Hollyoaks recasts Theresa's daughter Kathleen-Angel for exciting new stories

 "I’m excited to be able to present a different side of her."

Hollyoaks has recast the role of Kathleen-Angel McQueen as part of a new storyline involving the 16-year-old. Naledi Raptou is set to take over the role and has been filming scenes with Jorgie Porter and Danny Mac, who play her on-screen mother Theresa and Theresa's partner Dodger Savage respectively.

The character, who is the daughter of Theresa and Calvin Valentine, was previously played by Kiara Mellor.

The upcoming storyline will see Theresa coming to terms with the realities of raising a teenager when Kathleen-Angel has unprotected sex with her classmate, Ant Hutchinson.

Naledi's first scenes will air on Tuesday, 17 March, with the Significant Other actor sharing her excitement over joining the soap.

"I’m really grateful for the opportunity to join the cast of Hollyoaks. It’s a great place to work and a very nurturing environment to grow," she said in a statement.

"It’s been a pleasure to play Kathleen-Angel as she develops into a young adult. We’re learning new things about her, and I’m excited to be able to present a different side of her."

Naledi's first scenes will air on Tuesday, 17 March, with the Significant Other actor sharing her excitement over joining the soap.

"I’m really grateful for the opportunity to join the cast of Hollyoaks. It’s a great place to work and a very nurturing environment to grow," she said in a statement.

"It’s been a pleasure to play Kathleen-Angel as she develops into a young adult. We’re learning new things about her, and I’m excited to be able to present a different side of her."

Elsewhere in the show, Theresa has been supporting Dodger as he comes to terms with his rape ordeal, encouraging him to visit a support group and speak to other survivors.

Dodger was raped by Griff Farnedge – while his colleague Donny Clark suffered a similar attack which was carried out by Sully.

Eventually, Dodger found the courage to discuss his ordeal during a work hearing, but his road to recovery is far from over as he navigates life after the attack.

Home and Away airs second shock death of 2026 in dramatic Australian episode

 A terrifying ordeal is set to come to a dramatic end.

Home and Away has confirmed a second bombshell death in the soap with Lacey Miller set to kill Holden Dwyer in self-defense.

Recent episodes have seen Lacey being relentlessly stalked by Holden after the two met last year, and he became obsessed with her.

The two bonded after the shock train derailment, but their budding friendship soon turned sinister when Lacey turned Holden down for a date.

His behaviour has become increasingly erratic, finally leading to Lacey getting the police involved and Holden being arrested.

He was eventually granted bail and forced his way into Lacey's room at the Bay Motel, having ordered food to her room.

Holden forced his way into the room to confront Lacey, snatching her phone away as she grabbed it to call for help.

Lacey tries to convince Holden to go for a walk and talk through their issues, but when that doesn't work, and she tries to run, he throws her back towards the bed.

During the struggle, he puts his hand over her mouth and says he loves her, to which Lacey grabs the lamp from the bedside table and hits him.

Tonight's episode finally saw Lacey's dad David Langham check on her, finding his daughter cowering on the floor with a bloodied lamp on the bed.

He sees Holden on the floor and goes to check him, confirming to Lacey that he has died.

While David offers her comfort, he explains that Lacey needs to be arrested and formally interviewed over what had happened, reading his daughter her rights.

She is eventually questioned, but David is told by Cash Newman that he cannot sit in on the interview due to the obvious conflict of interest.

Lacey bravely explains what happened in the motel room, with Cash assuring her that Holden was not meant to be there due to the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) in place.

While it's unclear what exactly will happen to Lacey in the aftermath of the attack and investigation, it's sure to have long-lasting consequences beyond the legal ramifications, and she battles with the mental scars it leaves.

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Home and Away's Ada Nicodemou breaks silence on engagement to co-star

 "I knew it was coming."

Home and Away's Ada Nicodemou has opened up about her engagement to co-star James Stewart. The actors, who play on-screen couple Leah Patterson and Justin Morgan, got engaged this Valentine's Day.

Despite dating for two years, Nicodemou shared that she was "very surprised" when Stewart popped the question during a walk in the park. "I knew it was coming, but didn't know when," she told Perth Now.

"We were already going to dinner for Valentine's Day and Jimmy suggested that we should go for a little walk first, to our favourite spot and have a kiss – and that's where he surprised me by going down on one knee.

It was very special," she recalled.

The star expressed gratitude for being able to live and work with her future husband, explaining that they help each other prepare for scenes. "We can talk out anything we need to talk out as well, do our lines. But we can also forget about it all, and just be with each other. It's good," she said.

The couple announced their engagement on Instagram, with Nicodemou posting a video of the heartwarming proposal.

The clip, captioned "I said yes!!!", saw Stewart down on one knee, presenting the star with a stunning diamond ring. Nicodemou immediately accepted the proposal and the pair shared an emotional kiss as their loved ones cheered in the background.

