# Off-Air Podcast: The Full Chat With Lynne McGranger

An episode of [The Joel Creasey Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1892211318), 8 Oct 2026, 24 min.

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Lynne McGranger is not only an icon on Aussie shores, but turns out walking down the street in the UK has it's challenges too. Lynne and Joel discuss the most outrageous plot lines her Home And Away character, Irene, played out for almost 30 years, what she's up to now and what's next for the Gold Logie Winner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Get ready.
[0:01] Speaker 2: Yes! It's Joel Creasy. Joel Creasy!
[0:05] Speaker 1: With the Joel Creasy Show.
[0:11] Speaker 2: Welcome to the Joel Creasy Show podcast today with Lynn McGranger,
[0:16] Speaker 2: Gold Loki winning Lynn McGranger herself, who for 33 years
[0:21] Speaker 2: played Irene on Home and Away. I don't remember a
[0:25] Speaker 2: time when Irene wasn't running the Summer Bay Diner. and
[0:29] Speaker 2: I think she left about a year ago. She cleaned
[0:32] Speaker 2: up in her final year, won the Gold Logie, finally,
[0:35] Speaker 2: and is the longest-serving female cast member on a TV
[0:41] Speaker 2: soap opera in Australia. She's an absolute icon. I've met
[0:44] Speaker 2: her plenty of times, and she's never, never failed to
[0:47] Speaker 2: make me laugh. She's really genuine and lovely, so down-to-earth.
[0:51] Speaker 2: I don't think realises just quite how famous she She is,
[0:54] Speaker 2: and if so, it certainly has not gone to her head.
[0:58] Speaker 2: And she's about to head off on a huge tour
[1:01] Speaker 2: through Australia with her comedy musical, her and several castmates,
[1:05] Speaker 2: which she elaborates on, and it sounds fantastic. I cannot
[1:07] Speaker 2: wait to see that on stage. And, yeah, always a
[1:10] Speaker 2: treat whenever I get the chance to talk to a
[1:12] Speaker 2: gold Logie winner, especially when it's someone as treasured as
[1:16] Speaker 2: the brilliant Lynn McGranger.
[1:19] Speaker 1: This is The Joel Creasy Show. As I live.
[1:22] Speaker 2: And breathe. The icon that is the one and only
[1:25] Speaker 2: Lynne McGranger joins me. Hello, Queen.
[1:28] Speaker 1: Oh, darling. Thank you. You're very kind. Thank you.
[1:33] Speaker 2: I was just saying, my gosh, you know, you joked
[1:35] Speaker 2: about retirement and then I looked at your dates and
[1:39] Speaker 2: you're hitting the road, Lynne.
[1:42] Speaker 1: I know. For the third time in three years. And
[1:48] Speaker 1: with a new grandparents club. But, yeah, I haven't really stopped.
[1:52] Speaker 1: And in the meantime, my daughter's given birth to twin girls.
[1:56] Speaker 1: So I'm a Gaga or a Nana for the first
[2:01] Speaker 1: time ever. And Paul's a Goo Goo or a.
[2:06] Speaker 2: Doo Doo or.
[2:06] Speaker 1: A Pa Pa or something. For the first time ever and, yeah,
[2:11] Speaker 1: they're only just three months old and so my life
[2:14] Speaker 1: has gone from zero to WTF in like the space
[2:21] Speaker 1: of a year or so. Fair enough.
[2:23] Speaker 2: My sisters have had three babies in maybe the space
[2:26] Speaker 2: of the last three years and I've become an uncle
[2:29] Speaker 2: and I didn't think I would love it so much.
[2:33] Speaker 1: Oh, no. And when they recognise your face and your
[2:37] Speaker 1: voice and their little faces light up, it's just delightful.
[2:42] Speaker 2: You feel like more of a, like for me, it
[2:45] Speaker 2: makes me feel like more of a rock star than
[2:46] Speaker 2: I have in my entire career, making those gorgeous children laugh.
[2:51] Speaker 1: Yes. And so how old are yours?
