Neighbours fans shocked by Toadie Rebecchi axing revelation
Neighbours revealed the surprise news last month that soap stalwart Toadie Rebecchi will soon be leaving Erinsborough behind, after almost three decades on the show.
While many may have presumed that Ryan Moloney, who has played Toadie since 1995, made the decision to leave himself, the actor has now revealed that it “actually wasn’t my choice” – although he had actually been thinking of leaving before the show was cancelled in 2022.
When Neighbours was revived by streaming service Amazon Freevee several months later, Moloney agreed to return as Toadie, but he is now going ahead with his plan to depart his role.
“It was their choice,” he told Back to the Bay about his exit. “I’ve been wanting to leave for quite a long time, but Neighbours is one of those jobs that you work with awesome people.”
He added: “I’m quite grateful that they actually made that decision for me, because I don’t think that I could ever say no to a contract. I think I’d always be kind of like, ‘Oh, yes, okay, I’ll do another one’.
“And that’s kind of not the way you want to be doing Neighbours. You don’t want to have that kind of level of resentment in there. So I was very grateful for it.”
With Toadie set to be involved in the soap’s upcoming ‘Death in the Outback’ week later this summer, it is possible that Toadie may not be getting a happy ending, as the soap has already teased that somebody will be losing their life in the special episodes.
While Moloney wouldn’t reveal the circumstances of his character’s exit, he did reveal that he “would be happy” if Toadie was killed off, so long as his character was making a noble sacrifice.
“I’ve always kind of said that if Toadie was going to get killed off, I’d like him to stop a bomb threat in Ramsay Street by jumping on the bomb and saving the lives of everyone, but him just getting blown to pieces,” he said.
Fans have shared their surprise at the axing news on X, with one writing, “It certainly reads like Ryan didn’t know when he returned, so I think it might have been based on the viewer reaction to him & Terese.”
Another viewer wrote, “He says he’s wanted to leave for a while but this wasn’t his decision, seems odd to me that he came back last year as he had a pretty perfect ending when Neighbours ‘finished’. In some ways, it’s a pity he did as the Terese marriage was never really a winner”.
Meanwhile, another fan shared a theory about how Toadie might leave, writing, “I think he’ll go missing in the outback, presumed dead, possibly leaving it open for a return.”
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