Being a millionaire, he must be living a luxurious lifestyle. "Were the current law applicable, it is possible the result may have been different," she told the courtroom. Crime, Drama, Mystery. What Craig and his partner have endured over the past four-and-a-half years is devastating.. Andy Lee, He also became known for his role in the soap opera Home and Away. Actor Craig McLachlan has discontinued his defamation proceedings against the ABC, Nine Newspapers and Christie Whelan Browne on the day the defence case was set to begin. I burst into tears and I rang [partner Vanessa Scammell] and said 'How am I going to survive this? News. | The laws have since changed but do not apply retroactively. Craig McLachlan Official Website "Really at that point, all you can think about is Nessie is going to be better off without me. In his stage musical career he starred as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Caractacus Pott in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bob Wallace in White Christmas and Billy Flynn in Chicago. Craig McLachlan's bombshell admission on Channel Seven - 7NEWS They don't care about Gold Logies, old episodes of Neighbours from the 80s and early 21st Century Australian network dramas, nor is the Dr Blake series really targeted to a youth audience @laura__palmer Sure, I'm not saying everyone is going to be intimately familiar with his career but to say that 'Most people didnt even know who McLaughlin was before this' is just wrong. Know you'll make it to the other side. 55 min A jockey dies the morning after a big win. Rodger Corser, Key points: McLachlan claimed stories published in 2018 defamed him and effectively ended his acting career Director: But while at the starting line in his speedos, his excitement over seeing the girl of his dreams means something unexpected pops up. And youll get there with your eyes open wide. Pictured: McLachlan as he appeared in the hit soap opera Neighbours back in his glory days. The mother-of-two was preparing lunch for her sons Eden, 12, and Jem, nine, when she heard allegations McLachlan, 53, had harassed, assaulted and bullied his female co-stars on the set of, "I went through a grieving for what happened to Craig personally and professionally," Nadine says of her former co-star on, Nadine played Jean Blake, wife to McLachlan's Dr Lucien Blake in the hit TV program that was axed in the wake of the allegations against, "I thought this was a storm in a teacup that would all blow over," Nadine told, She continues, "Whether or not his behaviour is always politically correct is not for me to say, and what's true or not and what actually happened between him and the women who accused him is not for me to say either.