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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well this is hard words to say. After thirty three years,

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Speaker 2: lima granger who's been a constant on our screens is

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Speaker 2: Irene on Home and Away is heading off for greener pastures.

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Speaker 2: What could be greener?

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Speaker 1: Lynn? Hi, guys, it's so lovely to be here.

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Speaker 3: It's great to have you.

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Speaker 2: This is a tough decision to make.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, actually I've been meaning to tell you it's

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Speaker 1: all a fake so I could come in and talk.

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Speaker 2: Let me check, let me text the date.

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Speaker 1: It is not April first, now, Yeah, it's it's exciting

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Speaker 1: and it's terrifying, and I'm happy and sad and grateful

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Speaker 1: and all of those things. It's been a ride.

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Speaker 3: You've done it for a long time, and I just

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Speaker 3: found your first episode on Home and Away. This is

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Speaker 3: you in nineteen ninety three when we meet the character Irene.

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Speaker 1: Remember, mate, Irene, Hi, you coming out? I come on

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Speaker 1: a damn hospital. I'm run in circles, fifteen down deep

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Speaker 1: and I'm coming on fine blust. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: they didn shoot me years ago. I know I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be smoking in.

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Speaker 3: You walked into the diner with a cigarette a blaze.

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Speaker 1: Terrifying, absolutely terrifying. I was. I think I shook in

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Speaker 1: terror for the first six months.

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Speaker 2: Did you know it was going to be a long

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Speaker 2: term gear No.

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Speaker 1: Not at all. Love I I was hired for three

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Speaker 1: months to replace Jackie Phillips, who was the very original,

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Speaker 1: original oge Irene, and then they said to me, would

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Speaker 1: you come back for maybe six months or a year?

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Speaker 1: In six months time, I went hell, yeah, so there

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Speaker 1: was another Irene. Yes, you knew that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know Jackie Phillips played the very original.

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Speaker 3: Irene because I know they changed pippers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they changed Irene. She tried to push her

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Speaker 1: kids down the stairs, tried to throttle them. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: Irene was a bit of a mess when I when

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Speaker 1: she landed in my lap. And then, of course, as

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Speaker 1: we know, she struggled with alcoholism over the years, but

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Speaker 1: she gave up the fags. If you haven't seen the

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Speaker 1: bit where Kate Ritchie, who was beautiful Little Sally, caught

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Speaker 1: Irene smoking at the caravan park between the sheets hanging

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Speaker 1: on the line, you should you should check it out.

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Speaker 1: She's like, Irene, you shouldn't smoke, it's bad for you.

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Speaker 1: It was just lovely and because as all people who

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Speaker 1: stay on the show who eventually become goodies as opposed

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Speaker 1: to is you have to give up your nasty hair?

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Speaker 3: And did you you gave up smoking though, didn't you?

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Speaker 1: Len or Irene Lyn has Actually the twenty year anniversary

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Speaker 1: was five days ago. Congratulation, Yeah, very happy.

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Speaker 2: But these are things that happened to Irene battle with alcoholism,

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Speaker 2: as you say, breast cancer, lost some sinking fairies explosions.

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Speaker 2: What was your favorite slash ludicrous storyline?

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Speaker 1: Ah, man, Look, this was this is ludicrous. They decided

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Speaker 1: to make Irene a clairvoyant for a while, and oh

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Speaker 1: she fell in love with the priest who was going

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Speaker 1: to give up the order, but she said, no, I

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Speaker 1: can't do that to you. That I wouldn't say ludicrous.

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Speaker 1: I mean, both of those are ludicrous. But there's been

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Speaker 1: so many faves over the years. But I think the

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Speaker 1: one that sticks in my head, aside from the breast

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Speaker 1: cancer storyline, which meant a lot to me because my

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Speaker 1: best friend in York in the UK's daughter was I

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Speaker 1: was paralleling her story. Sadly, she didn't make it, and

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Speaker 1: in fact her the anniversary of her passing was about

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Speaker 1: three days ago. She died before fifty of breast cancer.

