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Character Profiles > Frazer Yeats Ben Lawson

Frazer (né George) Yeats (né Brown) 2006-2008
Lived: 30 Ramsay Street
Born: c. 1982
Parents: Graham and Prudence 'Prue' Brown
Marital Status: Rosetta Cammeniti (2007-)
Siblings: Johnny, Paul, Pauline and Ringo
Children: Marco
Family Tree: Brown/Yeats
Occupation: Professional Gambler, Taxi Driver

Mysterious Frazer first arrived in Ramsay Street with Pepper Steiger, as the pair pretended to be an engaged couple in order to look respectable and win a room at 30 Ramsay Street. Despite Pepper’s constant sneezing, thanks to her nerves, they were given a room by Ned Parker, who also lived there, and were joined by young lawyer Rosetta Cammeniti and another mystery man, Will Griggs. The four newcomers got off to a shaky start when Pepper started screaming in her sleep, an affliction that had plagued her for years and caused her to be thrown out of previous share houses. Will immediately grabbed Frazer, thinking he had been hitting Pepper, when in fact, he was trying to wake her up. As she explained the situation to Rosie and Will, Frazer was left wondering what he’d gotten himself into.

The following day, the four of them had a ‘get to know you’ barbecue, at which Pepper insisted that they all divulge a secret, but she was left shocked when Frazer admitted that he wasn’t really a financial advisor, but a professional gambler. When Pepper’s father, Senior Sergeant Allan Steiger, found out about his daughter’s relationship, he was left confused as to why she hadn’t mentioned her new man and, as he often did with his daughter’s boyfriends, ran a background check. When the results showed that Frazer didn’t exist, it was left to Pepper’s mum, local mechanic, Christine Rodd, to break the news. Things grew more mysterious when Rosie and Pepper found Frazer knocked unconscious on the veranda, with a large spanner on the ground next to him. As Pepper joined her “fiancé” at the hospital, Will and Rosie discussed whether they were comfortable living with such a shady character, but were interrupted by a call on Frazer’s phone, saying that “Little Frankie” had been shot. Will and Rosie grew increasingly concerned, as they went to the hospital to tell Pepper what had happened, but Frazer quickly explained it away, telling her that “Little Frankie” was a horse in a race that day, that had fallen and had to be put down. The mysterious spanner was also explained away when it was revealed that Christine’s apprentice, Janae Hoyland, had been practising at home when she’d angrily tossed the spanner back over her head and into number 30’s backyard.

Although Will and Rosie felt foolish, back in Ramsay Street, there were still the question of Frazer’s real identity that Pepper needed an answer to. He explained to her that, when he was a teenager, he had walked out on his family, changed his name and forged a completely different persona for himself. With her overprotective father, Pepper found this easy to understand and she agreed to let the matter drop. Rosie also offered Frazer an apology, and admitted to him that, with her family and its rumoured connections to Italian gangsters, she knew only too well what it was like for people to think the worst and jump to the wrong conclusions. During the conversation, it became clear that Frazer knew rather a lot about Rosie’s family – something which had previously been made evident when he followed Rosie’s mother, Lucia, to the General Store and offered to watch over her daughter – but he quickly passed it off as having read newspaper reports when her dad, Rocco, was on trial. But when Pepper then started trying to get serious with Frazer and move their fake relationship into real coupledom, he told her that he only wanted no-strings sex and it looked like his genuine romantic interests lay elsewhere in the house…

When Rosie went to meet up with her ex-fiance, Johnny Brown, at the bar, Frazer was alarmed to spot them there and quickly ran out, but not before Johnny spotted him, and mentioned to Rosie that he thought he’d just seen his estranged brother. And, as he grew closer to Rosie, Frazer finally revealed the truth to her – his real name was George and he was indeed Johnny’s younger brother. Having found out that Johnny and Rosie had split up, Frazer had tracked her down, hoping to marry into the wealth and power of the Cammeniti family, but instead had found himself falling for Rosie for real. Unfortunately, none of his confession was heard, as Rosie had fallen asleep. It was Frazer’s guilt over that situation that led to him rejecting Rosie when she tried to seduce him and she ran off, humiliated, straight into the arms of Paul Robinson, a wealthy Ramsay Street resident with whom she’d already shared a kiss.