[2:54] Speaker 2: How old am I? So there's three, two and about a,
[2:59] Speaker 2: I was going to say four weeks old. Four weeks,
[3:01] Speaker 2: if that.
[3:02] Speaker 1: How old are yours?
[3:03] Speaker 2: How old are yours?
[3:04] Speaker 1: Mine, they were born two minutes apart. Wow. Stevie Grace
[3:09] Speaker 1: and Davy Joy.
[3:10] Speaker 2: They're great names.
[3:11] Speaker 1: Why just make Davy? Why don't you say Daisy? Stevie
[3:15] Speaker 1: Grace and Daisy Joy. So they like Stevie for a
[3:18] Speaker 1: girl's name and Daisy. And they are four months old
[3:25] Speaker 1: as of the 28th. Yeah, they're four months old. Oh,
[3:29] Speaker 1: in two weeks because they've got to get their jabs.
[3:33] Speaker 2: Oh, what's the jab they've got to have?
[3:35] Speaker 1: I think it's the triple antigen.
[3:37] Speaker 2: Oh, really?
[3:38] Speaker 1: The MMR, the measles, mumps, rubella. Oh, my gosh. I
[3:41] Speaker 1: don't know. No, no.
[3:42] Speaker 2: I've got to have my jabs too, but they're all
[3:44] Speaker 2: in my forehead. I've got to book that in actually.
[3:47] Speaker 1: I need them. Boy, I looked in the mirror the
[3:49] Speaker 1: other day and I went, whoa, that's moving a lot.
[3:51] Speaker 2: More than it used to. Although I've overdone it before
[3:55] Speaker 2: and I think I've told people this before, but I once,
[3:58] Speaker 2: when I was doing a stand-up tour, I kept getting
[4:00] Speaker 2: home each night and I was saying to my fiance,
[4:02] Speaker 2: I'm so tired. I don't know why. And then I
[4:05] Speaker 2: realised I'd had far too much. And I had to
[4:08] Speaker 2: triple the amount I moved on stage because there was
[4:10] Speaker 2: no movement in my face.
[4:14] Speaker 1: Oh, I love it. I love it. I mean, as
[4:16] Speaker 1: an actor, your face has to move, otherwise it stands
[4:19] Speaker 1: out like dogs' watsits, you know. Yeah, yeah. People are
[4:22] Speaker 1: looking at you going, shouldn't you be unhappy? I am.
[4:27] Speaker 1: And shouldn't you be happy now? I am. So you've
[4:30] Speaker 1: got to be real careful, I think. Yeah, yeah. Or
[4:35] Speaker 1: you look like you've been shot through the back of
[4:37] Speaker 1: the head because your eyes are really constantly wide open.
[4:41] Speaker 1: Or conversely, you look like an angry bird.
[4:43] Speaker 2: You know, because it's.
[4:45] Speaker 1: Sunk into your eyelids, both of which are alarming.
[4:50] Speaker 2: And shot through the back of the head, you know,
[4:52] Speaker 2: every chance that could happen in Summer Bay.
[4:53] Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know.
[4:56] Speaker 2: So Christmas in the Grandparents Club, which is touring like
[5:00] Speaker 2: literally all around Australia from November 1st It's a comedy.
[5:05] Speaker 2: It stars you, so you can be guaranteed that I
[5:08] Speaker 2: will be there. Oh, bless you, honey. What deliciousness am
[5:11] Speaker 2: I seeing?
[5:11] Speaker 1: Well, look, it's just a bunch of, you know, four
[5:14] Speaker 1: old codgers.
[5:15] Speaker 2: Heaven sold.
[5:19] Speaker 1: Acting the goat, singing, dancing, celebrating all things that are grandparents. Yes.
[5:26] Speaker 1: You know, people say, oh, but I'm not a grandparent. Well,
[5:28] Speaker 1: I get it. And I always say, well... You either
[5:32] Speaker 1: have grandparents or you are a grandparent or you know grandparents. Exactly.
