Sindi Watts
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Sindi Parker is a fictional character
from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
, played by Marisa Warrington
. She made her first on-screen appearance on 19 July 2002. Sindi was initially a recurring character, before she was promoted to regular. The character was axed in May 2005 and she departed on 26 August 2005.
In May 2005, it was announced that three of the show's actors had been axed in a "surprise shake-up" of the cast. Warrington was one of the three actors axed in favour of new cast members, the other two were Kevin Harrington (David Bishop
) and Marcella Russo
(Liljana Bishop
). Warrington left when her contract expired.
that she enjoyed playing the "evil" Sindi that tried to break up Toadfish Rebecchi
(Ryan Moloney
and Dee Bliss (Madeleine West
). She said that the writers then changed Sindi and made her more "dippy." She added "The current Sindi character is incredibly sweet and honest, she has a lot of good points."
Jack Scully
(Jay Bunyan
) become interested in Sindi and he goes to Toadie for advice on how to win her over. However, Toadie is resentful of Jack as he likes Sindi too. Toadie has not admitted his feelings for her to himself because he is mourning his late wife, Dee. Warrington explained the situation "This is the point at which Toadie starts to become interested in Sindi, but just because he's not ready to reveal his feelings, he doesn't want anyone else to go after her either. There's a nice little love triangle that develops." She and Toadie begin a brief relationship, but they break up because Toadie still loves Dee.
Sindi leaves town for a while, but when she returns she tells Lyn Scully
(Janet Andrewartha
) that she is seeing a married man. She explains that she has been trying to stop it, but she has trouble going through with it. Lyn disapproves, but she supports Sindi. When Sindi's feelings for Toadie surface again she decides to end her relationship with the man she calls "Tiny." It is then revealed that Sindi is having an affair with Rocco Cammeniti (Robert Forza). Warrington admitted that Sindi's friends would be shocked to learn who she is dating. Toadie realises that he cares deeply for Sindi and she tries again to break off her relationship with Rocco. However, she is left stunned when Rocco tells her that he has left his wife and gives her an engagement ring. Warrington said "Sindi can't admit to Rocco that she's in love with someone else, and she's also worried that something will happen to Toadie if she tells Rocco who she is in love with. So she uses the excuse that she doesn't want to be Rocco's secret 'other woman' anymore." However, Rocco then chooses that moment to give Sindi an engagement ring, which she has to accept. She later tells Toadie that she loves him and they agree to start their relationship again. Sindi finally manages to end things with Rocco and she starts a new life with Toadie, but she is unaware that Rocco has hired someone to spy on her. Rocco is not happy when he is given photos of Sindi and Toadie together and Warrington said that he "goes a bit crazy" as he believes Sindi is his girl. When she was asked what it was like to date someone like Rocco, who is nearly twice her age, Warrington said "Robert, who plays Rocco is a lovely guy, so it was fine. However, I must confess, when I was about 24 I briefly dated a man who was in his 40s and I have to say that it did look a bit wrong! He looked like my uncle!"
When her boyfriend, Stuart Parker
(Blair McDonough
), is left blind following a fire, Sindi turns to stripping to raise money for an operation to restore his sight. She decides to keep her decision a secret from Stuart. Of the situation, Warrington said "Sindi lies to Stu about where she's going and stripping off is horrible." However, Stuart discovers what she is doing and asks her to stop, but then he starts to see colours. Sindi's manager offers her some higher paid work, where she would have to sleep with men for money and Sindi accepts. Warrington explained "She hates the idea of sleeping with a man for money, but if it will give Stu his sight back she'll do it." Stuart and Sindi become engaged in 2005 and they begin planning for their wedding. However, Toadie becomes suspicious that something is wrong with Sindi and that she "may not be all she's cracked up to be." He confronts her at the wedding ceremony, but Stuart punches him and he and Sindi marry.