Torn between Frazer and Paul, Rosie, on the advice of Pepper, decided to date them both, in order to see who she was more compatible with. Despite Paul’s efforts to sabotage it, Frazer’s first date with Rosie went well, even though they ended up doing the washing up in the restaurant, when Frazer’s credit card was declined. But when Frazer then found a list of his pros and cons that Rosie had made, he started to feel self-conscious and, during their second date, a picnic in the park, he decided to pull out of the competition. But Rosie, it seemed, had come to her decision and, during a date with Paul that evening, she told him that she was looking for someone to share her life with, and he’d already lived so much of his. Back at number 30, Rosie told Frazer that she wanted to be with him and the pair finally kissed. But things were about to be complicated by the arrival of Frazer’s teenage brother, Ringo who, in order to help his brother keep his secret, introduced himself as Rick Yeats.

Unfortunately for Frazer, it wasn’t long until Pepper, who’d answered the door to ‘Rick’ when he introduced himself as Ringo, worked out everything and warned Frazer to own up to Rosie, or she would. He realised that he couldn’t put it off any longer and, after Rosie organised a romantic weekend away for Valentine’s Day, and he again turned down the opportunity to sleep with her, he told her the truth. Rosie was left stunned and immediately ended things with Frazer and moved back to her parents’ place. His efforts to win her back were futile and, after Rosie found out that Paul and Pepper had been having a secret affair, things grew more complicated as, in the heat of the moment, Rosie and Pepper kissed, witnessed by Ringo. Although the girls agreed that it was a silly mistake and quickly forgot it, Frazer suddenly felt that his manhood was being challenged. In an effort to prove himself, he agreed to help Steph with some problematic electrics at the bar, only to get electrocuted.

When Pepper and Rosie found out that Frazer knew about their kiss, Pepper realised that he’d got the wrong end of the stick and it was the only thing stopping him getting back together with Rosie, who had also come to her senses and moved back to number 30, realising that she’d been too harsh on her ex. But Rosie was also scared of her feelings and, instead of getting back together with Frazer, she claimed that she was sexually confused. To prove this as just another excuse, Pepper dragged Frazer down to the law office and they both paraded in front of Rosie, who was wearing a heart monitor. Her reaction to scantily clad Frazer said everything and Pepper then arranged a date between the pair to move things along even faster. Unfortunately, as Frazer waited at the bar, Rosie managed to bang her head and knock herself out in the office. Frazer, thinking he’d been stood up, got chatting to Janae in the bar office and, as they shared details of their disastrous love lives, Janae suddenly kissed Frazer, at the same moment that Rosie walked in. Although a horrified Janae quickly apologised and ran off after realising what she’d done, it was enough for Rosie to swear off relationships for good. When Frazer heard about it, he was disgusted that Rosie would judge him without hearing his side of the story, and told her that they were finished – for good.

A few days later, a girl named Milly Hallsworth approached Frazer at the bar and, to his surprise, started chatting him up. Back at number 30, Milly was given a frosty reception by Pepper, Rosie and Ringo and when lipstick, conditioner and an MP3 player all went missing the next day, they were quick to point the finger of blame at the new girl. However, when Ringo found out that it had actually been his friend, Lolly Allen, who had been the thief – a manifestation of her struggle to deal with abuse at the hands of her stepmother, he covered and claimed that he’d taken the things and misplaced them. Frazer, however, had already confronted Milly about it, and wondered if he’d ruined his new relationship before it had even begun. But, after explaining the situation with Rosie and how she’d convinced him that Milly was the thief, she agreed to give him another chance. And Frazer’s friendship with Rosie also looked like it was about to be salvaged when she offered to give him a lift down to the racetrack so he could watch the time trials. But, just as Frazer and Rosie were about to admit their true feelings for one another, he spotted a young girl, Jemma Gillies, chase her dog out onto the track. He ran out to stop her, and she quickly moved away, leaving Frazer trampled as the horses came hurtling towards him.