[5:37] Speaker 1: It's not, you know, and the population's getting older. We're
[5:40] Speaker 1: all getting older. We're living to, you know, a longer,
[5:45] Speaker 1: you know, bigger age. And it's just very identifiable. And
[5:51] Speaker 1: it's the best fun, honestly, the best fun you can
[5:56] Speaker 1: have out of bed. That's what I say. That's what
[5:58] Speaker 1: I've been saying. I like it. I haven't been saying.
[6:01] Speaker 1: I just said it now for the first time in
[6:03] Speaker 1: my life.
[6:03] Speaker 2: Well, I like it, Lynne. Keep it up. But I'm
[6:04] Speaker 2: going to stick with it, yeah.
[6:05] Speaker 1: Yeah. But it is so much fun.
[6:07] Speaker 2: Well, okay, tell me, is this story in the show?
[6:09] Speaker 2: Because my one grandma, I did know Muriel, when she passed,
[6:13] Speaker 2: we spread her ashes around her favourite place, which was
[6:18] Speaker 2: the Dan Murphys in Mandurah, Western Australia. It's a true story.
[6:24] Speaker 1: Well, I think that's where they'll be sprinkling mine. And
[6:27] Speaker 1: mine will be up at Castle Hill.
[6:29] Speaker 2: Castle Hill Bottle-O.
[6:32] Speaker 1: The Castle Hill Bottle-O. But, no, we haven't got to
[6:36] Speaker 1: that stage yet. This one is celebrating Christmas. So, of course,
[6:41] Speaker 1: what goes wrong at Christmas? Well, let me think about it.
[6:43] Speaker 2: Everything.
[6:44] Speaker 1: Everything. So, you know, you've got people, you've got the
[6:48] Speaker 1: family coming, you've got the person that can't eat this
[6:52] Speaker 1: or can't eat that because they're gluten-free. I don't know
[6:55] Speaker 1: about you, but I like extra gluten on mine.
[6:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, shove it full of gluten, MSG, dairy,
[7:03] Speaker 2: I'll take it all.
[7:04] Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's got green in it, take it out.
[7:06] Speaker 1: I don't do anything green. No, but, you know, it
[7:11] Speaker 1: deals with that. It deals with the kids and their
[7:14] Speaker 1: demands and what they want and what is expected of
[7:17] Speaker 1: the grandparents. And, of course, there's always a problem, like
[7:21] Speaker 1: you get held up in the traffic or you get
[7:24] Speaker 1: held up at a holiday destination. Yeah, yeah. And in
[7:27] Speaker 1: the meantime... you have to make do with what's around you.
[7:31] Speaker 1: So in our case, we're down the south coast and
[7:36] Speaker 1: we're just sort of catching up as mates before we
[7:40] Speaker 1: all head off to go back to our homes for Christmas. And,
[7:44] Speaker 1: of course, there's this big praying on the highway. Nobody
[7:48] Speaker 1: gets hurt but it holds everybody up so we're stuck there.
[7:52] Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
[7:53] Speaker 1: And instead of being able to organise a show to
[7:57] Speaker 1: be put on for the people in the camping ground,
[7:59] Speaker 1: we have to put on the show ourselves.
[8:02] Speaker 2: Oh, I love this.
[8:05] Speaker 1: It's just a lot of great fun. And, look, it's mischievous.
[8:09] Speaker 1: It's a little bit naughty.
[8:11] Speaker 2: Well, I suppose so.
[8:12] Speaker 1: But it's family friendly. And we just have a ball, Joel.
[8:17] Speaker 1: It's great. It's great. I mean, it's called work, but
[8:20] Speaker 1: I don't consider it work because I just have such
[8:23] Speaker 1: a good time with my fellow cast members.
[8:25] Speaker 2: Well, isn't that the point, right? Work should never– yeah,
[8:28] Speaker 2: you've got it nailed if work doesn't feel like work.
[8:32] Speaker 1: Yeah, if it feels like a drudge. Yes. And this
[8:35] Speaker 1: never feels like a drudge. Don't get me wrong because
[8:38] Speaker 1: we're all getting on. We're all fairly buggered at the
[8:42] Speaker 1: end of the day after two shows. Yeah. But, you know,
[8:46] Speaker 1: just the excitement of it. It goes for 90 minutes. So,
[8:49] Speaker 1: you know, if you're a little older and your bladder's
[8:52] Speaker 1: a little unremarkable, that's okay. You've got 90 minutes to
[8:57] Speaker 1: hang on like grim death or wear, I don't know,
[9:01] Speaker 1: wear adult diapers.
