Cast changes (contains spoilers)

[sallywebster]

Thought id make a list so we know exactly who is leaving, staying and returning. Feel free to correct any info I may have got wrong

WARNING: Do not read on if you are spoiler free as the return or departure of a character may ruin a storyline for you



Cast leaving

Jessie (uk date January 2006)
Scott (uk date - sometime around May/June 2006)
Hayley (uk date - sometime around May/June 2006)
Peter (episode 4018 - uk date -January 2006)
Flynn (sometime within the next year)


Cast staying

Alf
Kim
Tasha
Coleen
Martha
Ric
Sally
Cassie
Beth
Robbie
Matilda
Irene
Barry

Dan Baker
Leah Baker

New arrivals

Tony Holden (arrive in uk eps in January 2006)
Jack Holden ( arrive in uk eps in January 2006)
Lucas Holden (arrive in uk eps in January 2006)
Dr Rachel Armstrong (sometime next summer in uk)

Cast Returning

Josh West (sometime around March/April 2006 in uk)
Peter Baker (hasnt left uk screens yet but will return next summer)
Amanda Vale (returns in uk in January 2006)
Zoe the stalker (returns in uk sometime next summer)

Rumoured returns:

Pippa Ross
Selina Cook


The role of Hayley Lawson will also be recast. Ella Scott Lynch takes over from February 2006 on uk episodes. However Hayley is leaving for good.

[sootycat]

Zoe the stalker (returns in uk sometime next summer)

I thought she was dead. !!

[sallywebster]

Me too but somehow she returns!

[sootycat]

The miracle of Aussie soaps. ;D

[sallywebster]

I cant wait to find out. By my calculations we wont see the start of the 2006 season until Monday 15th May in the uk though

[sallywebster]

Its now been confirmed that Hayley and Scott leave in the 2005 season finale which will be shown in May over here. That also means new opening titles are likely for the 2006 season -which starts on Monday in Oz, so we will find out soon enough.

The Holden family arrive on Friday in uk episodes.

[sootycat]

Well, while they are changing the opening credits, it would be nice if the put Morag in.!

[sallywebster]

Well Home and Away returned in oz today and neither Peter or Morag were in the credits.

[SharonHarvey2]

No that is because the producers of H&A have weird ideas I am told of who is 'regular' and who is a 'regular guest member'. A contact at Channel seven in Aussie told me that. I.E Barry is a 'regular' whereas Peter and Morag are 'Regular guests members'!

Will find some more spoilers out for you though

P.S where did you find all this info out?

[sallywebster]

I got most of this info from Back to the Bay.

But Peter is back on a 2 year contract - surely he will be added to the credits if he is going to be in it for that long. Look at Martha, she was added after only 1 episode.

[SharonHarvey2]

I don't know at the mo, I am currently talking to one of my contacts in Aussie Land to find this info out, and I have also contacted my contact at Channel Seven to find out, as they promised they would give me any info they could ( As long as it wasn't giving any story lines away of course) as I told them about my H&A site and like Nick/Peter.

Yes, I thought that was where you may have got it from, I get lost sometimes on that site!

Funny though Sooty should say that about Zoe being 'killed' off, at the time Pete rescued Sally and the building went up, my other half, said how do they know she was still in there? And when that awful Claire said they had found a body, he said, how do they know it is the stalker? Good point I suppose.

Anyway, I have got some more news later so I will get it out to you ASAP.

Watch this space!

[sallywebster]

Its a good site though, Sharon. But difficult to navigate sometimes!

Maybe Pete will be added to the credits once he is actually back on screen as he isnt back yet I dont think

[eithne]

I read somewhere that she will appear in a dream/flashback or something like that.

[sallywebster]

Possibly. They like to do that in Home and Away.