Janelle Timmins
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Janelle Beryl Steiger (née Rebecchi, previously Timmins) is a fictional character
from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
, played by Nell Feeney
. She made her first on-screen appearance on 11 November 2004. The character was axed in 2006 and she departed on 13 July 2007.
). They took the decision not to renew the contracts of Feeney and Smit-McPhee, following the departures of Ben Nicholas
(Stingray Timmins) and Damien Bodie
(Dylan Timmins
). Co-star Ian Smith
(Harold Bishop
) called the decision a "huge mistake". Janelle and Bree made their final appearances in July 2007.
. She is mother to Dylan
(played by Damien Bodie
), Janae (Eliza Taylor-Cotter
), Stingray (Ben Nicholas
), Bree (Sianoa Smit-McPhee
), Dwayne and Brandon Timmins (both never seen in the show, only referred to). She is ex-wife of Kim (Brett Swain) and sister of Big Kev. Janelle used to work as Lyn
's (Janet Andrewartha
) apprentice at A Good Hair Day. She is a bitter, lazy woman, seen by some viewers as a typical bogan
. She is used frequently in comical storylines on the programme, her opening story line being where she tried to make money from exaggerating injuries. She was involved in a "love square", in which she, Lyn and Susan
(Jackie Woodburne
) all had a small fling with Bobby Hoyland (Andrew McFarlane), unaware of each others' involvement.
She began writing a novel about her life in Ramsay Street
, which Nina Tucker
's (Delta Goodrem
) former singing manager, Melody Jones, wanted to publish. Bree re-wrote most of the book, and this was meant to be kept a secret until it was revealed inadvertently when they were both in a mock episode of Rove Live. Lyn kicked her and her family out onto the streets to live in a caravan park, but later let them return due to pity.
Janelle found happiness again with the return of her husband, Kim Timmins (Brett Swain), after she struggled to provide for a family of six children on her own when her husband left her. They had a second wedding. Kim became a fugitive from the law after by selling counterfeit DVDs to fund the wedding, and other things.
Janelle discovered that her daughter Bree was switched at birth. After which Bree attempted to find her biological family. Bree became friends with one of her book fans, a blind girl called Anne who gave Janelle the creeps. It turned out Anne was Janelle's biological daughter. When this was revealed the two bonded, but Anne's parents, who were in denial, prevented Anne from any contact with the Timmins family.
Janelle was briefly Lou Carpenter
's (Tom Oliver
) girlfriend. Janelle ended it with the realisation she didn't love him, and helped him win ex-girlfriend Mishka Schneiderova (Deborah Kennedy
) back. After Kim sent the family a letter that gave Janelle some closure she started dating Allan Steiger (Joe Clements
).
When Kerry (Claudine Henningsen), Janelle's granddaughter, was diagnosed with leukemia
, Janelle's son Stingray became her bone marrow
donor. The operation was a success; however, Stingray later unexpectedly died at Janelle's '39th' birthday party from a fatal aneurysm
. Janelle was devastated at the loss. At the funeral her other son Dylan left to recover from his emotional despair, making it a double blow.
Stingray's girlfriend at the time of his death was best friend Sky Mangel
. She struggled to cope with the loss of another person in her life and started seeing a spiritualist, Terrence Chesterton. Amongst other things, Terrence told her that Stingray wanted his ashes scattered at the skate park, something Janelle was dead against. Sky stole the ashes, but Bree managed to retrieve them in time. When Janelle found out, she was furious, but Sky offered her a deal: Janelle should meet with Terrence, and if she was still against him then, Sky would no longer bother her. Janelle met with Terrence, where she too was taken in by him, despite warnings from her daughters.
Terrence was proved a fake by Janelle's nephew Toadfish Rebecchi
, and Sky confronted him, hitting him with a heavy object in her anger. Terrence was knocked unconscious, and a scared Sky ran off. Terrence's accomplice, the fake doctor Charlotte Stone then found him and, angry at him for being found out, hit him again, this time killing him. Sky was blamed, although was eventually proved innocent by Boyd Hoyland
. Janelle didn't like Boyd because he had cheated on her daughter, but after this she was forced to at least get along with him.
