{"id":499200,"date":"2026-06-28T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T06:09:11","slug":"home-and-aways-melissa-george-mourns-co-star-dieter-brummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/499200\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Away\u2019s Melissa George mourns co-star Dieter Brummer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa George<\/a> has reflected on the early days of her fame on Home and Away<\/a> particularly her time with her late co-star Dieter Brummer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She shared on Stellar\u2019s podcast Something to Talk About<\/a> that she often rewatches the earlier episodes to relive the magic of Shane and Angel, one of the star couples of the show, played by Brummer<\/a> and George<\/a>, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Dieter<\/p>\n

Dieter Brummer and Melissa George played Shane and Angel in the Aussie soap.\u00a0Seven<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old<\/a> recalled the fame she experienced at such an early age and stage of her career, selling out Westfield shopping centres and having five levels of fans waiting to see Shane and Angel in the flesh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do watch [the show] often because Dieter<\/a> is no longer with us, which is just a devastation beyond comprehension,\u201d she said of the late actor, who died in 2021 at the age of 45.<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/p>\n

George says she often re-watches their scenes.\u00a0Seven<\/p>\n

\u201cI did rewatch the scene when he passed away on the rock \u2013 the final scene of Shane \u2013 and it was absolutely heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about him, I think about the past, I think about being grateful for the opportunity to have had such a great part.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The In Treatment actress<\/a> also spoke about missing the actor himself, sharing, \u201cThat\u2019s just too many years of him suffering<\/a> that was overlooked. And when you suffer in silence and you don\u2019t reach out, I think that\u2019s when it got to a point where it\u2019s too much for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really breaks my heart because he was a beautiful man. It\u2019s very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

After playing Angel in the hit Aussie soap, George moved to the US and made a name for herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/p>\n

Melissa George made a name for herself in the US.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

She starred in the 2005 remake of The Amityville Horror, and then began carving out a career in horror movies with the thriller Derailed (2005), 30 Days of Night (2007), and Triangle (2009).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

George also appeared on TV in the recurring role of Lauren Reed on ABC\u2019s Alias (2003\u20132004), HBO\u2019s In Treatment (2008), for which she was Golden Globe nominated, and in both the Australian and American versions of The Slap. <\/p>\n

She won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for her work in the Aussie version.<\/p>\n

She has three children; Rapha\u00ebl, 12, and Solal, 10, with her ex, French entrepreneur Jean-David Blanc, as well as Lyor, now two. Due to French custody laws, she lives in France with her sons and splits custody with her ex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa George has reflected on the early days of her fame on Home and Away particularly her time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-499200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}