Floss McPhee is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera Home and Away, played by Sheila Kennelly.
However she has made sporadic returns first in 2000, for Sally Fletcher's (Kate Ritchie) wedding storyline and again in 2002, 2004 and 2008, for various story arcs.
[3] Profiling the character in the book Home and Away – Official Collector’s Edition, Andrea Black wrote "a carnival worker, Floss was Summer Bay's resident psycic.
Together they play the part of retired residents of Summer Bay's caravan park and continue their thirty-five year marriage.
[3] In the official "Home and Away Annual", author Kesta Desmond wrote that the source of Floss and Neville's constant bickering was money problems, but noted that a long marriage proved their love for each other.
[3] The show's producers told author James Oram that "to people who don't know them, it seems as if they are always bickering, but they both thoroughly enjoy their arguments.
[9] Brown wrote that Kennelly and Lloyd's departure was part of a "major cast reshuffle" ahead of the show's return in 1989.
[10] The actress reprised the role in 2002, alongside various past cast members to celebrate summer bay's fictional "150 year anniversary".
Ritchie added that "Floss has been fortune-telling, but no one pays any attention to her, but then the surf club partygoers find out that the boat has gone down with everyone on board!
Floss travels to the city meets her grandson Ben (Justin Rosniak) after lying to his nanny about her references and uses a false name "Mrs Neville".
When Ben discovers pictures of his father Scott (Peter Ford) in a photo album belonging to Floss and Neville, he wants to know the truth.
They sneak away, not wanting a big fuss but their car breaks down and The Fletchers catch them just in time to say a proper goodbye.
In 2002, Summer Bay celebrates its 150th anniversary and Floss predicts the Mirgini disaster after warning Shelley Sutherland (Paula Forrest) against wearing red.
Floss returns in 2004 with the travelling circus and reveals to Sally that she is dying of cancer and wants her and her husband Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy) to help euthanize her.
Kennelly received a fan letter from a viewer in Queensland who had read she lived on a farm in the Hunter Region.