[9:04] Speaker 2: I went and saw a friend in a show on
[9:06] Speaker 2: the weekend and it was fantastic. It was about three
[9:08] Speaker 2: and a half hours. And, yeah, I think I might
[9:11] Speaker 2: have a bladder infection. Yeah.
[9:15] Speaker 1: The Joel Creasy Show.
[9:16] Speaker 2: In Gold Logie Winner, Lynne McGranger's house, first of all,
[9:19] Speaker 2: where is the gold logie? And then what does Christmas
[9:21] Speaker 2: Day look like? Are you on the tools?
[9:25] Speaker 1: So my gold logie is with my silver logie. People
[9:28] Speaker 1: always talk about the gold and that's lovely. But for me,
[9:32] Speaker 1: the silver was such, I was blindsided by that. Because
[9:36] Speaker 1: I just, well, because it's kind of partially industry voted.
[9:40] Speaker 2: Yes.
[9:41] Speaker 1: And you're up against all these wonderful women. you know,
[9:45] Speaker 1: young and old that you admire and you just, you go, man,
[9:49] Speaker 1: one day when I grow up I might have that
[9:51] Speaker 1: amount of talent, you know. And so to win the
[9:55] Speaker 1: silver was extraordinary and the gold was lovely because it's
[9:59] Speaker 1: like a, an affirmation, if you like, of all the years,
[10:03] Speaker 1: of all the scenes you've done and you go, well,
[10:07] Speaker 1: I must have done something right because the audience loved
[10:10] Speaker 1: the character.
[10:11] Speaker 2: We all adore the character.
[10:13] Speaker 1: Because she's flawed and, you know, she's a bit of
[10:16] Speaker 1: a dick. And I like that. Yes. I like that
[10:20] Speaker 1: about her and I like that about people, you know. Yeah.
[10:24] Speaker 1: So it is on our– in our kind of TV,
[10:30] Speaker 1: you know, dining come, you know, the room. The room.
[10:33] Speaker 1: That runs off the kitchen. The room where everybody goes.
[10:37] Speaker 1: And it is– Next, well, either side of a photo
[10:43] Speaker 1: of my daughter and son-in-law.
[10:46] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[10:47] Speaker 1: And we've just changed it yesterday, funnily enough, to my
[10:49] Speaker 1: daughter when she was pregnant.
[10:51] Speaker 2: Yes.
[10:52] Speaker 1: With her babies. And it's right next to my 1974
[10:58] Speaker 1: Wagga Wagga Drama Festival Best Actress Award.
[11:03] Speaker 2: And that ain't going nowhere because I can imagine how
[11:05] Speaker 2: much that means to you.
[11:07] Speaker 1: Honestly, people at home can't see, I don't think, unless
[11:11] Speaker 1: they're watching. Hello. Honestly, it's probably no bigger than about,
[11:15] Speaker 1: I don't know, what's that in the new scale? I
[11:17] Speaker 1: would say five inches.
[11:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.
[11:20] Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's probably, I can't do the math, maybe
[11:24] Speaker 1: about 10 or 12 centimetres tall. It's not very big.
[11:28] Speaker 1: It's certainly not a Logie.
[11:29] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[11:29] Speaker 1: But it means so much to me because it was
[11:32] Speaker 1: that that made me go, oh, maybe I can do this.
[11:35] Speaker 2: What were you playing? What was the show you were doing?
[11:38] Speaker 1: It was called, it was a play by Brian Freels.
[11:43] Speaker 1: It's kind of a double, two plays in one. The
[11:46] Speaker 1: play was called Lovers.
[11:48] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[11:49] Speaker 1: And it's winners and losers.
[11:51] Speaker 2: Okay.
