March 23, 2025 • 6 mins
The legendary Ada Nicodemou joins Jonesy & Amanda to celebrate her 25th year on Home and Away!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Can you believe it? Our
next guest has been a regular on our screens for
twenty five years. Aida Nikodimi was celebrating this massive milestone
at Summer Bay. A bit of sweet week though, because
it's also Lim Magrange's final week. She plays Irene and
I know she's your great, great friend. How are you eight?
Really well? Yeah, morning, nice to see you. When you
(00:22):
first started, we played a snippet of your very first
episode a little a bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I want to know how it ends? Can you just
play more of it? Because you had me. I've been
waiting here for ages.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thank you so much for stopping. I've been standing at.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
You for ages, just wondering what I was going to
do if someone didn't eventually stop.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I thought I was going to be stuck at you
all day.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah. Where we go?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well anywhere really?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
No, anywhere cheap. I can find a room and a.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Meal and a showers at the Virgin Mary shower at the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you sounds great.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You were trying to give the I guess as an
actor that you talked.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A lot lead you said, yeah, she never shut up. Yeah, yeah,
so she did talk very different to EIGHTA eight is
so quiet.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I know you were you supposed to be on as
a regular character for this long?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What was what did you think it would be?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I was very lucky enough to be written into the show,
Like so the writers from another show that I was
working on wrote this character for me, and they asked
me to be long running. But I was only going
to come on for six months. I didn't want to
do any longer twenty five years later because I didn't
know whether I'd like it, and I just didn't. I'd
come off another soap and I hated it, So I thought, look,
(01:36):
I'm just going to do six months and then move
on to something else.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
So what did you hate about it?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Breakers was just a really hard show to work on
for many, many different reasons. It was nothing like Home
and Away. There was sort of a lot of stuff
behind the scenes that was working.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
He Fledger. Was he in Breakers?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No Home and Away?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah yeah for a second, yeah yeah yeah yeah he
was Home and Away. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But I Home and Away is very different to anything
that I've ever worked on, and everyone says that it's
really special.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's a really lovely place.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It does feel like a family, and you don't know
that until you're there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, I've also love looking at your storyline. Is I
think you've been proposed to thirteen times?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Really that is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But your recent wedding obviously is to your real life partneryeah.
And how does that feel on a day like that?
Is it just filming or does it feel romantic?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, we went together then, but you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Help obviously, it's a bit of a sparky spark.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I mean, look, James and I have known each other
for like nearly thirty years, so we've always gotten on
really well and we've always worked really well together.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But yeah, I mean, it was just such a nice
thing to do.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And I guess it is a you know, whenever you're
filming weddings, you know it is a beautiful, lovely thing
to do, but.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It feels like that it's not broken up into components,
so you don't get a sense of it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, we does feel like that.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And also because we were all the way and we're
in this beautiful location and you were in this amazing dress.
But look, by the third day you're feeling pretty crap
because it's really hot, there's flies, there's you know, it
was a real bride.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, you know, but it's yeah, well it's not because
it goes on for three days.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, so it is a bit different like an Indian wedding,
Like an Indian wedding, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your share of accidents plane crashes, You've had a bunch
of plane crashes.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Two plane crashes and one car crash.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I reckon, it's more than one I've had.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I've been in What about when you were in Pale.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I've been in Pale.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Were impaled on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
This wasn't a wedding thing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Actually we were.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Going to a wedding.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
We were going to a fence, but it missed all
the vital organs, right, So I was very lucky.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you remember all the storylines or do you have
bits with someone says, remember when this happen?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You have no idea, no idea, even the fact that
you've said there's been two plane crashes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I remember. One easy thing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's because we've worked so fast.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You forget a lot of things, like when we have
to do interviews for storyline based stuff, and because it
were six months ahead, I have to look at the
storyline again to remember because I forget and I think
it's just my age.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know. The long the.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Older you get, you just forget Jones.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Will do you remember when we spoke to so and
so it might have been you know, Muhammad Ali. I said,
I have no mean that, I'm exactly like that. Yeah,
I don't mean.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You're wedding to Dan though? That was the big one. Well, Dan,
what happened to Dan? He left?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, it was Vinnie was the first that was pretty big,
and that was also Greek, a Greek sort of slash
Scottish wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Then there was Genre.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, there was Dan and he had an ab sailing accident.
Then there was Zach and and then and now justin Yes,
there's only been four weddings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Guys, it's not you know, it is Taylor proposals is intriguing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And what do you see like now that Lynn mcgrange
is going to be leaving, Irene's leaving the show? Yeah,
are you going to be a part of this? Will
there be some sort of like accident involved. I'm just
putting this out there. Is Lynn going to get Irene
going to go on a grizzly ending?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, I can't say what happens. You know, she may
die she may not die. I can't really say, but
I am part of the storyline and it's actually a
really beautiful storyline and it's they've written really well and
it's been going for a while, and I think the
audiences are going to love it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
There'll be a lot of tears, but everyone's going to
love it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Plane crash, who knows, impaled?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Maybe maybe piled on a plane.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But it is her last her last week, her last
day's Wednesday, and I've got the last scene with her.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did you pull your eyes out when you're filming it?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I have been, well, we haven't shot the last scene
that we're shooting together, but you're filming it. Yeah, we're
filming it Wednesday. But I've been crying for about two months.
On the other hand, it's fine. I keep doing this
like sentimental stuff, like so, Lynn, do you realize that
this is your last location day?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Lynn?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Do you realize that this is your last coffee that
you're going to have at Palm Beach? And She's like, Ada,
stop i'me more emotional.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And stop stop talking like your character.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You can see more of eight a weeknights at seven
on seven plus and seven seven and seven seven seven
on home and away.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It's always great to talk to you, lovely to
Speaker 1 (06:29):
See you guys.
