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Morgan Baker joins us for a funny and honest chat about growing up on Neighbours , life as Toadie’s son, and figuring out who he was beyond the show. What we get into:  Starting Neighbours at just 10 years old, and why leaving at 17 was about more than walking away from a show. It was about backing himself, focusing on study, and chasing a future beyond Ramsay Street. What it was really like...

Comedian and former Neighbours lighting technician Brett Blake joins Bin Night and brings absolute chaos with him. From his early days behind the scenes on Ramsay Street to life as a professional stand-up comedian, Brett shares the moments that shaped him — including a few that nearly finished him. What we get into His time working as a lighting technician on Neighbours and why he reckons he spent...

Tak & Matty step off Ramsay Street this week and sit down with George Burgess - from NRL powerhouse to rising force on the big screen 🎬🔥 What we get into:  The transition from South Sydney Rabbitohs enforcer to rising actor, now sharing the screen with Ethan Hawke, Luke Hemsworth and Dan Macpherson Learning the craft alongside close friend and mentor Russell Crowe, and what it’s really...

From missing out on one role to landing another, to real-life romance, throuple storylines and life after Ramsay Street, Liam Maguire gets properly honest about how Neighbours changed everything. What we get into: The full audition story, originally going for Logan, missing out, and how that ultimately led to him being cast as Rhett Norman instead Why he was so keen to play a gay villain in the fi...

Ben Jackson joins Bin Night to talk about landing the role of Max Ramsay on Neighbours , from catching the acting bug as a kid to surviving terrifying auditions and early stage mishaps. He shares behind-the-scenes stories from Ramsay Street and shows off his brilliant cast impressions. What we get into:  Getting the acting bug at a young age and earning a place at drama school, the moment he...

This week on Bin Night, we’re joined by Majella Davis for a heartfelt and hilarious deep dive into the journey that took her from rural New South Wales to Ramsay Street. From twin sister dynamics and early band dreams to almost quitting acting altogether, Majella shares the real story behind the resilience, rejection and random twists that led her to Neighbours. *Content note: This episode contain...

This week we’re joined by the brilliant Lucinda Cowden for a proper trip down memory lane. Expect Neighbours secrets, kids’ TV chaos, theatre, London life and a few stories she probably shouldn’t admit to. What we get into:  Life as a kids’ TV presenter in the 90s… and the very accidental moment that got one of her mates fired Her early days as an actress, leaving home young, and the resistan...

From an extraordinary childhood journey to an acting career full of unexpected turns, Sally-Anne Upton reflects on the life experiences that shaped both her craft and her resilience as a performer. A wide-ranging, funny and deeply human conversation about chance, craft and the moments that no one — not even a psychic — could ever have predicted. What we get into:  Moving to Australia by boat...

Sara West , best known to Neighbours fans as Cara Varga-Murphy , joins us in this episode of Bin Night with Tak & Matty . Sara opens up about her journey from being a “wayward kid” whose mum sent her to drama school to keep her out of trouble… to becoming an award-winning filmmaker and Logie nominee. We talk about: • How university changed her life and gave her the discipline she needed • Winn...

Hannah Monson (Neighbours’ Nicolette Stone) joins Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matty Wilson (Aaron Brennan) for Bin Night, the Neighbours podcast for UK and Australian fans. In this episode, Hannah opens up about: the path into acting (Shakespeare first, singing absolutely not) her most unhinged auditions (including a leopard monologue) ADHD: diagnosis, relief, and how it showed up in her work...

April Rose Pengilly (Neighbours’ Chloe Brennan) takes the bins out with Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matty Wilson (Aaron Brennan). Her fairytale wedding in a castle, backstage Kylie moments, growing up on tour with INXS royalty, plus what a Neighbours revival could really look like. In this episode, April opens up about: • her fairytale wedding in a European castle with her husband, Adam • arri...

Zima Anderson will flip you inside the octagon and dazzle you with her art in this wildly honest chat that swings from Ramsay Street chaos to MMA grit and a near-death SAS Australia fall. A special treat from our launch partner sponsors Beauty Boat… grab a whopping 25% off your entire beauty product order by using code BIN25 at the BeautyBoat.com checkout! Zima (Roxy Willis), takes out the bins wi...

“You get so overwhelmed by, sh*t, now I actually have to act!” “I remember I was walking home from Moonee Ponds… and I got the email to say congratulations, you got the job,” Wendy says. Takaya Honda and Matty Wilson host Bin Night with Tak & Matty, the Neighbours podcast for UK and Australian fans. This week, Candice Leask (aka Wendy Rodwell) takes the bins out with the boys and proves why We...

Beekeeper. Commercial pilot. Eco-bunker baron. Leave your assumptions at the door, because the real Ryan Moloney (Neighbours’ Jarrod “Toadie/Toadfish” Rebecchi) has some serious layers. For 30 years, Ryan brought Toadie (and his undercuts) into our living rooms. Now he takes the bins out with Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matty Wilson (Aaron Brennan), and you’d better believe this Bin Night chat...

“I even got a call from Jason Herbison, our producer, asking if I’d stolen them!” Rebekah Elmaloglou is here to set the record straight. She did not steal coffee pods from the Neighbours set. The Kennedys’ couch however… “I was given the couch! I did not steal the couch,” Bek says. Bek Elmaloglou, aka Terese Willis, spends New Year’s Day taking out the bin with Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matt...

Alan “Fletch” Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy) says “everything was better” this last time around on Neighbours.   He’s in the bin with Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matty Wilson (Aaron Brennan), talking Karl & Susan Kennedy: why that relationship worked for decades (even with Karl’s… flaws), what the Neighbours finale reveals, and why fatherhood changed the way Fletch approached vulnerabilit...

No character, in the history of television, has ever schemed or been redeemed more often than Paul Robinson, played to dastardly effect by the one and only Stefan Dennis. SPOILERS AHEAD – this episode contains spoilers for the finale of Neighbours. So lock in because in this episode Stefan gets real with us about: How his hit song “Don’t It Make You Feel Good” originates from a casual voiceover se...

As Neighbours ends and we say goodbye to Ramsay Street, Annie Jones – a.k.a. Plain Jane Superbrain / Jane Harris – joins Bin Night with Tak And Matty for one last emotional trip to Erinsborough. Annie is the hug you need as the lights go out on Neighbours for the very last time. She’s gorgeous, funny, effervescent and kind, and she’s been in our living rooms and hearts as Jane Harris off and on si...

Bin Night is your unofficial Neighbours after party, where your favourite Ramsay Street couple wheel the bins out, talk trash and bicker like an old married couple. Hosted by Takaya Honda (David Tanaka) and Matty Wilson (Aaron Brennan), this is your direct line to all the goss about the show, the cast, the fans and what really happens after the credits roll. Expect big name guests from across the...