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Kylie Samuels (previously Brown, also Connelly) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street portrayed by Kerry-Lee Dewing. She made her first screen appearance on the episode broadcast on 24 September 2012. The character was introduced alongside Emma Franklin (Amy Usherwood) as friends to existing character Lana Jacobs (Brooke Williams). The character's storylines have focused on euthanasia, having a mastectomy, being infertile due to miscarriages from ectopic pregnancy and her relationship with TK Samuels.

Kylie arrives in Ferndale when her best friend, Lana, informed her that the man they believed had killed her sister, Boyd Rolleston, had gained a job at the hospital. Kylie got a job as a nurse and alongside Lana and Emma Franklin (Amy Usherwood), set out to expose Boyd as a murderer. After discovering her sister alive and well, Kylie mistakenly slept with Vinnie Kruse (Pua Magasiva) and briefly had a relationship with teenager, Evan Cooper (Tyler Read). Kylie and Vinnie soon began a serious relationship but she fell for Nate Clark (Josh McKenzie). Kylie's relationship with Nate soon proved toxic for her when he proved to be hugely overbearing and they broke up. She begins a relationship with TK Samuels (Benjamin Mitchell). Kylie became pregnant with TK's baby, but lost the baby due to ectopic pregnancy and she was devastated. Her mother Norelle Brown (Luanne Gordon) arrives and proved to be irresponsible with money by buying loads of books for her non-blood-related granddaughter, Tillie Potts (Leila Eketone), but was found out that she has breast cancer, the same disease that took the life of Kylie's great-aunt. After her mother's death Kylie was accused by her sister of helping her mother to die. Kylie was found not guilty of assisting suicide which makes and the sisters reconcile. She then is worried about her mothers cancer being hereditary and gets tested. She finds out that she is at great risk of getting breast cancer too. She decided to have a mastectomy and cosmetic surgery to replace her breasts. Drew McCaskill (Ben Barrington) operates and botches the procedure. She later goes back and has the procedure re-done. TK was dealing with a spate of deaths in a mystery virus, and TK not understanding why Kylie never asked for her job back as a nurse, their relationship was on the verge of ending. TK and Kylie eventually broke up, but vowed to remain friends. They briefly get back together after she helps TK through a mental breakdown caused by TK's involvement with some dodgy criminals. While investigating the spate of deaths, Kylie and TK decide to split again. Kylie starts a relationship with Frank Connelly (Luke Patrick). The pair leave Ferndale for a getaway and shortly return married. Kylie returned to the Plastic Surgery Clinic to work as a nurse, where she later received training to perform Botox injections. It is later revealed that Frank was already married when his wife, Mindy, turns up. Making Frank a bigamist much to Kylie dismay. Upset, she turns to Drew and they have sex. After Frank's run-ins, they reconciled and remarried, but Frank marriage was voided as he still hasn't fully divorced from Mindy. After Mindy left with his son, Zane (Liam Walker), in which Frank was not the father, Kylie is trying for IVF, while her sister returns to Ferndale with her new husband, who later became ED Consultant. Kylie was briefly pregnant, however, on May 1, she was confirmed to had miscarried, just after Julie gave her some woollen clothes made by their late mother, Norelle. Although she was offered money to have surgeries to fix her septate