Home and Away stars address Levi's shocking cliffhanger - but there's a problem

 "That might spoil the gig a little bit...".

The stars at the centre of the Home and Away Levi storyline have addressed the shocking events. The soap is currently on a break in Australia until next week, though scenes ahead of the pause saw things left on a cliffhanger (literally) for the character.

The plot kicked off with Cash Newman winning an adventure park package at the Summer Bay Surf Club fundraiser, after which he decided to take Tane Parata, Mali Hudson and Levi on a boys' trip.

Things took a drastic turn, however, when Levi fell while scaling a cliff, a teaser for upcoming episodes showing a life-or-death situation for the character, whose arm is crushed under a rock as the lads desperately try to save him.

Appearing on Sunrise, stars Nicholas Cartwright (Cash), Kyle Shilling (Mali) and Tristan Gorey (Levi) were asked about the plot… though there was one problem – they couldn't give away much.

"I can't say what happens, because that might spoil the gig a little bit," Nicholas admitted, before quipping: "The catch is always getting involved in one of these things, I think I'm one of the cheapest actors to bring on the away trips!"

However, he did praise the crew's work on the outdoor shoot, recalling: "This is one of the best shoots we've ever shot from a technical standpoint.

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To get the crew out to shoot at the speed we shoot on a real cliff came with a whole lot of different challenges, and this is one of the most ambitious ones we've ever put up on screen, just from the way that we shot this and the speed that we shot this content on a real cliff.

"I was insanely proud of the crew, and I think we really stepped it up a notch on this story, which was great."

At the end of the chat, one of the presenters joked that the trio had "done very well in giving nothing away".

Will Levi survive? Australia-based fans will have to wait until this Monday to see what happens.

EastEnders' Avani to get a major shock in Joel attack mystery

 The walls are closing in.

EastEnders' Avani Nandra-Hart gets a major shock next week amid Joel Marshall's attack mystery. As new information comes to light, the teenager is left questioning everyone around her.

When Joel was released from the young offenders institution a few weeks ago, Avani and her friends made it clear he wasn't welcome back on the Square. They decided to teach him a lesson by locking him up and throwing drinks over him.

Later, the teens found Joel unconscious outside, after he was attacked by an unknown assailant. With only the group aware of the lock combination, it wasn't long before they started pointing fingers at each other - though they presented a united front to the police.

In Monday's episode, Avani vents to Barney Mitchell about Joel's request to stay in Walford. She fears her objection to his return could make her look guilty about the attack.

When Barney admits he hid the hammer to protect her, believing she was responsible, Avani is left reeling. If her own best friend thinks she's guilty, what will the police think?

Later, Barney also confesses his actions to his dad Zack Hudson, and tells him he saw Nugget acting suspiciously that night. Stunned that Barney has hidden evidence, will Zack use Nugget to keep his son out of the frame?

Meanwhile, Vicki and Ross Marshall receive an update about Joel's request to live with them on the Square. They are surprised that Avani has agreed to the arrangement, leading Vicki to question if Joel may have pressured her.

The couple ask Kat and Alfie Moon for answers about the kids, and are stunned to see the footage of the prank. Furious that the other parents knew what had happened, Ross resolves to go to the police to get justice for his son.

Later, Barney succumbs to the pressure of keeping so many secrets and gives a statement to the police. But what exactly does he tell them? And will he continue to protect Avani?

Beau tells Sonny to steal $10,000 from Remi to help him ramp up his operation. Elsewhere, Levi feels lonely as Mackenzie goes back to work.

Next week on Home and Away in the UK

When Harper (Jessica Redmayne) first met Beau (Blake Richardson), she was led to believe that he was a physiotherapist who had helped Sonny (Ryan Bown) during his rehabilitation, unaware that he’s actually a steroid dealer—and that Sonny is his latest customer.

Sonny’s dependence on the drugs has since allowed Beau to tighten his grip on him. Last week, he lied to Dana (Ally Harris) that he needed to repay money he owed Remi (Adam Rowland), before using the cash she gave him to clear his debt with Beau.

However, it isn’t long before Sonny needs another supply. When he asks Beau to provide the steroids on credit, Beau refuses and insists that he won’t hand over anything until he’s paid in full.

