The Home and Away ‘curse’ claims another star: How Dieter Brummer’s death is the latest tragedy to befall the Aussie soap – which has already lost cast members to drugs and suicide

     Nineties heartthrob Dieter Brummer tragically died at age 45 over the weekend, two decades after famously playing Shane Parrish on Home and Away.

The two-time Logie winner was found dead at a home in Glenhaven, in Sydney’s north-west, on Saturday afternoon, NSW Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia.

Police said the discovery was made during ‘a concern for welfare’ check and the death was not being treated as suspicious. It’s suspected Brummer died by suicide.

Résumé: Brummer's other acting credits included Winners & Losers, Neighbours, Underbelly: The Golden Mile and short-lived soap Crash Palace. Pictured here in 2010
Over the years, several actors who had appeared on the long-running Channel Seven show have died in both tragic and mysterious circumstances.
Ben Unwin, best known for portraying Jesse McGregor, died in August 2019, just one day before his 42nd birthday.

At the time, NSW Police confirmed his body had been found at his home in Minyon Falls, near Byron Bay, during a welfare check, and that his death was not being treated as suspicious.

On January 6, 2019, model Annalise Braakensiek was found dead in her inner-city Sydney apartment after police were alerted by her close friends and family. She was 46.

Annalise, who played Lise on one episode of Home and Away in 1998, had caused concern by posting a series of cryptic Instagram posts shortly before her death.

In one of her last posts from December 15, 2018, the troubled actress wrote: ‘Everything seems to feel twisted and upside down at the moment.’

Jessica Falkholt, who played Hope Morrison on the soap in 2016, died on January 17, 2018, following a horror car crash. She was 28.

She had spent three weeks in a critical condition at Sydney’s St George Hospital after the Boxing Day smash on the NSW south coast that also killed her parents and younger sister.

 

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