Neighbours actor Darius Perkins has died aged 54.
The star, who played the original Scott Robinson when the show started in 1985, had been battling cancer.
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His family confirmed the news, with his sister in law, Kate Cuthbert paying tribute to the actor on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/katydidinoz/status/1080690057722290176
She went on to add: “He won a Logie when he was a young actor. I got to hold it once 🙂 (I could have held it lots of times, but it was on the highest shelf of the bookcase and I felt silly asking him to take it down :)).”
A fourth tweet read: “He was funny and kind and so loving. And he was too young to go. And I’m really, really sad today. In conclusion, #[bleep]cancer.”
He passed away on January 2.
Darius played Scott for eight months and appeared in 50 episodes before he was recast when the show moved from Channel 7 to Network Ten, and Jason Donovan took over the role.
Former Neighbours co-star David Clencie, who played Danny Ramsay, told the Herald Sun:
“I am so sad, really devastated to lose my mate.
“We had this incredible bond. We were mates to the very end.”
Darius also starred in Home and Away, A Country Practice, and The Sullivans.
He won a Logie for his performance in Australian mini-series All The Rivers Run.
He returned to Neighbours in 2014 as criminal Marty Kranic, who had a dodgy connection to Darius’s former on-screen brother, Paul Robinson, and was one of the suspects in a hit and run.
Prior to that part, he hadn’t acted in 19 years.
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