Meanwhile, Beau continues pushing for more time alone with Harper. After she leaves Archie with Tane (Ethan Browne), the couple finally have the house to themselves—but Beau panics when Harper briefly disappears to collect some coffees.

Although she hasn’t been gone for long, Beau admits that he feared something had happened to her. Harper apologises and promises to let him know where she is in future, but Beau suggests a more permanent solution—they could install an app that allows them to track one another’s locations.

Harper feels that the arrangement would be too intense at this stage of their romance, but Beau repeatedly questions her resistance and suggests that she may have something to hide.

Feeling pressured, Harper lies that Dana has asked to see her and slips away to seek her sister’s advice.

Dana doesn’t see what the fuss is all about, while admitting that she probably wouldn’t use a tracking app with Sonny. However, she encourages Harper to trust her instincts rather than agree simply to please Beau.

At the same time, Sonny arranges to meet Remi, apologising for their recent fallout and asking whether they can forget it ever happened. However, when Remi heads to the bar to order drinks, Sonny steals a credit card from Remi’s wallet.

After withdrawing cash from Remi’s account, Sonny hands the money to Beau and asks for more steroids.

Beau immediately suspects that something is wrong, wondering how Sonny is suddenly cashed up and forcing him to admit that he stole the card from a friend.

Rather than accepting the payment, Beau furiously accuses Sonny of placing his entire business at risk.

When a desperate Sonny tries to stop him from walking away, Beau punches him in the face!

Later that day, Harper and Dana are shocked to find Sonny nursing a swollen cheek, but Beau claims that he became overconfident on his feet and fell.

Sonny supports the lie, leaving Dana to believe that he has suffered another minor setback in his recovery.

The following day, Harper tells Beau that she’s decided the tracking app would be too much too soon. Beau doesn’t challenge her decision, but his cold response leaves Harper convinced that she’s upset him.

Meanwhile, Sonny continues trying to persuade Beau to accept the stolen cash. 

When Beau warns that Remi will notice the missing money, Sonny reveals that his friend is a millionaire and insists that he won’t care about losing a few hundred dollars.

Seeing an opportunity to expand his steroid business, Beau instead proposes taking $10,000 from Remi’s account.

Sonny baulks at the amount, but with his desperation for more pills growing, he’s pressured into agreeing to think about it.

Still worried that she’s upset Beau, Harper later confides in Dana again. When Beau subsequently joins them and Sonny for lunch, he presents the app as a way for couples to remain connected and declares that he has nothing to keep private.

Harper consequently changes her mind and asks Beau to install it on her phone. Dana wonders whether she and Sonny should follow suit, but Sonny quickly refuses, prompting Beau to ask whether he has something to hide.

Once they’re alone, Sonny rejects the $10,000 scheme. Taking a few hundred dollars was bad enough, but Remi is his best mate and he refuses to steal such a huge sum from him.

Beau responds by forcing a large quantity of steroids into Sonny’s backpack and ordering him to begin selling them. If Sonny refuses, he’ll have to find himself another supplier.

Sonny’s guilt deepens when Dana praises his commitment to his recovery and tells him that his strength has made her love him even more. He then narrowly avoids discovery when she begins unzipping the backpack containing the pills.

Later, Sonny pours the steroids into the kitchen sink, seemingly determined to end the lies and reject Beau’s demands. Yet his resolve lasts only seconds, as he hurriedly retrieves the pills and sinks to the floor in defeat.

The following day, Sonny sparks up a conversation with a fellow gym-goer, Viv (Ashleigh Hermann), who admits that her progress in the gym has been slower than expected. 

Sonny explains that he also struggled to achieve the results he wanted, until he received some extra ‘help’.

Is Sonny about to make his first sale—and how long can he continue deceiving Dana before the truth comes out?

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Elsewhere, Levi (Tristan Gorey) struggles to build a life outside his relationship with Mackenzie (Emily Weir).

The couple have spent most of their time together since losing their baby, but their routines begin to diverge as Mac resumes work while Levi remains on leave from the hospital.

When he spends one of her shifts at Salt hovering and offering unsolicited advice, she insists that she’s coping and tells him to find somebody else to play with.

Left at a loose end, Levi drifts back to the hospital and asks Dana to join him for a coffee. She’s initially too busy, but later finds him still hanging around his office and realises that he has nowhere else to go.

