He was one of TV's biggest Aussie soap hunks – blond curtains, a perfect tan, cute dimples and pearly white teeth.
But disaster struck on the soap – first when Angel was temporarily paralysed after being run over by Alf and again when Shane was knocked off his motorbike. After exiting Summer Bay in 1996 after 557 episodes, he appeared in a TV hospital drama, Medivac, returning to soaps for the short-lived 2001 Sky TV soap Crash Palace, as well as Home And Away rival Neighbours, playing Troy Miller from 2011 to 2012.
And he added: We had to look like the perfect darling couple in public. It wasn't like anything off screen. It was all on screen." He continued: "I think I'd experienced so much fame during those years on Home And Away that I did just want to take a break from it and literally try and experience a life as Joe Bloggs and live like normal people do."