(Mark Raffety
) at Lassiter's and there is an attraction between them. Darcy later treats Sindi's hurt ankle, but does not pursue anything further as he is dating her sister Penny (Andrea McEwan
). Sindi seizes the opportunity to blackmail
Darcy by threatening to tell Penny about his flirting with her unless he gives into her demands which include paying for clothes and shoes. Penny sees the pair together one day and as revenge reports Darcy to the medical board for having an affair with a patient. Sindi soon leaves Erinsborough. The following year, Sindi crosses paths with Darcy again and is used as a pawn in his game to drive a wedge between Toadie and Dee, in order for Darcy to win Dee back. Sindi goes through with the plan by flirting with Toadie, but ends up falling for him for real. Darcy is annnoyed, but Sindi threatens to expose his dubious dealings. When Sindi leaves an earring behind and goes to retrieve it from Toadie's house, she meets Dee, who assumes Sindi has moved in. Sindi tries to explain, but Dee leaves before she can.
Several months later, Sindi returns when Tim Collins (Ben Anderson
), Toadie's colleague, hires her to work at their legal practice. Things are awkward at first, but Sindi settles in the job and she and Toadie remain amicable. As the amount of time they spend together increases, Sindi reveals she still loves Toadie, but he is not over Dee who drowned several months previously in a car crash on their wedding day. Sindi leaves once again.
Sindi returns to Ramsay Street as the director, producer and host of Making Mansions, a home make over show. She chooses number 26, the Scully family's house as the venue to be redesigned. Things do not work out as Sindi manages to insult her crew, prompting them to walk out on her. Luckily, several friends and neighbours help her and the work is eventually completed. Toadie and Sindi begin a relationship, which goes through many twists and turns including the revelation of Sindi's affair with Rocco Cammeniti and his refusal to let her go, which results in Toadie being kidnapped and ending up comatose. Sindi shares a kiss with Toadie's friend and housemate Stuart Parker and is consumed with guilt and confesses all to Toadie after he asks her to move into Number 30.
Lou's Place is set on fire and Sindi becomes trapped inside. Stuart runs in to save her, but they both become trapped and pass out due to smoke inhalation
. The firefighters are about to give up looking for them, until Sindi manages to call Toadie. She and Stuart are rescued, but Stuart is left blind. They discover that an operation to restore his sight will cost $50,000 and Sindi raises the money by stripping and selling her body. Her only client, Gary Evans (Ian Scott) gives her the money after he loses a coin toss. Stuart refuses to accept the money due to how Sindi got it and she gives it to Harold Bishop
(Ian Smith
) for the Salvation Army
. Stuart changes his mind, but it is too late. Paul Robinson
(Stefan Dennis
) later offers to pay for the operation from his charity, the Helen Daniels Trust fund.
Sindi loses her job at All Her Magazine and then she is snubbed at a school reunion by her old classmates. Several of her neighbours suffer mysterious accidents. Sindi later proposes to Stuart, which he accepts, but Sindi's behaviour becomes more and more unhinged. Sindi runs over Trent Hoffa, one of Stuart's police colleagues in order to help Stuart get a promotion. Toadie does some detective work and on the day of the wedding, he tries to stop the ceremony with his explanations of Sindi's behaviour only to be punched by Stuart for his trouble. Stuart finally realises the truth when Sindi pushes Toadie down some stairs after he confronts her on their honeymoon.
It emerges that Sindi has been suffering from paranoid delusions and was briefly hospitalised during her teens after pushing schoolmate Kelly Weaver (Simone Ray) down some stairs leaving her paralysed. Sindi asks for an annulment, which Stuart refuses and she is transferred to a clinic in New South Wales. She promises she will return one day when she is better. In 2006, Stuart calls Sindi and asks him to join him in Oakey, which she agrees to do.
(Bridget Neval
), came out to her, the Sydney Star Observer
called Sindi "sympathetic" and said her nice reaction to Lana's news was "good to see." The BBC
said Sindi's most notable moments were "Dating Toadie for money. Acting like a bogan to put Rocco off. The Making Mansions fiasco." Fergus Sheil of The Age
said: "Sindi Watts knows that dishonesty, a meditation tape and a lavender wheat bag should be an integral part of any intimate relationship, and that's why we love her to bits."