uterus, however, she would become infertile. She resumed her role as Director of Nursing by default as Nicole is injured after Finn injured her in a drink-driving accident. Julie offered to become Kylie's surrogate mother, but with Dylan's past indiscretions had been exposed, Julie's marriage could also be in jeopardy. However, Dylan killed both the unborn baby and Julie to pull off his 3rd insurance claim fraud. Despite this, Kylie helped Dylan overcome losing Julie and the unborn baby, until in December 2018, when they were due to marry, Dylan's twin brother Dan forced Dylan into a confession, which, despite Kylie's disbelief, eventually killed Dylan off after he tried to killed her to pull off his 5th insurance claim fraud. She also killed off Ian Reid, the convicted serial rapist that was hospitalised earlier that day. Nicole Miller, is now pregnant and Kylie asks Chris if he can make her Director of Nursing so she can get Nicole axed from the job. Kylie then becomes DON. Ali, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, witnessed the death of him outside the ward. Before going to theatre to get his tumor removed, he has visions about Kylie killing Dylan. Later in April, before Ali died, Ali finally remembered the whole scene of Kylie killing Dylan and threatens to take her to the police. While Ali is sleeping, Kylie tries to dose Ali with morphine but stops and runs back to Chris' house and attempts to drink 2 shots of Vodka and dose on morphine, but just before she could Chris stopped her. TK comforted Kylie after Ali's death and they slept together, which broke Te Rongopai and TK up. Kylie hooks up with Prince Kimiora in March 2019 after kissing Drew in a bar to feel better and having Drew run off, they go skinny dipping and then Prince asks Kylie to tell him her secrets, but Kylie kicks him out of the house. Then later in March, Kylie reconciled with former character Leighton Gilmore, after he was taken into ED with kidney stones. Prince tells Kylie about how Leighton killed his wife. Nurse Dawn Robinson then starts taking care of him, and Leighton then puts $60,000 in Dawn's bank account to pay for her insurance claims after Ali crashed an ambulance in January. Kylie orders Dawn to stay away from him, but she refused. Leighton was ordered a transfer of hospitals, but Kylie killed him by overdosing him on medicine In June 2019, Laura King dies from a drug overdose, and Esther is targeted by a dangerous man, Ben King saves Esther and they go back to TK's house. Ben and Esther sleep together and Esther keeps saying "no" but Ben unfortunately doesn't stop until he realises he went too far. Kylie thought it was her business to be involved and she and TK threaten Ben with the police. Esther does not want to take Ben in to the police. Later the next month, Dan (Dylan's twin) is taken into ED, at first Kylie is traumatised as she sees visions of Dylan. Dan tells Kylie to stay away from her, but instead Kylie stays close to him and they start a relationship, Kylie then meets a Christian family and she tells them there is no God. Kylie then gets dehydrated in the Waitākere Ranges and is taken into ED. Kylie then realises there is a God and she asks him for forgiveness of her sins and gets baptised. She marries Daniel and is found not guilty of the death of Ian Reid. Daniel leaves her and she had shock therapy in August. In the 2019 finale, she and TK deliver Phoenix Warner's baby and the two get back together, much to the returning Frank Warner's upset. In February they get engaged and Kylie's lost year from shock therapy returns, and she realise she killed Dylan and Leighton. She turns herself in and is now in prison.

