What 90s Neighbours bombshell looks like at 50

A former Neighbours actress, who played a resident bombshell on the soap back in the ’90s, is staging a career comeback at 50.

A former Neighbours bombshell is staging a career comeback at 50 years old.

Emma Harrison, who played Joanna Hartman on the long-running soap from 1995 to 1997, is restarting her acting career – and she excitedly shared the news on Channel 7’s The Morning Show this week.

When host Larry Emdur asked if she was hesitant to make a comeback at age 50, Harrison said that she had zero reservations whatsoever.

“Not at all. I’m super excited to be 50,” she told Emdur and his co-host Kylie Gillies.

Emma Harrison appeared on Seven’s The Morning Show this week.

“For many years, women have been invisible once they turned 50. But I want to encourage women to celebrate it. Wear what you want, do what you want. Just be happy and enjoy this time of your life.”

Harrison said her return to spotlight comes after she was approached by a talent agent at her friend and radio personality Bianca Dye’s birthday party, and the actress thought, “Why not?”

Harrison in a wedding scene with on-screen husband Graham Harvey on Neighbours.

The actress played Joanna Hartman on the show.

Harrison was on the soap from 1995 to 1997.

“A lovely agent by the name of Tegan Glass approached me and said, ‘Emma, are you still acting?’ And she said, ‘You know what? You should because there’s tons of roles for women your age,’” Harrison recalled.

“So that’s how it all started again, and I’ve gone and done some new photos and I’m auditioning for commercials and I’m just having a blast.”

On the cover of FHM with Home And Away star Isla Fisher.

In the interview, the actress – who played the younger sister of Kimberley Davies’ character Annalise Hartman on Neighbours – also reflected on her sexy FHM magazine photo shoot with fellow soap star, Isla Fisher, who at the time was on rival soap Home And Away.

“I was so young at the time and they were sort of telling me what to wear, how to act and how to pose,” recalled Harrison, who also featured in Playboy and Ralph magazines back in the day.

“I really didn’t know what I was doing, to be honest. But it was really, really fun.

“Isla and had we had such a giggle doing our FHM photo shoot together. We were laughing so hard because we were trying to act all gorgeous and sexy, but really we were just, like, silly little young girls who didn’t even know what we were doing.”