Levi admits that he isn’t ready to return to work but has no idea how else to fill his time. He has no hobbies or close friends, having lost his friendship circle when his marriage to Imogen ended, so Dana encourages him to head out and meet new people.

However, Levi’s efforts at the surf club fundraiser repeatedly fall flat.

Abigail (Hailey Pinto) is too busy covering at Salt whilst Mac attends a catering expo, Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) is drawn away to watch Eden’s (Stephanie Panozzo) performance, and Remi soon abandons their drinks after receiving a message from a woman.

When Cash also turns down his suggestion of dinner, Levi wonders whether Mac has become his only person.

He proceeds to drown his sorrows, leaving Abby to bring him back to the share house to sleep it off.

The following morning, after a push from Eden, Cash reluctantly invites a hungover Levi on the adventure weekend he won at the fundraiser.

Levi is delighted—until he later overhears Eden admitting that she used her ‘wife card’ to force Cash into it.

Humiliated, Levi heads downstairs with Mac, who assures him that she knew nothing about the pity invite. Cash follows them to apologise and offers Levi the chance to pull out, but Levi is now resolute that he’s going to attend.

Cash puts on a brave face, but his unease grows when Levi declares that not only will he be joining them, but intends to beat Cash at every activity.

Cash points out that the weekend isn’t meant to be competitive, but Levi insists that he’s a surgeon who thrives under pressure—and as far as he’s concerned, it is now.

Will the trip provide Levi with the new friendships he needs, or has Cash unwittingly invited his new, fiercest rival?

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

Home and away John faces his biggest test yet as the surf club fundraiser gets under way

John and Mali (Kyle Shilling) began organising a fundraising event for the surf club after a woman nearly drowned during a gap in lifesaver cover earlier this month.

Although Mali managed to rescue her, John blamed himself for what happened and became determined to raise enough money to train more volunteers.

With the finances already stretched, John knows that the success of the fundraiser, and its silent auction, could be the make or break of the club.

As Mali and Lacey (Sophea Pennington) help with the final preparations, it quickly becomes clear that John isn’t coping well with the pressure.

He finds fault with almost every detail and reels off an endless list of jobs that still need to be completed.

John is briefly impressed when Mali and Lacey show him the silent-auction prize board, but his nerves return when Alf (Ray Meagher) arrives back from Merimbula several days earlier than expected.

Alf explains that it wouldn’t look good if the surf club president failed to attend such an important event, before inspecting everything that John and his team have arranged.

John is desperate to know whether Alf approves, but Alf offers little more than an instruction to carry on, leaving John uncertain.

The following day, the area outside the surf club is transformed with tents, banners and stalls as the crowds begin to arrive.

The following day, the area outside the surf club is transformed with tents, banners and stalls as the crowds begin to arrive.

A sleep-deprived John barks instructions at everyone around him, and becomes convinced that Alf has sent members of the committee to spy on him.

His panic then intensifies when Mali asks him to deliver the opening speech and he admits that he hasn’t written one.

Lacey steps in at the last moment and proves a natural as the event’s MC, welcoming the crowd and encouraging everyone to spend generously.

Alf later addresses the crowd and offers John some rare public praise for his efforts in bringing the fundraiser together.

However, John’s success is suddenly threatened when Lacey receives a disastrous phone call from the Coral Sands Jazz Band.

With just an hour to go until their performance, the musicians have been struck down by gastro and are pulling out.

Knowing that the news could push John over the edge, Lacey and Justin (James Stewart) agree to keep the cancellation from him whilst Justin searches for a replacement act.

Meanwhile, Mali finds John hiding in his office, overwhelmed by the pressure.

Although Mali points out that the stalls are packed and the auction has already attracted plenty of bids, John fears they could all be worth little more than a dollar.

It isn’t only the prospect of another accident weighing on him if he doesn’t raise the needed funds, however. John confesses that, in all the years he’s known Alf, Alf has never once believed in him.

Mali reminds John that Alf clearly does now, but that only leaves him more frightened.

After finally earning Alf’s faith, what will happen if he lets him down?

Meanwhile, predictably enough, Justin’s search takes him to Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) and Remi (Adam Rowland), asking them to step in as the event’s musical act.

Eden immediately agrees, but Remi makes an excuse and insists that he can’t perform.

When Eden presses him, Remi admits that he hasn’t played in public since his brain surgery and fears that he may no longer be capable of performing in front of a crowd.

