Blair McDonough
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| Born | Blair McDonough April 30, 1981  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Blair McDonough (born 30 April 1981, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an actor who is best known for playing the role of Stuart Parker in the Australian TV soap opera Neighbours. He first shot to fame in 2001, when he finished runner-up in the inaugural season of the reality TV series Big Brother Australia. He has since appeared on a number of other reality TV shows.
McDonough spent much of his childhood living in Singapore, where his parents were working, where he was educated at Tanglin Trust School and the United World College of South East Asia. In his mid-teens he left Singapore and moved back to Australia with his family. They settled in the Melbourne suburb of Plenty, Victoria. McDonough finished his schooling at Eltham College of Education in Research, Victoria. In 1999, McDonough attended the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra, Australia.
In 2001, McDonough was a university student and amateur Australian rules football player, before he became a contestant in the first season of Big Brother Australia. He finished runner-up in the show, which generated a cult following.
A few months after Big Brother concluded, McDonough was cast in the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours, in the role of Stuart Parker. During his time on the show, he dated fellow cast-member Delta Goodrem.
In 2002, McDonough was named one of the 25 Most Beautiful People in the Australian publication Who Magazine.
In late 2005, McDonough announced he would be leaving Neighbours to seek work in London. He made his final appearance on Neighbours on April 5 2006, in episode 4938, titled "Stu For The Road".
McDonough played the role of Dan in a West End play called The Vegemite Tales from July-October 2006, and again in July-October 2007. He has also appeared in a number of reality TV shows in the UK. He competed in soccer trials to represent a celebrity football team in Sky One's The Match in October 2006. In January 2007, he appeared in BBC Two's Safari School, in which eight celebrities took part in a four-week ranger training course in the Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa. He was the fourth celebrity to be eliminated. In April 2007, he appeared in ITV2's Deadline, in which various celebrities worked to create a celebrity-based magazine. He was the third celebrity to be sacked from the magazine.
Blair has recently been cast as the new Steel in the Sapphire and Steel audio adventures from Big Finish - beginning with Second Sight.