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Duration 2012-2020
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Harry Warner is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street who first appeared onscreen in May 2002. Being born on screen during the shows 10th anniversary, Harry has been portrayed by several child actors and by Reid Walker since 2009.

Creation and Casting[]

In 2001 the shows producers decided to undergo a story that saw Toni Thompson (Laura Hill) give birth prematurely during the soap operas 10th anniversary.After the initial birth scenes, Campbell Callum-Ross was cast in the role due his small size resembling that of a premature baby and due to his family living close to the studio where the soap was filmed.[Campbell-Ross departed the role in 2006 and after Henry Williams auditioned for the character of a child patient, he was recast as Harry instead.In 2009 producers made the decision to recast the role so as to make way for new story directions and characterisation.[3] The pitch was brought up during a meeting with directors and was originally met with hesitation.[4]Reid Walker had previously auditioned for several different roles over several years and had never been called back. In 2009 he was contacted to audition for the recast of Harry.[5] Prior to this, Walker had considered giving up on his acting dream but within one audition, he won the role.[6] He debuted in September 2009 at the age of 9.[5] During his first few years Walker was a minor member of cast, filming 2 scenes a week, but by 2014 he was a "senior" member and was filming 15 as well as having his own storylines.[7]

Storylines[]

In 2001 Toni Thompson (Laura Hill) fell pregnant but it was not clear who the father was as she had been sleeping with both Adam Heywood (Leighton Cardno) and Chris Warner (Michael Galvin). She gave birth several months prematurely in May 2002 and it was not until Rachel McKenna (Angela Bloomfield) had the babies DNA tested that Chris was revealed as the father. In 2003 Harry went missing and it was soon revealed he had been kidnapped by a mentally unstable Donna Heka(Stephanie Tauevihi). The following year he was kidnapped again, this time by Toni's former flame, Logan King (Peter Muller). In 2004 Harry and Toni were kidnapped by Toni's deranged brother Dominic (Shane Cortese) in an attempt to kill Chris. Harry caused trouble for Chris and Toni the following year, when his tantrums climaxed in him biting Huia Samuels (Nicola Kawana) hand. Toni fled Ferndale in 2007 and took Harry with her but upon their return, the family scraped death in a dramatic car crash. Harry was devastated months later when Toni died and struggled to come to terms with Chris' succession of girlfriends – going so far as to force him to break up with Brooke Freeman (Beth Allen). In 2010 Harry struggled to cope with the revelation he had a brother, Phoenix (Geordie Holibar) but grew to love him. He clashed with Chris' girlfriend Rachel McKenna and pressed charges when she lightly slapped him. During Halloween 2013, Harry stopped breathing and lost his heart beat for 45 minutes after drinking a potion made of several garden weeds, including foxglove. However, after Chris used his chief executive officer position at the hospital to register prolonged CPR, Harry survived without brain damage. In early 2015 Harry met Pixie Hannah (Thomasin McKenzie) and after initial clashes, the two began to date. However Pixie was diagnosed with bone cancer and Harry supported her through the following treatment but was devastated when she succumbed to pneumonia shortly after the two had confessed their love.

Character development[]

Following the death of Harry's mother Toni Warner (Laura Hill), Hill hoped that the development of the character would be influenced, "It would be nice to think there would be floods of tears for months on end but that's not going to happen, is it? I imagine Chris Warner will find someone to fill the empty bed pretty dam quick going on from past form. I think Harry will be sadder for longer. I hope so."[8] The casting of Reid Walker in the role of Harry saw the character develop from a "wayward child" to a "rebellious pre-teen".[5] In 2011 Harry was featured in a storyline that saw his fathers girlfriend, Rachel McKenna(Angela Bloomfield) illegally discipline him when she smacked him.[9] Rachel was an inexperienced parent and as such, Bloomfield had to forget her own maternal nature, "As a mum, my responses are now automatic. So when I was playing Rachel in this role, I tried to forget about what now comes naturally as a parent ... Rachel eventually breaks, and that's when she smacks him. It all happens pretty quickly and she immediately realises she has crossed a line." Bloomfield was uneasy filming the storyline, "It felt really inappropriate – even filming the scene!" During filming, Walker wore cushions in his pants so that Bloomfield would not be physically hitting him.

In 2014 when the character was entering his teenage years, Harry started to move away from his recurring manner and take up his own storylines. Walker enjoyed the transition, "It's been nice to move on from minor parts in plotlines to actual stuff that concerns my character ... I've enjoyed the journey. I look forward to wherever the writers take me next." The storyline dealt with his discomfort with Chris after he lied about fathering a daughter, Trinity Kwan (Maya Ruriko Doura).

Reception[]

Harry has been referred to as the, "most annoying character on the show." Walker himself admitted Harry was an annoying character, but stressed that he was not much like his part. Co-star Angela Bloomfield (Rachel McKenna) praised Walker for his acting during the 2011 illegal smacking storyline, "Reid did a fantastic job. He really pulled out all his menace to play that part."[9] Harry was voted by fans as the runner up for character they would like to leave the show the most, in the Ferndale Talk Best of 2013 Awards.[11] Television reviewer Chris Philpot stated he hated advertising more than asset sales and Harry Warner combined.[12] Matthew Denton of the University of Auckland student magazine, Craccum, named Harry the most annoying character on Shortland Street, citing that the "spoilt whiney kid has been around for ages, causing grief for everyone" and expressed annoyance that Chris had saved his life in 2013.

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