Fictional character
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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 Marisa Warrington
Marisa Warrington
Marisa Michelle Warrington is an Australian actress who played Sindi Watts on the Australian soap opera Neighbours....
. She made her first on-screen appearance on 19 July 2002. Sindi was initially a recurring character, before she was promoted to regular. The character was axed in May 2005 and she departed on 26 August 2005.
Casting
Warrington joined the cast in 2002 and she described her character as "one-part stalker, one-part lunatic."In May 2005, it was announced that three of the show's actors had been axed in a "surprise shake-up" of the cast. Warrington was one of the three actors axed in favour of new cast members, the other two were Kevin Harrington (David Bishop
David Bishop (Neighbours)
David Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Kevin Harrington. He made his first on-screen appearance on 12 May 1988, arriving for his father's wedding. David, along with his wife and daughter, returned in 2003...
) and Marcella Russo
Marcella Russo
Marcella Russo is an Australian actress who is best known for playing Liljana Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2003 until 2005, when her character was killed off in the Neighbours plane crash....
(Liljana Bishop
Liljana Bishop
Liljana "Lil" Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marcella Russo. She made her first on-screen appearance on 9 October 2003...
). Warrington left when her contract expired.
Character development
Warrington told the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
that she enjoyed playing the "evil" Sindi that tried to break up 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....
(Ryan Moloney
Ryan Moloney
Ryan Moloney is an Australian actor best known for his portrayal of the fictional character Jarrod "Toadfish" Rebecchi in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.-Before Neighbours:...
and Dee Bliss (Madeleine West
Madeleine West
Madeleine West is an Australian actress known for her TV roles, having played Dee Bliss on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2000–2003 and high-class escort Mel on Satisfaction from 2007 to 2010.-Career:...
). She said that the writers then changed Sindi and made her more "dippy." She added "The current Sindi character is incredibly sweet and honest, she has a lot of good points."
Jack Scully
Jack Scully
Jack Scully is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Jay Bunyan. He made his first on-screen appearance on 17 April 2001. The character was initially played by Paul Pantano in a guest role. When he returned in 2002, Bunyan had taken over the role. Jack is the...
(Jay Bunyan
Jay Bunyan
Jay Ryan is a New Zealand actor who resides in Australia.-Career:Under his birthname of Jay Bunyan, he appeared as "Glen" in the "Scallywag Pirates" and had a minor role in Xena. He is known for his portrayal of Jack Scully in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from late 2002 until January 2005...
) become interested in Sindi and he goes to Toadie for advice on how to win her over. However, Toadie is resentful of Jack as he likes Sindi too. Toadie has not admitted his feelings for her to himself because he is mourning his late wife, Dee. Warrington explained the situation "This is the point at which Toadie starts to become interested in Sindi, but just because he's not ready to reveal his feelings, he doesn't want anyone else to go after her either. There's a nice little love triangle that develops." She and Toadie begin a brief relationship, but they break up because Toadie still loves Dee.
Sindi leaves town for a while, but when she returns she tells Lyn Scully
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...
(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:...
) that she is seeing a married man. She explains that she has been trying to stop it, but she has trouble going through with it. Lyn disapproves, but she supports Sindi. When Sindi's feelings for Toadie surface again she decides to end her relationship with the man she calls "Tiny." It is then revealed that Sindi is having an affair with Rocco Cammeniti (Robert Forza). Warrington admitted that Sindi's friends would be shocked to learn who she is dating. Toadie realises that he cares deeply for Sindi and she tries again to break off her relationship with Rocco. However, she is left stunned when Rocco tells her that he has left his wife and gives her an engagement ring. Warrington said "Sindi can't admit to Rocco that she's in love with someone else, and she's also worried that something will happen to Toadie if she tells Rocco who she is in love with. So she uses the excuse that she doesn't want to be Rocco's secret 'other woman' anymore." However, Rocco then chooses that moment to give Sindi an engagement ring, which she has to accept. She later tells Toadie that she loves him and they agree to start their relationship again. Sindi finally manages to end things with Rocco and she starts a new life with Toadie, but she is unaware that Rocco has hired someone to spy on her. Rocco is not happy when he is given photos of Sindi and Toadie together and Warrington said that he "goes a bit crazy" as he believes Sindi is his girl. When she was asked what it was like to date someone like Rocco, who is nearly twice her age, Warrington said "Robert, who plays Rocco is a lovely guy, so it was fine. However, I must confess, when I was about 24 I briefly dated a man who was in his 40s and I have to say that it did look a bit wrong! He looked like my uncle!"
