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Ziggy Astoni
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Occupation Qualified Mechanic
Residence queensland
Gender Female
Relationships Pete ex-boyfriend
Jarrod McGregor (ex-boyfriend)
Brody Morgan (ex-husband)
Tane Parata (ex-boyfriend)
Dean Thompson (boyfriend)/ love of her life / soulmate
Family Ben Astoni (father)
Maggie Astoni (mother)
Coco Astoni (sister)
Richard Walford (grandfather)
Diana Walford (grandmother)
Marco Astoni (uncle)
Kate Walford (aunt)
Izzy Thompson (daughter)
First Appearance 20 June 2017
Last Appearance 9 march 2023
Portrayed by Sophie Dillman

Ziggy "Zig" Astoni (previously Morgan) is the older daughter of Ben and Maggie Astoni and the older sister of Coco Astoni.

She's also the granddaughter of Diana Walford and the ex-wife of Brody Morgan. She's also the ex-girlfriend of Jarrod McGregor and Tane Parata. She's the current girlfriend of Dean Thompson.

Backstory[]

Four years ago, before moving to Summer Bay, Ziggy and her ex-boyfriend, Pete vandalised a school, where Maggie works and unaware that Maggie was still working and Pete knocks Maggie unconscious and Ziggy escapes with him, leaving Maggie unconscious. This incident left Maggie traumatised and leaving Ziggy guilty.

Storylines[]

After running away from her father, Ben, Ziggy enters a bathroom and asks James to hide her. He allows her to hide in his car, until her father is gone, and she thanks him with a kiss on the cheek. Ziggy goes back home, where Ben confronts her about stealing a car. He and his wife Maggie take Ziggy and her younger sister, Coco, on a road trip and they end up in Summer Bay.

Ziggy meets James again in the Surf Club and they became friends. At Salt, Ziggy steals money from Katarina Chapman's purse and soon learns Kat is a police officer. Ben and Maggie collect her from the police station. After her parents decide to move to the Bay, Ziggy refuses to stay and James drives her back to the city. There she finds her boyfriend, Jarrod, has been cheating on her. She calls Brody to pick her up before breaking up with Jarrod.

She returns to the Bay and decides to give it a chance. She spends more time with James Martin and they kiss, but she and her parents soon learn he is a drug addict. Ziggy rejects him after finding out about his drug history. When Brody was involved in a car accident with his younger brother, Mason Morgan, Ziggy came to see Brody, but he tells her to leave. Ziggy and Brody said goodbye when Brody decided to go to therapy. Ziggy later befriended Olivia Fraser Richards and helped her unlock her car when her car keys were locked inside.

Ziggy asked Brody's older brother Justin Morgan about Brody's time at rehab and after the conversation, Brody's drug dealer William Zannis overheard her conversation with Justin and introduced himself to Ziggy as Brody's best mate and Zannis asked her if she is Brody's girlfriend, but she denies it. Later, Zannis and his henchmen kidnaps Ziggy while she walks home and held her captive in a motel room.

Zannis used her phone to lure Brody into his trap and Brody arrives to find Ziggy tied up and tries to save her, but was held capture with her. Brody begs Zannis to let Ziggy go, but he refuses. Kat arrives to save them but was knocked out and tied by Zannis. Brody plans to make an escape with Ziggy and told her his plan. Zaniness tells his men to take Brody and Ziggy to the car so they can send them to a new location. Brody tries to fight Zannis, but Zannis beats him up as Ziggy watched in horror.

As Zannis' men takes her and Brody to the car, a man named Robbo, who followed Kat rush to the scene and attacks Zannis and his men and saves Brody and Ziggy. Ziggy returns home and promised Ben that he won't see Brody again as Ben tells Brody to stay away from her. Brody sends a text to Ziggy that he is so sorry and she replies to him not to talk to her again, leaving Brody heartbroken. A week later, Ziggy began to suffer a panic attack and visions of Zannis and his men coming back and after her. Scarlett Snow comforts her and Brody finds out about Ziggy's panic attack. Brody sends his sister Tori Morgan, who is a doctor to see Ziggy and check on her. Tori convince Ziggy to see a counsellor and she agrees. Ziggy finds out that Brody send Tori to her. Desperate to talk to Brody, Ziggy took Ben's ute and texted Brody to meet her at the beach.

At the beach, Ziggy told Brody that she agrees to go counselling and thanks him for sending Tori to her. They sat up on the ute's hood and talked. Brody told Ziggy that he wished he was the same way he was and she replies that she like him the way he is now. They share a kiss, which leads them to sleeping together. Ziggy told Olivia that she slept with Brody last night and Irene Roberts overheard them.

