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Jodi Anasta scores major role on Aussie soap

She’s coming back to our screens!
Jodi Anasta to act on neighbours after quitting home and away

Six years ago, Jodi Anasta said farewell to Summer Bay and left Home and Away.

However, the Aussie actor is getting back to her soap roots having signed on to long-running TV drama, Neighbours.

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“As an actor in Australia, I am thrilled to be working,” she told The Daily Telegraph.

“The biggest hurdle for me right now is will my brain fit all these scripts in and will I deliver.”

“Literally all I’ve been doing is sitting in my hotel room, learning my scripts, learning my lines and trying to get back into the motion of TV script learning.”

Australian fell in love with her when she played Martha MacKenzie on Home and Away from 2005 – 2010.

It’s believed she’s signed on to Neighbours for three years and will hit screens as school teacher Elly Conway in July.

“She is an English teacher, which is amazing because I get to play out one of my childhood dreams of being a teacher and I get to have fun and be a little bit naughty,” she said.

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