Andrea (played by Madeleine West) arrived on Neighbours in 2017 claiming to be Toadie Rebecchi’s (Ryan Maloney) late wife Dee (Madeleine West), with the actress reprising her role 14 years after the character’s death.
However, Andrea’s plans were thwarted after Toadie discovered the con woman wasn’t his late wife but rather a complete stranger trying to get her hands on Dee’s inheritance, leading to her first exit from the Channel 5 soap.
After luring Toadie into her web of lies, Andrea returned to the fold some months later to reveal the Ramsay Street icon had fathered her young son Hugo when the pair slept together during a trip to London.
With the troublemaker causing problems for Toadie and his wife Sonya Rebecchi (Eve Morey), Andrea eventually found herself in a psychiatric unit in Tasmania and having been there for some months now, the schemer is set to make her unwelcome return to Ramsay Street.
There’s a huge end game
Madeleine West
Toadie will surely be left reeling when the schemer makes her comeback, having lost his wife Sonya to ovarian cancer earlier this year, with the diagnosis being revealed too late because of Andrea’s mother Alice Wells (Kerry Armstrong) trying to continue her daughter’s misdemeanours.
Arriving in Erinsborough under the false pretences of being a help-in-home nanny, Alice managed to worm her way into the Rebecchi household, later poisoning Sonya and masking the symptoms of the cancer.
However, knowing her days were numbered and wanting Toadie to live a hassle free life once she’d passed, Sonya paid a visit to Andrea in the psychiatric unit where the schemer had one last card to play; the real Dee could still be alive.
Returning to Ramsay Street before her death, Sonya failed to tell her husband the vital evidence which could prove his late wife is still alive and instead, told his brother Shane Rebecchi (Nicholas Coghlan) who has also kept the secret.
Though, it seems his efforts to protect his brother will be in vain as Andrea