[11:51] Speaker 1: And myself and a. A young man who sadly isn't
[11:55] Speaker 1: with us anymore, Mark Elliman, he and I were playing
[11:59] Speaker 1: two very young lovers set in the north of Ireland. Oh, wow.
[12:05] Speaker 1: And Maggie and I think his name was Joe. And anyway,
[12:11] Speaker 1: Maggie falls pregnant. Yeah. And they're sitting up, they're up
[12:13] Speaker 1: there on their bikes on top of the hill looking
[12:16] Speaker 1: down into Donegal and talking about the nuns and what
[12:19] Speaker 1: they're going to do when they find out. And, I mean,
[12:22] Speaker 1: it's sort of. It's bittersweet.
[12:24] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[12:25] Speaker 1: And the other one was an older couple. So we
[12:28] Speaker 1: were winners and the other couple were losers.
[12:30] Speaker 2: Oh, I see.
[12:30] Speaker 1: They'd been together forever but their relationship was not great.
[12:34] Speaker 1: So anyway, we just did the winners and we were winners.
[12:38] Speaker 2: And there's that award. I know those awards, they mean
[12:41] Speaker 2: the world to us.
[12:42] Speaker 1: They do.
[12:43] Speaker 2: Thank you, darling.
[12:44] Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
[12:45] Speaker 2: Okay, so you're obviously in Australia for Christmas because you
[12:49] Speaker 2: would have done, like, because my parents are British, so
[12:52] Speaker 2: I've had a lot of cold Christmases, and you would
[12:55] Speaker 2: have done a few when you were doing Panto.
[12:57] Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. I love it. I love it. I love
[13:01] Speaker 1: the way they celebrate Christmas.
[13:03] Speaker 2: Oh, it's so good.
[13:04] Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like is that there's not
[13:06] Speaker 1: much daylight in the day.
[13:08] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, good point.
[13:08] Speaker 1: You know? Yeah. The sun rises at quarter to nine
[13:11] Speaker 1: and sets at quarter past four. Yeah. And if you're
[13:14] Speaker 1: up in York where we often are because my bestie
[13:18] Speaker 1: lives up there with her husband and, you know, the
[13:22] Speaker 1: sun in the middle of winter, honestly, you're lucky to
[13:25] Speaker 1: get six and a half, seven hours of daylight.
[13:28] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[13:28] Speaker 1: And it's kind of depressing. Oh, I know. Oh, I know.
[13:31] Speaker 2: Because you go, oh, it must be bedtime. Oh, no,
[13:33] Speaker 2: it's five o'clock. That said, I was just there a
[13:38] Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago and I will never laugh at
[13:40] Speaker 2: the UK again when they say they've got a heatwave
[13:43] Speaker 2: because I didn't believe that the UK could have a heatwave.
[13:45] Speaker 2: Holy shit.
[13:47] Speaker 1: Oh, no.
[13:47] Speaker 2: It was wild.
[13:49] Speaker 1: Like Bali. But because they don't have the infrastructure for it.
[13:55] Speaker 1: It's a bit like us here. If we get a
[13:57] Speaker 1: really cold snap, well, everybody's freezing.
[14:01] Speaker 2: Freaking out. It's 10 degrees.
[14:03] Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But over there, they really don't have the
[14:08] Speaker 1: infrastructure for heat, and it's awful. And I think it's
[14:13] Speaker 1: ramping up again this week.
[14:15] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[14:16] Speaker 1: And honestly, you know, being deadly serious, I– and really
[14:20] Speaker 1: fearful of our summer this year. Yes. I think it's
[14:23] Speaker 1: going to be awful, you know. Yeah. Just with, well,
[14:28] Speaker 1: the amount of air conditioning you need to stay, you know,
[14:31] Speaker 1: not melted. Yeah. And, you know, just, oh, I'm not
[14:35] Speaker 1: a fan of the heat anyway.
[14:37] Speaker 2: Nor am I.
[14:38] Speaker 1: I just melt and bad hair. No, I get it.
[14:41] Speaker 2: I can't deal with bad hair. Yeah, I know. You
[14:43] Speaker 2: sit foot outside for one second and you're like, this
[14:45] Speaker 2: is fresh and now it's completely sweaty.
