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Also ahead in Summer Bay, Kat Chapman has second thoughts after starting to let Dylan Carter back into her affections.
The pair will share a kiss later this month and it quickly leads to more as they start meeting up for secret liaisons outside of work hours.
Turning on the charm, Dylan tells Kat (Pia Miller) that he lied about selling the block of land that they used to own together years ago - he actually still has it and wants her to consider reuniting properly so they can build a life together.
Although Kat is tempted when Dylan (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) speaks about the dream home they always talked about, she also reminds him that she can't forgive and forget his past mistreatment of her so easily.
Dylan promises that he can be patient and see how things go, but is he being truthful?
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Home and Away airs these scenes on Wednesday, May 18 at 1.15pm and 6pm on Channel 5.
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This is a general article on Pia Miller (Kat) in the Sunday Telegraph, but it briefly mentions an upcoming storyline for her, so I thought it best to put it in this spoiler thread, for anyone interested (not sure if people can open this link, so I have copied the text of the article below as well):
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Home And Away star Pia Miller will shed her glamour image for dark new storyline as a cop in crisis
PIA Miller is on the verge of a breakdown and she couldn’t be happier about it.
Fans of the Logie-nominated actor will know how resilient her TV alter ego, Summer Bay siren and resident cop, Kat Chapman, has had to be in Miller’s first year on air — shot and wounded one minute, clinging for dear life off a cliff the next.
It’s bread-and-butter stuff for soapie screenwriters but meaty material for the former model, turned ambitious small screen star who is positively thrilled about the “dark places” she goes in a looming storyline, to play out later this month, on Seven’s Home And Away.
Smouldering for our lens, as she poses up in the royal suite of Double Bay’s luxurious InterContinental hotel, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would welcome the chance to go from this hot to not; but the Chilean-born, 32-year-old was excited to “go there.”
“To be in the make-up chair and to have a conversation with the team where they say ‘we are not putting any make-up on, no nothing, in fact we’re going to put dark shadows under your eyes and leave all your little blemishes out’ was the most vulnerable I’d ever been and it was so liberating,” Miller tells News Corp Australia.
“To be in a creative space, go there and not give a...[insert your own expletive here] about the aesthetic, to completely focus on the internal turmoil, the pain, the love, or the lack of it,” she says, “was so, so great. It’s one of the best storylines I’ve ever done. I felt so exposed but it really served the story, so it was cool.”
Lucy Addario, the show’s executive producer, was keen to explore what a career woman like Kat would be without the armour of her police uniform; plotting for the good cop to face a personal and professional crossroad, unravels and then dramatically hands in her badge.
Testing Miller’s mettle was also part of the plan.
“I knew she could do it, but I was so proud. She did so well,” Addario says.
“Pia has worked really hard at her craft, especially this storyline. She took it to the next level here, she really did.”
For anyone looking for a sign of the diva antics made up for a cheap headline in a gossip magazine last month, this endorsement of the self-effacing Miller will surely disappoint.
The unsourced story alleged the Logie nominee for this year’s best new talent had earned the ire of her co-stars for playing the snooty ice queen on set and committing the greatest crime of all, not socialising with her workmates after hours.
If she had time as a busy working single mother with two young sons to care about such silliness, she could have been forgiven for being wounded by the claims; vehemently denied at the time by her Channel 7 bosses, in a rare public statement of support.
Instead, she says, the close cast and crew on the show simply laughed it off.
“We are and will continue to be a community on that show,” Miller says, matter-of-factly.
“During my time, long after my time there, that’s just the kind of place it is. It’s a home, it’s a family, so as a collective, we all just had a really good giggle about it.”
Addario was “gutted for Pia because she just works so hard and it sounds so cliched but we are a family. I just couldn’t see where that [rumour] had come from.”
Miller’s real family — including sons Isaiah, 13 and Lennox, 10; his father and her former AFL-player husband Brad; as well as new boyfriend and model, Tyson Mullane — have been her focus and foundation away from work.
Determined not to unsettle her children when she first took the job back in late 2014, she explains the exhaustive efforts she went to in the early days; commuting between the Sydney production and their former home in Melbourne.
“If we were shooting on location in Palm Beach, they were early starts. I’d have a couple of those during the week, then there’d be studio days but if we wrapped early, I’d jump on a plane and get down there [to Melbourne]. Often I was flying back the same night to do it all again the following morning, but it was literally for think like being there for dinner, or to pick them up for school if I was able to be there on time. To got to a concert they had, or a play...those little things made all the difference.”
