Neighbours star Stefan Dennis has discussed the show's move to have Paul Robinson and Terese Willis finally settle down – suggesting that there will still be plenty of drama in store for the married couple.

Rebekah Elmaloglou, who plays Terese, previously told Digital Spy that fan power persuaded everyone that Paul and Terese should be together properly.

In a new interview with Digital Spy, Stefan confirmed what Rebekah said and added that the stars told executive producer Jason Herbison not to make Paul and Terese "happy families".

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"Some years ago, we said to the producers – when they were first thinking about putting our characters together – we said, 'Please don't. Please don't put them together, because the dynamic and chemistry is so good with them not being together all the time'," he said.

"It gave so much more dynamic to the two characters, when they were together and when they weren't.

"And we just feared, as has happened in so many soaps, that if you put a couple together – I'm not saying it's all over, but what happens is they tend to settle down into happy families and the drama tends to get a little bit washed out. And they aren't as exciting anymore."

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Stefan added: "That's what we were worried about, because we thought Terese and Paul had that really great dynamic, that tension together, together with the chemistry that they had. And we didn't want to destroy that.

"Jason our executive producer had flown over to the UK, and they did a survey with the viewers and it was hands down, everybody wanted Paul and Terese to get together.

"And he called us into the office and said, 'I'm really sorry to say this but we've gone as long as we can', and we relinquished. We said, 'Look, we'll go with that. We understand. Please, as long as you don't turn them into happy families', and he said, 'No, we won't do that'. So that was good."

Neighbours airs weekdays at 12.50pm and 6pm on Channel 5 (UK) and 6.30pm on 10 Peach (Australia).

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