Neighbours’ Dr Clive Gibbons actor Geoff Paine now - from dad of twins to soap return
ok.co.ukThere's only a handful of characters that Neighbours viewers old enough to remember the 1980s can easily recall. Scott and Charlene, Des and Daphne, Madge and Harold, Henry, Paul and Plain Jane Superbrain – they're probably all on the list.
But for diehard fans of the Aussie soap there's likely to be another name in the mix, in the form of mild-mannered Dr Clive Gibbons.
Clive infamously arrived in Ramsay Street in January 1986 dressed as a gorilla – well, what else, when you run a gorillagram agency – and soon upset neighbour Max Ramsay.The cheery-but-slightly-wacky character went on to set up a gardening business, let Daphne live in spare room when her engagement to Des fell apart, save Lucy Robinson's life after performing an emergency tracheotomy when she was stung by a bee, and then fall in love with Susan Cole – although she eventually left Erinsborough when she realised she didn't love him.
But when the actor who played Clive, Geoff Paine, feared being typecast, he quit the show just a year later, in February 1987.
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