As Home and Away‘s final episode for 2025 airs in the UK, we take a look at what’s coming up on the show next year.

Each year, Home and Away takes a Christmas break on 5, ending in late November or early December, and returning in January.

This year, the final episode airs on 5STAR on Thursday 4th December and on Channel 5 on Friday 5th December, before the show takes a one-month break.

When does Home and Away return to the UK?

Home and Away will returns to UK screens on Friday 2nd January 2026, on 5STAR.

We assume that the weekday afternoon airings on Channel 5 will resume  as usual on Monday 5th January 2025.

With the UK being around seven weeks behind Australian broadcasts, we already know what will be coming up in the first two months on Channel 5 next year. So here’s a look at what’s in store:

Mac continues to push Levi away

Mackenzie (Emily Weir) and Levi’s (Tristan Gorey) difficult IVF journey saw brief elation for the couple just a few weeks back, when Mackenzie took a test and discovered that she was pregnant.

However, just one week later, she experienced abdominal pains and learnt that she’d lost the baby, leaving her heartbroken.

Unable to cope with her grief, Mackenzie began to push Levi away, and Levi struggled to get through to her.

When Mac then got the bittersweet news from Dean (Patrick O’Connor) and Ziggy (Sophie Dillman) that Ziggy had given birth to their second baby – Daniella Thompson, weighing 3.5kgs – she spiralled further.

She eventually decided that she was going to head north to Queensland to help support the pair with their newborn, and nothing Levi could say was going to stop her.

Next year, as she continues to ignore Levi’s calls, he’s left feeling lost and confused, as he too struggles with the loss of his unborn baby and now the uncertainty over his relationship.

When Bree is harassed by an unruly patient at Northern Districts Hospital, Levi loses his cool and punches the patient. Now his career is at risk too!

And when Mackenzie returns, she has no sympathy for him, she just wants to know why he’d do something so reckless.

Will Levi lose his job, and with Mac still not willing to discuss their shared grief, what does the future hold for their relationship?

Sonny proposes a tribute to Theo

As Summer Bay continues to come to terms with Theo’s (Matt Evans) death, Sonny (Ryan Bown) and Remi (Adam Rowland) propose a touching tribute after a chat with Justin (James Stewart).

Theo had been the first artist signed up to ‘Back on Track’ records, with Justin coming on board as manager, so when Justin announced that he’d be taking some time out, Remi had been ready to pull the plug before they’d even got started.

It was a pep talk from Sonny that saw Remi eventually change his mind, with the pair pushing ahead with kitting out the new recording studio that Remi has purchased.

As we return to Summer Bay next year, the pair decide that their new studio needs to honour their good friend.

They approach Justin for advice on how they can pay tribute to him through their work, but it proves almost too painful for Justin and Leah (Ada Nicodemou) to think about.

However, when Theo’s belongings are retrieved from the pier apartment, the thing that stands out to them is Theo’s guitar.

Justin had gifted it to him not long after his arrival in Summer Bay, after learning that Theo’s father Dimitri (Salvatore Coco) had once smashed up Theo’s own guitar.

“This house… your house… never thinks music is a waste of time,” Justin told Theo as he handed the instrument over.

Seeing the guitar again stirs up a wave of emotion for Justin and Leah, but also serves as a reminder of how much joy music brought to Theo’s life—and to everyone around him.

When Leah and Justin later visit Remi’s studio, they reveal that they’d like Theo’s guitar to be displayed there permanently in his honour.

The suggestion strikes a chord with Remi and Sonny, who quickly agree. Together, they mount the guitar on the wall and add a small plaque next to it reading: “In this house, music is never a waste of time.”

Leah develops an unhealthy obsession

Sonny’s thoughtful gesture ends up having an unintended consequence, as Leah begins to turn to him for support as she navigates her grief over Theo.

With Justin doing his best to deal with his own grief by attending counselling sessions, Leah begins to believe that he’s not experiencing the same level of hurt that she is.

She begins to see Sonny as the only person who understands what she’s going through, turning to him for support and distractions at every opportunity.

However, when she mistakenly refers to Sonny as Theo, Justin realises that she’s seeing Sonny as a replacement for her nephew.

As the weeks go by, he’s unable to get through to her, leading him to clash with both Leah and Sonny, culminating in him warning Sonny to stay away from his wife.

Dana (Ally Harris) is equally frustrated by Leah frequently turning up at the Diner apartment, interrupting her and Sonny’s alone time, and even writing Sonny letters.

By the time the 2025 season came to a close in Australia in November, Sonny had told Leah to stop relying on him.

Meanwhile, Justin had joined Remi, Sonny and a number of other Summer Bay residents on the way to Off the Rails festival some 1000km from Summer Bay, and had done his best not to tell his wife where he was going.

When Leah did eventually find out, Justin makes it clear that the festival is invite-only and she’s not invited!

Leah’s grief over Theo and its subsequent effect on her marriage looks set to continue well into 2026.

David warns Tane off Jo

Following months of will they/won’t they, Tane (Ethan Browne) and Jo (Maddison Brown) finally decided to give romance a go early next year, but soon find themselves deciding to keep it a secret from Jo’s family.

Just as David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) learns from Lacey (Sophea Pennington) that Jo and Tane are into each other, he’s concerned to he finds Tane’s police record amongst a pile of suspended sentences awaiting their annual review.

Tane is currently serving a seven-year sentence via an intensive correction order, after he abducted baby Poppy last year.

Despite usually being the job of a junior officer, Sergeant David opts to undertake Tane’s review personally, visiting the Parata house to quiz Tane on the conviction.

Tane insistes he’s got nothing to hide, and shuts the conversation down when David asks if Jo knows about his past.

Knowing she’d soon learn the truth from her dad, Tane sits down with Jo and tells her what happened with baby Poppy.

Whilst Jo admits that it doesn’t look good on paper, she can see that Tane only did it because he cared, and it insists it’s not a deal-breaker for her.