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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

MYSTERIOUS: A rather expensive exercise guy pearce jabs at neighbours so called finale - What They Never Told You

Guy Pearce speaks during the 2022 Aacta awards in Sydney on 7 December.
The Neighbours finale was ‘a painful reminder things we love can be snatched away … unless Amazon comes is to save the day', Guy Pearce has told the 2022 Aacta awards. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI

Amazon has said it was not already planning to revive the long-running Australian soap Neighbours at the time of the show’s star-studded supposed finale, as former cast member Guy Pearce made pointed comments about the show’s return at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards on Wednesday.

Pearce was a main character in the soap for three years in the late 1980s, starring opposite Kylie Minogue and Jason Donavan before forging a reputation as a Hollywood actor in films such as The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech and Memento.

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