Home And Away

Home and Away Spoilers – New arrivals and goodbyes in Summer Bay

• by John
• Posted on May 19, 2024

Home and Away is set to welcome some new faces in the coming months, with one fan favourite rumoured to be saying goodbye.

With the show regularly filming at the public Palm Beach in Sydney’s north, fans often get a glimpse of what’s in store months before the action hits our screens – and that sometimes includes the arrival of new characters.

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In recent months, some new arrivals have been spotted on set, while one popular character has been conspicuous by their absence, fuelling rumours that they’re set to depart the show later this year.

Get ready to welcome Abigail, Jimmy, Perri, a new bad boy and a baby bump to Summer Bay, and are we about to say goodbye to Felicity?

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Abigail Fowler (Hailey Pinto)

While currently unconfirmed, it seems likely that new cast member Hailey Pinto is set to play Abigail Fowler, the as yet unseen sister of Eden (Stephanie Panozzo) and Levi Fowler (Tristan Gorey).

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As reported last week, we saw Hailey filming during what we believe to have been Cash (Nicholas Cartwright) and Eden’s engagement party back in March, though we weren’t able to confirm either her connection or character name.

We did see Hailey’s character interacting a lot with Eden, and in the weeks since she has also been seen filming further scenes with both Eden and Levi.

A glimpse of a script, posted publicly on social media by a crew member, has since revealed that Eden and Levi were sharing a scene with a character named Abigail.

Until last year, Eden’s backstory had been relatively unknown, other than the fact that she grew up in a funeral home. When we met Levi in November, it was only then that we learned that Eden had been estranged from him ever since their father had an affair whilst they were in their teens.

Eden and Levi’s father had moved out of the family home, and Levi going to live with him was seen by Eden as him taking sides. As a result she had not spoken to her brother for around 15 years.

There have only been passing references to Levi and Eden having another sister however, with nothing yet known about the third and final Fowler sibling until now.

With the engagement scenes expected to air around August-September, Hailey Pinto’s character should be arriving on screens in the next three months.

James “Jimmy” Fowler (Aaron Jeffery)

It would appear that Abigail isn’t the only member of the Fowler clan to arrive in the coming months, with actor Aaron Jeffery due to make an appearance later this year.

—and more recently seen alongside Toni Collette in Netflix drama Pieces of Her—the 53 year old Kiwi actor’s résumé has recently been updated to include an upcoming guest role on Home and Away as James “Jimmy” Fowler.

Given the name and the age range, it’s not too much of a leap to speculate that Jimmy could be Eden, Levi and Abigail’s father.

After his affair was revealed, their dad moved out of the family home to be with the woman who Levi claims he’d fallen in love with. Whilst Levi has even more of an understanding now, since the breakup of his own marriage to Imogen (Georgia Blizzard), Eden has not been able to look past the fact that her father’s departure had broken her mother’s heart.

Aaron Jeffery and Rachael Carpani both appeared in McLeod’s Daughters. Nine Network