Kylie Brown
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Kylie Samuels (previously Brown, also Connelly) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera
Creation and casting
South-African born New Zealand actress Kerry-Lee Dewing was cast as new nurse Kylie Brown[1] She is portrayed as a "bright and bubbly party girl with a heart of gold"[2] Like most characters, especially the other nurses, she too enjoys unwinding by having a drink at the I.V. Bar after work.[2] She grew up with her parents and older sister in Geraldine, a small rural town in the South Island of New Zealand.[2] She is introduced as a friend to Lana, when he informs her Boyd Rolleston (Sam Bunkall) had arrived in Ferndale, the man they suspected to have murdered her sister. She and Lana plan to get to the bottom of her sister's death.[2]
Development
Cancer and euthanasia
In 2016,
Relationship with Frank Connelly
Frank arrives in Ferndale and upon his arrival, he immediately takes an interest in her. The pair later start a relationship.
Storylines
Kylie arrives in Ferndale when her best friend, Lana, informed her that the man they believed had killed her sister, Boyd Rolleston, had gained a job at the hospital. Kylie got a job as a nurse and alongside Lana and
She begins a relationship with
They briefly get back together after she helps TK through a mental breakdown caused by TK's involvement with some dodgy criminals. While investigating the spate of deaths, Kylie and TK decide to split again. Kylie starts a relationship with
Despite this, Kylie helped Dylan overcome losing Julie and the unborn baby, until in December 2018, when they were due to marry, Dylan's twin brother Dan forced Dylan into a confession, which, despite Kylie's disbelief, eventually killed Dylan off after he tried to killed her to pull off his 5th insurance claim fraud. She also killed off Ian Reid, the convicted serial rapist that was hospitalised earlier that day. Nicole Miller, is now pregnant and Kylie asks Chris if he can make her Director of Nursing so she can get Nicole axed from the job. Kylie then becomes DON.
Ali, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, witnessed the death of him outside the ward. Before going to theatre to get his tumor removed, he has visions about Kylie killing Dylan. Later in April, before Ali died, Ali finally remembered the whole scene of Kylie killing Dylan and threatens to take her to the police. While Ali is sleeping, Kylie tries to dose Ali with morphine but stops and runs back to Chris' house and attempts to drink 2 shots of Vodka and dose on morphine, but just before she could Chris stopped her. TK comforted Kylie after Ali's death and they slept together, which broke Te Rongopai and TK up.
Kylie hooks up with Prince Kimiora in March 2019 after kissing Drew in a bar to feel better and having Drew run off, they go skinny dipping and then Prince asks Kylie to tell him her secrets, but Kylie kicks him out of the house.
Then later in March, Kylie reconciled with former character Leighton Gilmore, after he was taken into ED with kidney stones. Prince tells Kylie about how Leighton killed his wife. Nurse Dawn Robinson then starts taking care of him, and Leighton then puts $60,000 in Dawn's bank account to pay for her insurance claims after Ali crashed an ambulance in January. Kylie orders Dawn to stay away from him, but she refused. Leighton was ordered a transfer of hospitals, but Kylie killed him by overdosing him on medicine
In June 2019, Laura King dies from a drug overdose, and Esther is targeted by a dangerous man, Ben King saves Esther and they go back to TK's house. Ben and Esther sleep together and Esther keeps saying "no" but Ben unfortunately doesn't stop until he realises he went too far. Kylie thought it was her business to be involved and she and TK threaten Ben with the police. Esther does not want to take Ben in to the police.
Later the next month, Dan (Dylan's twin) is taken into ED, at first Kylie is traumatised as she sees visions of Dylan. Dan tells Kylie to stay away from her, but instead Kylie stays close to him and they start a relationship, Kylie then meets a Christian family and she tells them there is no God. Kylie then gets dehydrated in the Waitākere Ranges and is taken into ED. Kylie then realises there is a God and she asks him for forgiveness of her sins and gets baptised. She marries Daniel and is found not guilty of the death of Ian Reid. Daniel leaves her and she had shock therapy in August.
In the 2019 finale, she and TK deliver Phoenix Warner's baby and the two get back together, much to the returning Frank Warner's upset. In February they get engaged and Kylie's lost year from shock therapy returns, and she realise she killed Dylan and Leighton. She turns herself in and is now in prison.
References
- ^ "Kerry-Lee Dewing".
- ^ a b c d "Kylie Brown".
- ^ a b c "Shortland Street praised for euthanasia storyline". Stuff. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ "Shortland Street actress on euthanasia: People deserve the right to choose". Stuff. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ a b c "Shortland Street's Kerry-Lee Dewing says her character Kylie could face jail time". Stuff. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ a b Simich, Ricardo. "Bare-cheeked romance on Shorty". spy.nzherald.co.nz. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ a b "Shorty St's Luke Patrick bares it all in upcoming episode". Now To Love. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- ^ a b c "Shortland Street's Luke Patrick and Kerry-Lee Dewing on their shock TV wedding". Stuff. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-24.