The comment section was filled with congratulatory messages for the happy couple, with the soap's official account declaring: "THE MOST WONDERFUL NEWS."

Home and Away's Lynne McGranger, who played Irene Roberts wrote: "Oh my heart!! So thrilled for both of you!! Of course Jimmy proposed and you said yes!!! on Valentines Day!! Excellent news!! Wishing you guys every happiness always."

Georgie Parker, who plays Roo Stewart on the soap, added: "Huge congratulations to you both. Bloody wonderful."

Home and Away has confirmed the death of Holden Dwyer in tonight’s Australian episode, after he was killed by Lacey in self defence.

Late last month, a promo for last week’s Aussie episodes confirmed that someone wouldn’t survive the week, with the victim teased as being one of Lacey (Sophea Pennington), Holden (Lach Millar) or Remi (Adam Rowland).

That death has now been confirmed as Holden Dwyer, after he was killed in self defence by Lacey.

The last two months have seen new arrival Holden develop an unhealthy obsession with Lacey after meeting her on the train to Off the Rail festival in the 2025 Home and Away Season Finale back in November.

The two bonded after the train derailed, with Lacey there when Holden learnt that his friend Isaac (Jordan Dulieu) had died in the crash.

The pair then bumped into each other a week later at Northern Districts Hospital, when Holden was receiving a checkup on his dislocated shoulder and Lacey was visiting sister Jo (Maddison Brown), who had been injured in the crash.

The pair spent the afternoon together, and despite Lacey turning Holden down when he invited her on a date – explaining that she wasn’t ready to date anyone new after the death of boyfriend Theo (Matt Evans) last year – it soon became clear that Holden wouldn’t take no for an answer.

He began coming up with more reasons to spend time with her, despite not living anywhere near Summer Bay.

He signed up for surf lessons at Manta Ray Boards, began watching Lacey from his car, and even let himself into the Beach House to prepare her dinner while she was out, eventually beginning to refer to her as his “girlfriend”.

Lacey tried to keep the concerning ordeal from her dad, worried that he was already preoccupied with Tane’s (Ethan Browne) drug charges, which were affecting his relationship with daughter Jo.

However, after Mali (Kyle Shilling) was brought in for questioning after brawling with Holden on the beach whilst trying to get him to back off, David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) finally learnt that his daughter had been dealing with a stalker whose actions were growing increasingly unhinged.

David encouraged Lacey to take out an AVO (Apprehended Violence Order) against Holden in the hopes that it would force him to back off.

However, the AVO instead hardened Holden’s resolve, as he remained determined to “fix” things with the woman he continued to deludedly view as his “girlfriend”.

After Holden broke into the Beach House for a second time, Lacey was horrified to find him waiting for her in the bathroom and called the police. Cash came across Holden a short while later and was able to place him under arrest following a short pursuit.

With the breach of his AVO, together with further charges of breaking and entering and resisting arrest, it seemed as though Lacey’s ordeal would finally be over.

But last week, Lacey and David endured an anxious wait for news on whether Holden would be granted bail for his AVO breach.

Whilst at the beach with Jo and Abigail (Hailey Pinto), Lacey briefly got up to get her sunscreen and caught sight of Holden at the top of the path leading to the Surf Club.

By the time she looked again, he was gone, and she was left wondering whether she’d simply imagined him.

After placing a call to her dad, Lacey was reassured that Holden was either still in a holding cell or in front of a very tough magistrate at that very moment, so certainly wasn’t in Summer Bay.

However, shortly after, David placed a call and learnt that Holden’s bail hearing had actually already happened that morning, and Holden had been granted bail.

David was forced to explain to his daughter that Holden would be out until his next court date, and insisted that she call Mali and cancel all her shifts.

However, Lacey was keen not to let Holden control her life, and opted to continue working – David agreed as long as she made regular check-ins with him, and he insisted that he book her a hire car and a motel room so that Holden couldn’t track her down.

The following morning, she was alerted by Alf (Ray Meagher) that one of the Manta Ray Boards’ foamies had been spotted at the northern end of the beach, and she confidently headed out to collect it.

Yet as she grappled it out of the sand, she found herself face to face with Holden.

Berating her for not turning up to his court appearance, and sarcastically mocking her for being a “very supportive girlfriend,” he menacingly told her that he’d been thinking a lot about the day of the crash, and that if they’d both died that day then they’d “be together right now”.

It’s at that point Lacey realises that he doesn’t care about the AVO and that terrifies her,” Sophea recently told TV Week. “They’re following all the right protocols that the system has to keep her safe, yet Holden is still finding a way to find her.”

