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Following on from the phenomenal SELL OUT success of The Celebration Tour, Neighbours is returning to the stage, with a new line-up, new stories, and a brand-new reason to celebrate.

Join some of your favourite faces from Ramsay Street as they celebrate four decades of the show’s history, for Neighbours – The 40 th  Anniversary Tour.

Expect surprises, never-before heard stories, and all the inside scoop on what life is really like in Erinsborough. Hosted (once again) by Leah Boleto, this will be the ultimate toast to over 9000 episodes of Neighbours.

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Cult soap opera Neighbours has announced that a number of their cast members will be once again flying from Melbourne to the UK for a nationwide tour in 2025.

The Ramsay Street residents were last in our country last year, prior to commencement of filming of the new series of Neighbours on Amazon Freevee, where  they embarked on a sell-out fifteen date Celebration Tour.

It’s been a troubling time for the show in recent years, having been cancelled by broadcaster Channel 5 in 2022 – but this wasn’t the first time it was taken off the air.

Originally broadcast on the Seven Network, the show didn’t rate well outside of Melbourne where it is produced, and after eight months the final episode aired.

However, rival Channel 10 saw potential in the programme and picked it up for a new run two months later.

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The hugely successful revival saw additional sets added, new families and some now very familiar faces –  Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce  – joining the cast.

It also became Australia’s biggest media export, first arriving on BBC One in the UK in a shakeup to their daytime lineup in autumn 1986, before moving to Channel 5 in 2008. 

In a soap twist nobody saw coming, streaming giants  Amazon picked Neighbours up  and new episodes have aired daily on their ad-supported service Freevee since last September. 

Last month, the serial reached a  huge landmark of 9,000 episodes , and was celebrated with a number of nods to the past.

The upcoming tour will be hosted by Sky News anchor and self professed superfan Leah Boleto, who also appeared on last year’s road trip.

Cast will make appearances in 6 venues across the UK including the world-famous London Palladium, which first welcomed the show to perform as part of the Royal Variety Performance in 1988.

Neighbours 40th Tour dates and venues

• Monday 3rd February 2025: Symphony Hall, Birmingham
• Wednesday 5th February 2025: City Hall, Newcastle
• Friday 7th February 2025: SEC Armadillo, Glasgow
• Wednesday 12th February 2025: London Palladium
• Sunday 16th February 2025: Millennium Centre, Cardiff
• Tuesday 18th February 2025: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Organisers have teased a new star line-up, never before-heard stories and surprises plus all the inside scoop on what life is really like in Erinsborough.

Last year, Alan Fletcher (Karl Kennedy), Jackie Woodburne (Susan Kennedy), Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson), Ryan Maloney (Toadfish Rebecchi), Annie Jones (Jane Harris) and April-Rose Pengilly (Chloe Brennan) took to the stage, but next year’s names have yet to be announced.

The news comes just weeks after Ryan announced his own solo tour .

In an exclusive interview with Metro.co.uk, he told us:

‘I think it’s going to be a little bit different,’

‘I want it to be a sort of cross between television aspects and theatre at the same time and just bring to the forefront that I’m a performer and I’ve been doing it since I was eight years old on stage, doing musicals and comic theatre and performing and hosting – all that kind of jazz

‘I think it’s time to let people in and show them something a bit different, [so they can] see what Ryan’s really like.’

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Neighbours announces 40th anniversary tour

Ramsay Street is coming to the UK.

Fresh off its revival in 2023 , several stars from the soap will be appearing on UK stages in 2025 to celebrate the milestone event.

The full cast line-up will be revealed in due course, but producers are confirming Leah Boleto of Sky News will moderate the discussion on six dates.

A press announcement for Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour promises: "The audience can expect surprises, never-before-heard stories, and all the inside scoop on what life is really like in Erinsborough. The night promises to be the ultimate toast to over 9,000 episodes of Neighbours , which originally debuted in 1985."