Janelle's fiance Allan Steiger returned from the Solomon Islands, and a while later, her biological daughter Anne returned from Cairns. When Anne's adoptive father finally accepted that Bree was really his daughter, they came up with the plan for the Timmins' to move to Cairns, so that the two families could get to know each other. Janelle's three remaining sons all live up north, so she would also be closer to them. The family had a farewell party in the street, where Steiger shocked Janelle by turning it into their wedding. He then gave her a wedding present – he'd arranged for Daryl Braithwaite
to come, who Janelle loved. Janelle gave a farewell speech
to the neighbours, where she spoke to each person who she'd been close to over her years on the street. Janelle encouraged Janae to stay behind and continue her relationship with Ned Parker
. The family then flew off to Cairns in a helicopter, leaving the waving neighbours behind.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
, played by Nell Feeney
Nell Feeney
Nell Feeney is an Australian actress who played Janelle Timmins on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from late 2004 to July 2007. She was married to former cast member Shane Connor and together they have twins....
. She made her first on-screen appearance on 11 November 2004. The character was axed in 2006 and she departed on 13 July 2007.
Casting
In December 2006, it was announced that the Neighbours producers had decided to axe the characters of Janelle and her on-screen daughter, Bree (Sianoa Smit-McPheeSianoa Smit-McPhee
Sianoa Smit-McPhee is an Australian actress. She is best known for her two years in Australian soap Neighbours as Breanna Timmins. Sianoa's next role was in the children's television series As the Bell Rings, which used to air on the Disney Channel.In 2007, Sianoa appeared as Desma, the lead...
). They took the decision not to renew the contracts of Feeney and Smit-McPhee, following the departures of Ben Nicholas
Ben Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas is an Australian actor. He is best known for playing Scott "Stingray" Timmins in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.-Biography:...
(Stingray Timmins) and Damien Bodie
Damien Bodie
Damien Bodie is an Australian actor.-Biography:Bodie was educated at Sandringham Secondary College and is best known for his role as Dylan Timmins on the Australian television series Neighbours . Bodie played the role of Oscar in the television series Short Cuts which won three awards in 2002...
(Dylan Timmins
Dylan Timmins
Dylan Kim Timmins is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Damien Bodie. He made his first on-screen appearance on 3 February 2005. Dylan is the older brother of Stingray, Janae and Bree Timmins. Dylan became the protégé of Paul Robinson...
). Co-star Ian Smith
Ian Smith (actor)
Ian Smith is an Australian soap opera character actor and television screenwriter, best known today for his long-running role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in the soap opera Neighbours....
(Harold Bishop
Harold Bishop
Harold Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Ian Smith. He made his first on-screen appearance on 30 January 1987. Smith was offered a role by Neighbours creator and executive producer Reg Watson...
) called the decision a "huge mistake". Janelle and Bree made their final appearances in July 2007.
Storylines
Janelle is originally from Colac, VictoriaColac, Victoria
Colac is a small city located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, situated approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately 40 km inland from Bass Strait. Colac is the largest city in and...
. She is mother to Dylan
Dylan Timmins
Dylan Kim Timmins is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Damien Bodie. He made his first on-screen appearance on 3 February 2005. Dylan is the older brother of Stingray, Janae and Bree Timmins. Dylan became the protégé of Paul Robinson...
(played by Damien Bodie
Damien Bodie
Damien Bodie is an Australian actor.-Biography:Bodie was educated at Sandringham Secondary College and is best known for his role as Dylan Timmins on the Australian television series Neighbours . Bodie played the role of Oscar in the television series Short Cuts which won three awards in 2002...
), Janae (Eliza Taylor-Cotter
Eliza Taylor-Cotter
Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Taylor-Cotter is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Janae Timmins in long-running soap opera Neighbours.-Biography and Career:...
), Stingray (Ben Nicholas
Ben Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas is an Australian actor. He is best known for playing Scott "Stingray" Timmins in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.-Biography:...
