She’s the star of popular Channel Seven dramedy 800 words.
And, given the show films in New Zealand, Melina Vidler has revealed she considers the Land Of The Long White Cloud her second home.
Speaking to Confidential on Tuesday, the 24-year-old, who plays Shay Turner on the show, admitted that she knows that it’s time to return to Australia when she starts to lose her ‘bogan’ Queensland accent.
Dual citizen? With the popular dramedy 800 words filming in New Zealand, star Melina Vidler revealed she considers the country her second home admitting it’s time to come home when she starts to lose her bogan accent
‘Coming from Queensland I have an Aussie bogan voice, so that’s how I know I’ve spent too much time there when I speak with an accent,’ she said.
The publication reported that Melina spends seven months of the year filming the popular series in New Zealand and she admitted that she has become well acquainted with her adopted home of Auckland.
‘I do feel like a local,’ she said. ‘I know the streets, I don’t need GPS. I even have my markets I go to every weekend.’
True Blue: ‘Coming from Queensland I have an Aussie bogan voice, so that’s how I know I’ve spent too much time there when I speak with an accent,’ she told Confidential. Melina is pictured with co-star Benson Jack Anthony
Best of both worlds: ‘I do feel like a local,’ she said. ‘I know the streets, I don’t need GPS. I even have my markets I go to every weekend.’
She added that she currently straddles two separate worlds – revealing that she does her best to ensure one doesn’t interfere with the other.
‘I live in two different worlds,’ Melina said. ‘There is my NZ world and NZ family and when I come over here I have friends who I’ve known for 10 years – those worlds can’t cross.’
Speaking to the publication in 2016, Melina admitted that she doesn’t like talking about her role on the show off-set for fear that she might divulge spoilers.
‘You won’t over hear me in a coffee shop talking about the storylines,’ she said.
‘I don’t talk to anyone about it unless it is the cast or crew on set, then you’d get some juicy stories.’
Keep ’em separated: ‘I live in two different worlds,’ Melina said. ‘There is my NZ world and NZ family and when i come over here I have friends who I’ve known for 10 years – those worlds can’t cross.’