Neighbours has announced that there are some special Easter Eggs in episodes this week as a special shout-out to some fans in the UK.
On social media the show announced that in episodes airing on Monday May 27th and Tuesday May 28th some fans may see their names hidden within some of the scenes.
The names were selected from the guest book that was available at the Neighbours Experience which was a pop-up event in London last year, just before the new episodes of the show began to stream on Amazon Freevee.
The guest book was left in the replica of the Neighbours writers room and visitors to the attraction were invited to leave their mark.
So, was your name used as the prospective new hotel manager at Lassiters, or maybe it made its way on to a label at the winery, you could even be a member of the YAHMILs if you are really lucky!
This isn’t the first time that Neighbours have given shout-outs to fans in the show. In the months leading up to the show’s 2022 finale, a number of prolific fans got their moment to exist in the Neighbours universe.
Austin Julians was a gang member who was bought to David and Nicolette for discreet treatment after being shot, Austin’s character was named after the son of Joe Julians, long-time Neighbours fan and producer of the Neighbours Celebration Tour.
Around the same time Terese made a big deal about an awkward guest, “Troublesome Trotter” who was thought to be named after UK-based fan David Trotter.
The most obvious of the shout-outs went to one of Amy Greenwood’s internet dates, Ben Fenlon-Bone. This was an amalgam of two mega-fans, Ben Felon and Ben Bone, better knows as The Neighbens. During the coronavirus lockdowns they began a Neighbours-based Youtube Channel celebrating the show and collecting scenes from the show’s archives and putting them together in hilarious montages, as well as interviewing some of the cast. The Neighbens also appeared on a number of TV and radio shows themselves talking about Neighbours in the run-up to the show’s cancellation.
In the Neighbours universe, Ben Fenlon-Bone was an over-enthusiastic fan of a TV soap called One Way Street which had just been cancelled and that was all that he called talk about on the date. That in itself was an additional Easter Egg as One Way Street was the original title of Neighbours when the show was in development back in the 1980s.
So – rewatch the episodes and keep your eyes peeled to see if you are going to be immortalised in Neighbours history!
A note to producers… the correct way to spell my name can be found at the foot of the article….