Home & Away star Jodi reveals Martha's devastation

Home & Away star Jodi reveals Martha's devastation
Home & Away star Jodi reveals Martha's devastation (Image credit: five)

Home and Away fans were devastated last week when copper Jack (Paul O'Brien) was sensationally killed off, leaving wife Martha grief-stricken. Actress Jodi Gordon, who plays Martha, reveals how her alter ego is coping in the aftermath: "She's obviously devastated. After everything that Martha and Jack had been through together it was incredibly sad. She felt they had just reached a point in their relationship where everything was going well." This week sees Tony (Jon Sivewright) and Martha coming to terms with their loss, but Jodi, 24, dismisses any possibility of romance between her character and smitten chef Roman (Conrad Coleby). "That's the last thing that's on Martha's mind," she says. "She needs to heal." When asked how she felt about her cancer storyline, which preceded Jack's death, Jodi admits she found it 'very tough', before adding: "We did all our research and made sure it was pretty precise when it came to the medical and physical issues." Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop Get all the latest soap gossip delivered straight to your door. Subscribe to Soaplife magazine today

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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.