Related: 12 huge Neighbours spoilers for next week

Neighbours – The 40th Anniversary Tour is set to visit six cities in the UK (which you can see below). Pre-sale tickets go on sale from Monday, April 8 at 10am and general release follows from 10am on Wednesday, April 10:

• Monday, February 3, 2025: Birmingham Symphony Hall
• Wednesday, February 5, 2025: Newcastle City Hall
• Friday, February 7, 2025: Glasgow SEC Armadillo
• Wednesday, February 12, 2025: London Palladium
• Sunday, February 16, 2025: Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
• Tuesday, February 18, 2025: Manchester Bridgewater Hall

The cast of Neighbours previously toured the UK in 2023 for what was originally billed as a farewell tour, but the show was saved by Amazon Freevee before the live events started.

Related: Neighbours reveals Terese Willis' return storyline

Producers decided to go forward with the tour , rebranding it as a celebration of Neighbours ahead of its comeback last September.

The show is fully back in production and airing new episodes this time around, with major upcoming storylines revolving around Chelsea Murphy's indecent proposal , a lifeline for Sadie Rodwell and Byron Stone and Haz Devkar's hacking exploits .

Neighbours releases new episodes from Mondays to Thursdays for free on Amazon Freevee in the UK and US. In Australia, the show airs from Mondays to Thursdays at 4pm on Channel 10, with a 6.30pm repeat screening on 10 Peach.

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Following on from the phenomenal sell-out success of ‘The Celebration Tour’, Neighbours is returning to the stage, with a new line-up and new stories. Join some of your favourite faces from Ramsay Street as they celebrate four decades of the show’s history, for Neighbours - ‘The 40th Anniversary Tour’. Expect the inside scoop on what life is really like in Erinsborough, hosted (once again) by Leah Boleto. 

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Neighbours fans will have the chance to reminisce on all their favourite moments from almost four decades of being on our screens. This sold-out event will be the ultimate celebration of all things Ramsay Street!

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Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals are coming to TD Pavilion at the Mann on October 8! Anderson .Paak will be performing the album Malibu in its entirety alongside The Free Nationals, Maurice Brown, and GAWD.  Tickets go on sale Friday, June 28 at 9AM via Ticketmaster.com  and the Mann's Ticket Office . Please note: the Mann's Ticket Office opens at 12PM on Fridays. 

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Ajla Tomljanovic's brilliant return to tennis has hit a new peak as the Australian ace reached her first WTA grass court final in the Birmingham Classic to stand on the verge of the biggest triumph of her 15-year career.

Tomljanovic's 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 victory over Russian seventh seed Anastasia Potapova in the pre-Wimbledon tournament at Edgbaston on Saturday left the 31-year-old quite emotional, as she clenched her fists tight and looked to the heavens.

"I definitely didn't expect to play a final here. I really take it one match at a time, as cliched as it is," beamed the player who was Australian number one this time last year before a series of injury, illness and surgery setbacks saw her world ranking plummet to its current 190.

But Tomljanovic, the Australian number 10, stands to shoot back to number three while soaring back to number 116 in the world should she defeat old Kazakh rival Yulia Putintseva in Sunday's unexpected match-up between two non-seeds.

It's also a fantastic boost for Tomljanovic as she prepares for Wimbledon — where she's twice reached the quarterfinal — before representing Australia at the Paris Olympics.

"Whenever I've done well, I've never looked ahead, and I'm not going to do it now either," she said.

"I'm going to do my best to prepare, give it my all tomorrow, and when it's over, reflect on the week."

After missing most of 2023 with a knee injury and requiring surgery this year to remove uterine fibroids, it would represent an extraordinary achievement if Tomljanovic was to lift a WTA crown in her 180th main draw.

Her record against Putintseva — who is as feisty on court as she is cheerful off it — is not great, having lost four of their five meetings, but they've never played on grass, and Tomljanovic is striking the ball beautifully on her favoured surface after only being back for the past month following four months sidelined.

Tomljanovic did win a WTA 125 event in Brazil at the end of last year, but that's seen by the women's governing body as effectively a second-tier Challenger trophy, so victory at Edgbaston Priory would be considered Tomljanovic's first tour-level title after losing four previous finals.

Tomljanovic dominated world number 36 Potapova early on, cashing in on a series of early double faults from the Russian, who dished up seven in all.

