Melissa
George in a scene from the TV show Hunted. Source:
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The Daily Telegraph reports
She’s been heaped with a lot of hate this week from Home and Away purists and the bad news just keeps coming for Melissa George.
In a chain of events she will likely want to forget, the Perth native has had her latest project espionage TV series Hunted axed following a disastrous ratings drop.
In a further blow, George's Wikipedia page was hacked into yesterday, with the names of some of the characters she's previously played mischievously changed to "Angel", the part she all-but renounced this week.
The Paris-based 36-year-old was besieged by angry messages after an outburst on The Morning Show, saying she is sick of the Australian media bringing up her Summer Bay days because of her many other acting accomplishments.
Unfortunately Hunted was not one of them, with the eight-part series losing two million viewers following its debut on the BBC in the UK.
It's a bad sign for SBS, who have planned to premiere the show on November 24.
Wikipedia did not respond to calls for comment on the changes to George's page. As of last night the new "Angel" mentions had not been removed.
Plenty have spoken out again George's extraordinary comments.
Former Home and Away actor Dominic Purcell (of Prison Break fame) said the outburst was "uncalled for and immature".
"Just get humble for f ***'s sake," he said.
"See it for what it is."
Actor Brendan Cowell also had a minor stab at Twitter.
"I played Colt Jackson, lead singer of the band Monkey Jam, in three episodes of Home and Away in 1998 and no one ever brings it up, sadly," he wrote.
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