Digital Spy article:
Neighbours confirms four more returnees for Sonya Rebecchi's memorial
Ramsay Street says goodbye to one of its own.
https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/nei...morial-guests/
Neighbours will welcome back some familiar faces for Sonya Rebecchi's memorial service next week.
Fans can expect even more tear-jerking scenes as Ramsay Street residents from past and present all gather together to pay their last respects to Sonya.
Lucas Fitzgerald (Scott Major), Vanessa Villante (Alin Sumarwata), Angie Rebecchi (Lesley Baker) and Willow Somers (Mieke Billing-Smith) all return to Erinsborough for the sombre occasion.
Sonya's son Callum (Morgan Baker) and sister Jade (Gemma Pranita), who've recently returned to screens, are also in attendance.
Show bosses have promised that the gathering by Lassiters Lake will be "a beautiful celebration of the amazing life of Sonya Rebecchi".
Toadie and Lucas both give loving speeches in front of the gathered guests, before Callum steps up and struggles to get through his own.
Much to everyone's surprise, it's Angie who steps in to help Callum. It's no secret that Angie didn't always see eye-to-eye with her daughter-in-law, but she shares some generous words that she regrets she never said when Sonya was there to hear them.
Sonya's final scenes will air tomorrow (March 5) as she tragically passes away on a family holiday with Toadie and the kids, just weeks after being diagnosed with stage four cancer.
Eve Morey, who played Sonya for nine years, has confirmed that it wasn't her choice to leave the show.
She told Digital Spy recently: "It was a decision made by the production. From what I understand, at the end of 2017, the show was at a point of: 'Is it going to go ahead, or is it not?'
"In the end it did, but there were going to have to be big changes and every department suffered that. When it comes to the cast, I was one of them.
"I'd come back from maternity leave and I wasn't doing as many episodes. I don't know if anyone even noticed, but I was doing two episodes per week rather than three, and taking more time out with the kids.
"I was thinking: 'This is great. It'd be good to do this, to do less'. But the producers had decided that they'd be finishing Sonya at the end of the year."
Neighbours airs these scenes on Monday, March 11 at 1.45pm and 5.30pm on Channel 5 (UK) and 6.30pm on 10 Peach (Australia).
and the radiotimes.com article with a few more picture:
Goodbye Sonya Rebecchi… don’t miss the emotional memorial episode of Neighbours
Ramsay Street residents past and present gather to farewell Sonya
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019...of-neighbours/
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