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Tiffany "Lochy" McLachlan is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''
Neighbours'', played by Amber Kilpatrick. She made her first on-screen appearance on 23 October 1989. Tiffany is described as being a little terror and always getting into mischief. She becomes friends with
Toby Mangel
Toby Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Ben Geurens. He made his first on-screen appearance on 10 November 1988. Toby was originally played by Finn Greentree-Keane from 1988 until 1990. He depa ...
and manages to get him into trouble too. Tiffany's storylines often saw her tomboyish and mischievous sides come out. She attacks a family of Magpies after being dive bombed by one, she lies to her aunt that
Kerry Bishop
Kerry Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', played by Linda Hartley-Clark. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 1 February 1989. Kerry is Mavis and Harold Bishop's (Ian Smi ...
is mistreating her, she almost drowns after going to the beach and convinces
Joe Mangel
Joe Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Mark Little. He debuted on-screen in the episode airing on 8 August 1988. Little later departed the serial and Joe left in 1991. In 2005 Lit ...
that he has been cursed. Tiffany departed on 21 June 1990 after deciding to join her parents in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Characterisation
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called Tiffany "an absolute little terror."
They described her as always cooking up mischief and trying to obtain money or vandalise other people's property.
They said "this little girl was certainly not made of sugar and spice and all things nice. More like paint-stripper and bleach."
Tiffany became friends with
Toby Mangel
Toby Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Ben Geurens. He made his first on-screen appearance on 10 November 1988. Toby was originally played by Finn Greentree-Keane from 1988 until 1990. He depa ...
(Finn Greentree-Keane) and through her antics, she managed to get him into trouble.
The BBC said that Tiffany's most "audacious moment" was when she graffitied
Paul Robinson's (
Stefan Dennis) car. Paul was quite protective of his car and was outraged when he saw what Tiffany had done.
The BBC wondered what Tiffany was up to today and believed that she was either "Behind bars" or running a bank.
Storylines
Tiffany is the daughter of Russell and Petra McLachlan (Berndardette Wheatley) and sister to
Ryan (Richard Norton). As her family were quite affluent, Tiffany appeared to be spoilt and pampered. When
Kerry Bishop
Kerry Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', played by Linda Hartley-Clark. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 1 February 1989. Kerry is Mavis and Harold Bishop's (Ian Smi ...
(
Linda Hartley-Clark
Linda Hartley-Clark (born 28 December 1967) is an Australian actress who played Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'' from 1989 to 1990. She also did a guest stint in 2005 playing Gabrielle Walker, who in the storyline was ...
) begins running a childminding service, Petra places Tiffany in her care. Kerry's stepson, Toby is initially reluctant to become friends with Tiffany, as his friend,
Katie Landers
Katie Landers is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Sally Jensen. She made her first on screen appearance on 15 February 1988. Katie is the niece of Beverly Marshall and sister to Todd Landers. During ...
(Sally Jensen), had just left for Adelaide. Toby warms to Tiffany after her tomboy persona comes out. She tells Toby to call her Lochy and they become good friends. One day, Lochy and Toby find an empty house and become convinced that it is haunted. However, they discover that a runaway teenager, Lee Maloney (Maree Ackehurst), is living there. They tell
Matt Robinson (
Ashley Paske
Matthew "Matt" Robinson (also Williams) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', played by Ashley Paske. He made his first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 22 May 1989. Paske secured the role after ...
) about Lee and he takes her home with him.
After a Magpie dive bombs her, Lochy takes a dislike to the group and begins throwing stones at their nest. Toby and
Helen Daniels
Helen Daniels is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours'', portrayed by Anne Haddy. Following the death of Jim Robinson ( Alan Dale) in 1993, she remained the only original character played continuously by the same a ...
(
Anne Haddy) warn her that she will make the birds angry, but Lochy does not listen. Lochy then decides to climb the tree to get to the nest, but when Kerry calls her, she loses her balance and falls from the tree. She is then left with a broken arm. Lochy clashes with her classmate,
Natasha Kovac (Courtney Compagnino), who makes Lochy's life miserable. Lochy tells her aunt,
Dorothy
Dorothy may refer to:
*Dorothy (given name), a list of people with that name.
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*Dorothy Gale, protagonist of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum
* Ace (''Doctor Who'') or Dorothy, a character playe ...
(
Maggie Dence
Margaret Helen Dence (born 1 February 1942) is an Australian actress of stage and screen, with a career spanning some seven decades. She is equally at home in both comedy and drama roles, and is best known to early audiences for her roles in t ...
), that Kerry is mistreating her. Dorothy threatens to report Kerry to the Department of Childcare and Lochy admits that she made her story up. Kerry gives up her child care service, but agrees to continue looking after Lochy.
Lochy's life is placed in danger when she decides to wag school and go to the beach with Ryan and his girlfriend,
Tania Walsh (Angela Nicholls). The couple hitch a lift with Kerry's husband
Joe Mangel
Joe Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Mark Little. He debuted on-screen in the episode airing on 8 August 1988. Little later departed the serial and Joe left in 1991. In 2005 Lit ...
(
Mark Little) and Lochy sneaks onto the back of Joe's ute. Ryan and Tania are angry when they find her. Lochy asks Tania to call her school and pretend she is sick. Ryan then tells Lochy to leave them alone, so he and Tania can be alone. Lochy gets into difficulty in the water, having gone out alone and Ryan pulls her to safety. Lochy is unconscious, but some lifeguards give her CPR and she comes around. Lochy tells everyone to blame her for the accident instead of Ryan, but
Harold Bishop (
Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1 ...
) sacks Ryan from the Coffee Shop. Lochy protests outside the shop, outraging Harold. The ''Erinsborough News'' turn up and Harold agrees to re-instate Ryan.
Lochy starts having nightmares after witnessing Dorothy knocking down
Bouncer
A bouncer (also known as a doorman or door supervisor) is a type of security guard, employed at venues such as bars, nightclubs, cabaret clubs, stripclubs, casinos, hotels, billiard halls, restaurants, sporting events, schools, concerts, or ...
. She then contracts the mumps and has to be quarantined. Lochy overhears Dorothy telling Joe that her prized African statue carries a curse if it is ever broken. Lochy breaks the chain around the statue and she runs off. Joe finds the broken chain and believes the curse is real. Lochy tells Dorothy what has happened and Dorothy tells her that she had made the story up. Lochy comes to believe the curse is real though, when a sword falls on Joe. He then begs Dorothy to exorcise the curse and Dorothy has him run outside in his underwear. Lochy admits she broke the chain and asks whether she should go out in her underwear too. Dorothy then admits it was all a joke.
When Toby's mother,
Noeline (Lindy McConchie) dies, Lochy is very affected by the news. She goes to get some flowers for her mother, but she falls into a fountain at the park when some of the bricks come loose as she picks roses. Lochy tries to offer Toby some support, but he refuses to talk to anyone. Toby pushes Lochy away one day and manages to hurt her. Kerry and Joe force Toby to apologise and he and Lochy became friends again. When their parents go away to Papua New Guinea, Lochy and Ryan move in with Dorothy. Lochy later joins her parents in Port Moresby, when they decide to settle there permanently.
Reception
The BBC said Tiffany's most notable moment was "Painting Paul's car."
References
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Neighbours characters
Television characters introduced in 1989
Female characters in television