[14:48] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Can you walk down the street in the UK, though?
[14:55] Speaker 1: Depends where I am. You know, you go to Ireland
[14:58] Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, to be sure, Irene from Home
[15:01] Speaker 1: and Away, you'll be coming back to my place for
[15:03] Speaker 1: a cup of tea.
[15:04] Speaker 2: But no, I won't.
[15:06] Speaker 1: Only they say it with an Irish accent.
[15:08] Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell that was. Better than
[15:11] Speaker 2: what I could do.
[15:12] Speaker 1: But they're just lovely. And the poms are the same, honestly.
[15:18] Speaker 1: They kind of, because my hair's different now too. Yeah.
[15:21] Speaker 1: Like it was very red and now it's, well, you know. Natural.
[15:24] Speaker 2: I like it, by the way.
[15:26] Speaker 1: Thank you. Some strange ladies just stopped me and went,
[15:30] Speaker 1: your hair is terrific.
[15:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
[15:32] Speaker 1: Like just outside this building. Oh, really? And I went,
[15:34] Speaker 1: thank you.
[15:35] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[15:35] Speaker 1: That's so kind. It looks great. Thank you. I'm very
[15:38] Speaker 1: happy with it. I would have done it years ago
[15:40] Speaker 1: if I'd have known it was going to be this easy.
[15:43] Speaker 1: But I've just got to open my mouth. Yeah. Like
[15:46] Speaker 1: just say hi or thank you or g'day and it's on.
[15:54] Speaker 1: They just– I must have a very distinctive voice because
[15:58] Speaker 1: they just know. And they're so lovely.
[16:01] Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, yeah, you were so famous. It's just wild. Like,
[16:06] Speaker 2: I don't know how. Like, you were so, so famous.
[16:09] Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous, though, you know, because I'm just a
[16:13] Speaker 1: dickhead from the hills.
[16:15] Speaker 2: I think that's also what comes with the love for,
[16:18] Speaker 2: I mean, obviously Irene and Lynne are famous, but the
[16:20] Speaker 2: love for Lynne, because I know you are a hoot
[16:23] Speaker 2: and you're just so sweet and divine and you just
[16:25] Speaker 2: happen to play one of the most iconic characters in
[16:28] Speaker 2: Australian TV history.
[16:29] Speaker 1: I've been so blessed, Joel, really blessed. And it's like, well,
[16:33] Speaker 1: I always say it's like winning the acting lottery. You know,
[16:36] Speaker 1: somebody goes, look, do you want to play this character?
[16:38] Speaker 1: She'll be really popular. You'll love it. And you can
[16:41] Speaker 1: have it for 33 years. Incredible. Okay. Sounds great. Thank you.
[16:46] Speaker 1: And what? You'll pay me. Woo-hoo.
[16:48] Speaker 2: Yeah. Because I did a brief spell on Neighbours and
[16:52] Speaker 2: I love asking anyone that's done these shows. the craziest
[16:55] Speaker 2: storylines because I was the local gay stalker who then
[16:58] Speaker 2: got promoted to the local wedding planner who forgot to
[17:01] Speaker 2: book a wedding venue. And then I became the local–
[17:06] Speaker 2: I hosted Fashion Week in Erinsborough, but it turns out
[17:09] Speaker 2: I was money laundering the whole time.
[17:11] Speaker 1: And were you the one person doing all those things?
[17:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, the one person.
[17:16] Speaker 1: Okay.
[17:16] Speaker 2: Shocking. What was it like? What was the day when
[17:18] Speaker 2: you went, oh, Irene, she's doing this? Okay.
[17:22] Speaker 1: Oh, there was a couple of them.
[17:25] Speaker 2: Please, tickle me.
[17:27] Speaker 1: Okay. So there was way back, there was one where
[17:29] Speaker 1: they decided to make Irene into a clairvoyant. which is
[17:36] Speaker 1: more Marilyn's gig, you know, lovely Emily Simons who plays Marilyn.