A few days later, a girl named Milly Hallsworth approached Frazer at the bar and, to his surprise, started chatting him up. Back at number 30, Milly was given a frosty reception by Pepper, Rosie and Ringo and when lipstick, conditioner and an MP3 player all went missing the next day, they were quick to point the finger of blame at the new girl. However, when Ringo found out that it had actually been his friend, Lolly Allen, who had been the thief – a manifestation of her struggle to deal with abuse at the hands of her stepmother, he covered and claimed that he’d taken the things and misplaced them. Frazer, however, had already confronted Milly about it, and wondered if he’d ruined his new relationship before it had even begun. But, after explaining the situation with Rosie and how she’d convinced him that Milly was the thief, she agreed to give him another chance. And Frazer’s friendship with Rosie also looked like it was about to be salvaged when she offered to give him a lift down to the racetrack so he could watch the time trials. But, just as Frazer and Rosie were about to admit their true feelings for one another, he spotted a young girl, Jemma Gillies, chase her dog out onto the track. He ran out to stop her, and she quickly moved away, leaving Frazer trampled as the horses came hurtling towards him.

At the hospital, Frazer was found to have swelling around his spine and informed that he might be permanently paralysed. While Milly decided that she couldn’t cope with his disability and walked away from the relationship, Rosie did everything she could to stay by Frazer’s side. Even when he grew depressed and refused to see her, she decided to sue the owners of the racetrack, just so that she could be a part of his life. Frazer also told Ringo to move back home with the rest of the family, as he could no longer look after him, but his mood slowly started to pick up after a session of hydrotherapy and he decided to get himself in shape so that he might be able to join the wheelchair basketball team. He also managed to smooth things over with Rosie after she told him that she was in love with him. Although secretly harbouring the same feelings, he told her that he’d rather just be good friends for the moment, as he had enough to deal with. And, having actually spent a couple of weeks hiding out at the allotments and in the General Store rather than go home, Ringo went to see Frazer, who told him that he could stay at number 30.

On day release from the hospital, Frazer went to see Rosie and it wasn’t long before the pair were opening up to each other about their feelings and finally shared a kiss. Finally happy as a couple, it wasn’t long before a spanner was thrown into the works when he found out that the new doctor who was sharing Rosie’s office space was his old girlfriend, Charlotte Stone. Frazer and Charlotte had been a couple seven years earlier and together had conned many casinos, but, while Frazer had turned his life around and started gambling legitimately, Charlotte was still a con artist – pretending to be a doctor to defraud the people of Erinsborough. And when Charlotte decided that she wanted Frazer back, she tried every trick in the book to win him over, offering her services as a counsellor and masseuse, before sabotaging some of Rosie’s work, meaning that she had to work overtime. Alone with Frazer, Charlotte suggested going back to his place, where she again propositioned him. When he turned her down, Charlotte angrily stormed out, telling him that he was half a man anyway, then, as Rosie arrived home, acting like she was slightly flustered and dishevelled. Frazer insisted that nothing had happened, and Rosie trusted his word, realising that Charlotte was a nobody, whose presence had no bearing on their relationship.

Meanwhile, Frazer was in for another surprise when he and Rosie went to see his specialist, Dr Dwyer, who informed him that he no longer had any physical reason for his paralysis and his symptoms were now psychosomatic. Frazer struggled to deal with the news, particularly as he could think of no reason why it would be happening. After deciding that he needed some time alone, he left, without telling Rosie where he was going, but she managed to track him down and together, the pair went to a graveyard, where Frazer knew his grandparents, Stuart and Astrid, were buried. After finding the graves, Frazer was surprised when they also found another small plaque, commemorating a younger brother, Paul, who had died on Christmas Day 1985, aged 13 months. With Frazer’s parents due to pay a visit to number 30, in the hope that they could all patch things up before the wedding, the scene was set for a confrontation. Only Frazer’s mum, Prue, arrived, and she promptly left upon hearing Paul’s name again but, a week later, Frazer and Rosie returned to his childhood home in Muttatang to get to the bottom of it all. Frazer finally learnt that, when he was three, he had witnessed his baby brother drown in the family swimming pool on Christmas Day, and this repressed memory was what was preventing him from walking. Realising that she and her husband had unconsciously blamed Frazer, pushing him away until he finally left home as a teenager, Prue apologised to her son and mother and son agreed to try and make a fresh start.

With the wedding only weeks away, Frazer slowly started to notice the feeling returning to his legs, but decided to keep it a secret from Rosie until he was sure. Whilst looking after Ned’s young son, Mickey Gannon one afternoon, Frazer realised too late that the pool light was faulty, as the young boy reached in to pull out a dead bird and was electrocuted. With nobody else around, Frazer managed to use his legs in the pool and rescue Mickey, finally giving him the confidence to move on from his accident and the events of his childhood.

