Reception
In 2006, Bassingthwaighte was nominated for "Most Popular Personality" and "Most Popular Actress" at the Logie Awards for her role as Izzy. The following year, she was again nominated for "Most Popular Actress". The 2006 Dolly Teen Choice Awards saw Bassingthwaighte win the "Best Slashie" award. In 2007, Bassingthwaighte received a nomination for "Best Bitch" at the Inside Soap Awards. At the first Digital Spy Soap Awards, Bassingthwaighte, along with co-stars Woodburne and Fletcher, was nominated in the "Storyline of the Year" category for the Karl, Susan and Izzy storyline set in London.
In 2004, Izzy came joint tenth in a BBC drama poll to find the "Best Villain". During a feature on the best and worst soap characters of the decade, Ruth Deller of television website Lowculture placed Izzy at number two on the best characters list. Deller said "The best character in Ramsay Street for ages, if not of all time, Izzy was the best kind of soap bitch (see also Janine Butcher and Clare Devine), one whose motives you could understand, and often sympathise with. Being a member of the largely dreadful Hoyland clan didn't bode well for her, but Izzy soon won a place in everyone's hearts (and several male characters' beds). She was even bezzie mates with Harold, and she bowed out by giving birth on the Thames in the ludicrous Neighbours goes to London episodes". The website later referred to her as a "archetypal soap bitch-with-a-soft-centre". New Zealand television website, Throng, said that Izzy had "grown to become a fan favourite" in her time with the show. Izzy has been labelled a "super-bitch" by newspaper Daily Mirror, newspaper Metro, entertainment website Digital Spy and Australian LGBT website Samesame. Bree Hoskin writing for LGBT website Gaydar, included Izzy on their list of "Top Ten Soap Bitches". She also said the serial was shaken up with her arrival and branded her "Erinsborough’s most memorable bitch and home wrecker". Also opining she met her match in Paul and it subsequently caused "a good vs. evil cul-de-sac showdown the likes of which Ramsay street had never seen before".
The Herald Sun observed Izzy as "backstabbing, blackmailing and breaking more than a few hearts" during her time in the serial. They also said her behaviour "didn't win her any friends in Erinsborough". Izzy was named one of the all time most popular character in Neighbours behind Harold, Madge and Susan. Bassingthwaighte revealed that people were shocked to see her friends with Woodburne in real life, because her portrayal of bitchiness so so convincing they assumed they had to be enemies off-screen.
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