Shortland Street actress change

Shortland Street viewers may have noticed that in a first for the show they have had an actress, Laurie Fell, leave the show yet kept her character of Dr Justine Jones going with new actress Lucy Wigmore. The change got explained away with a new hair colour!

The NZ Herald reports that it seems Fell did not leave, so much as was pushed out, with the information coming from a blog posting on Street Talk. Executive Producer Simon Bennett (whom some of us remember from Usenet days) has even been contributing to the thread.

This is also covered on Throng, and is a good example again of the positive role blogs can play in bringing out information that deviates from the “official line”.