Home & Away Bay Reporter final five revealed!

The five finalists in the Home & Away: Bay Reporter competition have been revealed. Channel 5 kicked off the search last month to find TV's hottest new presenter. The winner would get the chance to jet off to Sydney, Australia, with a Channel 5 film crew to present two fanzine shows from behind the scenes of the popular Aussie soap. Among those chosen are Steve Wright, a 28-year-old video producer from Plymouth and Ande Grey, a 27-year-old TV presenter and choreographer for BBC Northern Ireland. Tiffany Haynes, a 25-year-old actress, and Joanna Adeyinka-Burford, a 26-year-old primary school teaching assistant, both from London have also made the final five. At just 18, student Aaron Shefras from Fleet completes the line-up. Ande said: "The Bay Reporter opportunity is more than just a job. It's an amazing opportunity to advance my presenting career. And to do it in an environment like Australia - on the set of Home and Away, a show I've watched since childhood - it's just unbelievable! The Bay Reporter is my personal X Factor!" The public can now vote for their favourite via the Channel 5 YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/bayreporter. To find out more about the finalists and how to vote, go to channel5.com/homeandaway. Voting closes at midday on Friday May 27 with a Home & Away cast member announcing the winner on OK!TV later at 6.25pm.

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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.