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news Review launched into Neighbours racism claims © Getty Images Shareena Clanton has accused the Neighbours set of being a "culturally unsafe space" The production company behind Australian TV soap Neighbours has ordered an independent review over allegations of racism on the show. Two Aboriginal-Australian TV stars have alleged they witnessed racist incidents while working on set. Shareena Clanton said it was "traumatising to work in such a culturally unsafe space". Announcing the inquiry, Fremantle Media, which produces the soap, said it did not tolerate discrimination. "Fremantle is c...

More Neighbours actors come forward with racism claims Actors in long-running soap Neighbours are coming forward with allegations of racism on the set of the iconic Australian show. Aboriginal actor Shareena Clanton was the first actor to make detailed allegations of racism on the Channel 10 series yesterday in an explosive Instagram post. Clanton said the set was a "lonely, triggering and traumatising place to work". Shareena Clanton has claimed she experienced racist behaviour on the set of Neighbours.(Instagram) Within hours, another Aboriginal actor and Neighbours cast member, Meyne Wyatt...

07 Apr 2021 Neighbours is at the centre of scandal this week after two Indigenous actors who have worked on the show made shocking allegations about their experiences. WATCH: Meyne Wyatt's incredible speech about racism Shareena Clanton, who will appear in an upcoming guest role on the long-running soap,  took to Instagram to allege she experienced racism while on set and vowed to never work for the show again. In the wake of her allegations, Meyne Wyatt, who played Nate Kinski from 2014 to 2016, appeared to support her claims and added his own experie...

The 30-year-old also alleged that "overt and covert levels of racism were rife" on set. "A senior staff member openly laughed whilst using the term 'slave driver' in reference to him 'working hard'. My management at the time didn’t help as they endorsed/encouraged this 'office banter'. I fired the agent," she wrote.  In an additional post shared on Instagram, Clanton made further claims about her time on Neighbours. "Believe the horror stories. I’ve only encapsulated some of the key things I was subjected to," she wrote. "I didn’t have enough space to talk about the microaggressions o...

“There was a lot of commentary that was highly inflammatory, sexist, misogynistic, crass and crude – the kind of comments that if I were to make in any other workspace would absolutely [result in] instant dismissal,” she said. “But somehow people just continued to get a gentle word spoken to them, or have a polite side word between [the alleged perpetrator] and the person who was offended by what was being said.” Clanton alleges that when she protested to the cast member about the alleged use of the “n” word, another colleague stood up for them, arguing that the word was common ...