30 August

Paula Couper asks: hi me and my friend are too broke to buy magazines and missed out on reason why claire left show, please tell us why.

Answer from the producers:

As James Griffin explained in his interview on Campbell Live (http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/CampbellLiveVideo/tabid/367/articleID/31846/Default.aspx#video), Outrageous Fortune is a show about breaking the rules. The characters do it all the time. And the writers deliberately “broke” the rules by killing off the “fairy princess” of Outrageous Fortune. ie. Aurora, who was one of the audience’s favourite characters.

Since she finished shooting Outrageous Fortune a few months ago, Claire did her short stint on Neighbours and also worked on a new Australian drama series called Canal Road. She is starring in a play called The Real Thing at Auckland’s SiLo Theatre which runs from Aug 31-Sept 29, 2007.

You can also refer to forum discussions: http://www.outrageousfortune.co.nz/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=235. There are also recent interviews with Claire in the Woman’s Day and in the Sunday Star-Times ‘Sunday’ magazine.