Neighbours

Lucinda Robinson, now known as Elle, is commonly considered to be quite the spoilt princess. In actual fact, Elle grew up in Tasmania in a single parent family with her mother Gail and twin brothers Robert and Cameron. She’s a country girl at heart and she knows the value of hard work. Unfortunately, since reconnecting with Paul she’s also discovered new and interesting ways of getting exactly what she wants.

Upon arrival in Erinsborough, Elle took an immediate dislike to her father’s new girlfriend Isabelle Hoyland. One of the few women able to play manipulative Izzy at her own game, Elle started drugging Izzy’s food to make it look as if she had fallen off the wagon in her recent battle with an addiction to prescription medication. Bizarrely, the whole experience simply confirmed that all three individuals would actually make an excellent, if entirely dysfunctional, family unit. When Izzy helped to rescue Elle from the Bass Strait after the plane crash, the bond between the two women grew.

However, their relationship was about to be threatened by one big hunk of country bumpkin. Elle took an instant shine to naïve Ned Parker, although the innocent illiterate was reluctant to get involved with her, partly because he was nursing his own secret crush… on Elle’s sneaky step-mother. It was Izzy that convinced him to go out with Elle, and then Izzy that split them up.

After the plane crash and Harold’s attempt on his life, Paul descended into paranoia. He even suspected Ned and refused to accept him as Elle’s boyfriend. Furious, Elle threatened to move back to Tasmania, leaving Izzy no option but to step in and break them up. By sleeping with Ned herself.

Her trust in both of them destroyed, Elle was delighted when her beloved brother Cameron showed up. Full of warm smiles and hugs, little ‘Porky’ had no idea that the new arrival was, in fact, their other triplet Robert. With Rob on a mission to rid the world of Paul Robinson, and everyone close to him, Elle was almost killed when he planted a bomb in her car.

Her burgeoning relationship with Dylan was a source of comfort during the trauma but it caused a whole new set of problems when Sky revealed that she was pregnant with Dylan’s baby. Refusing to come second to his ex, Elle resorted to faking an illness to keep her man.

However her world truly came crashing down when Max Hoyland accidentally hit Cameron with his car, believing that he was protecting Katya from escaped convict Rob. Unable to forgive him for killing her brother, Elle started a menacing, and terrifyingly successful, campaign to drive Max mad.

Proving that she is a chip off the old block, Elle descended to deplorable depths and eventually came to despise herself. When old flame Ned revealed that she still had nothing on master manipulator Paul who had hired him to break up her relationship with Dylan, Elle finally snapped. Determined to break free from her father’s destructive influence, she concocted a plan to take over his entire empire and teach him a lesson about love, money and power.

Her fake engagement to Oliver Barnes worked a charm. Not only did they manage to ruin Paul, she even succeeded in briefly coaxing the handsome heir away from Carmella Cammeniti. Unfortunately the three of them have been locked in an impossible love triangle ever since. Although Elle and Oliver survived the trauma of discovering they might be half-siblings, Elle was horrified when history repeated itself and she found herself falling head over heels for yet another man who was having a baby with his ex-girlfriend.

Meanwhile her efforts to rehabilitate Paul proved unnecessary. Elle had no idea that at the same time as her plot to ruin her father was taking effect, he was also suffering from a brain tumour. It was only when she found him fighting with his invisible friend Fox that she realised something was desperately wrong.

Elle was relieved when Paul survived the dangerous operation to remove the tumour but her happiness was short-lived. Paul suffered from post-operative amnesia and remembered nothing after the late 80s, including the existence of triplets Elle, Cameron and Robert. Having regressed to the person he was before power and money had corrupted him so completely, Elle hatched a desperate plot to keep this new and improved version of her father alive. She hid all evidence of his former misdeeds and begged others not to tell him of the traumatic events that occurred in the last few years.

Unsurprisingly, her plan only worked in the short term. However, Paul was sincere about his desire to be a better person and Elle was thrilled when he got together with Rebecca and threw himself into his work at Lassiter’s. When Sebastian Barnes ordered her to fire one of her managers, Elle decided to leave Paul and Oliver in charge and fire herself instead.

Ready for a new challenge she turned her tenacity to the world of journalism and decided to compete with neighbour Riley Parker for the Erinsborough News cadetship. Sparks flew between the quick-witted pair but an undercover mission to report on illegal dance parties went awry when the roof collapsed and Elle and Riley were trapped. Although Elle survived with a punctured lung, the psychological scars ran deep and put an end to their blossoming relationship: every time she saw Riley, she had flashbacks to the accident.

Now Elle is throwing herself back into her career. Is the world ready for its first female media mogul?