House star Jesse Spencer admitted that he owes his entire acting career to Australian soap, Neighbours.

Jesse played Billy Kennedy on the show from 1994 to 2000 and now plays Dr Robert Chase in House.

Jesse told MSN: “Neighbours was a launchpad for me – I’d probably have gone to university if I hadn’t done acting, and I would probably have been a real doctor – and now I’m a fake doctor!”

“At that point I was quite young, still in school. I didn’t know if it was going to end after I left Neighbours. Acting’s difficult and I knew it was a temperamental vocation and I didn’t know where it was going to go but it worked out,” he said.