[17:40] Speaker 1: Suddenly I'm a soothsayer and I thought, oh, you know what,
[17:45] Speaker 1: I think they're running out of ideas really. So that
[17:48] Speaker 1: didn't fly for very long, thank God. But then on
[17:52] Speaker 1: the serious side there was one where I remember lovely
[17:57] Speaker 1: Courtney Miller was playing Belle and And she'd been groomed online. Yeah.
[18:02] Speaker 1: This was probably about five, eight years ago. Yeah. Yeah,
[18:06] Speaker 1: maybe five, six. And anyway, I'd gone to Sam Frost's
[18:12] Speaker 1: character's wedding. Okay. Like Irene had gone.
[18:16] Speaker 2: Yes.
[18:16] Speaker 1: Came home and this guy is attacking Belle. And so...
[18:21] Speaker 1: Ira picks up a bottle of champagne. I don't know
[18:24] Speaker 1: what that was doing there. She's an alcoholic. But maybe
[18:28] Speaker 1: the girls had drinks before the wedding.
[18:31] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[18:32] Speaker 1: But it was conveniently there anyway. Bludgeoned him a bit
[18:35] Speaker 1: with that and then he came out of the bedroom
[18:39] Speaker 1: and then I picked up the lamp and bludgeoned him
[18:42] Speaker 1: with that as well. And so he ends up in
[18:47] Speaker 1: a wheelchair with a neck brace, you know, and of
[18:50] Speaker 1: course it was bunged on. And so Irene nearly went
[18:55] Speaker 1: to jail for attempted murder. Attempted murder. And then out
[19:00] Speaker 1: of that came all of this storyline that kind of
[19:03] Speaker 1: spiralled that she'd been attacked when she was 15 and
[19:07] Speaker 1: she'd had a son. who lived over in Perth, played
[19:10] Speaker 1: by the lovely Christian Smith. Oh, yes. A gorgeous man,
[19:14] Speaker 1: gorgeous actor. And so he came and he abducted somebody's
[19:19] Speaker 1: daughter because, oh, my God, it was just the most
[19:23] Speaker 1: convoluted storyline. But it had such mileage, such mileage. It
[19:29] Speaker 1: went on for months. I was exhausted at the end
[19:33] Speaker 1: of it. Anyway. It's so funny. Yeah, those two stand
[19:37] Speaker 1: out in my mind. But one was totally bizarre and
[19:40] Speaker 1: one was really deadly serious. And kind of apt given,
[19:45] Speaker 1: you know, grooming online. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, very, very apt grooming.
[19:50] Speaker 1: you know, given the situation now. But just kept going
[19:54] Speaker 1: off on this tangent and that tangent. I'm like, somebody
[19:57] Speaker 1: give me a break.
[19:59] Speaker 2: I totally get it because I voice a character in
[20:02] Speaker 2: a kid's show and the other day, because we take
[20:04] Speaker 2: it seriously, you know, this is our job. Me and
[20:06] Speaker 2: four adults are standing around. I voice the character of
[20:08] Speaker 2: a lime called Lime. And we're like, what noise would
[20:11] Speaker 2: a lime make if he had just been sent to
[20:13] Speaker 2: outer space by two talking chocolate bars? And we had
[20:18] Speaker 2: a serious five-minute conversation about that. Is it ooh or
[20:21] Speaker 2: is it ugh? And I went, this is absolutely ridiculous
[20:24] Speaker 2: and this is our job.
[20:26] Speaker 1: That's fantastic. But isn't it lovely that you're given the
[20:30] Speaker 1: leeway to use your imagination, to use, to go where
[20:35] Speaker 1: you may not normally go to. Yes, yes. Unless somebody goes, Joel,
[20:40] Speaker 1: pull it back a bit.
[20:41] Speaker 2: Well, I did get that on Neighbours too.
[20:43] Speaker 1: I don't think I talked. Welcome to my life. Welcome
[20:48] Speaker 1: to my life. If somebody says to me, and it's
[20:51] Speaker 1: only happened once or twice, I need it a bit bigger.
[20:54] Speaker 2: I'll go, what?