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Speaker 1: Irene survived. That was very important to me, and I'd

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Speaker 1: like to think that we did it justice. And also

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Speaker 1: the storyline where Ada Leah had to slap Irene across

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Speaker 1: the face because and I'll try and truncate this for you,

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Speaker 1: but Irene was abused when she was fourteen and had

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Speaker 1: a child as a result of that Mick, and Mick

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Speaker 1: was out of Irene's life and then came back into

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Speaker 1: Irene's life and he was a bit of a loose

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Speaker 1: cannon anyway. He attacked, he attacked Billy, who was engaged

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Speaker 1: to VJ. And a child ensued from that, and so

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Speaker 1: Irene was biologically the child's grandmother, but Leah was morally

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Speaker 1: the child's grandmother. So there was a huge barney ensued

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Speaker 1: and and that came to a head on the pier

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Speaker 1: and Leah slapt iron across the face and you and

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Speaker 1: Ada a great friend. Was a hilarious day, it was,

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Speaker 1: but it was terrifying. I can remember thinking I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to be able to do this. I can't do this,

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Speaker 1: and and Aida was the same, and it was of

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Speaker 1: course it had to be outside, but luckily it was

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Speaker 1: a night, but it was still a crowd gathering because

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Speaker 1: we're screaming at each other and then whack across the

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Speaker 1: mush and then of course we had to hug afterwards.

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Speaker 1: But that that's really stood out in my head because

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Speaker 1: it was it's such a hard thing to do a

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Speaker 1: real slight. I don't think so. I think we pulled

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Speaker 1: it like I said, you know, train on one side

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Speaker 1: of the face and the head goes the other way. No,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't quite that, but it was that's that stood out.

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Speaker 1: And also a recent one where a scamer Bronti came

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Speaker 1: into the bay and was taking eye in for all

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Speaker 1: all her worse and of course Iron being you know,

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Speaker 1: as green as Truss trusting, just accepted her and you

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Speaker 1: know that that was a terrific story.

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Speaker 3: I like that one where you the tea, your tea

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Speaker 3: was poisoned, remember you, someone was trying to get your

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Speaker 3: back on the on the booze.

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Speaker 1: That tastes like something out of the sewer, make your

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Speaker 1: fresh one was done something to this. Come on, somebody

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Speaker 1: has put something in there.

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Speaker 3: Someone's poisoned me tea.

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Speaker 2: With a sewer.

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Speaker 1: By the sound of the gold being chased around the beach,

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Speaker 1: house with a cricket bat crazy crazy dame. I loved

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Speaker 1: it with cricket, you know I love that cricket.

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Speaker 3: How's your what's your demise is going to be? How

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Speaker 3: do you leave the show?

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Speaker 1: I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you.

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Speaker 1: Do it? Do it? Do it? Look. All I can

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Speaker 1: tell you is that I came up with this idea.

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Speaker 1: I'm very proud of it, and I approach them, Lucy

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Speaker 1: and Julie, our lovely producers, and Louise, our beautiful writer,

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Speaker 1: and and they loved it and have embraced it. And

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Speaker 1: it is very revelan relevant, reverent, It's very relevant, it's

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Speaker 1: very it's very fitting in this day and age. And

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Speaker 1: I like to think that we will do it great

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Speaker 1: justice and take the audience on a terrifict you It'll

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Speaker 1: be yeah. And I'm actually in the middle of filming

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Speaker 1: it all now.

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Speaker 3: So if we see you getting chased around by a giant,

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Speaker 3: well then it's great to talk to you. It's great

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Speaker 3: to see you. Congratulations. What a career, what a stellar

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Speaker 3: career can you give us? You watch out, Girley, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you park your bum Girley right now? Or so

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Speaker 1: help me. I'm going to wallop you. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give you a thicky.

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Speaker 3: A minute, believe it to Thanks Liddy, thank

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Speaker 1: You, love you guys,