Fancy a date with a River Boy? Enter here!

Home and Away fans could win a date with the hunky River Boys when they arrive in the UK.

Steve Peacocke (Darryl 'Brax' Braxton), Dan Ewing (Heath Braxton) and Lincoln Younes (Casey Braxton) will all feature in the storyline, which is being shot in London in October.

The Australian soap's UK broadcaster Channel 5 has launched a competition, where one lucky fan can enjoy a meal with one of the River Boys at a five-star hotel in the capital.

Viewers can be in with a chance of winning by visiting www.channel5.com/riverboys and uploading a video of themselves giving a chat-up line for the boys.

Five favourites will then be selected, and these will go head-to-head in a public vote.

Details of the 'dramatic' plot - which is to screen in 2014 - is being kept under wraps, but according to the show's bosses, the characters involved will be 'embarking on a desperate fight to hang onto what is most important in life - love and family.'

Home and Away's producer Lucy Addario said: "We are thrilled that Home And Away will be returning to London to shoot this exciting storyline. It's also a wonderful opportunity to bring the heart and soul of Summer Bay to the home of our loyal UK audience."

The last time Home And Away filmed episodes in the UK was in 2001, when Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn) headed across the world to launch his book. He was joined by Irene Roberts (Lynne McGranger), Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons), Hayley Smith (Bec Cartwright) and Nick Smith (Chris Egan).

Home and Away also shot scenes in Ironbridge, Shropshire in 1998.

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.