Home and Away legend Lynne McGranger reveals she was bullied on set

 "I struggled with fitting in, and there was a time I felt bullied."

Former Home and Away star Lynne McGranger has opened up about a time she felt bullied on set. The award-winning actor, who starred as Irene Roberts on the Australian soap, left the role in 2025 after 32 years.

Appearing on the Cracking On podcast with co-stars Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts, the actor spoke about a time when she confronted a colleague after feeling bullied on set.

"I struggled with fitting in, and there was a time I felt bullied," she began, before saying she has not revealed who the person was behind the attacks.

On speaking about it in her memoir, she said: "I thought it was an important message to get across that it doesn't matter how old you are, or what your perceived capabilities are, that I did [get bullied].

"I felt it came from quarters that it shouldn't have come from, and this assumption that because I was at that stage – 40, 41, 42 or whatever I was – that I should have known what I was doing."

Sarah asked how it had manifested, to which Lynne revealed that because she is "a red mist person", she will "put up with stuff" and then she "just loses it".

I remember saying to this particular person, and of course, we were in a situation where almost the whole cast was there and extras, because why do something in private when you can do it with a couple of hundred people," she laughed.

"I remember saying to this person, 'Are you always an a**e hole, or is it just towards me?' and this person said 'Oh, it's just towards you' and I went 'I thought so.'

She went on to say that after this confrontation, the bullying stopped.

"I just lost it, as it was just little niggly things, eye-rolling, all of this, and I felt like I was really out of my depth," Lynne said.

She said the entire situation was "awful", but that it was "actually a good thing to do".

"I hate confrontation, I don't deal with it at all, but then the other side of the coin is I get to that stage where it just boils over, and I just blurt, and that's what I did this day.

"Looking back on it, I thought it was actually a good thing to do because I kind of embarrassed myself, but I guess I also embarrassed this other person to the point where they didn't do it anymore."