Tim Franklin to debut as new heart-throb cop Colby on Home and Away

HE almost ran away with the circus but instead Tim Franklin has joined the cast of Home And Away, replacing Pia Miller’s character who was killed off last year.

HE almost ran away with the circus but instead Tim Franklin has joined the cast of Home And Away.

The 27-year-old from the Gold Coast will debut as new heart-throb cop Colby in Summer Bay on Tuesday night.

Franklin told Confidential the role, replacing Pia Miller’s character, was a dream come true.

Tim Franklin will make his debut on Home and Away as the new hot cop. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts

“It’s actually been so much fun,” he said. “I used to pretend to be a cop when I was a little kid and it’s funny now I do that for a living.”

But if it wasn’t for trapeze classes, he might have never pursued acting.

“I didn’t see the potential of acting as a career until my high school teacher introduced me to drama, clowning and physical theatre,” he said.

“Every week my teacher and I would go to flying trapeze. I was a little tall to join the circus; I wasn’t able to genetically pull it off.

“But besides almost running away with the circus, I was always into acting straight out of school.”