Hollywood star joins Aussie soap

From the Sunset Strip to Ramsay Street, Chrishell Stause is joining the Australian formed of Neighbours.

The Netflix personality, who changeable to fame connected the deed spot bid Selling Sunset, has been announced arsenic an upcoming impermanent prima connected Amazon’s reinvigorated section of the long-running soap opera.

“I americium honoured and excited to articulation specified a beloved and iconic show,” Stause said successful a statement.

“Coming from the satellite of soaps successful the US, it’s backmost to my archetypal emotion successful the amusement industry. They pitched maine an thought for a character, and I was instantly excited to fig retired a mode to marque it happen. Ramsay Street present I come!”

Stause, 42, regularly spends clip successful Australia aft marrying section instrumentalist G Flip past year.

She volition play a caller character, Yasmine “Yas” Shields, who the streamer described arsenic a “glamorous and palmy businesswoman successful pursuit of an breathtaking caller opportunity.”

While Stause has made herself known arsenic a existent property cause for The Oppenheim Group, with Selling Sunset debuting successful 2019, the Kentucky-born prima started her vocation moving connected soap operas successful the US, featuring regularly connected shows including All My Children and Days of Our Lives.

Neighbours Executive Producer Jason Herbison said producers were “thrilled” to person Stause articulation the cast.

“We created a quality particularly for her and we can’t hold for her to bring the storyline alive,” Herbison said.

“Expect intrigue and surprises – and galore implications for the residents of Ramsay Street.”

The iconic TV amusement ended its 37-year tally successful July 2022 aft its accumulation company, Fremantle, failed to find it a caller home.

However, conscionable months aft its star-studded finale aired, it was fixed a lifeline by Amazon Freevee and Prime Video, with accumulation picking up again successful Melbourne successful aboriginal 2023.

The amusement relaunched with a bang successful September, welcoming US histrion Mischa Barton – of The O.C. fame – to the ensemble formed for 32 episodes.

New episodes of Neighbours premiere connected Network 10 Monday to Thursday and are disposable connected Prime Video successful Australia 7 days later.