Home and Away UK Spoilers for 2024 – Do Justin and Leah survive?

 

As Home and Away’s final UK episode for 2023 airs on 5STAR, we take a look at what’s in store when we return to Summer Bay in January 2024.

Tonight sees the Home and Away UK season finale air as part of 5STAR’s “first look”, before airing on Channel 5 tomorrow. The dramatic episodes saw Justin (James Stewart) and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) left for dead in a warehouse after being tricked by Vita Nova into thinking they’d won a luxury getaway for two.

 The pair face a fight to survive, and you’ll have to wait until next year to find out their fate… or, alternatively, keep reading and find out what’s in store on Home and Away in 2024, including whether Justin and Leah survive.

When does Home and Away return in 2024?

Channel 5 hasn’t yet announced when Home and Away will return to UK screens in 2024.

However, in 2023 the show returned to Channel 5 on Monday 2nd January, and the first look aired on 5STAR on Friday 30th December 2022.

So, if the channel keeps to the same schedule this time around, expect a return to Channel 5 on Monday 1st January, with the first look at the season return on 5STAR on Friday 29th December 2023.

While weekday afternoon episodes have been airing at 1pm for the past few weeks, Channel 5 has already confirmed that Home and Away will return to its usual 1:45pm timeslot next year.

What’s coming up on Home and Away in the UK in 2024?

With Australian broadcasts some seven weeks ahead of UK screenings, and the show set to continue down under for another few weeks, we already know what’s in store for the first two months when we return to Summer Bay early next year.

Do Leah and Justin survive?

Of course they do – what would Home and Away be without a life-threatening situation resolved within hours?

However, this time around, it actually takes a little longer than that. While Justin’s efforts to escape the warehouse failed when the metal structure he was climbing crashed down upon him, Leah has better luck as she makes a desperate attempt to free them.

She manages to climb what remains of the structure and find a way out of the remote warehouse.

However, she soon discovers that they’re in the middle of nowhere with nobody for miles. After collapsing and passing out, she sees a vision of Justin, who encourages her to keep fighting, and she eventually wakes.

Walking for miles, she finally comes across a passer-by, who raises the alarm.

Justin is rescued and rushed to Northern Districts Hospital – because where else? – where Bree (Juliet Godwin) – because who else? – takes charge.

Bree soon discovers that Justin has broken ribs and a punctured lung, and his condition is bad enough that surgery to repair the damage would be too risky.

When his condition deteriorates further, Bree has no choice but to operate anyway, but Justin is left suffering from cardiac failure.

With Justin’s condition refusing to improve, Bree tells Leah that she needs to prepare herself for the worst.

As Leah and Theo (Matt Evans) come to terms with Justin’s impending death, Justin – who is still in a coma – has a vision of his own funeral, with Leah sitting on a church pew as Theo plays music.

The vision is enough to wake him from his coma, and he’s finally through the worst of it… well, after one more attempt on his life from a Vita Nova member posing as a hotel orderly, who tries to smother him.

After that, he makes a remarkably quick recovery.

Leah, however…

Leah’s Nightmares

While Leah may have seemingly got off lightly physically, the ordeal takes its toll on her mentally. She becomes haunted by nightmares of Justin trapped in the factory and soon struggles to sleep, fearing more nightmares.

This takes its toll on her and Justin’s relationship. The pair rapidly set about planning their wedding after Leah’s proposal in the factory, but Leah eventually calls it off, telling Justin she needs to get through her issues before she can even think about getting married.

Will Leah, who previously swore off another wedding after three failed marriages, ever be ready to marry Justin?

Zara wants Mali back

New arrival Zara (Matilda Brown) has caused quite a stir since she arrived in Summer Bay last week.

She’s an ex-girlfriend of Mali’s (Kyle Shilling), but also happens to be his “promised wife,” with both her and Mali’s families hoping that they will one day reunite and marry.

While Mali was quick to reassure Xander (Luke Van Os) and Rose (Kirsty Marillier) that his family doesn’t actually follow the “promised wife” tradition, it soon becomes clear that Zara (Matilda Brown) feels differently.

She and Mali split up when she went to uni to study law, and she reveals that Mali promised her that they would get back together once she’d finished her studies – and she’s expecting him to stick to his word!

With Mali’s mum Victoria (Ursula Yovich) not best pleased when she discovered that Rose was a cop, it seems that she too is on the side of a Zara and Mali coupling.

However, Zara soon reveals that she has another reason for wanting to get back with Mali – she’s dropped out of uni and hasn’t yet told her parents. She’s hoping that by returning to Mantaray Bay with him in tow, her family will be overjoyed and quickly forget about her failed studies.

Will Mali choose Zara or Rose?

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