), Bree (Sianoa Smit-McPhee
Sianoa Smit-McPhee
Sianoa Smit-McPhee is an Australian actress. She is best known for her two years in Australian soap Neighbours as Breanna Timmins. Sianoa's next role was in the children's television series As the Bell Rings, which used to air on the Disney Channel.In 2007, Sianoa appeared as Desma, the lead...
), Dwayne and Brandon Timmins (both never seen in the show, only referred to). She is ex-wife of Kim (Brett Swain) and sister of Big Kev. Janelle used to work as Lyn
Lyn Scully
Lynette "Lyn" Scully is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Janet Andrewartha. The character debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 21 October 1999, along with her family and remained a prominent feature within the show until late 2006...
's (Janet Andrewartha
Janet Andrewartha
Janet Andrewartha is an Australian actress. She is famous for playing on-going roles in two popular Australian soap operas: that of Reb Kean in Prisoner and Lyn Scully in Neighbours.-Biography:...
) apprentice at A Good Hair Day. She is a bitter, lazy woman, seen by some viewers as a typical bogan
Bogan
The term bogan is Australian slang, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for an individual who is recognised to be from a lower class background or someone whose limited education, speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplifies such a background....
. She is used frequently in comical storylines on the programme, her opening story line being where she tried to make money from exaggerating injuries. She was involved in a "love square", in which she, Lyn and Susan
Susan Kennedy
Susan Kennedy , is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Jackie Woodburne. The character and her family were created by storyliners in an attempt to bring the show back to its roots. Susan made her first on-screen appearance on 3 October 1994 along...
(Jackie Woodburne
Jackie Woodburne
Jackie Woodburne is a Northern Irish-born Australian actress.-Personal life:Woodburne was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Her father was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. She has two older siblings: John and Stephen. At age three she emigrated with her family to...
) all had a small fling with Bobby Hoyland (Andrew McFarlane), unaware of each others' involvement.
She began writing a novel about her life in Ramsay Street
Ramsay Street
Ramsay Street is the fictional cul-de-sac in which the characters of the Australian soap opera Neighbours live. The street is set in the equally fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough. Neighbours storylines primarily centre around the residents of the Street, which was named after the...
, which Nina Tucker
Nina Tucker
Nina Tucker is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Delta Goodrem. She made her first on-screen appearance on 11 June 2002. Goodrem was approached by producers after they saw her video for her debut single. Goodrem, who had just signed a record deal, almost...
's (Delta Goodrem
Delta Goodrem
Delta Lea Goodrem is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. Signed to Sony at the age of 15, Goodrem rose to prominence in 2002, starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Nina Tucker. Goodrem has achieved eight number-one singles and three number-one albums in her home...
) former singing manager, Melody Jones, wanted to publish. Bree re-wrote most of the book, and this was meant to be kept a secret until it was revealed inadvertently when they were both in a mock episode of Rove Live. Lyn kicked her and her family out onto the streets to live in a caravan park, but later let them return due to pity.
Janelle found happiness again with the return of her husband, Kim Timmins (Brett Swain), after she struggled to provide for a family of six children on her own when her husband left her. They had a second wedding. Kim became a fugitive from the law after by selling counterfeit DVDs to fund the wedding, and other things.
Janelle discovered that her daughter Bree was switched at birth. After which Bree attempted to find her biological family. Bree became friends with one of her book fans, a blind girl called Anne who gave Janelle the creeps. It turned out Anne was Janelle's biological daughter. When this was revealed the two bonded, but Anne's parents, who were in denial, prevented Anne from any contact with the Timmins family.
Janelle was briefly Lou Carpenter
Lou Carpenter
Louis "Lou" Carpenter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Tom Oliver. He made his first on-screen appearance on 30 March 1988. Lou appeared for a brief time, before leaving and later returning in January 1992 as a regular cast member. He is the longest...
's (Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver is an English television, film and theatre actor best known today for playing the role of Lou Carpenter in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.-Career:...
