"I received the package a week ago on Friday and posted it on Facebook. I love the whole cast I did have to single out my favourite Roxy. "I started a private campaign getting all the phone numbers I can find and eventually I got an email directly to the production team and they asked if I could have my address. About six months ago I woke up one day and thought, 'right, I love Neighbours, I'm going to see if I can get my hands on all the old episodes. "It's been a very difficult period for me. I'm a massive fan of films, but I haven't been to the cinema for two years, and I haven't had a night away from home in two and a half years. "I live with my parents because they are my main carers and because of their vulnerability we've been on lockdown the majority of the time. "It's been a pretty tricky five years or so," he said. Neighbours was the one bit of consistency in my life."Īlex says that the past few years have been a struggle due to his father and mother being diagnosed with lung cancer, his grandfather passing away from Alzheimer's and his grandmother also passing away. "But obviously the care industry has had quite a high rate of turn over so I'm constantly having new carers coming and going.
Because of that I really rely on Neighbours because as well as my friendships I rely on carers to help me with things that other people take for granted. He said: "I have found it quite difficult over the years to make and maintain friendships. While you're here, can you fill in our quick survey? The story continues below.Īlex explained the impact the Australian soap has had on his life. "I did some research a while ago and I believe I started watching it avidly around 2003, so this year would be my 19th anniversary of being absolutely glued to it." "Even though I've never asked her I'm pretty sure that my grandmother started watching it when it started and then my mother started it and then I started to watch it. Talking about how he first began watching Neighbours, he said: "It's nothing secret, everyone knows that Neighbours is an iconic national institution. It has long drawn in bigger audiences in the UK than in Australia, with a funding deal between Channel 5 and home broadcaster Network 10 keeping the programme on air since it left the BBC in 2008.Ĭhannel 5 said dropping the soap meant more investment could be made in its original UK dramas.īut fans have been devastated at the news, and a petition has even been set up to save the show from being axed.Īnd superfan Alex is hoping he can also stop the programme from being cancelled.
Read more: Council chiefs have spent more than £2.5m in five years hiring top lawyers Set on the fictional Ramsey Street cul-de-sac in Melbourne, Neighbours has helped launch the careers of stars including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce. A superfan of the Australian soap Neighbours is desperate for the show not to be axed after the UK network announced it would stop broadcasting the programme this year.Īlex Christmas, from Yelverton, has a severe disability and says that he relies on the television programme as a form of 'escapism'.
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