Nigel Taggart - Home and Away Characters

Nigel Taggart (1989)
Gary Down
Episodes: 267‒313

Occupation: Personal Assistant

When Morag bought the Blaxland Mansion and moved in with Roo, she took on a colleague from her recently damaged high court judge career, Nigel Taggart. Having lost his eyesight a few years before in an accident, Morag had gave him work where others hadn’t, and felt that it was his duty to help her in her hour of need now. He helped Morag by typing up her memoirs and general activities around the house, frequently having to cope with her temper tantrums.

With Morag beginning to dig her claws further and further into Roo, he was recruited by Alf and Ailsa to make sure that Morag didn’t try anything untoward and let Roo live her own life. Nigel agreed, but so as long as he could tell Morag of the arrangement as he didn’t want to be known as a spy.

Nigel’s reasoned judgements usually helped talk Celia around as he would find the holes in her arguments and talk her around to a different position, such as the dirty dancing competition or the living arrangements at the general store flat. As they spent more and more time together, Celia began to fall for someone since her fiance Les had died in Vietnam over twenty years before.

Having felt that his work with Morag was done and needing more independence, he got a job in the city. Sensing Celia’s fondness for him, he and Ailsa concocted a story so that he could let Celia down gently and left the bay without her feeling she had just been dumped. After he left, a bitter Morag realising she had lost her career, her husband and a friend over the past months, went round to Celia’s and revealed the truth, leaving Celia heartbroken.

With Celia reverting back to her own ways, Roo got in contact with Nigel and he wrote a letter apologising for his actions to her.

The credits give his surname as Jaggart, though the characters appear to call him Taggart.