Later, Ziggy sneaks Brody into her house after Ben and Maggie went out and they make out until Brody told her that he is still recovering from his drug addict and is afraid to harm her. But Ziggy assures him that he won't and they agree to end their secret relationship. However, as Brody was about to leave, Ziggy and Brody couldn't resist each other and they slept together again. They get back together and agree to date and see each other in secret.

Ziggy and Brody continue to see each other and secret and often slept together at the Summer Bay Auto, where Ziggy works. The next day, Ziggy went to Olivia's house to help her with her fashion shoots. Ziggy became Olivia's model for her fashion shoots and she, Olivia had a crush on James before she met hunter king and Olivia's boyfriend Hunter King had a fun time taking photos and pose for the camera. Brody later came to Olivia's house to talk to Ziggy and told her that Mason still hates him and Ziggy gave him a good talk that he has to keep trying to reconcile with Mason.

That evening, Ziggy found out that Brody had made peace with Mason and went to see him at his house while Justin, Tori and Mason were out. She told Brody that she is very proud of him for sorting things out with Mason. Brody gave her a beautiful necklace as a thank you gift.

They kiss and slept together again. After sleeping together, Ziggy struggles to find her tank top and believe she left it in the living room. As she goes to retrieve it, Justin finds her and Brody undressed and found Ziggy's top and she and Brody knew they're caught. Brody tells Ziggy that she has to tell their family about them but she refuses, until she decided to tell them.

Ziggy admits to Ben and Maggie that she's dating Brody and Ben disapproves of the relationship. Ziggy argues with him and leaves, as Ben tells her that she's kicked out of the house. Ziggy stays over at Brody's and the next day Ben apologises to her and begs her to come home, but Ziggy refuses unless he accepts her being with Brody. That same night, during Olivia's fashion launch, Brody breaks up with Ziggy as he doesn't want her to get hurt because of him, leaving her heartbroken, but they remain as friends.

The two continue hanging out and seeing each other, Brody taught her how to make pasta and Brody realises he still loves Ziggy and tries to win her back. Jarrod arrives to the Bay to win her back, Ziggy hide him into a motel. However, Brody saw him and was jealous. He informed Ben and Maggie about Jarrod's arrival. Ziggy learned that her parents knew and confronts Brody. Jarrod kisses her, but she rejects him. He later apologises and agree to be friends. They continue to spend time together and Jarrod invites her to Brody's launch party at Salt, which she accepts.

Ziggy tells Maggie that she's madly in love with Brody and wants him back. Ziggy tells Brody that she doesn't want Jarrod, but him. Ziggy tells Jarrod that it's over between them and Jarrod says goodbye before he leaves. Ben later gives his blessing to her and Brody as they reconcile. Ziggy, Brody and other Bay residents mourn over the sudden death of Kat.

Hours later, Ziggy and Brody sleeps together and later goes to the hospital when Ben called that Maggie was in the hospital. Brody takes Ziggy and Coco home for the night. Ziggy and Brody are still happily together and Ziggy and her family were shocked to find out that Maggie has cancer, leaving them to struggle. Ziggy decided to propose to Brody and she asked him to marry her at the Surf Club, he accepts and they became engaged.

Ziggy later admits that she only proposed to him because of Maggie and Brody overheard her and ends the marriage, leaving Ziggy heartbroken. However, hours later, Brody proposed to her and gave her a ring, she accepts his proposal and they became engaged again. Olivia congratulated them and asked Ziggy about her wedding dress and Olivia offers to design the dress.

Ziggy and Olivia plans on the design of her dress. Ziggy realises that Maggie only has a few days to get into chemo and decided to get married in two weeks, she told Brody and they accept. Olivia was shocked when she heard that Ziggy and Brody is getting married in two weeks and Olivia became stressed that she only has fourteen days to make a dress and Olivia gets Ziggy's measurements and start making Ziggy's wedding dress.

Two weeks later, after the wedding was organised, James and Ziggy are married in front of their family and friends and departed for their honeymoon, but the honeymoon didn't last long as Maggie became ill and returned to the hospital. They returned back to the Bay to look after Maggie. Brody later moves into the Farmhouse but things escalate when Brody complains about Ziggy's surfing trophy.

