New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Look who’s back! KATRINA’S SHORTY HOMECOMING

It’s one plot twist that actress and designer Katrina Hobbs didn’t see coming – rejoining Shortland Street 22 years after saying goodbye to New Zealand’s most famous fictional hospital.

She originally played police officer Janet Maxwell and joined her older siblings Chris and Rebecca on screen in 2000, before her character dated Rangi, lost a leg and left the show.

But this month, the bubbly 50-year-old returns to our screens as Liz Griffi ths, the contentious mother of Dr Tom Griffiths (played by Mattias Inwood),

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