, Madge and Harold, Henry, Paul and Plain Jane Superbrain – they're probably all on the list.
But for diehard fans of the Aussie soap there's likely to be another name in the mix, in the form of mild-mannered Dr Clive Gibbons. Clive infamously arrived in Ramsay Street in January 1986 dressed as a gorilla – well, what else, when you run a gorillagram agency – and soon upset neighbour Max Ramsay.
The cheery-but-slightly-wacky character went on to set up a gardening business, let Daphne live in spare room when her engagement to Des fell apart, save Lucy Robinson's life after performing an emergency tracheotomy when she was stung by a bee, and then fall in love with Susan Cole – although she eventually left Erinsborough when she realised she didn't love him.
But when the actor who played Clive, Geoff Paine, feared being typecast, he quit the show just a year later, in February 1987. He later said: "I do remember being in the gorilla suit, which we shot in day one for my character.
I was wondering what on earth I was doing in this gorilla suit and: 'Is this the future of showbusiness? I just wear funny outfits?'" His decision to leave had come shortly after co-star Peter O'Brien, who played Shane Ramsay, also left for a role on The Flying Doctors, with Geoff later explaining: "Clive was becoming just too good to be true. I mean, the guy was only 24 but he spent every spare minute either fixing someone's love life or Daphne's coffee machine." Yet just two years later, Melbourne native Geoff reprised the role for the show's 1000th episode, before leaving again nearly as quickly as he
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