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Strange storyline Producer Neighbors used to hide Alan Fletcher's alopecia diagnosis

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Weird storyline that Neighbors producers used on soap to hide veteran star Alan Fletcher’s diagnosis of alopecia after he started going bald By Mary Mrad For The Australian Daily Mail Published: 10:52 p.m. EDT, 14 July 2022 | Updated: 04:17 p.m. EDT, 15 July 2022 Veteran Neighbors star Alan Fletcher has revealed how producers tried to hide his alopecia diagnosis while filming the Channel Ten show. The 65-year-old actor said he tried to hide his diagnosis – an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss – by claiming his character Dr Karl Kennedy had dodgy hair products failed. ‘It’s starting to get a little weird. Karl wears a hat all the time, so I go to the producers and literally say, “I need to have a little bit of a scene, just something wedged that explains what’s going on”,’ Alan explained. Alan Fletcher, 65, his neighbour, revealed that he tried to hide his alopecia diagnosis on the show with a storyline a

Qantas workers reveal the truth about airline delays and labor shortages under Alan Joyce

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A former Qantas baggage handler has exposed the chaos behind the scenes as the airline struggles to save its sinking reputation with travelers experiencing long delays and flight cancellations. The man who chose not to be named claimed that after 1,800 baggage handlers were laid off during the Covid-19 period and work was outsourced to third-party contractors, baggage was left in rooms for weeks and even planes broke down. “Yeah, when the pandemic hit, we got JobKeeper for a while and were given enforced redundancy,” he told Nine’s Today Show. ‘Many men don’t want to go. Many older men with more than 35, 30 years experience, they don’t know how to apply for jobs online. So it affects older people. An unnamed former Qantas baggage handler said the airline had suffered since it fired its experienced ground crew and replaced them with inexperienced contract workers. The former Qantas employee said morale plummeted after experienced baggage handlers were let go and performanc