Home and Away exit fears as show reveals all on life-or-death storyline

 "That poor man has had enough!!"

Home and Away has sparked exit fears for one mystery character in its upcoming life-or-death disaster. Next Monday's episode kicks off a dramatic new storyline that will leave multiple fan favourites in grave danger.

The week picks up following Cash Newman's winning bid for his dream adventure park package at a Summer Bay Surf Club fundraiser. Cash is visibly giddy about his prize and invites his friends Tane Parata, Mali Hudson and Levi Fowler to join him on the trip.

The group set off on their special boys' adventure, hoping to share some crazy experiences and make amazing memories together. But things takes a turn when they decide to extend their holiday for an extra night.

While on an overnight bush walk, one person from the group goes missing. With no signal and no outside help, the others desperately try to find him before it's too late.

A teaser clip posted on Home and Away's official Instagram account describes the episodes as an "unmissable" "must see event".

In the video, one of the men is shown scaling a cliff, before his foot slips off the breaking rock and he appears to fall. In another clip, the fall is followed by a blood-curdling scream.

Though we don't actually see any lifeless bodies from the trip, fans have already been speculating about who the casualty could be. The comment section of the post was filled with theories, as viewers feared for their favourite characters.

"If it's Tane I'm giving up watching. That poor man has had enough!!" declared one, with another agreeing: "Tane has had enough near death experiences thank you."

"'A life hangs in the balance' is often used in a H&A episode description. And it's usually Tane's," added a third.

"Now that there is a back up doctor, I reckon it's Levi," suggested another, while a fifth said: "I think it sounds like Cash?"

Hollyoaks star teases SECOND big secret being kept by Cindy Cunningham

 Cindy's connection to Beth isn't her only secret.

Stephanie Waring has made her big return to Hollyoaks as Cindy Cunningham, just over two years after the character was axed. Cindy made a surprise return on last Wednesday's episode (15 July) where it was revealed she's already familiar with newcomer Beth Keane.

Cindy is Beth's aunt and the pair came face to face in a nightclub last week, with Beth looking as if she'd seen a ghost. With Cindy's arrival coming just as Beth is being blackmailed by a mystery person, fans are eager to know what shared history the characters have.

Now, speaking to The Sun, Steph has revealed that she hiding more than just her past with Beth. "She has a lot of secrets, and there’s about a couple of big storylines coming up," the actress revealed.

One the viewers will see as soon as she comes back, and she is holding a few things back. She has history with Beth, her niece, played by Rebecca Ryan. That will all be unfolding over the six weeks of summer.

And then, yeah, there’s something else that I think the fans will be really shocked and surprised by, which I’m so excited to be revealed."

“It’s not related to what she’s been up to," she added. "It’s not related to anything that the audience will be seeing on screen now. So, there are secrets, and it’s amazing. It’s all cloak and dagger at the minute."

Rebecca Ryan, who plays Beth, previously teased what her storyline with Cindy will involve, telling Inside Soap: "They're aunt and niece but then it's going to turn out that they were friends before Beth came to Hollyoaks.

"They've had their own path together and then they've not seen each other for a while. Things could get explosive there because they're both not wallflowers. They're both quite feisty – no one wants to back down!"

Home and Away in Australia, in the mid-season finale, Cash’s boys’ trip away results in a life hanging the balance, while Harper finally sees Beau’s true colours, and Dana prepares to propose.

 

Last week’s episodes some Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) come away from the surf club fundraiser with one of the silent auction’s biggest prizes—a two-day adventure package for himself and three friends, featuring laser tag, rock climbing and archery.

After Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) ruled herself out of the trip, Mali (Kyle Shilling) immediately volunteered to take one of Cash’s three guest places. 

When Levi (Tristan Gorey) admitted that he’d nearly bid for the adventure package himself, Eden could see that something was troubling him.

Abigail (Hailey Pinto) explained that their brother has been feeling a bit lost after Mackenzie (Emily Weir) went away to a catering expo.

With Mac trying to move forward following their devastating miscarriage, Levi had made a concerted effort to find some friends to spend time with, but his attempts to socialise at the fundraiser repeatedly fell flat.

After drinking too much, Levi asked Mali and Abigail why no-one wanted to hang out with him, and feared Mac might be the only person he had.

Back at home, Eden asked Cash to invite Levi on the trip with him.

Cash didn’t seem thrilled by the suggestion, but nevertheless agrees to ask his brother-in-law along this week, alongside Mali and Tane (Ethan Browne).

However, it’s not long before Levi realises that he was only invited because Eden felt sorry for him, leaving him furious at being treated as a charity case.

The tension between Levi and Cash follows them to their getaway, much to the amusement of Tane and Mali, where Levi becomes determined to prove that he can hold his own against Cash.

Their rivalry begins with an archery competition, with Levi challenging Cash to a best of three and quickly turning the activity into a fierce battle between the brothers-in-law.

Their battle later continues through the park’s tree-rope course and laser tag, whilst Mali and Tane remain amused by the increasingly heated contest.

Levi is able to step up to the challenge and doesn’t mind a little friendly competition, especially after everything that’s happened,” Tristan tells TV Week. “But Cash and Levi come pretty close to being at each other’s throats.”

