Summer Bay's Samara likes being Away in Hawaii

Summer Bay's Samara likes being Away in Hawaii
Summer Bay's Samara likes being Away in Hawaii

Samara Weaving is one of several lucky Home and Away stars enjoying a trip to Hawaii while the soap is filming there. The 19-year-old actress, who plays Summer Bay's Indigo Walker, flew to Honolulu at the weekend along with co-stars Luke Mitchell, Georgie Parker and Robert Mammone, to join the crew who had been setting up to film the exciting new plot. Samara is already enjoying her trip abroad, saying: "I think there'll definitely be some shopping, but I really want to get in the surf - I haven't learnt how to surf and think 'what better place to learn than Hawaii?'" The storyline the cast are filming there is being kept tightly under wraps, until the episodes are filmed in the coming months. Series Producer Cam Welsh said: "We've got a great storyline and the locations we're shooting in are stunning - almost as good as Summer Bay. It's an exciting opportunity for the show to do something different and expand the stories we tell." The last time Home And Away filmed away from home was when Don Fisher came to London in 2010 and found ex-wife Marilyn.

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.