Ryan Moloney was planning to quit Neighbours before the axe fell on the much loved show
Ryan Moloney, who played Jarrod “Toadfish” Rebecchi for 28 years, says he was ready to call time on his Neighbours career when he found out the show was coming to an end.
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Ryan Moloney has revealed he was planning to quit Neighbours before the axe fell on the much loved show.
Moloney, who played the character of Toadie – a Ramsay Street stalwart – for 28 years, said he had been ready to make a break from the iconic series this year, but then got wind that the end of the show’s long and successful run was looming.
“I was planning on leaving, I was thinking now is the time,” he said.
“But I have always said I want to ride the wave all the way to shore, so I am actually really grateful I got to do that and experience the end. What a wonderful thing to be able to do.”
Moloney was cast on the show for one scene in 1995 as Jarrod “Toadfish” Rebecchi.
“They just kept me coming back,” he said of his 28 year run on the show.
He said the reality of life without Neighbours had not truly hit him yet.
“I don’t think it has sunk in to be honest I keep thinking I have to turn up to work,” he said.
“The way I look at it is I have been there 28 years, I have seen people come and go, and when they go I always think they are going to go off on their adventure and so now I just feel like this is my adventure – who knows what will happen next.
“I am just really looking forward to spending time with my family, driving them around, doing all the day to day stuff.
“The kids are coming up to that precious important time of being teenagers and I want to be around for that.”
He said Neighbours was a show many people loved but had fallen out of the habit of watching – until it was too late.
“It was the comfy couch that you always took for granted, now you have thrown it out you realise you are going to miss it,” he said.
The final episode of Neighbours will now air on Channel 10 on Thursday, July 28.
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