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. Can you believe it? Our
next guest has been a regular on our screens for
twenty five years. Aida Nikodimi was celebrating this massive milestone
at Summer Bay. A bit of sweet week though, because
it's also Lim Magrange's final week. She plays Irene and
I know she's your great, great friend. How are you eight?
Really well? Yeah, morning, nice to see you. When you
(00:22):
first started, we played a snippet of your very first
episode a little a bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I want to know how it ends? Can you just
play more of it? Because you had me. I've been
waiting here for ages.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thank you so much for stopping. I've been standing at.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
You for ages, just wondering what I was going to
do if someone didn't eventually stop.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I thought I was going to be stuck at you
all day.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah. Where we go?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well anywhere really?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
No, anywhere cheap. I can find a room and a.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Meal and a showers at the Virgin Mary shower at the.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you sounds great.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You were trying to give the I guess as an
actor that you talked.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
A lot lead you said, yeah, she never shut up. Yeah, yeah,
so she did talk very different to EIGHTA eight is
so quiet.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I know you were you supposed to be on as
a regular character for this long?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What was what did you think it would be?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I was very lucky enough to be written into the show,
Like so the writers from another show that I was
working on wrote this character for me, and they asked
me to be long running. But I was only going
to come on for six months. I didn't want to
do any longer twenty five years later because I didn't
know whether I'd like it, and I just didn't. I'd
come off another soap and I hated it, So I thought, look,
(01:36):
I'm just going to do six months and then move
on to something else.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
So what did you hate about it?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Breakers was just a really hard show to work on
for many, many different reasons. It was nothing like Home
and Away. There was sort of a lot of stuff
behind the scenes that was working.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
He Fledger. Was he in Breakers?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No Home and Away?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah yeah for a second, yeah yeah yeah yeah he
was Home and Away. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But I Home and Away is very different to anything
that I've ever worked on, and everyone says that it's
really special.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's a really lovely place.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It does feel like a family, and you don't know
that until you're there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Well, I've also love looking at your storyline. Is I
think you've been proposed to thirteen times?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Really that is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But your recent wedding obviously is to your real life partneryeah.
And how does that feel on a day like that?
Is it just filming or does it feel romantic?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, we went together then, but you can't.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Help obviously, it's a bit of a sparky spark.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I mean, look, James and I have known each other
for like nearly thirty years, so we've always gotten on
really well and we've always worked really well together.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But yeah, I mean, it was just such a nice
thing to do.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And I guess it is a you know, whenever you're
filming weddings, you know it is a beautiful, lovely thing
to do, but.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It feels like that it's not broken up into components,
so you don't get a sense of it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
No, we does feel like that.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
And also because we were all the way and we're
in this beautiful location and you were in this amazing dress.
But look, by the third day you're feeling pretty crap
because it's really hot, there's flies, there's you know, it
was a real bride.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, you know, but it's yeah, well it's not because
it goes on for three days.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, so it is a bit different like an Indian wedding,
Like an Indian wedding, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your share of accidents plane crashes, You've had a bunch
of plane crashes.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Two plane crashes and one car crash.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I reckon, it's more than one I've had.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I've been in What about when you were in Pale.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I've been in Pale.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Were impaled on.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
This wasn't a wedding thing.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Actually we were.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Going to a wedding.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
We were going to a fence, but it missed all
the vital organs, right, So I was very lucky.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you remember all the storylines or do you have
bits with someone says, remember when this happen?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
You have no idea, no idea, even the fact that
you've said there's been two plane crashes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I remember. One easy thing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's because we've worked so fast.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You forget a lot of things, like when we have
to do interviews for storyline based stuff, and because it
were six months ahead, I have to look at the
storyline again to remember because I forget and I think
it's just my age.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I don't know. The long the.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Older you get, you just forget Jones.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Will do you remember when we spoke to so and
so it might have been you know, Muhammad Ali. I said,
I have no mean that, I'm exactly like that. Yeah,
I don't mean.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You're wedding to Dan though? That was the big one. Well, Dan,
what happened to Dan? He left?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
No, it was Vinnie was the first that was pretty big,
and that was also Greek, a Greek sort of slash
Scottish wedding.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Then there was Genre.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, there was Dan and he had an ab sailing accident.
Then there was Zach and and then and now justin Yes,
there's only been four weddings.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Guys, it's not you know, it is Taylor proposals is intriguing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And what do you see like now that Lynn mcgrange
is going to be leaving, Irene's leaving the show? Yeah,
are you going to be a part of this? Will
there be some sort of like accident involved. I'm just
putting this out there. Is Lynn going to get Irene
going to go on a grizzly ending?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Well, I can't say what happens. You know, she may
die she may not die. I can't really say, but
I am part of the storyline and it's actually a
really beautiful storyline and it's they've written really well and
it's been going for a while, and I think the
audiences are going to love it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
There'll be a lot of tears, but everyone's going to
love it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Plane crash, who knows, impaled?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Maybe maybe piled on a plane.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
But it is her last her last week, her last
day's Wednesday, and I've got the last scene with her.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Did you pull your eyes out when you're filming it?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I have been, well, we haven't shot the last scene
that we're shooting together, but you're filming it. Yeah, we're
filming it Wednesday. But I've been crying for about two months.
On the other hand, it's fine. I keep doing this
like sentimental stuff, like so, Lynn, do you realize that
this is your last location day?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Lynn?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Do you realize that this is your last coffee that
you're going to have at Palm Beach? And She's like, Ada,
stop i'me more emotional.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And stop stop talking like your character.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You can see more of eight a weeknights at seven
on seven plus and seven seven and seven seven seven
on home and away.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
It's always great to talk to you, lovely to
Speaker 1 (06:29):
See you guys.
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