Summer Hoyland

Infobox soap character
colour = Television colour|Neighbours
name = Summer Rose Hoyland
series = Neighbours


first = May 20, 2002
Episode 4006
last =
cause = went to music school
age = 16
occupation = Music School Student
spouse =
children =
parents = Max Hoyland
Claire Hoyland
Stephanie Scully (step-mother)
siblings = Boyd Hoyland (brother)
Charlie Hoyland (half-brother)
grandparents =Bobby Hoyland
Rosie Hoyland
aunts/uncles = Isabelle Hoyland
cousins = Holly Hoyland
portrayer = Marisa Siketa

Summer Rose Hoyland was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marisa Siketa. She first appeared as a regular from May 20, 2002 to June 14, 2005, making recurring appearances from 2005 to early 2007. Summer is set to return to Ramsay street to visit her step-mother Steph and her half brother, Charlie

History

Summer's arrival

Summer arrived on Ramsay Street already scheming. She was selling boxes of stale cookies while claiming to raise money for the recently damaged church. She was quickly found out by her grandmother Rosie Hoyland (Maggie Millar), but was soon back to conning and scheming people. She was able to get Lou to sell her a box of valuable coins, and quickly exposed Lou (Tom Oliver) and Rosie's relationship to Harold (Ian Smith), the person they were trying to keep it from.

Long QT Syndrome

Summer was having frequent fainting spells, and this led to the diagnosis of Long QT Syndrome (which, in hindsight, is thought to be what her mother died of). After Summer's dad Max (Stephen Lovatt) was informed of this, he immediately returned home from the oil rig he was working on to be with his daughter. Although she knew her fainting was serious, Summer still tried to use it to her advantage, and initially had people fooled. It was clearer later on, however, that she was almost always faking.

Because Summer had lost her mother at an early age, she didn't have a female role model, so she started getting close with some of the females of Ramsay Street. She first tried to set Nina Tucker (Delta Goodrem) up with Ray Milsome, a friend of Stuart Parker's (Blair McDonough), but this didn't go well as Ray didn't know that Nina was still at school at the time. After this, Nina was employed by Max to be Summer's piano teacher. Summer also got close with Steph Scully (Carla Bonner), looking up to her and seeing her as a mother figure. Summer soon tried to set Max and Steph up, as she thought they would be a good couple. She asked Steph to be "mother" at a mother-daughter fashion show, and tried to get Max to buy gifts for her.

Summer suddenly collapsed at school, and was told by a doctor that she could have surgery to improve her condition. After a bit of worry, she decided to go through with it. When she woke up, she told her dad why she didn't want to have the operation: she remembered watching a film about a girl that had an operation and died, but she didn't want to worry her dad with this.

Summer's departure

Summer left the show to go to a music school, after she was encouraged by Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne) to play the keyboard. She occasionally reappeared in the show to see her family, and for short storylines. Her last appearance was in February 2007, when she came back to be with her family as Max had just returned, and she wanted to spend time with them. Later in 2007 both Max and Boyd left the show, leaving Summer with few close connections in the street.

External links

* [http://www.perfectblend.net/neighbourhood/bio/hoyland-summer.htm Character profile]