Tomljanovic was broken when serving for the set at 5-4, yet held her nerve better in the subsequent tiebreak as the often erratic Potapova made two backhand errors to gift the stanza to the Australian.

After the match went with serve in the second, scoreboard pressure again cranked up on Potapova, Tomljanovic breaking her to 15 to annex the victory in just over an hour-and-a-half.

Meanwhile at the Queen's Club Championship, Australian Jordan Thompson suffered the double agony of a narrow defeat to Lorenzo Musetti in the biggest semifinal of his career being compounded by a back injury.

Thompson, playing the first semi-final of an ATP 500 event in his 11-year career, put up a fight to forge back after losing the first set but eventually succumbed 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to the graceful Italian, who'd also beaten Australian No.1 Alex de Minaur earlier in the week.

Worse still, Thompson's big day ended with him having to leave Queen's to get treated for the back injury that he suffered early in the second set.

The Australian number two had planned to fly off to Mallorca after the London event to play in a final warm-up tournament before Wimbledon.

But with the extent of his injury problem yet to be determined, he was left admitting ruefully when asked if he would still be playing in Spain: "Probably 99 per cent no. I'll get ready for Wimbledon and get healthy."

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Four days in Asia. That’s all President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia needed to anger Washington, undermine Beijing and rattle a collection of Indo-Pacific nations already scrambling to cope with a jumbled world order.

After stops in Pyongyang and Hanoi this week that were draped in Communist red, Mr. Putin left behind a redrawn map of risk in Asia. North Korea sat at the center: a rogue nuclear state that regularly threatens its neighbors, suddenly empowered by Russian promises of sophisticated military aid and a mutual defense pact.

Mr. Putin also signed at least a dozen deals with Vietnam — a country of growing importance for both China and the United States as they vie for influence — where he insisted that “reliable security architecture” could not be built with “closed military-political blocs.”

The trip was both defiant and disruptive. It showed that the jockeying for power sometimes framed as a new Cold War between the United States and China is less binary than it might seem, and many countries in the region seemed to emerge from the week with a deeper sense of unease.

Mr. Putin’s presence and his threats, bold one minute, vague the next, have added even more complexity to their already difficult calculations around security and Great Power competition.

Over the past few years, the Indo-Pacific has been knocked around by a geopolitical shoving match between the United States and China, primarily over China’s claims on Taiwan, and increasingly over heightened Chinese militarization in the South China Sea.

In May, China launched two days of intense navy and air force drills around Taiwan in what it called a form of “strong punishment.” The exercises came after Taiwan’s new president pledged to defend the sovereignty of the self-governing island that Beijing sees as lost territory.

Just this week, another flashpoint — the South China Sea — edged closer to conflict. After months of bitter standoffs in the middle of a turquoise choke point for global trade, a Philippine Navy sailor was injured Monday after ships from China and the Philippines collided near a disputed archipelago. Widening the potential ramifications, the Philippines is an ally the United States is treaty-bound to help in case of war.

Many countries in the region were already beefing up their militaries to deal with China’s pressure and the uncertainty over how far the rivalry between the United States and China might go.

Add to those concerns a wave of jitters in the region over the U.S. presidential election, not to mention a new report this month showing that China is in the midst of a “significant” expansion of its nuclear capabilities, and headaches have become common in the region’s foreign policy circles.

Now Mr. Putin has induced a few more. With his embrace of North Korea, including his open threat to better arm Kim Jong-un’s military, he has effectively added another potential crisis to Asia’s list of concerns, reigniting old hostilities on the Korean Peninsula.

Officials in South Korea and Japan — North Korea’s avowed enemies — were especially alarmed. Both countries had already been talking about toughening their defenses and growing closer to the United States and each other, particularly since Mr. Kim’s rhetoric has become markedly more hostile toward them in recent months.

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, described Mr. Putin’s burst of activity in Asia as “your worst fears come true.”

“What Russia just did is they told us they are going to be the principal organizers of rogue states that develop nuclear weapons, violate nonproliferation treaties, and allow countries under U.N. sanctions to get outside those sanctions,” he said.