) girlfriend. Janelle ended it with the realisation she didn't love him, and helped him win ex-girlfriend Mishka Schneiderova (Deborah Kennedy
Deborah Kennedy
Deborah Kennedy is an Australian actress recognised for several television and film roles, and for her appearance in an advertisement.Kennedy began her acting career on the stage, with the Marian Street Theatre, Killara, appearing in The Trojan Woman and Macbeth...
) back. After Kim sent the family a letter that gave Janelle some closure she started dating Allan Steiger (Joe Clements
Joe Clements
Joseph "Joe" Clements aka Jose Element is an Australian actor who played Senior Sergeant Allan Steiger in the television soap opera, Neighbours, during 2004–2007.-Biography:...
).
When Kerry (Claudine Henningsen), Janelle's granddaughter, was diagnosed with leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
, Janelle's son Stingray became her bone marrow
Bone marrow
Bone marrow is the flexible tissue found in the interior of bones. In humans, bone marrow in large bones produces new blood cells. On average, bone marrow constitutes 4% of the total body mass of humans; in adults weighing 65 kg , bone marrow accounts for approximately 2.6 kg...
donor. The operation was a success; however, Stingray later unexpectedly died at Janelle's '39th' birthday party from a fatal aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
. Janelle was devastated at the loss. At the funeral her other son Dylan left to recover from his emotional despair, making it a double blow.
Stingray's girlfriend at the time of his death was best friend Sky Mangel
Sky Mangel
Sky Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Stephanie McIntosh. She made her first on-screen appearance on 1 February 1989, played by Miranda Fryer. McIntosh took over the role on 13 August 2003 when the character returned to the show...
. She struggled to cope with the loss of another person in her life and started seeing a spiritualist, Terrence Chesterton. Amongst other things, Terrence told her that Stingray wanted his ashes scattered at the skate park, something Janelle was dead against. Sky stole the ashes, but Bree managed to retrieve them in time. When Janelle found out, she was furious, but Sky offered her a deal: Janelle should meet with Terrence, and if she was still against him then, Sky would no longer bother her. Janelle met with Terrence, where she too was taken in by him, despite warnings from her daughters.
Terrence was proved a fake by Janelle's nephew Toadfish Rebecchi
Toadfish Rebecchi
Jarrod Vincenzo Rebecchi is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Ryan Moloney. He debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 8 February 1995....
, and Sky confronted him, hitting him with a heavy object in her anger. Terrence was knocked unconscious, and a scared Sky ran off. Terrence's accomplice, the fake doctor Charlotte Stone then found him and, angry at him for being found out, hit him again, this time killing him. Sky was blamed, although was eventually proved innocent by Boyd Hoyland
Boyd Hoyland
Boyd Hoyland is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Kyal Marsh. He made his first on-screen appearance on 5 June 2002...
. Janelle didn't like Boyd because he had cheated on her daughter, but after this she was forced to at least get along with him.
Janelle's fiance Allan Steiger returned from the Solomon Islands, and a while later, her biological daughter Anne returned from Cairns. When Anne's adoptive father finally accepted that Bree was really his daughter, they came up with the plan for the Timmins' to move to Cairns, so that the two families could get to know each other. Janelle's three remaining sons all live up north, so she would also be closer to them. The family had a farewell party in the street, where Steiger shocked Janelle by turning it into their wedding. He then gave her a wedding present – he'd arranged for Daryl Braithwaite
Daryl Braithwaite
Daryl Braithwaite is an Australian pop singer. Best known as the lead vocalist of Sherbet, Braithwaite has also sustained a successful solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including the No...
to come, who Janelle loved. Janelle gave a farewell speech
Farewell speech
A Farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons relating to reasons for their leaving...
to the neighbours, where she spoke to each person who she'd been close to over her years on the street. Janelle encouraged Janae to stay behind and continue her relationship with Ned Parker
Ned Parker
Ned Parker is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Daniel O'Connor. He made his first appearance on-screen on 9 August 2005, arriving to see his brother, Stuart...
. The family then flew off to Cairns in a helicopter, leaving the waving neighbours behind.