Eden reminds Remi how far he has come since the operation and suggests that getting back on stage could be the final step in his recovery. She agrees to perform alone but asks him to reconsider.

When Eden arrives at the fundraiser, she accidentally reveals the jazz band’s cancellation to John. Justin quickly reassures him that Eden has agreed to take their place, although John remains understandably nervous.

Eden prepares to begin her solo performance, but Remi appears at the last moment with his guitar. As the pair launch into their set, the crowd begin singing and dancing along, seemingly rescuing the event from disaster.

Even then, John can’t relax. He worries that everybody is enjoying the music instead of placing bids, forcing Lacey to assure him that the auction envelopes are filling up.

Once the performance is over, Alf begins announcing the successful bidders.

Leah (Ada Nicodemou) and Justin discover that they’ve placed identical bids for the romance package, whilst Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) wins an adventure weekend for himself and three friends.

Attention then turns to the figure that matters most, as Alf receives the final total raised through the silent auction, food stalls and donations.

Has the fundraiser brought in enough money to train more lifesavers—and, after years of being belittled by Alf, has John finally won his approval?

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The event also brings David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) and Amelia (Nicole da Silva) back together after Leah and Justin’s interference created an awkward rift between them.

After realising that Amelia had feelings for David, Leah warned her that he was still grieving Kristina and wasn’t ready for another relationship.

Amelia consequently backed away, leaving David confused, with Justin urging him not to press her for an explanation.

The situation becomes more complicated next week when David tells Jo (Maddison Brown) that he intends to seek clearance from his surgeon to return to work.

Jo believes it’s too soon when he’s only just begun counselling, but David refuses to be swayed.

When David attends the hospital, he takes the opportunity to ask Amelia why she’s suddenly distanced herself from him.

Hiding the real reason, Amelia insists that he hasn’t done anything wrong and claims that their doctor-patient relationship has simply reached its natural conclusion.

Worried that David is rushing his recovery, Jo privately asks Amelia to intervene with his surgeon, but she refuses.

David subsequently receives physical clearance, although he’ll still need psychological approval before he can return to the police station.

Frustrated by Amelia’s apparent lack of concern, Jo complains to Leah, who attempts to find out what’s going on. However, Amelia bluntly tells her to stay out of her business.

Feeling guilty for having started the problem, Leah later apologises and invites Amelia to the fundraiser.

Meanwhile, Justin encourages David to accept Amelia’s decision and move on, before inviting him to the event as well.

Leah and Justin only realise their mistake when they arrive separately at the fundraiser—Leah with Amelia and Justin with David.

Although the pair initially keep their distance, Amelia notices David becoming emotional as he watches Lacey confidently take charge of the crowd.

When he heads down to the beach to compose himself, she follows to check that he’s all right.

He explains that watching Lacey confidently take charge of the crowd reminded him of Kristina, who regularly raised tens of thousands of dollars for whichever hospital she was working at.

Seeing his daughter display the same natural talent has made David realise how closely she’s following in her mum’s footsteps.

Amelia offers her support, giving David another opportunity to question her sudden change in behaviour.

She attributes it to the difficulties of maintaining professional boundaries in a small town, and David asks whether they can at least remain friends.

Amelia agrees, despite secretly wanting more.

Afterwards, Amelia explains to Jo why David struggled at the fundraiser.

When Jo returns home, she finds her dad admiring photographs of Lacey working the crowd, just as Kristina once did.

David admits that the memories are painful but insists that he’s enjoying them, easing Jo’s immediate fears that something is wrong.

However, her concerns return the following morning when David tells Cash that he expects to be back at work soon. When Jo challenges him, he reveals that Amelia knew about his counselling from the beginning and even arranged his first appointment.

Realising that Amelia may be one of the few people capable of influencing her dad, Jo asks her to persuade him to reconsider.

Amelia reluctantly visits David and raises the subject as a concerned friend.

However, David is frustrated by the mixed messages.

Amelia has only just agreed that they can be friends, yet she’s already trying to influence his return to work, and their conversation ends on a frosty note.

Amelia leaves, unaware that Jo has overheard everything from her room. However, David immediately sees through his daughter when she reappears and accuses her of arranging the visit.

Jo admits that he’s right, before confronting him with a far more personal question—is something going on between him and Amelia?

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