Valentina Novakovic: 'I'm not like Natasha'

Neighbours star Valentina Novakovic has admitted that she is nothing like her character on the show.

The actress, who plays conniving teen Natasha Williams, insisted that she enjoys playing a character so different to her own personality.

"I get asked that a lot, but I'm not, which makes her a lot of fun to play," she told Inside Soap. "I really hope I'm not as irritating, and don't try to take over as much as she does. I'm not a manipulative teenage girl who's forever wanting everything her way.

"She's certainly very, very confident and always surprises me. You can sometimes see the softer side of her as well. There are times when you think that she's calmed down, and then she comes back with something outrageous!"

Speaking of her colleagues, she added: "I'm mates with Margot [Robbie, who plays Donna Freedman] - I kind of knew her before I started on the show. I was friends with a lot of her friends, so she took me under her wing."

The actress joked that she occasionally gets sick of Jordan Patrick Smith (Andrew Robinson) and Jordy Lucas (Summer Hoyland) because they are always involved in the same storylines together.