In the build-up to the wedding, things got complicated at home when Frazer and Rosie caught Ringo hiding under Carmella’s bed. Frazer was ready to send his little brother back home, but Carmella convinced him not to, insisting that she believed Ringo’s story that he had been putting some of her washing away and had panicked when he heard her coming. What Frazer and Rosie didn’t realise was that their siblings had been growing very close and were on the verge of kissing when they’d been interrupted, forcing Ringo to hide. But it was all quickly forgotten as the day of the wedding finally dawned and it proved to be a very happy occasion, with Frazer finally making his peace with his father and managing to walk down the aisle. But as Frazer and Rosie got more comfortable in their hotel suite, their perfect day was shattered when they found out that their friends and family, returning to Ramsay Street in a minibus, had been in an accident, with Ringo left seriously injured. At the hospital, Ringo was placed in an induced coma, while Frazer was furious to learn that driver Toadie’s blood alcohol level was dangerously close to the limit. Things only got worse when Carmella admitted that, the night before the wedding, she had kissed Ringo and, as they waited to be rescued from the bus, she had lied to him that she loved him. Refusing to listen to any excuses or explanations, Frazer promptly threw her out of the house and waited for news on Ringo’s condition.

When Ringo woke up a few days later, Frazer urged Carmella to be honest with him, as he was still under the impression that she loved him and that they could be together. As Carmella struggled to find the courage to do this, Ringo finally decided that he had to see her and left the hospital, confronting her at Lassiter’s with most of Ramsay Street watching. After learning the truth, a devastated Ringo decided to go home with his mum, and Frazer opted to tag along, aware that his little brother needed him. As they unpacked, Frazer was shocked to receive a phone call from Rosie with the news that Carmella was pregnant. With everyone believing that he was the father, Ringo stormed off and met up with some of his old mates, only for Frazer to track him down and demand that he return home. As an argument broke out, Ringo told his brother that he couldn’t be the father of Carmella’s baby, as they’d done nothing more than share one kiss. Over the days that followed, Frazer and Ringo spent plenty of time talking, both with each other and with their mum, and Ringo came to realise that his behaviour wasn’t so strange, as he met Jacqui Burns, the older woman Frazer had been involved with when he was seventeen. Frazer then decided that he should be getting back to his new bride, and Prue suggested that Ringo should go too, as she felt that she was smothering him at home, and Frazer was clearly doing an excellent job as his guardian.

Not long after, Rosie had been called away to visit her dying Aunt Maria in Rome when Frazer's cheque for $50,000 compensation came through. Having been thinking about starting a family, he casually mentioned to Steph that he might be interested in buying number 30, so that he had a stable home to raise children. Word quickly got back to Carmella, who was aware that Rosie wanted to use the money to get her new law firm, Rebecchi Cammeniti off the ground and took offence at Frazer's plans to start "pushing out the babies". When Rosie returned, she and Frazer failed to come to an agreement over what to do with the money, but she was amused when he agreed to babysit Charlie Hoyland, believing that it would put him off having his own children. When Frazer enjoyed his time babysitting, he accused Rosie of being cold and calculating for thinking he'd hate it, which upset her and, having brooded over it for a few days, she told Frazer that she wanted to have children with him one day, but for now she needed to concentrate on her career. However, there was still the matter of how to spend the compensation money, with Rosie hoping to use the money on the business, while Frazer wanted to buy them all a home. When Frazer then ran into old mate Theo Batsanis, who, instead of paying back a loan Frazer had given him, offered a tip for a rigged horse race, he saw a chance to triple their $50,000. The next day, Frazer took $40,000 out of his and Rosie's shared bank account and headed to the bar to place his bet, not realising that the bank would also contact Rosie about it. She tracked him down at the bar, where he admitted that he'd been tempted, but had changed his mind at the last minute. He admitted that he hadn't said anything as he didn't want to admit that he was even considering breaking the law like that, and apologised to Rosie.

Frazer then started looking into a new career, even considering returning to university to complete his accountancy degree. But just as things with Rosie had sorted themselves out, Frazer had fresh problems to deal with when Ringo started going off the rails. Following his problems with Carmella and the bus crash, Ringo had been struggling at school and had resorted to stealing an exam paper - though he never looked at it, the school wanted to expell him, but Frazer talked them out of it, agreeing to a one week suspension and a severe punishment at home. But when Frazer broke the news to Ringo that he was banned from all social occasions for one month - including the local half marathon that he'd been training for for weeks, Ringo stormed out of the house, refusing to accept what his brother was telling him.

