TV legend announces pregnancy with seventh child after confusing symptoms
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Former Neighbours star Madeleine West has confirmed she is pregnant with her seventh child – after originally suspecting she was going through the perimenopause. The actress, 45, originally played Dee Bliss on the Amazon Prime Video soap between 2000 and 2003, with the character being killed off in a car accident on her wedding day to Toadie Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney).
![[Toadie and Dee in an ice cream van in Neighbours]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235909915-24e3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Fourteen years later, Madeleine returned to Ramsay Street, albeit as Dee’s estranged, evil, identical twin sister Andrea Somers, who conned Toadie out of $100,000. In a bizarre twist, they also conceived a baby together whilst his horrified wife Sonya (Eve Morey) watched on via video call.
![[Toadie Rebecchi stood between Andrea Somers and Dee Bliss in Neighbours]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235909916-ff09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The long-running story arc came to an end when the real Dee actually returned, revealing that she had spent time in witness protection. Andrea was eventually sent down for identity theft. Madeleine played both characters, wearing slightly different costumes to differentiate between the two.
Since leaving the show she’s appeared in Australian drama series Playing for Keeps, and last month won an edition of gameshow Hard Quiz, where she played alongside co-stars Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher and Georgie Stone with the specialist subject of Fleetwood Mac.
Yesterday, she confirmed her shock pregnancy news in an Instagram post. ‘WHOOPS! Thought it was perimenopause. I thought WRONG!’ she wrote. ‘It’s not too much Christmas pudding either. And I couldn’t be happier. ‘Not too sure about the title “Geriatric mum” but here we are, and I’m winding back a little to grow this little surprise package I’ve dubbed #007.
