Cathy Come Home (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitchhikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid lorry driver. They fall in love, marry, and rent a modern flat in a building that does not allow children. Cathy soon becomes pregnant and must stop working, and Reg is injured on the job and becomes unemployed. The loss of income and birth of the baby force them to leave their flat, and they are unable to
Cathy Alessi but she gives him her blessing. When Phoebe and Stephen leave town, Rick takes over the Coffee Shop until Cathy comes back to terminate the lease. Cathy tries to persuade Rick to come to Sydney with her, but she eventually arranges for Lou Carpenter (Tom Oliver) to take Rick in. A writer for the BBC's "Neighbours" website said that Cathy's most notable moment was "Meeting her adopted daughter." "Inside Soap's" Josephine Monroe branded Cathy "supermum". Cathy Alessi Catherine "Cathy" Alessi is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera "Neighbours", played by Elspeth Ballantyne. She made her first screen appearance