Thursday 7th May (Episode 8711) Mackenzie and Levi bet on their baby’s gender. Alf feels persecuted. Richie oversteps.
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Thursday 7th May (Episode 8711) Mackenzie and Levi bet on their baby’s gender. Alf feels persecuted. Richie oversteps.
Tony and Diane share a dance.
It was announced in February that the actor had decided to end her stint on the soap, with the exit storyline for the much-loved character seeing her diagnosed with terminal stage-four ovarian cancer.
As Diane's final week begins, she confides in husband Tony, telling him that she fears Ro is bottling up his emotions again. At Ste and Rex's pre-wedding dinner at The Dog, Nancy Osborne exchanges some stolen glances with her struggling friend.
Elsewhere, trouble is looming as Ro attempts to drown his sorrows at The Hutch, with the following day seeing the wedding of Ste Hay and Rex Gallagher take place. As the guests try to keep spirits high, Tony whisks Diane up for an emotional dance to their favourite song.
In Diane's final episode, which airs on Wednesday 13 May, Diane records nursery rhymes for her daughter Eva. Knowing she is approaching the end of her life, she reflects on the happy memories of her time in the village.
Tony praises Ro for being brave, and the family decide to bring food to Diane as she rests upstairs. Meanwhile, the Osbornes and Keanes start feuding again, so Leela decides to tear a strip off Beth.
When Tony puts Diane to bed, she thanks him for their dance today, and Diane asks Tony to leave the door open. As Diane listens to Tony and her teenagers singing a nursery rhyme to Eva to get her to sleep, she passes away peacefully.
He's not reacting well after everything that has happened to him.
After the last few months have seen him framed, go on the run, returning only to be sent to prison and suffering a near-fatal accident, Tane Parata is now set to evaluate his life and make another drastic decision.
In scenes airing this week, Tane will tell girlfriend Jo Langham that he wants to end their relationship.
Speaking to Australia's TV Week, Jo actor Maddison Brown said: "Jo is honest with Tane about how she is feeling, and it comes from a place of trying to be real rather than pretending everything is fine. But Tane takes that honesty as rejection.
Jo is trying to hold space for something quite complex, whereas Tane sees it in a much more all or nothing way, and unfortunately that leads him to push her away instead of working through it with her."
She continued: "Tane cannot move past Jo's moment of doubt. He has been through something incredibly traumatic and is in a place where he needs unwavering support, so when Jo for the first time in all this has a very human moment, he takes it quite personally."
Mackenzie Booth decides to stick her foot in and tell Tane he's being an idiot, but Levi Fowler tells her to stop as she's embarrassing him at his place of work.
Jo isn't the only person Tane wants to push away, as he denies Mali Hudson and John Palmer's request to re-open the gym.
Will anyone be able to get through to him?