Sophie Dillman (Ziggy Astoni) and Patrick O’Connor (Dean Thompson) are one of Summer Bay‘s hottest new on-screen couples, but off-screen the Aussie actors are as also best friends.
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Like any good friend, Patrick took part in the age-old tradition of sharing unflattering (but hilarious) photos of your pal to celebrate their birthday.
Taking to social media, Patrick posted a series of photos of his Home and Away co-star pulling funny faces to the camera, writing: “Happy birthday Dillman.”
“Beauty”, Patrick jokingly wrote on another photo.
Although the snaps were just the tad bit embarrassing, the jokester ended his birthday series with a nice photo of his friend sitting on a horse, writing: “HB [happy birthday]”
In this week’s New Idea the Sydney based actors and besties shared what it’s really like to film THOSE steamy love scenes on the long-running Australian soap, with Sophie revealing their shower scene wasn’t all that sexy in real-life!
“When we went to Parachilna, for the shower scene that we filmed, I didn’t actually get to shower so I was covered in stinky, smelly mud the whole time. Poor Paddy!”