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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Anna Spargo-Ryan

Goodbye Ramsay Street? Why we’re not ready for Neighbours to end

Cast of Neighbours on the street
The cast of Neighbours: ‘Erinsborough isn’t flashy: it’s your suburb, where the school principal is also your best mate’s dead dad’s widow who was once in love with a priest.’ Photograph: Channel 5/Network Ten

When they let you through the security gate at the Neighbours studio, something magical happens. It’s not finding out the food at Harold’s is real, though it is. And it’s not realising the Erinsborough High quad is also where they filmed Prisoner, though that’s true too.

No, stepping into that Nunawading studio is a wormhole to a simpler time, where no one has a real job, drama is just drama, and the people next door have become good friends.

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