Thankfully, when Alf alerted Mali about the surfboard Lacey was heading to fetch, it set alarm bells ringing in Mali’s head, and he raced up the beach just in time to find Holden grabbing Lacey’s arm as she desperately tried to pull away.

Now knowing that Holden was still a serious risk to his daughter’s safety, David promised to organise a police guard for Lacey’s room at the Bay Motel and assured her that he’d be back to collect her from Salt as soon as he’d put out a warrant for Holden’s arrest.

However, Lacey soon decided she’d rather hide out at the motel than wait around at the Surf Club, so she opted to drive to the property with Leah, before being left alone to wait for her dad.

Unfortunately for them, Holden was hiding outside the club as the pair left, and he set off in pursuit.

One of the final scenes in Thursday’s episode in Australia saw Holden force his way into Lacey’s room at the motel, having ordered her a food delivery of a Bento box.

He took advantage of Lacey opening her door to the delivery driver, and as the driver left, he put his foot in the way of the door and forced his way in.

As Holden insisted that Lacey had been bulled into putting in the AVO, Lacey tried to grab her phone, but Holden snatched it away.

A fearful Lacey then tried to get Holden to go for a walk so they could talk, but he refused, knowing she’d simply try to run away again.

When Lacey then tried to make a break for it, Holden grabbed her and threw her back towards the bed.

We then saw Holden force himself upon Lacey, putting his hand over her mouth and telling her that he loved her.

This prompted Lacey to grab the lamp off the bedside table and swing it towards her attacker, silencing him in the midst of his confession of love.

“Things get very heated and, when it escalates, Lacey’s reaction isn’t about revenge or aggression, it’s about survival,” Sophea continued.

Tonight’s episode saw David – who had been waylaid dealing with an assault at the station and Jo’s attempts to secure Tane more time – finally arrive at the motel to check on Lacey.

Entering her room, he found her in silence, cowering on the floor of the room. As he followed Lacey’s gaze, he saw the bloodied lamp on the bed.

Getting up, he quickly spotted that Holden was lying on the other side of the room, unconscious after having been bludgeoned by the table lamp.

He checked Holden’s pulse before closing his eyes as he realised the extent of what had happened.

When Lacey asked whether Holden was alright, David was forced to shake his head – he was dead!

As tears filled Lacey’s eyes, David went back to the other side of the bed to comfort her.

The next time we saw the scene, David had alerted his colleagues, as forensic officers filled the room, pulling a white sheet over Holden’s body.

As David spoke to the detective, Lacey sat in shock in the corner of the room.

The episode then saw David explain to Lacey that he needed to arrest her and formally interview her, which couldn’t happen at the motel.

He read his daughter rights after assuring her that he’d be with her every step of the way.

“Lacey Miller, I am arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Holden Dwyer.

“You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say could be used in evidence against you.”

As she was brought in for questioning, David explained that he couldn’t be the one to interview her, but that Constable Lombard (Shannon Ryan) would be doing so, with David waiting outside.

Look at me, you don’t have to say or do anything if you don’t want to,” he explained. “And you can stop at any time if it gets too much.”

David then asked Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) to sit in on the questioning, telling him that it’d be a conflict of interest for him to do so himself, and that he didn’t want anyone to question protocol.

Constable Lombard then explained to Lacey that if there had been a sexual assault, she had the option to be taken to the hospital.

However, Lacey explained that it wouldn’t be necessary – there was no assault, “but he tried to.”

Cash and Lombard then began the interview, with Lacey explaining that Leah had taken her to the motel, and that she had just left when the random food delivery arrived.

She explained that she tried to fight, and that she should have let Leah stay with her until her dad arrived, but Cash assured her that “Holden wasn’t even supposed to be there,” reminding her that she had an AVO in place.

Explaining that she simply wanted it to stop, she told Cash that she “swung at him and he just dropped” – clarifying that she hit him with the lamp, but that she didn’t mean to kill him.

Later that evening, as Jo arrived to console her sister, David vented to Cash about how they’d arrived in that situation.

We ask these women to trust us,” he told his colleague, clearly emotional. “We tell them that if they go through the court system, that if they put AVOs in place, they’ll be protected. But they’re not, because we let them down, time and time again.

Lacey did everything she was supposed to, but she had to kill this guy to make it stop.

“Now she has to live with that for the rest of her life. Why do I bother putting on this uniform every day if I can’t even protect my own daughters?”

In tomorrow’s episode, “Lacey faces reality,” leaving her wondering whether her ordeal with Holden is finally over, or only just beginning after her arrest for murder.

Thankfully, we know that Lacey won’t be facing a jail sentence for causing Holden’s death.

Actor Sophea Pennington has been seen filming at Palm Beach on multiple occasions since today’s scenes were filmed, as recently as the last few weeks, meaning that Lacey will remain in Summer Bay as she tries to rebuild her life after her terrifying ordeal.