Despite the rocky start, the men decide to extend their getaway by camping overnight and heading off on a trek through the bush, without telling anyone back in Summer Bay.

The group set off into the wilderness, but are the conditions more demanding than they’d anticipated?

The sun is beating down, they’re moving further away from civilisation, and there’s no phone signal should anything go wrong.

Levi becomes increasingly uneasy about how far they’re travelling, and questions whether they should turn back, but the others dismiss his concerns.

“A little distraction during this time goes a long way… but what unfolds next, nobody will see coming,” Tristan hints.

When the men enter more treacherous terrain, Levi’s fears prove well founded.

As one of the group strays too close to a cliff edge, the ground suddenly gives way beneath them, sending them plummeting to the depths below!

With no signal, no help in the vicinity, and with no-one knowing where they are, the remaining men face a desperate race against time.

Who has fallen, and will they make it out alive?

Viewers will have a slightly longer wait than usual to find out for certain. The episodes will air as a cliffhanger leading into a short break for the show, to make way for Seven’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games.

“Someone does slip and fall,” producer Lucy Addario teased in an interview with the Blue Mountains Gazette. “It’s then a race against time when we return [to air after the Commonwealth Games] to rescue someone.”

It’s absolutely must-watch TV, and I hope the Blue Mountains community are happy with what our story does because I think it will attract tourists to explore the area.”

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Meanwhile, Beau’s (Blake Richardson) controlling behaviour escalates as Harper (Jessica Redmayne) finally gets a glimpse of her new boyfriend’s true colours.

Harper remains blissfully unaware of Beau’s involvement in dealing steroids, including to flatmate Sonny (Ryan Bown), and has continued to believe she’s found the perfect partner despite a growing number of warning signs.

Last week saw Harper reluctantly agree to install a tracking app on her phone, allowing the couple to monitor each other’s location at all times.

However, when Harper take Archie to see Marilyn (Emily Symons), and deviates from the route Beau was expecting, he later demands an explanation.

You can drop the act and tell me the truth,” Beau is seen telling Harper in a recent promo. “I know you’re lying.”

Harper is taken aback by the strength of his reaction, but her attempts to reason with him only make matters worse. Beau grabs her wrist and refuses to release her, holding on tightly enough to leave it bruised.

“It isn’t until things turn dire that she finally has to accept this isn’t the fantasy she’d hoped for,” Jessica Redmayne told TV Week.

Shaken by what’s happened, Harper gets away from Beau, but has no idea that she isn’t the only person facing his aggression.

In exchange for receiving further pills, Sonny has been forced into trying to sell Beau’s wares for him at the gym.

However, with Dana (Ally Harris) frequently by his side and Remi (Adam Rowland) watching him closely, Sonny’s finding it difficult to meet Beau’s prospective clients without being caught.

When Sonny fails to complete the deals expecting of him, Beau turns on him again.

Meanwhile, Remi becomes suspicious after realising that his credit card is missing, correctly guessing that an increasingly erratic Sonny may have taken it.

When Remi later witnesses a heated exchange between Sonny and Beau at the gym, he finally learns the full extent of what’s been going in.

Remi finds Beau quite unsettling,” Adam Rowland told TV Week. “The aggression is taken to a whole new level.”

Furious, Remi confronts Beau and threatens to expose everything to Harper unless he releases Sonny from the arrangement.

However, Beau refuses to be intimidated. Instead, he turns the threat back on Remi and demands $500,000 in exchange for leaving Sonny alone.

Meanwhile, still unaware of her boyfriend’s secret life, Dana is preparing to take their relationship to the next level.

After deciding that Sonny is the man she wants to spend her future with, Dana plans an elaborate proposal and eagerly waits for him to arrive.

But her plan is scuppered when Sonny fails to show, raising questions as to whether their relationship can survive the lies that Sonny’s continuing to tell!

Next week on Home and Away in the UK, Richie makes a decision about his future as he breaks Abigail’s heart and says goodbye to Summer Bay.

 

Richie’s (Rocco Forrester-Sach) been struggling to find a way forward since his dream of becoming a police officer came to an abrupt end.

The probationary constable panicked during a police operation and fired his gun despite being ordered to stand down, accidentally shooting boss David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor).

Although the conduct commission accepted that Richie hadn’t acted with criminal negligence, it terminated his employment and revoked his gun licence, leaving him directionless.

Thanks to emergency surgery performed by Amelia (Nicole da Silva), David survived and has now returned home from hospital, but signs of the shooting’s psychological impact are becoming clear as he recovers.

Lacey’s (Sophea Pennington) already seen her dad wake from a nightmare shouting “Stop!”. Whilst David claimed that he’d simply rolled onto his injured side, she could see how shaken he was and urged him to be honest if something was wrong.

That incident remains on Lacey’s mind next week, when David fails to answer his phone, prompting her to rush home and check on him. She finds David sitting in the front garden, having left his phone inside, where he insists that he’s fine.

Later that night, David struggles to sleep and heads to the kitchen for a glass of water. However, another vivid flashback transports him back to the shooting, causing him to drop the glass.