When her boyfriend, Stuart Parker
Stuart Parker (Neighbours)
Stuart Parker is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Blair McDonough. He made his first appearance on 13 December 2001. Stuart lived with Toadfish Rebecchi and Connor O'Neill at number 30, during which time the house became known as "The House of Trouser"...
(Blair McDonough
Blair McDonough
Blair McDonough is an actor who is best known for playing the role of Stuart Parker in the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours. He first shot to fame in 2001, when he finished runner-up in the inaugural season of the reality TV series Big Brother Australia...
), is left blind following a fire, Sindi turns to stripping to raise money for an operation to restore his sight. She decides to keep her decision a secret from Stuart. Of the situation, Warrington said "Sindi lies to Stu about where she's going and stripping off is horrible." However, Stuart discovers what she is doing and asks her to stop, but then he starts to see colours. Sindi's manager offers her some higher paid work, where she would have to sleep with men for money and Sindi accepts. Warrington explained "She hates the idea of sleeping with a man for money, but if it will give Stu his sight back she'll do it." Stuart and Sindi become engaged in 2005 and they begin planning for their wedding. However, Toadie becomes suspicious that something is wrong with Sindi and that she "may not be all she's cracked up to be." He confronts her at the wedding ceremony, but Stuart punches him and he and Sindi marry.
Storylines
Sindi meets Darcy TylerDarcy Tyler
Darcy Eammon Tyler is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Mark Raffety. He made his first on-screen appearance on 15 November 2000 in a recurring role and the character became a series regular in 2001...
(Mark Raffety
Mark Raffety
Mark Raffety is an Australian actor who played skate Doctor Darcy Tyler in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2000 to 2003...
) at Lassiter's and there is an attraction between them. Darcy later treats Sindi's hurt ankle, but does not pursue anything further as he is dating her sister Penny (Andrea McEwan
Andrea McEwan
Andrea McEwan is an Australian actress, singer, musician and songwriter.-Life:After attending MacRobertson Girls' High School in Melbourne, McEwan started acting, appearing in several television series including Ocean Girl and Funky Squad...
). Sindi seizes the opportunity to blackmail
Blackmail
In common usage, blackmail is a crime involving threats to reveal substantially true or false information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a demand is met. It may be defined as coercion involving threats of physical harm, threat of criminal prosecution, or threats...
Darcy by threatening to tell Penny about his flirting with her unless he gives into her demands which include paying for clothes and shoes. Penny sees the pair together one day and as revenge reports Darcy to the medical board for having an affair with a patient. Sindi soon leaves Erinsborough. The following year, Sindi crosses paths with Darcy again and is used as a pawn in his game to drive a wedge between Toadie and Dee, in order for Darcy to win Dee back. Sindi goes through with the plan by flirting with Toadie, but ends up falling for him for real. Darcy is annnoyed, but Sindi threatens to expose his dubious dealings. When Sindi leaves an earring behind and goes to retrieve it from Toadie's house, she meets Dee, who assumes Sindi has moved in. Sindi tries to explain, but Dee leaves before she can.
Several months later, Sindi returns when Tim Collins (Ben Anderson
Ben Anderson (actor)
Ben Anderson is an Australian actor from Melbourne, Australia. He is best known on Australian TV for his role on popular soap Neighbours as lawyer Tim Collins...
), Toadie's colleague, hires her to work at their legal practice. Things are awkward at first, but Sindi settles in the job and she and Toadie remain amicable. As the amount of time they spend together increases, Sindi reveals she still loves Toadie, but he is not over Dee who drowned several months previously in a car crash on their wedding day. Sindi leaves once again.