[20:57] Speaker 1: No, same, same. Okay, buckle up. Usually I just get,
[21:02] Speaker 1: bring it back. Yes. We had one director on Home
[21:06] Speaker 1: and Away who always used to say to Shane Whittington
[21:08] Speaker 1: and I that he would say, quicker and softer. And
[21:13] Speaker 1: I go, sorry, I only do slow and loud. Like
[21:16] Speaker 1: it or lump it, that's it. And Shane's the same.
[21:19] Speaker 1: But always, yeah, bring it back and tone it down.
[21:23] Speaker 2: Oh, my God, we get the same notes. Is there
[21:27] Speaker 2: a dream role that you go wonder? Because I like to,
[21:31] Speaker 2: you know, those roles, even that you know that you
[21:33] Speaker 2: couldn't play for whatever reason, that you lie in bed
[21:36] Speaker 2: at night and you go, But, you know, imagine if.
[21:39] Speaker 1: If only. I would have always liked to have played
[21:41] Speaker 1: Sweet Charity. Yeah. If I could dance better and sing better.
[21:46] Speaker 2: Oh, I've seen some productions where that clearly was more fun.
[21:49] Speaker 1: Didn't get in the way.
[21:50] Speaker 2: Love it.
[21:52] Speaker 1: Love it. I always wanted to play Cheryl the barmaid
[21:56] Speaker 1: in Priscilla. Yeah.
[21:58] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[21:58] Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah.
[21:59] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[22:00] Speaker 1: I love A Night Live. I've always wanted to play
[22:04] Speaker 1: that with the tennis ball boots.
[22:06] Speaker 2: I love it.
[22:07] Speaker 1: I love it.
[22:08] Speaker 2: I'll finance that production purely to see it.
[22:10] Speaker 1: And I'm probably, well, I am definitely long in the
[22:14] Speaker 1: tooth now, but I wouldn't have minded playing Shirley Valentine
[22:17] Speaker 1: back in the day. Oh, yes. Because I think Nat
[22:21] Speaker 1: Bass has just done it.
[22:22] Speaker 2: And she did it. She was remarkable.
[22:24] Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a wonderfully talented lady. I know. She's very, yeah, she's.
[22:30] Speaker 1: And I say this with love. She's surprisingly talented.
[22:33] Speaker 2: No, I know exactly what you mean.
[22:34] Speaker 1: I've always thought about her as being, you know, rogue traders.
[22:37] Speaker 1: Or X Factor judge, yeah. Yeah, a bit of a
[22:40] Speaker 1: rock star. But, man, that girl, he's got her acting chops.
[22:44] Speaker 2: Big time. I saw her. I was actually conveniently at
[22:47] Speaker 2: the closing night of Shirley Valentine's. I was like, oh,
[22:49] Speaker 2: am I at the after party? So that was a
[22:51] Speaker 2: great night for me. Stop it. Lynn McGranger, you are
[22:56] Speaker 2: a treasure and an icon. I just adore you. Thank you, darling.
[23:00] Speaker 2: You'll be starring in Christmas in the Grandparents Club around
[23:03] Speaker 2: Australia from November 1st. And yeah, you are just, you
[23:07] Speaker 2: are such a national treasure and so ever so funny
[23:11] Speaker 2: that I just, yeah, I can't. Enjoy you so much.
[23:15] Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, darling. That's very kind. Thank you for
[23:17] Speaker 1: having me on. And, yes, I'd love the listeners to
[23:19] Speaker 1: come and see it, even if you've seen the first
[23:21] Speaker 1: two because it's different. You know, same idiots, different storyline.
[23:26] Speaker 1: So come along and see us. You'll have a ball.
[23:28] Speaker 2: I'll be there and I'll be bringing a bunch of
[23:31] Speaker 2: idiots that I know. I love it. We'll get on
[23:33] Speaker 2: the wines and we'll be hooting and hollering for you, Lynne.
[23:36] Speaker 1: Love it, darling. Thank you.
[23:37] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[23:41] Speaker 1: The Joel Creasy Show is done. But Joel's got plenty
[23:44] Speaker 1: more to say. Find more exclusive content on the Nova
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