By the end of 2015, however, Miller’s 10-year marriage was over, and she made plans to move her sons to Sydney for the start of a new school year (sharing custody with Brad, who also moved north to continue co-parenting both boys).
Nine months after the shock split, Miller says “there have been sad times and hard times” for her sons, “with their friends, or having to say goodbye to me or say goodbye to Brad after a great week or weekend, but all in all they’ve made some really good friends and integrated into their own little school teams. Other parents have really included my boys, knowing that they are the new kids...birthday parties, picking them up and taking them to sport...so I feel really supported by that school community, my family and my people, it’s been really great.”
Despite sharing sexy snapshots from her Bali holiday with boyfriend Mullane last week, Miller keeps the intimate details of their romance private.
“Obviously it’s no secret I am in a relationship but we just really enjoy our time together and have lots of fun and support each other. That’s for us, but it’s been a joy; we’ve had an incredible time.”
Ask about her sons and this proud mumma can’t say enough.
“The most random things make us so happy. We’ve got this really cool garage that has this nice ramp so we all just go down there and see what kind of tricks we can do. I find myself doing it as well, thinking ‘this is probably a really bad idea,’” she laughs, “but we put the music on in the car and just skate around.”
But it’s not all fun and games, admitting her “kids would probably say that I’m a bit strict.”
“I love seeing my boys do their chores and initially it was a chore for them and it was something they had to do. They would roll their eyes and say ‘ugh, do I have to stack the dishwasher?’ but now, particularly now that we live, just me and them, they do it without thinking about it, questioning it. Isaiah will get up early and go to school, I’ll walk into his room and his bed will be done and everything is put away and I’m like,” punching the air, “yes!”
Taking inspiration from her own single mother, fashion designer Angelica Blanco (who moved her three children to Australia by herself from Vina del Mar, Chile in 1986), she is raising her sons, as she was, to dream big, then hustle hard to make it happen.
Falling pregnant at 19, Miller says, proved all the motivation she needed to succeed.
“The will to be the best that I could be for him and also for myself, with my own dreams, my own aspirations. There was just a lot of determination there and that’s still a massive part of my character today.”
Miller sees all that life is throwing at her right now as rich experience she can channel back into her work.
“I see is like an artist having a palette of paint. The more colours you have on that palette, the more you can create, the different shades you can bring into your work. It turns out I’ve ended up with quite a colourful palette,” she laughs, “and yeah, I’m grateful for every single experience. Some of them have been really tough, some of them have been really beautiful and sweet, but they’ve all helped in some way.”
* Home And Away airs 7pm weekdays on Channel 7.
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Home and Away's Kat Chapman is hit by a panic attack later this month after deciding to call time on her career in the police force.
We all know that Kat (Pia Miller) hasn't exactly done things by the book since joining Summer Bay, but the final straw comes when she realises that she's embroiled in yet more criminal activity.
Kat receives a shock when Ash (George Mason) tells her that the recent $50,000 which was invested in the garage came from Andy Barrett, making it dirty money.
This is terrible news for Kat in light of her own connections to the garage and she's stunned to realise that she's unwittingly become a crooked cop.
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Kat Chapman suffers a panic attack in Home and Away
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Although Kat doesn't want to turn against those she cares about, she also knows that she can't carry on in the police while hiding her knowledge of criminal activity.
Seeing no other way out, Kat hands in her badge and resigns with immediate effect – much to the shock of her friends.
Ash and Billie both step in and urge Kat to change her mind, pointing out that not everything is black and white.
This advice doesn't go down well with Kat, who soon becomes overwhelmed by all the pressure and gets caught in the grip of a panic attack. Has it all become too much for her?
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Kat Chapman suffers a panic attack in Home and Away
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Home and Away airs these scenes on Tuesday, September 13 at 1.15pm and 6pm on Channel 5.
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I didn't understand why Kat was investigating Charlotte's murder or searching the garage given her connection to both, conflict of interest, she invested in the garage, does Summer Bay have any other police officers
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Daily Telegraph article with some photos of Pia Miller (Kat) & George Mason (Ash) filming at Palm Beach this week:
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Pia Miller and George Mason’s Kat and Ash patch it up at Palm Beach
EXPECT the Home and Away storylines to continue between Pia Miller and George Mason.
This week on air the pair — who play Kat and Ash — became friends again after recently breaking up over trust issues.
It’s been an on again and off again relationship for the fictional characters and photographs taken by Confidential on the Palm Beach set of the couple this week suggest the drama will continue.
Miller and Mason were snapped walking on the beach after he’d emerged from the surf with his board.
A heated discussion ensued, although Seven keeps details of the storyline a closely guarded secret.
