Home and Away: Actress Tempany Deckert makes rare TV appearance

Former soap star Tempany Deckert has made a rare appearance on Australian TV, more than 20 years after she found fame on Home and Away.

The actress-turned-author, 42, was interviewed on The Morning Show on Friday from her home in Los Angeles.

Despite looking remarkably youthful, her style has changed a lot since the 1990s. 

Reflecting on her years playing Selina Roberts from 1994 to 1998, Tempany joked about how she was missing her ‘eyeliner’ and ‘bogan accent’. 

She also revealed she was still friends with her Summer Bay co-star Isla Fisher, who lives nearby in Los Angeles.

‘It’s been great to be in America, and Isla’s here, too. [It’s great] just having those conversations and reminiscing on our days growing up,’ she said. 

She added: ‘We really have a bond, it’s really like a family.’

Tempany also spoke about the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit the United States particularly hard, admitting she never could have imagined how bad things would become.

‘It’s funny, right when lockdown was about to happen here with coronavirus, me and Isla were texting each other going, “Oh my God! It’s coming! It’s coming!”‘ she said.

‘Little did we know we’d still be inside our houses five months later.’

Now married to American filmmaker Brian Donovan with two young sons, Tempany revealed she would love to return to Australia one day.

‘That’s the dream, to convince the husband to move to Australia. So maybe, you never know,’ she said.