Amanda Holden movies new position in Neighbours enjoying the aunt to lookalike co-star Jemma Donovan

Amanda Holden has been pictured on the set of Neighbours for the primary time. 

The actress, 50, landed a task on the Australian cleaning soap enjoying the aunt of Jason Donovan’s daughter, Jemma, 21. 

Now Channel 5 have launched the primary look photos from set after the pair filmed in Waterloo, London, collectively forward of the episodes airing within the spring. 

On the present, Jemma’s character Harlow will jet to the UK within the hope of determining a thriller about her late mom, Prue, who was performed by Denise Van Outen. 

Between filming scenes, Amanda and Jemma posed for a snap collectively as they held up the Ramsay St road signal, the place the cleaning soap is ready. 

Amanda additionally revealed that many passersby thought the pair have been associated in actual life. 

She stated: ‘My first day on set was such a enjoyable and surreal expertise. If I might instructed my 12/13 year-old self I’d one-day seem in Neighbours I might have by no means believed it!

‘So many individuals have been beeping of their automobiles and passersby assumed that Jemma was my actual daughter as a result of we glance fairly related! I can not wait to proceed the journey of my character Harriet.’  

Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Amanda gave followers a glimpse at her posh character as she spoke on the cellphone.     

‘Oh whats up operator, Ramsay St please,’ she stated in an higher crust accent.

Amanda captioned the publish: ‘Everyone wants good @neighbours Again on set tomorrow with the beautiful @jemma_donovan’. 

The Britain’s Bought Expertise choose seemed unimaginable for the day of filming as she donned a pink quick sleeved midi gown.   

Whereas she is now recognized for her work with Coronary heart Radio and Britain’s Bought Expertise, Amanda is an completed actress with roles in Wild at Coronary heart, The Grimleys and Chopping It. 

Amanda stated in an announcement: ‘Like most individuals within the UK who have been round within the late Eighties and early Nineties, I grew up watching Neighbours each single day.

‘I used to be glued to our TV for the marriage of Kylie [Minogue] and Jason [Donovan], whereas cursing Mrs Mangel [Vivean Gray] and praying that Mike and Jane [Guy Pearce and Jane Harris] would ultimately get collectively! To not point out all the opposite greats over time.

‘To now have the chance to be part of such an iconic Australian present is just fabulous. I can not wait to work with Jemma in London. This seems like a joyous event for everybody.’

The information comes following fears the long-lasting Aussie cleaning soap could possibly be cancelled, after an already troubled yr attributable to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Final month, the manufacturing firm behind the hit TV present, Fremantle Media, instructed ABC that modifications to native content material quotas might spell the demise for the residents of Ramsey Road.

‘I feel within the free-to-air atmosphere Neighbours might most actually be in danger if the quotas [for Australian content] have been to alter,’ chief govt Chris Oliver-Taylor stated.

The long-running drama was compelled to halt manufacturing earlier this yr firstly of the well being disaster.

On the time, industrial broadcasters – who’re ruled by strict guidelines and should present 55 p.c of regionally made content material – pleaded for a reprieve as they noticed their income and rankings plunge.

The federal authorities threw the struggling networks a brief lifeline by suspending the quotas for regionally produced drama, documentaries and youngsters’s reveals.

Evaluate of the quotas has been positioned on maintain – with an choice to increase the suspension if wanted by way of 2021.

Nevertheless, the networks at the moment are calling for a everlasting change, claiming the outdated guidelines are ‘outdated’.

Oliver Taylor defined this might imply demise for a lot of reveals.