Earth-shatteringly beautiful. Incredibly strong-minded. Meg Mason meets the real Pia Miller as she steps into the spotlight
The last time I watched Home And Away, Shane and Angel were getting married after a tumultuous multi-season courtship. Angel surprised him by walking down the aisle, even though she’d been recently paralysed after Alf “Get out of my shop you flaming galah” Stewart accidentally ran her over. That was in 1995. I was 17, and the show was my main diversion from HSC prep.
All of us, if we’re over 30 and raised in Australia, can chart our growing up by the Home And Away storylines we invested in; locate ourselves by whether ours was Bobby turning out to be the illegitimate daughter of irascible school principal Donald Fisher or Tasha getting brainwashed by a cult, then falling pregnant after being roofied.
Yet it’s hard to imagine a teenager, now, sitting down to watch a serial every night at 7pm, which may be why Summer Bay has become increasingly populated with an unfeasibly attractive cast of actors, many of whom have significant social media followings, brand ambassadorships and the sort of private lives that provide gossip writers with a steady stream of material. And either way, it remains the most renowned incubator, proving ground and finishing school for Australian actors who go on to successful international careers. Naomi Watts and Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Isla Fisher and, notoriously, Melissa George, who famously had a meltdown when she thought a TV news program put too much focus on her former soap career.
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