Episodes are filmed generally several months in advance of screening.
Kat and Ash first got together on screen in April when he supported her through a breakup with ex boyfriend Dylan, played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor. Starting out as friends, the pair gave into temptation and got together.
But the glow was short-lived when Ash’s bad boy past got in the way of their relationship when he embezzled money. That obviously wasn’t a good look given Kat is a police officer.
(I think they got a bit mixed up with that last bit about Ash actually embezzling the money etc!!)
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Home and Away's Kat Chapman will be hit with a fresh batch of problems later this month when she is accused of assaulting a stranger.
A new nightmare for Kat (Pia Miller) will kick off after she embarks on a rather daunting chapter, having been forced to resign from her role as a police officer.
Knowing she needs to move forward with her life - and earn an income - Kat takes on a job at Salt, thanks to some help from her friend Phoebe. But as she awkwardly settles into her new lifestyle, she is struck by an unexpected problem - which means her life could get a whole lot worse.
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Kat Chapman in Home and Away
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Kat is already feeling uncomfortable after having to serve both ex-boyfriend Ash and ex-boss Sergeant McCarthy at the restaurant, both clearly flummoxed to see her working there. However, despite her determination to prove herself as a waitress, Kat's copper instincts kick in when a rowdy customer starts to behave out of line.
As the man's drunk and inappropriate behaviour intensifies, Kat is forced to ask him to leave. However, the situation escalates when he inappropriately touches Phoebe, before trying to grab Kat, prompting her to instinctively react with her police training.
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Kat Chapman in Home and Away
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Kat twists the guy's arm behind him and brutally slams him down on the bench, before he eventually scurries out with a bloody nose. But it's not long before Kat is paying the price for her fairly extreme reaction as Sergeant McCarthy is soon tracking her down.
Kat's ex-colleague informs her that the gentleman she man-handled earlier has made an assault claim and she is soon taken in for questioning. But with Kat facing serious charges, could her life be about to get even worse?
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Kat Chapman in Home and Away
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Home and Away airs these scenes on Tuesday, October 11 and Wednesday, October 12 at 1.15pm and 6pm on Channel 5.
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Home and Away's Kat Chapman plays with fire yet again later this month as she embarks on a very forbidden romance with Ash.
Kat (Pia Miller) has been reinstated into the police force by Sergeant McCarthy on the strict condition that she doesn't reunite with Ash... but with this being a soap, she decides it's a good idea to go ahead and do it anyway.
The pair grow closer after Kat discovers that Ash (George Mason) has been supplying drugs to Duncan Stewart's ex-wife Caroline.
Kat is furious over the revelation, until Ash explains that Caroline has Huntington's Disease and he won't let the law stand in the way of helping someone who's suffering.
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Kat Chapman and Ash reunite in Home and Away
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Ash's heartfelt words make Kat realise just how much she still cares for him and passion flares up between the pair as they finally get back together.
Kat's one condition is that nobody can know about their romance, at least until McCarthy takes her off probation at work.
But in a small town like Summer Bay where word gets around and everyone sees things they shouldn't, how long can Kat and Ash really keep this a secret?
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Kat Chapman and Ash reunite in Home and Away
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Home and Away airs these scenes on Wednesday, November 16 at 1.15pm and 6pm on Channel 5.
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stick with ash or dump him just make a decision and keep it
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Home and Away's Kat Chapman turns her nosy attentions to the Morgan family next month, as she vows to get to the bottom of their secretive behaviour once and for all.
Kat (Pia Miller) becomes suspicious after a conversation with the Morgans' long-lost sister Raffy Morrison, who finally discovers the family's big secret next month.
Upcoming Home and Away episodes see the Morgans finally come clean with Raffy (Olivia Deeble) by explaining that they're in witness protection as their parents were killed by drug dealers.
They're also quick to fill Raffy in on how much her dad Decker did for them over the years, but it's still all too much for her as she struggles to cope with the revelations.
When Raffy does yet another disappearing act, she goes to see Kat and makes it clear that she's about to reveal a big secret about the Morgans - but their private conversation is interrupted when Phoebe walks in and finds a way to quickly break them apart.
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Kat Chapman talks to Raffy in Home and Away
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Kat Chapman talks to Raffy in Home and Away
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Although Phoebe stresses to Raffy how dangerous it is to tell anyone about the Morgans' secret, it seems the damage is already done as Kat is suspicious and later calls in a background check on the Morgan family. Will she find out what they've been hiding?
Home and Away airs these scenes on Tuesday, February 7 at 1.15pm and 6pm on Channel 5.
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