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30 Years On ‘We Were Mobbed In The Streets!’

Up-and-coming actor Alex Dimitriades won over hearts in the 1993 film The Heartbreak Kid, and a year later, series creators Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon set out to further explore his teen character. Soon enough, they were navigating the intertwined and complicated lives of students at the fictional Hartley High, played out in the hit series Heartbreak High.

The show would spawn a legion of fans and three decades later be rebooted on Netflix, thanks to the support of viewers who fell in love with the series’

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