Melissa Jarrett feature called "Twelve golden TV sex moments", men's magazine, "FHM" declared 1991 was "Neighbours"' finest hour. With Amenta as Melissa, Rachel Friend as Bronwyn Davies and Natalie Imbruglia as Beth Brennan, they said "Good God: that was when being unemployed or permanently bed-ridden really meant something". Melissa Jarrett Melissa Jarrett is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", played by Jade Amenta. She made her first appearance on 8 August 1989. Melissa departed on 9 April 1991. Amenta won the role of Melissa in a competition and she joined the cast of "Neighbours" at the age of fourteen.
Beth Chamberlin was the second actress to portray the role and initially portrayed Beth for a two-year stint from 1989 to 1991. She reprised her role as Beth three years later briefly, in January 1994 for only six months under then GL executive producer Jill Farren Phelps. Chmberlin again departed her role as Beth at the conclusion of her six-month contract in June of that same year. She returned to the role in November 1997 full-time and remained with the show until its cancellation in 2009. She also played the role of Lorelei Hills, Beth's disassociative identity disorder personality, from 2001 to