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Dr Anna Buke Fiona MacLeod
Dr Anna Buke 2021
Marital Status: Justin Buke
Occupation: Doctor
After starting work as legal secretary to Toadie Rebecchi, Melanie Pearson began a relationship with him, and decided that she should go part-time, so they
weren't spending quite so much time together. When she started looking for other work to cover the shortfall, Melanie's colleague Mackenzie was surprised to
see that she'd left a lot of information out of her CV and offered to help her to rewrite it. Though reluctant, Melanie agreed to this, and Mackenzie was
surprised when she saw that Mel had left out a previous job - executive assistant to Justin Buke, a well-respected lawyer. When Mackenzie returned the CV with
this information added, Mel promptly threw it away, clearly reluctant to revisit her employment with Justin. Worried for Toadie, Karl and Susan Kennedy
decided to do some digging and try to find out what Melanie was hiding, and, aware that Justin's wife Anna was a doctor, he did some asking around at work
and found out that the Bukes' marriage had been in trouble after he had an affair with his PA and that things got very public and messy in the aftermath. As
word spread about Melanie's past indiscretion, local gossip Sheila Canning did some digging and got Mel to admit that she'd once had a restraining order taken
out against her, leading Susan to fix up a meeting with Anna. Believing that Susan wanted to discuss her MS treatment, Anna was shocked when Melanie's name
came up, with Erinsborough High principal Susan claiming that she was thinking about hiring her as a receptionist at the school.
Anna quickly warned Susan off, explaining that, after her affair with Justin was revealed, Melanie continued to stalk him, turning up outside the Buke house,
constantly driving down their street and even turning up at the next table when they were out for dinner. When Anna then asked Melanie to back off, she broke
into Anna's car and hid a bag of prawns under the seat, leading to the restraining order. Armed with this new information, Karl and Susan decided to keep
their nose out of Toadie and Melanie's relationship, while Sheila was determined to find out what Susan had been told by Anna, and contacted her herself,
claiming that she wanted to hire Melanie at the Waterhole. Confused by two mentions of Melanie's name in one week, Anna finally snapped when she found out
that Mel had included her employment with Justin on the CV - which in actual fact had been Mackenzie's work, thinking that she was doing Mel a favour by
sending her full CV to every legal firm in Melbourne. Convinced that Melanie was trying to worm her way back into Justin's life, Anna tracked her down and
confronted her, with Mel confused about what was going on. Anna promptly reminded her that the restraining order was still in place and that she would
contact the police if the harassment continued. Upset with Mackenzie for going behind her back, and particularly with Susan and Sheila for their snooping,
Mel was then forced to tell Toadie the whole shameful story about Justin.
Soon after, Rose Walker, a rival for Toadie's affections, found that her car had been vandalised and, given her history, Melanie was immediately suspected
of doing it. However, Anna then came forward and confessed that it was her, having seen Mel near the car, she had wrongly assumed that it was hers and, with
a lot of pent-up anger towards Mel, had taken it out on the car.
Trivia Notes
• Fiona MacLeod previously appeared in 2011
as Nicole Menken
Episodes
Featured 8675, 8677
Biography by Steve
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