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Home and Away's Shane Parrish star Dieter Brummer's tragic death at 45 – three decades after debut

Dieter Brummer played Shane Parrish in Home and Away in the 1990s, alongside Angel, and the couple were a huge hit with fans – but his life was met with tragedy

Shane and Angel (Melissa George) were one of soap's best-loved couples (Image: Seven Network)While speaking to Australian TV's The Fame Game in 2018, he admitted: "It can be very fickle. After acting, Dieter switched gears and trained as a high rise window cleaner, expressing his happiness at stepping away from daily recognition by fervent fans. Mere days before he was about to start a new window cleaning job, the New South Wales government paused all construction projects due to the escalating Covid pandemic.

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