Peter Tesch, Australia’s ambassador in Moscow from 2016 to 2019, stressed that Mr. Putin favors keeping the world chaotic because he believes Russia benefits from keeping other countries off-kilter. Disinformation and partnerships with other provocateurs have become Putin doctrine.

“He’s quite happy for Russia to be the smelliest, farting uncle at the barbecue,” Mr. Tesch said. “The signal is, ‘Yes I am a disrupter. I can act in ways that increase the complexity of what you’re trying to manage.’”

China, North Korea’s largest trading partner and arguably its biggest influence, must also contend with the fallout. That could include pressure to clarify what its “no limits” friendship with Russia means for China’s stated goal of stability on the Korean Peninsula.

Some analysts suggest Mr. Putin had all of this in mind. He may have tightened the bond with Mr. Kim, who greeted him with hugs at the airport, to both scare the United States and signal frustration to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for not doing more to help Russia win in Ukraine.

“If Putin cannot get everything he wants from Beijing, he will look to get it elsewhere, and there aren’t a lot of supermarkets that cover his wish list — arms, labor and a willingness to pick a fight with Washington,” said Samuel Greene, a professor of Russian politics at King’s College London. “Iran is one. North Korea is another.”

“The point is that, while Putin recognizes his dependency on China, he can’t afford to let Beijing dictate the course of the war effort — because as goes the war, so goes Putin.”

To some degree, Mr. Putin’s trip to Asia was also a potent reminder of Russia’s historic military ties: North Korea, India, and Vietnam are just a few of the countries that have been heavily dependent on Russian hardware for decades, creating links in training and maintenance that keep Moscow deeply embedded in the region.

But even before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, those ties were fraying: Russia’s arms sales to Southeast Asia dropped to $89 million in 2021, down from $1.2 billion in 2014, according to independent studies . A clean break or even significant diversification is what Mr. Putin has sought to delay.

And if Mr. Putin’s gestures toward North Korea do end up fueling an arms race in Asia, Moscow also stands to gain: Weapons from Russia do not just intensify the risk of chaos when shared with a country like North Korea. They also bring in revenue, much needed for a Russian economy that has been squeezed by sanctions, war, inflation and 16 percent interest rates.

Mr. Putin’s visit to Hanoi focused on deals. The full scope of what was agreed is not clear, but analysts predicted that some would probably emerge later as defense-related, with financing devised to skirt international sanctions — possibly with payment in the form of oil and gas rights in the South China Sea.

“Vietnam hasn’t made a major upgrade to its land forces in years, but supposedly that’s coming,” said Derek Grossman, a senior defense analyst at Rand. “You may see Vietnam purchase new Russian tanks.”

Nguyen The Phuong, who studies Vietnam’s military affairs at the University of New South Wales in Australia, said Vietnam also needs new fighter jets and bigger warships in line with what Beijing uses to mark territory that Hanoi also claims in the South China Sea.

He added that the high-stakes security dynamics in Asia have put countries like Vietnam in a bind. “Western weapons are expensive and politically sensitive,” he said.

But would Vietnam use new Russian vessels to stand up to China over oil deposits explored with Moscow’s help and claimed by both Beijing and Hanoi?

For many countries, the Putin tour has raised another round of such aggravating questions. Beijing has clearly sided with Moscow over the war in Ukraine. In May, Mr. Putin visited Beijing, and while his trip to North Korea may bother Mr. Xi, analysts do not expect a major rupture in the relationship.

Angering one leader may risk punishment from another, or both.

“I think there’s some concern about Russia-China ties strengthening,” Mr. Grossman said, “and the potential for both countries to gang up on the smaller and medium-sized ones.”

At a defense conference in Singapore this month, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that was already happening. He accused China and Russia of colluding to undermine a peace summit in Switzerland led by Ukraine last week. Only a handful of Asian countries attended.

Motoko Rich contributed reporting from Tokyo.

Damien Cave is an international correspondent for The Times, covering the Indo-Pacific region. He is based in Sydney, Australia.  More about Damien Cave