Rebecca Gibney Is Desperate To Leave The Infectious Cesspool That Is Sydney, Longs To Return To Health Giving Tasmanian Countryside

Beloved Australian actress Rebecca Gibney recently had to move to Sydney in order to film her role in the Channel 7 drama Packed To The Rafters, but as Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury gleefully notes, she’s not really enjoying her time in the Emerald City, and longs to return to more southerly digs.

The star, with artist husband Richard Bell and son Zac, 4, packed up her fresh-air Tassie farm in the Tamar Valley for the big smoke in February to begin shooting new Channel 7 drama Packed to the Rafters, which hits screens after the Olympics.

Now Gibney can’t wait to get back to her rural retreat after filming on the first series wraps in two months.

“Sydney is a beautiful city, and it has been fun to have everything at your fingertips, but we have been constantly sick up here for the past four months,” Gibney said.

“There have been bouts of pneumonia, the flu, it’s definitely a sign to return to the country.

And possibly a sign that health officials need to investigate where exactly Gibney’s been spending her time in Sydney, as it sounds dangerously as though the World Health Organisation need to step in and issue an early warning of some kind. I can only hope Sydney’s most recent visitors, the Papalpalooza Massive, made it out of town free of illness.