With the 2026 season of Home and Away now well underway, we take a look at what’s in store in the months ahead, with some new arrivals, and a couple of potential goodbyes!

Home and Away returned to Australian screens on Monday 19th January, and we’ve already said goodbye to two characters, with Eddie Shepherd (Stephen Madsen) and Kerrie Matheson (Sara Wiseman) having departed after short stints in Summer Bay.

Last year saw a number of full-time characters bid farewell, as Irene (Lynne McGranger), Bree (Juliet Godwin), Kirby (Angelina Thomson) and Rose (Kirsty Marillier) all left the bay for pastures new, while Theo’s (Matt Evans) life came to an untimely end.

In return, we got four new full-time characters as the Langham/Miller family – consisting of Lacey (Sophea Pennington), Jo (Maddison Brown) and dad David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) – all arrived, as well as Remi’s (Adam Rowland) old mate Sonny (Ryan Bown).

Now, we’re set for some new faces in town, as rumours build that we’ll be saying goodbye to at least one Summer Bay resident in the months ahead.