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McLeod's Daughters star Simmone Jade McKinnon, once a member of an elite squad of television lady thespians with "the best boobs in the business" but now just another struggling actress desperately hoping to find some financial security, has revealed fans of the popular show - which revolves around the horse riding antics of notorious South Australian pantsman John McLeod's assorted offspring - have begun approaching her in the street and expressing their utter dismay over Channel Nine's delay in broadcasting the program's final 22 episodes.

The Logie-winner told Confidential she was "sick of being stopped in the street by people and not being able to tell them anything" because the network had not even told the cast when the show's final season would air.

With 22 episodes yet to be seen, McKinnon fears a flush of new dramas at Nine, including Underbelly, Sea Patrol and Canal Road, would delay the farewell even longer for loyal fans.

Indeed, it would be shame if other productions, perhaps more critically acclaimed than McLeod's Daughters but featuring a shameful lack of flannel, were the cause of McLeod's enthusiasts' suffering.

We enjoyed this bit of the article though.

The show's axing after eight years has also left her in the lurch, after signing a large mortgage for a property near the South Australian set just a month before the production was abandoned.

"I just thought the show would go on forever, so now I'm kinda in limbo and left with this massive property mortgage on my own," McKinnon said.

"People are really angry about it and I can understand how disappointed they are."

It's heartwarming to know that the passion McLeod's Daughters viewers feel for the series is so intense, they even manage to muster up strong feelings of fury and disappointment when learning of the mortgage woes of cast members.

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