Home and Away's Rhiannon gets death threats

Home and Away's Rhiannon gets death threats
Home and Away's Rhiannon gets death threats (Image credit: five)

Home and Away star Rhiannon Fish has received death threats from fans of her new boyfriend, Australian X Factor winner Reece Mastin. The 21-year-old actress - who plays troubled student April Scott in the soap - broke up with former co-star Lincoln Lewis in June after two years of dating, around the same time she met Reece, 17, when she filmed a role on his music video for Shout It Out. Rhiannon has now told Australia's TV Fix: "People send me messages on Twitter saying, 'I hate you, I can't believe you are dating my husband', but you just have to laugh at it. He's worth it, the death threats I can overlook." The smitten Home and Away star revealed she will be spending a weekend with Reece's family in Adelaide, and she has plans to introduce him to her family. Rhiannon said: "My mum is obsessed with him; she is very excited. I haven't seen him play live yet, but hopefully I'll be able to take my family. "I feel privileged to be able to watch him. I think he's going to go so far." But Rhiannon insists she and Reece were friends after meeting on the music video, before taking the next step. She said: "We became friends during the shoot and hung out on a 'friends' basis for a very long time." Rhiannon previously dismissed rumours that Reece was behind her split from Home and Away hunk Lincoln. She told the Australian Daily Telegraph: "I love Lincoln. I don't think I had anything to do with [the break-up], I hope I didn't have anything to do with that."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.