While Frazer found himself a new career as a taxi driver - having got his licence while at university to help pay the bills - things at home grew more difficult as Ringo developed an eating disorder. Only Pepper picked up on the signs, having suffered similarly as a teenager, and Ringo begged her not to tell Frazer or Rosie. However, when Pepper took a job in Cairns and left town, she confided Ringo's condition to Rosie, who struggled to keep the information to herself, and when he and Frazer caught her snooping in his bag, she was forced to come clean. Frazer panicked, unsure of how to deal with the situation, particularly as Ringo was refusing to admit that he had a problem. With things at a stalemate, Frazer called their mum, Prue, who arrived, determined that her youngest boy was going to get the help that he needed. Ringo continued to struggle, and lash out at every opportunity, until he overheard his mum on the phone, giving up an expensive, non-refundable world cruise, so that she could stay and help him. Realising how much everyone was giving up for him, he went to see Rosie and made a contract, agreeing that he would do his best to eat properly from now on and keep up with his counselling sessions.

A few months later, and the issue of children reared its head again for Frazer and Rosie, as she discovered that she was pregnant. Though Frazer was delighted, Rosie was still unsure about whether she even wanted kids, and her lack of maternal feelings threatened to rip the marriage apart, to the point where Frazer declared that he would raise their child alone if that was what he had to do. This ultimatum made Rosie realise that she wanted both Frazer and their baby, and, over the weeks that followed, she slowly came round to the idea of being a mum, and was forced to admit her pregnancy to her friends when she collapsed at work. Frazer then went into business with Carmella's new partner, Marco Silvani, taking over the General Store with plans to turn it into an Italian restaurant, and everything for the young family seemed perfect. But tragedy was soon to follow, as the expectant parents went for the first scan and were informed that there was no baby; Rosie had suffered a phantom pregnancy. As the couple attempted to come to terms with the news, Rosie started to blame herself, believing that it was fate paying her back over her reluctance to have the child in the first place. Frazer struggled to cope with Rosie's attitude, and it only got worse when her friend and work colleague Sam Fitzgerald, who herself had once suffered a miscarriage, started encouraging her when she confided that she felt like she was still pregnant and was reluctant to have the operation to remove the growth from inside her. Aware that the growth could be cancerous, Frazer refused to go along with what he viewed as just prolonging the agony, and called on his mum for support.

As soon as Prue arrived, she suggested that Rosie and Frazer should take a trip to Italy - the honeymoon they never had - as a chance to get over what had happened. But Rosie maintained that she was still pregnant, refusing to be swayed by anyone else, until she saw how deeply her actions were affecting Frazer and their marriage. At the hospital, Dr Olenski spoke to them about the procedure, but, when she heard about Rosie's niggling doubts, she agreed to perform another ultrasound to put her mind at rest, and everyone was stunned when she suddenly found a heartbeat. The delighted parents decided that, after the recent dramas, they would press ahead with their plans to take an extended trip to Europe, and Frazer sold his share of the store, but he was unaware of how badly things had been affecting Ringo, whose eating problems had resurfaced. When Ringo heard that Frazer and Rosie were putting their plans on hold, things only got worse and he disappeared, almost drowning as he went for a swim in the ocean. As Ringo started making his own plans to move in with the Kennedys, then announced during his 18th birthday party that he was overcoming an eating disorder, Frazer realised that his brother could cope on his own but Ringo almost drowning had brought up bad memories of Paul, and he realised that Prue still blamed him for what had happened. Though it looked like their relationship was unsalvagable, Frazer made one last attempt to reach out to her and offered to give her a ride back to Muttatang, spending a few days there before they headed off to Italy, and presented her with the money to buy a ticket to come and visit them once the baby was born. He then handed the keys to Bessie over to Ringo, gave his little brother one final hug and headed out of Erinsborough with his wife and their unborn child.

Later that year, word reached Erinsborough that Rosie had given birth to a little boy, who they named Marco, in memory of Carmella's boyfriend who had tragically died a few months earlier.

Trivia Notes
• Frazer dislikes sushi
• Frazer & Ringo’s blood type is B-
• Frazer recalled his grandfather Stuart Brown as someone who liked to play games with him and his siblings, especially ‘Hot & Cold’