Jesse Spencer: 'Neighbours changed my life'
01/10/2009 - 14:38
House star Jesse Spencer has revealed that if he hadn't got his big acting break in Neighbours - he would of become a doctor in real life.
The actor, who plays Dr Robert Chase in the hit US medical drama, first appeared on screens as Billy Kennedy in the Australian soap in 1994.
Jesse said: "Neighbours was a launchpad for me - I'd probably have gone to university if I hadn't done acting, and I would probably have been a real doctor - and now I'm a fake doctor!"
His three siblings all work in medicine but the actor claims that Neighbours changed everything.
He said: "At that point I was quite young, still in school. I didn't know if it was going to end after I left Neighbours. Acting's difficult and I knew it was a temperamental vocation and I didn't know where it was going to go but it worked out."
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