James and Ziggy plans on finding their own place, but struggles. james shows Ziggy the storage house at his house, and told her that they can use it as their house, but Ziggy refuses due to storage items, dust and insects. Hours later, Brody and Ziggy are welcomed into their own place in the storage house and Ziggy instantly fell in love with it. The marriage was happy until Simone Bedford arrived to the Bay and worked with Brody. Unknowing to her, Brody was having an affair with Simone. Ziggy later discovered the affair when she walked in on them in bed and Ziggy was devastated and betrayed. Ziggy told her parents, who were furious, not only with Brody but also Simone. Ziggy moved back to the Farmhouse as her parents took her stuff back. Brody tried to see her, but was stopped by Ben and Maggie. Ziggy finds comfort in her co-worker James Martin and later confronts Brody. After collecting her final items in the house, Ziggy smashes her and Brody's wedding photo and gave her rings back. James Martin later became great mates with Ziggy leading to them being together Ziggy cheated on Dean with James on the night of the race track they both love each other ziggy sees James in his car when he arrives with brothers started to sleep with him again Dean sees Ziggy with James at the diner the beach everywhere he goes starts kissing each other holding hands Ziggy and Dean break up. Ziggy mad

Appearance[]

Ziggy has long blonde hair and green eyes. She has a rebel look with black or denim shorts, jeans, tank tops and boots or sneakers. She wore bikinis at the beach.

She has her hair out or tied into a high ponytail. She wore various rings until mid 2018, when she got engaged and married, and she only wore her wedding and engagement rings. At her job, she wore various tops with dark blue overalls.

On her wedding day, she wore a French lace, ivory white wedding dress with silver heels, her hair tied into a bun with a diamond headpiece in her hair and diamond dangly earrings.

overall you could describe her as pretty.

Relationships[]

Ben Astoni[]

Ben is Ziggy's overprotective father. He gets annoyed when Ziggy steals and runs away. But he loves her and will do anything to keep her safe. But when Ziggy starts a friendship with Brody, Ben was not happy because Brody is a drug addict. After Ziggy got kidnapped by Brody's drug dealer, William Zannis, Ben tells Brody to stay away from Ziggy.

Maggie Astoni[]

Maggie is Ziggy's mother. She is caring to Ziggy and comforts her when Ziggy told her that her boyfriend, Jarrod has been cheating on her.

Coco Astoni[]

Coco is Ziggy's younger sister and they don't get along well and always fight, which annoys their parents.

Olivia Fraser Richards[]

Olivia is Ziggy's best friend. Ziggy and Olivia first met in front of the Bait Shop after Ziggy saw Olivia having trouble with her car and realised that Olivia had locked her car keys inside her car and Ziggy helps her unlock her car, using fishing hooks from the Bait Shop. They befriended after that and Olivia tells Ziggy that her name is cool. Ziggy later tells Olivia that she spend the night with Brody in her car. Ziggy then helped Olivia with her fashion photoshoots for her new fashion design and became Olivia's model for the photoshoots. When Ziggy finds out that Olivia had cheated on her boyfriend, Hunter King with Axel, Ziggy forces Olivia to tell Hunter, and told her that she doesn't deserve Hunter at all. Their friendship became strained but later mended. Olivia helps Ziggy design her wedding dress as Ziggy was about to marry Brody. They later bid farewell when Olivia leaves the Bay.

Marco Astoni[]

Marco is Ziggy's estranged parental uncle. Ziggy never got along with her uncle, Marco growing up, since her father is estranged with family, due to Marco's romantic feelings for Ziggy's mother, Maggie. When Ziggy finds out that Marco and Maggie had a one-night stand just months before Ziggy was born, Ziggy assumes that Marco might be her real father, but after getting a DNA test, it is confirmed that Ben is Ziggy's real father.

Love Interests[]

Pete[]

Pete is Ziggy's ex-boyfriend, they've dated before Ziggy move to Summer Bay, four years prior. Ziggy and Pete vandalised a school, where her mother, Maggie works and unaware that Maggie was still working and Pete knocks Maggie unconscious and Ziggy escapes with him, leaving Maggie unconscious. They later broke up after the incident.

Jarrod MacGregor[]

Jarrod is Ziggy's ex-boyfriend, when Ziggy live in the city with her family. They were still dating when Ziggy moves to Summer Bay with her family, although it strains their relationship, as Jarrod miss Ziggy, and he starts cheating on her with other girls behind her back. When Ziggy leaves the Bay to move in with him, she goes to his place to surprise, but to her shock, she finds him in bed with another girl and she breaks up with him in the spot.

