🎙️ BONUS | The Origins and Storylines of Summer Bay

**Kip Wightman** (0:06)
Hmm, ah, step into your easy place to relax. Inside us, Nick, Luttsy & Susie O'Neill.

**David Lutteral** (0:11)
Step inside us?

**Kip Wightman** (0:12)
Yeah, you're inside us. We're in your ear holes right now.

**David Lutteral** (0:15)
I'm wondering what that was.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:16)
Hello.

**David Lutteral** (0:17)
Hello.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:19)
Hello.

**David Lutteral** (0:20)
Hello. I thought I'd slip on the fruit basket again. That's disgusting. I've seen you answer to done it before.
It's more of a drive time show that craziest things, you know, I think I've heard it.

**Kip Wightman** (0:36)
Yeah.

**David Lutteral** (0:39)
It's disgusting. That's disgusting drive time, guys.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:41)
Yeah.

**Kip Wightman** (0:41)
God.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:42)
It was fun chatting to Kate today. Today? Yeah, she was good. Was that today?

**Kip Wightman** (0:45)
Hi, Kate Ritchie.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:46)
Kate Ritchie today. She's very funny.

**Kip Wightman** (0:49)
Yeah, she's good.

**Ash Bradnam** (0:49)
Growing up on Home & Away must have been mental. I do remember she had a thing where she got her first bra and it was an episode of Home & Away. Like Sally, her character gets her first bra and she comes out and announces it to you.

**David Lutteral** (1:00)
She remembered it too.

**Ash Bradnam** (1:01)
Yeah.

**David Lutteral** (1:02)
Sounds like she's been to therapy about that one. I seriously think she had it on in a way.

**Kip Wightman** (1:05)
She didn't want to go too far into that.

**Ash Bradnam** (1:07)
I didn't realize it was going to be a thing.

**David Lutteral** (1:08)
I distanced myself from that. Good idea.

**Kip Wightman** (1:09)
That would have been really tough growing up, being at Home & Away, while you go through puberty, like while you're aging.

**David Lutteral** (1:15)
Also, it seemed like hard work.

**Kip Wightman** (1:17)
Have you ever been in your acting career? It's a lot of learning scripts really fast. It's like muscle memory after a while.

**Ash Bradnam** (1:24)
She's also going to school.

**David Lutteral** (1:25)
Yeah.

**Ash Bradnam** (1:25)
And not really mixing, I suppose, with normal people.

**David Lutteral** (1:27)
Because of school, that's what I'm saying. Because I remember filming something in Sydney once, whatever the television show was on. No biggie.
And Kate said, Kate said, Oh, we're in the next studio. Come down and see us. And I went down and it was like the school lockers. It was a school set.

**Kip Wightman** (1:43)
Oh yeah.

**David Lutteral** (1:43)
But it made me think, Oh yeah, because it's like 8 p.m. Why are you still filming? Because the kids in the school set go to school probably normally. So I'd have to film after hours. So imagine how exhausted you'd be as a kid.

**Kip Wightman** (1:55)
Yeah.

**Ash Bradnam** (1:55)
Was Kate still a school kid then?

**David Lutteral** (1:56)
No, no, she was. She would have been. Did she have a job at the school? I don't know bloody what her goal was. Didn't she go back as a teacher or something in my brain?

**Ash Bradnam** (2:05)
Maybe.

**Kip Wightman** (2:06)
Sally had a lot of twists and turns in her.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:07)
What were you how many years she was on it for?

**Kip Wightman** (2:09)
Google that.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:09)
She was an orphan, wasn't she? If you're on that show, you didn't have real...

**David Lutteral** (2:13)
Do you mean in real life? I don't know what you mean.

**Kip Wightman** (2:15)
As a character.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:16)
As a character.

**Kip Wightman** (2:17)
Oh, no one had parents.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:18)
Well, it was... I can't remember. Foster parents, wasn't it?
Remember that? Really? And then all of a sudden, one of the characters just changed actresses.

**David Lutteral** (2:27)
Oh, yeah, they have to do that sometimes.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:28)
And it just switched out to another person. Same character.

**Kip Wightman** (2:31)
Right. It's weird when they do that stuff.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:34)
Home & Away premise. That's how I think it started.

**David Lutteral** (2:38)
I don't know.

**Kip Wightman** (2:38)
Depending on their dad, Alf Stewart was everyone's dad.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:41)
Foster children, Tom and Pippa, Fletcher and their foster children. And as they adapt to an titanic community, that was the main storyline when it first started.

**David Lutteral** (2:47)
Did not know that.

**Ash Bradnam** (2:48)
Yeah. But at one stage Pippa changed.
She was such and such and then she was...

**David Lutteral** (2:53)
Is that why it's called Home & Away? Like it's their home, but they're away from home because they're orphans?

**Kip Wightman** (2:57)
Summer's Bay. Summer Bay? Summer Bay.