Sindi returns to Ramsay Street as the director, producer and host of Making Mansions, a home make over show. She chooses number 26, the Scully family's house as the venue to be redesigned. Things do not work out as Sindi manages to insult her crew, prompting them to walk out on her. Luckily, several friends and neighbours help her and the work is eventually completed. Toadie and Sindi begin a relationship, which goes through many twists and turns including the revelation of Sindi's affair with Rocco Cammeniti and his refusal to let her go, which results in Toadie being kidnapped and ending up comatose. Sindi shares a kiss with Toadie's friend and housemate Stuart Parker and is consumed with guilt and confesses all to Toadie after he asks her to move into Number 30.
Lou's Place is set on fire and Sindi becomes trapped inside. Stuart runs in to save her, but they both become trapped and pass out due to smoke inhalation
Smoke inhalation
Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of death in victims of indoor fires.Smoke inhalation injury refers to injury due to inhalation or exposure to hot gaseous products of combustion. This can cause serious respiratory complications....
. The firefighters are about to give up looking for them, until Sindi manages to call Toadie. She and Stuart are rescued, but Stuart is left blind. They discover that an operation to restore his sight will cost $50,000 and Sindi raises the money by stripping and selling her body. Her only client, Gary Evans (Ian Scott) gives her the money after he loses a coin toss. Stuart refuses to accept the money due to how Sindi got it and she gives it to 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...
(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....
) for the Salvation Army
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
. Stuart changes his mind, but it is too late. Paul Robinson
Paul Robinson (Neighbours)
Paul Stewart Robinson is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, a long-running serial drama about social life in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough. He is played by Stefan Dennis. Paul debuted in the serial's first episode in 1985 and appeared on a...
(Stefan Dennis
Stefan Dennis
Stefan Dennis is an Australian actor, best known for playing the role of Paul Robinson in the soap opera, Neighbours, from its first episode in March 1985 to the present day...
) later offers to pay for the operation from his charity, the Helen Daniels Trust fund.
Sindi loses her job at All Her Magazine and then she is snubbed at a school reunion by her old classmates. Several of her neighbours suffer mysterious accidents. Sindi later proposes to Stuart, which he accepts, but Sindi's behaviour becomes more and more unhinged. Sindi runs over Trent Hoffa, one of Stuart's police colleagues in order to help Stuart get a promotion. Toadie does some detective work and on the day of the wedding, he tries to stop the ceremony with his explanations of Sindi's behaviour only to be punched by Stuart for his trouble. Stuart finally realises the truth when Sindi pushes Toadie down some stairs after he confronts her on their honeymoon.
It emerges that Sindi has been suffering from paranoid delusions and was briefly hospitalised during her teens after pushing schoolmate Kelly Weaver (Simone Ray) down some stairs leaving her paralysed. Sindi asks for an annulment, which Stuart refuses and she is transferred to a clinic in New South Wales. She promises she will return one day when she is better. In 2006, Stuart calls Sindi and asks him to join him in Oakey, which she agrees to do.
Reception
When Sindi's cousin, LanaLana Crawford
Lana Crawford is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Bridget Neval. She made her first appearance on 31 August 2004. Lana was introduced as Neighbours first openly lesbian character. During her tenure, Lana became friends with Sky Mangel and they shared the...
(Bridget Neval
Bridget Neval
Bridget Neval is an Australian/Canadian actress. She has been in various television programs including Wicked Science but is most famous for her portrayal of Lana Crawford in Neighbours.-History:...
), came out to her, the Sydney Star Observer
Sydney Star Observer
The Sydney Star Observer is a free weekly tabloid and online newspaper that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The paper is owned and published by Gay & Lesbian Community Publishing Limited, a community-owned and oriented business...
called Sindi "sympathetic" and said her nice reaction to Lana's news was "good to see." The BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
said Sindi's most notable moments were "Dating Toadie for money. Acting like a bogan to put Rocco off. The Making Mansions fiasco." Fergus Sheil of The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
said: "Sindi Watts knows that dishonesty, a meditation tape and a lavender wheat bag should be an integral part of any intimate relationship, and that's why we love her to bits."