Neighbours is set to pay tribute to the late actress Joy Chambers-Grundy.
The fan favourite, who died last September at age 76, played the character of Rosemary Daniels on the long-running soap for over a decade.
Producers have announced that viewers can look forward to a storyline about the impact Rosemary’s passing has on the residents of Ramsay Street.
Paul Robinson, the character played by Stefan Dennis will break the sad news in an episode to air this week reported the Herald Sun on Saturday.
‘With the sad passing of actress Joy Chmabers-Grundy, we felt it fitting that her character, Rosemary Daniels, would also pass in the show,’ Neighbours executive producer Jason Herbison told the publication.
Neighbours is set to pay tribute to the late actress Joy Chambers-Grundy. The fan favourite, who died last September at age 76, played the character of Rosemary Daniels on the long-running soap for over a decade (pictured in 2010)
Joy, debuted in Neighbours in 1986 as Rosemary. The character left Ramsay Street for the USA She was last seen in the show in 2010.
‘Stefan Dennis, who plays Paul, had the lovely idea that it could be the reason why his character goes to New York, which was already in our planning,’ Herbison explained.
Logie award-winnerJoy Chambers-Grundy died in her sleep aged 76 in September, 2023.
Joy was the second wife of late multimillionaire television mogul Reg Grundy, who created Neighbours. Grundy died aged 92 in 2016.
Producers have announced that viewers can look forward to a storyline about the impact Rosemary’s passing has on the residents of Ramsay Street reported the Herald Sun on Saturday. Pictured: Joy in a scene from Neighbours
Joy, debuted in Neighbours in 1986 as Rosemary. The character left Ramsay Street for the USA. She was last seen in the show in 2010
She was born Carolyn Joy Chambers in Ipswich, Queensland, in 1947.
Best known for her roles in several soap operas, Joy played Rita in The Restless Years, Dr Robyn Porter in The Young Doctors and Rosemary in Neighbours.
Joy was also a ‘business woman, poet, philanthropist, fine-art collector and writer’, having authored seven historical fiction novels over the past two decades.
Her works include Mayfield, None But The Brave, Vale Valhalla, For Freedom, My Zulu Myself, and The Great Deception.
‘My life is in the entertainment business,’ she wrote on her website.
Joy was the second wife of late multimillionaire television mogul Reg Grundy, who created Neighbours. Grundy died aged 92 in 2016. Both pictured in 1994
‘A skilfully written book can be read on many levels but it should always entertain. . . I attempt to do that.’
She was also the international patron of the Ipswich Poetry Feast, an annual literary event which has been held in her hometown since 2003.
Joy met Grundy at an audition in the 1960s when she was 18 and the television mogul was in his 40s.
At the time, Grundy was married to Patricia Powell – who he wed in 1954 – and with whom he shared a daughter, Kim.
Joy and Grundy married in 1971 after he divorced Powell, and the couple remained together until his death seven years ago, renewing their vows several times across their 45-year marriage.
Grundy met Joy when she was a panellist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret.
They pair married her four years later and she went to star in several of her husband’s soap operas, which earned her two Logie awards for Best Female Personality in 1969 and 1970.