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Natalie
Natalie Moves Out
9th April 2005
TIRELESS performer Natalie Bassingthwaighte can lay claim to being one of Australia's favourite Neighbours.
The multi-talented performer was celebrating this week, having been nominated for her first Gold Logie.
But in news that will surely come as a surprise to her legion of fans, Bassingthwaighte has decided to pack her bags and move out of Ramsay St.
After much consideration, Bassingthwaighte, who has played the suburb's resident vixen Izzy Hoyland to great acclaim for the past three years, has informed the show's producers she is ready for new challenges.
"Izzy has been a dream character to play," Bassingthwaighte said.
"But I have played Izzy for three years and I want to have other acting opportunities.
"I want to be able to go on to a different role and for people to be able to see me as that and not remember me just as Izzy.
"I am ready for new challenges and to be slapped around a bit and taken out of my comfort zone and get in there and do some auditions.
"Bassingthwaighte will film her last day on Neighbours on June 2 before heading to the UK to promote the first international single by band the Rogue Traders, of which she is the lead singer. She described the past 12 months as exhilarating, but exhausting.
"It has been the hardest year of my life in more ways than one, but so rewarding when it all comes down to the crunch," she said.
"To be nominated for gold, holy cow, it is really, really overwhelming. It is a team effort though. It is because of Neighbours and the work that everybody puts in that I am up there.
"Also by (the producers) allowing me to do other things – like the Rogue Traders, Grease and stuff like that – it has given people more of an understanding that Izzy is a character and they have seen me in another light."