Hearing it smash, Lacey rushes out and offers to help clean up, but David snaps that it was his fault and insists on dealing with the mess himself. Although he quickly apologises for lashing out, his reaction only deepens Lacey’s concerns.

The next day, Lacey spots David looking at the business card Amelia gave him before he left hospital. Realising that he wants help but can’t bring himself to ask, she contacts Amelia and explains that he’s barely eating or sleeping.

David’s behaviour reminds Lacey of Jo’s (Maddison Brown) struggle with PTSD, so she asks Amelia to approach him instead.

Meanwhile, Abigail (Hailey Pinto) is trying to give Richie a wide berth after he rejected her suggestion that they resume their relationship.

But following another unsuccessful job interview, he spots her walking past and invites her for a drink at Salt.

He apologises for how things ended up between them, but admits that she’s still his best friend in the bay and misses hanging out with her.

Over their drink Richie explains that, having gone straight from school into the police academy, his CV is almost empty. He’s got no references, and it’s rather awkward when the first thing potential employers ask is why he left the police force.

Abby jokingly offers to help pad out his CV, but Richie refuses to lie. She instead offers to write a personal reference describing him as honest, caring and committed.

His fortunes appear to improve when he secures an interview for a nightclub bouncer position in Yabbie Creek, but the nightclub requires a professional reference—meaning Abby’s offer won’t be enough.

Richie prepares to abandon the interview, prompting Abby to suggest Cash (Nicholas Cartwright). When he jokes that he’d have more luck with David, she encourages him to check on his former boss and mention the reference if their conversation goes well.

At the Beach House, David’s clearly tense when Richie calls by, but remains amicable as he talks about the commission’s decision and asks about his search for work. However, his manner changes when Richie admits that he needs a reference.

Still traumatised by the shooting, David furiously reminds Richie that he nearly killed him and left his daughters without a father, before ordering him to leave.

Amelia arrives in time to witness the outburst and see a shaken Richie leaving. David defends his reaction to her, but acknowledges that Richie isn’t a bad person and he made a mistake in the heat of the moment.

After Jo interrupts them, Amelia leaves but then discreetly calls David to meet her outside. He admits that he’s afraid to sleep because the shooting keeps replaying in his mind, whilst daytime flashbacks leave him unable to breathe or calm himself.

David doesn’t want to burden Jo and Lacey, but Amelia persuades him to accept help and offers to find a counsellor.

Meanwhile, Richie returns to Abby without a reference and fears the bouncer job is now out of reach. Unable to cover his rent, he admits that he may have no choice but to move back in with his mum.

Desperate to keep him in the bay, Abby suggests a cheaper rental or caravan, even offering her sofa as an option, before persuading Richie to approach Cash with only two hours until his interview.

Cash is stunned by Richie’s request and bluntly asks what he expects him to write—that he was full of potential until he shot his boss?

Richie walks out humiliated, whilst Abby accuses Cash of being cruel to someone trying to rebuild his life.

Cash later seeks out Richie and apologises for his harsh response, but stands by his refusal. His concern isn’t just about Richie’s mistake, but the fact he hasn’t learned from it—a nightclub security role would still give him responsibility for other people’s safety.

Richie explains that he only ever wanted to protect people and help his community. Cash assures him that he can still do that another way, but must look beyond similar work and find where he belongs.

Richie decides that he needs a fresh start, and after speaking to his estate agent, he tells Abby that he’s moving back to his mum’s place, and plans to leave as soon as possible.

Richie apologises for ruining what they shared, but declines a tearful Abby’s offer to help him pack, admitting that it would make their goodbye harder.

After a final hug, they part ways.

Devastated, Abby rounds on Cash for driving Richie away, but Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) backs her husband after learning that he couldn’t honestly recommend Richie for bar security.

When Abby refuses to apologise, Eden gives her an ultimatum—say sorry to Cash, or move out.

Refusing to back down, Abby stuns her sister by announcing that she’ll start packing after her shift!

Elsewhere in Summer Bay, John (Shane Withington) tries to resolve the surf club’s financial crisis, after a recent shortage of lifeguards almost had tragic consequences. The club needs money to run more bronze medallion courses and recruit volunteers, but John has no idea how to raise it.

Mali (Kyle Shilling) offers to help, and when Remi (Adam Rowland) promises to donate to whatever they arrange, Mali suggests a blind auction where nobody knows what prize they’re bidding on.

A sceptical John refuses to risk money on an unknown prize, so Mali sets up a demonstration.

Lacey places the opening bid, drawing Justin (James Stewart) into a competitive battle with her as the day goes on, much to John’s bafflement.

As the bidding deadline approaches, Justin finally admits defeat, leaving Lacey convinced that she’s secured the mystery prize with her $55 offer.

However, John’s curiosity has now taken hold. Before Mali can officially declare Lacey the winner, John grabs the sealed envelope and sneaks in a last-second bid, increasing the total by five cents.

Mali declares John the winner—but what has he just paid $55.05 for?

Home and Away is available to stream from 6am weekdays, with double bill episodes airing from 6pm on 5Star.