Neighbours star says cast members tried to get her deported - BBC News

Former Neighbours actress Nicola Charles has claimed two of her cast mates once tried to get her deported back to the UK.

Charles, who played Sarah Beaumont in the soap for two stints in the 1990s and 2010s, alleges she was targeted for "taking a job from an Australian".

Charles made the claim in her forthcoming memoir, Soap Star, which has been previewed in The Herald Sun.

Fremantle Media, which produces the long-running Australian soap, has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.

In her book, Charles alleges that she found a handwritten letter sent to the immigration department shortly after her six-month probation period on Neighbours ended in 1996, just as her contract was about to be extended.

A day later, former Neighbours actor Meyne Wyatt said he too had experienced racism on set in a tweet.

"Neighbours strives to be a platform for diversity and inclusion on-screen and off-screen," a spokesperson for Fremantle Media told the BBC.

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