The totally over-the-top series that turned actress Rowena Wallace into a legendary screen star is making a comeback, more than three decades after Australia farewelled the warring Hamilton and Palmer families.
Sons And Daughters, which gave us lashings of sex, jealousy, feuds, fashions, improbable deaths… and Pat the Rat, Rowena’s infamous acid-tongued, husband-stealing matriarch, is returning after a fervent campaign from its fans.
“It is super-duper to be remembered – especially as a superb*tch,” laughs Rowena, 73, whose own life away from the cameras has been almost as dramatic after battles with bankruptcy, addiction, depression and other shocking health problems.
“People seem to love to hate her. Most thought my character [socialite Patricia Hamilton] reminded them of their mother, wife, girlfriend, sister... there’s a lot of b*tches out there!”
Indeed,…