Months later, Jarrod turns up to the Bay and tries to win Ziggy back, which made Ziggy's ex-boyfriend, Brody Morgan jealous. While on a car ride, Jarrod kisses Ziggy, but she pushes him away and rejects him. But they remain as friends and Ziggy accidentally invites Jarrod as her plus one to Brody's launch at Salt. Ziggy realises that she still loves Brody and tells Jarrod that it's over between them. They say goodbye before Jarrod leaves the Bay for good.

Brody Morgan[]

Brody is Ziggy's ex-husband. They meet in a public bathroom, in a rehab centre where Brody goes into rehab, Ziggy who is hiding from her father, Ben, tells Brody to help her hide and he hid her inside his car when Ben calls out for her. Ziggy thanks him with a kiss on the cheek and flees. They bump into each other again at the Bay and they start to hang out and went swimming together. Brody takes Ziggy to her boyfriend's house, but she calls him back to pick her up, after finding out her boyfriend cheating. Brody and Ziggy falls in love and share a kiss.

They later get kidnapped by Brody's drug dealers, but is safe by Robbo. Ziggy and Brody are ban from seeing each other by Ben, but they couldn't stay away and they spend a night together in her car, and starts a relationship. They try to break up, but they couldn't resist each other and kept their relationship a secret. Ben tries to break them up, but Ziggy refuses to leave Brody. Brody later breaks up with Ziggy, not wanting her to get hurt by him, due to his drug addiction. Brody later saves Ziggy from being raped while clubbing with Olivia.

The two still remain friends, but still have feelings for each other. When Ziggy's ex came to town, Brody came jealous, but Ziggy admits to Brody that she still loves him and the couple got back together with Ben's blessing. Brody supports Ziggy when her mother Maggie is diagnosed with cancer. Ziggy proposes to Brody, who then gives her an engagement ring and they get engaged, and they marry 2 weeks later.

Their marriage was happy until Brody became close to Simone Bedford, whom he starts an affair with. Ziggy catches them one day in Simone's caravan and moves out. Ziggy finds comfort in River Boy, Dean Thompson who stood by her side. Brody sells his share of Salt to Ziggy and give her the divorce papers, and their wedding album, before leaving with Simone. 2 years after the divorce, Ziggy mentions Brody to Mia and Bella.

Dean Thompson[]

Dean is Ziggy's boyfriend and the love of her life. Dean and Ziggy became close after her separation from her husband, Brody. They became close friends and soon falls in love. They start dating after Ziggy and Brody finalise their divorce and Brody leaves. Their relationship is so strong than any relationship that Ziggy had in the past. But after being together for a year and half, Ziggy breaks up with Dean when he lies to her about being Colby Thorne's accomplice to Ross Nixon's murder, but couldn't forgive him. They remain friends after the break up and when they both move on. But Dean's girlfriend and mother of his child, Amber breaks up with Dean when he still loves Ziggy.

Dean and Ziggy attends to Bella's expo in the city and they share a kiss, Dean ask Ziggy does it mean that she forgives him, but she didn't say, which upsets Dean. Ziggy later learns that Dean is in a bad car accident, which left him badly injured, Ziggy fears for Dean's life, and tells Dean that she forgives him for everything. Ziggy realises that she still loves Dean and Tane breaks up with her, after seeing her and Dean together. Ziggy confess to Dean that she can't love without him and still loves him, before they kiss and reconcile their relationship. Dean car crash with Mia Anderson girlfriend and Nikau Parata nephew Ari Parata Best friend Dean Mac half Brother Dean Logan Bennett helped Dean in Hospital

Tane Parata[]

Tane is Ziggy's ex-boyfriend. They start dating after Ziggy broke up with Dean, but Tane isn't comfortable when Ziggy hangs out with Dean. Although Ziggy admits to him that she and Dean are over, in her heart she realises that she still loves Dean. When Dean is in a bad car accident, Ziggy lies to Tane about going to visit Dean at the hospital. They break up after he sees them together, and when Ziggy reconciles with Dean. Brother Tane visit nephew Nikau Parata


Trivia[]

  • Ziggy is compared to Kirsty Sutherland.
  • Ziggy is the only member of the Astoni family who has blonde hair, while her father, mother and sister all have brown hair. It's possible Ziggy could have dyed her hair blonde before she and her family moved to Summer Bay.
  • Ziggy's portrayer, Sophie Dillman, looks similar to Bonnie Sveen, who played Ricky Sharpe on the show.
  • Ziggy is a few years younger than Brody; she is nineteen while he is in his twenties.
  • She's the first Astoni sister to get married.
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